Digital Signal Processors: Architecture,Programming and Applications, 2/e
B Venkataramani M Bhaskar
ISBN: 007070256x Copyright year: 2010
Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) are microprocessors specifically designed to handle Digital Signal
Processing tasks and are deployed in a variety of applications like hard-disk controllers, cellular phones,
Speech-recognition systems, image processing, wireless communication systems, and so on. They are
replacing conventional microprocessors in several applications. DSPs from companies such as Analog
Devices, Motorola and Texas Instruments are deployed in all these applications.
This book presents details of DSPs from Texas Instruments (TI) in greater depth as compared to the
DSPs from other vendors. The TI processors are used in major universities, institutes and in the industry.
TI has been donating DSP kits and literature to universities periodically under the University Program
called UNITI. The individual institutions have supplemented this with their own funding and have set
up DSP labs.
Courses on Digital Signal Processing have undergone a gradual change during the last decade. The
focus is shifting gradually from the design of DSP systems and algorithms to efficient implementation
of the systems and algorithms. To facilitate this, the subject of DSP Architecture and Programming is
now included by many leading institutions in the main curriculum. However, students have to generally
rely on the data manuals of various companies for their study since formal textbooks are not readily
available. This book has fulfilled the student’s requirements and has been used extensively in universities
and leading institutions.
The first edition of this text was published eight years back in 2002. Since then, a lot of new DSPs have
evolved due to continuous research and development in this field.
The objective of this revision is to include the recent developments in the field of Digital Signal
Processors including TMSC6X Series and FPGA based system design methodology. We also aim to
bridge the gap in topical coverage in the current edition and improve the pedagogical features to meet
the students’ requirements.
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The Student’s Center contains the following reading material from the book which will give you the flavor of the published book :
Answers to Selected Questions
Two Sample Chapters on 1. An Overview of Digital Signal Processing and its Applications 2.
An Overview of Motorola DSP563XX Processors
Bibliography.
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