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What Is Digital signal processing

Author: Derrick Corea
by Derrick Corea
Posted: Sep 29, 2017

The Digital Signal Processing Applications or (DSP’s) is the mathematical manipulation of an information signal to modify or improve it in some sense. This is characterized by the representation in the discrete time domain, the discrete frequency domain, or other discrete signal domain by means of a sequence of numbers or symbols and processing of those signals. This can be achieved by a system based on a processor or microprocessor that has a set of instructions, hardware and software optimized for applications that require numerical operations at very high speed. Due to this it is especially useful for the processing and representation of analogue signals in real time: in a system that works in this way (real time) samples are taken, usually from an analogue / digital converter (ADC). It can work with analog signals, but it is a digital system, therefore you will need an analog / digital converter to your input and digital / analog to output. As every programmer-based system needs a memory to store the data it will work with and the program it runs. It is possible to process a signal to obtain a reduction of the noise level, to improve the presence of certain nuances, such as bass or treble, and is done by combining the signal values??to generate new ones. Thus, the DSP is used in the processing of music (for example MP3), voice (for example, speech recognition) in cellular phones, images (in the transmission of satellite images) and video (DVD). Current computer architectures are commonly classified as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers) and CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computers). CISC processors have a large number of complex instructions, each of which may require several CPU cycles, whereas a RISC computer has fewer instructions, and these can be executed in a single cycle. RISC computers have been progressively replacing CISCs thanks to their lower cost and excellent performance, favored by segmented execution of simple instructions and the development of compilers that generate code optimized for RISC architecture. Standard DSPs have certain characteristics of a RISC-like architecture, although they are purpose-built processors whose architecture is specially designed for applications requiring intensive computing. A standard DSP performs several operations in parallel, whereas a RISC uses highly efficient functional units that can initiate and complete a simple instruction in one or two clock cycles. One of the main benefits of DSP is that signal transformations are simpler to perform. One of the most important transformations is the Discrete Fourier Transform (TDF). This transform converts the time domain signal to the frequency domain. PDT allows for a simpler and more efficient frequency analysis, especially in noise suppression applications and other types of filtering (low pass, high pass, band pass, band reject, etc.) filters.

Sampling is one of the parts of the process of digitizing signals. It consists of taking samples of an analog signal at a constant frequency or sampling rate, to quantify them later. Based on the sampling theorem, it is the basis of the discrete representation of a continuous signal in a limited band.

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