DSP - Digital Signal Processing
Introduction
Digital Signal Processing uses software techniques to accomplish many things that have traditionally been accomplished in hardware, plus a number of things that cannot easily be done using physical components. Once a signal is converted to digital form, DSP software can filter it, shape it and process it to remove noise.
With Signals, Samples and Stuff: A DSP Tutorial -- Part 1 you will find a four part series on digital signal processing.
Additional resources
The ARRL has an extensive catalog of books and materials related to Amateur Radio.
Also see the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio reference in the Web Links section of this page.
Articles
Note: Some of the following articles are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. To view and print these files, you'll need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader program. (Version 3.0 or later required). More information here.
- Signals, Samples and Stuff: A DSP Tutorial - Part 1 (1,013,741 bytes, PDF file)
QEX, March 1998, pp. 3-16
DSP is a buzzword for the '90s. Have you wonder what it's all about?
- Signals, Samples and Stuff: A DSP Tutorial - Part 2 (1,370,214 bytes, PDF file)
QEX, May 1998, pp. 22-37
Let's look inside an IF-DSP transceiver.
- Signals, Samples and Stuff: A DSP Tutorial - Part 3 (1,139,411 bytes, PDF file)
QEX, July 1998, pp. 13-27
Advances DSP techniques.
- Signals, Samples and Stuff: A DSP Tutorial - Part 4 (1,959,086 bytes, PDF file)
QEX, September 1998, pp. 19-29
Conclusion.
- Digital Signal Processing for the Experimenter (1,081,344 bytes, PDF file)
QST November 1984, pp22-27
Flash - A/D-igital data stream replaces an analog signal. DAC puts it back again!
- An Introduction to Digital Signal Processing (1,146,880 bytes, PDF file)
QST July 1991, pp35-37
DSP makes headlines even in an age where digital seems to be applied to just about everything electronic - and now it's part of Amateur Radio.
- "Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Approach"
A book review
- The DSP-10: An All-Mode 2-Meter Transceiver Using a DSP IF and PC-Controlled Front Panel -- Part 1 (626,393 bytes, PDF file)
QST September 1999, pp. 33-41
What's neat about this 2-meter transceiver is that most of it is in software! Your PC is its front panel.
- The DSP-10: An All-Mode 2-Meter Transceiver Using a DSP IF and PC-Controlled Front Panel -- Part 2 (1,304,518 bytes, PDF file)
QST October 1999, pp. 34-40
With most of the radio in software, the mechanical construction of the radio is much easier to handle.
- The DSP-10: An All-Mode 2-Meter Transceiver Using a DSP IF and PC-Controlled Front Panel -- Part 3 (2,108,685 bytes, PDF file)
QST November 1999, pp. 42-45
This is it! It's about time to put your new transceiver on the air.
Notes: additional Web link
- An 8-Watt, 2-Meter "Brickette" (626,250 bytes, PDF file)
QST June 2000, pp. 43-47
Put 20 mW into this amplifier and get 26-dB increase in power. (can be companion to the DSP-10)
Note:
Contact information for suppliers mentioned in the above articles should first be confirmed using TIS Address Database Search.
Bibliography (Members Only)
ARRL Periodicals Index Search - This database contains the QST index from 1915 to the present and the QEX index from 1981 to the present. For QST issues from 1970 to the present, and some selected articles back to 1922 (when construction articles featuring tubes began in earnest), identifying keywords have been added to the technical articles. By entering keywords (ANTENNA) or combinations of keywords (CONSTRUCTION ANTENNA VERTICAL HF) into the Title words: field, you may create dynamic bibliographies.
Technical article KEYWORD list. Hints for more successful searching
Suggested keywords for more articles like the ones on this page are: DSP
DSP Bibliography for Amateurs:
Books with Software
- 0. Alkin, PC-DSP, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1990.
- A. Kamas and E. Lee, Digital Signal Processing Experiments, Prentice Hall, 1989.
Textbooks
- D. DeFatta et al, Digital Signal Processing: A System Design Approach, Wiley, New York, 1988.
- A.V. Oppenheim and R.W. Schafer, Digital Signal Processing, Prentice Hall, 1975.
- A.V. Oppenheim and R.W. Schafer, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Prentice Hall.
- T. Parsons, Voice and Speech Processing, McGraw-Hill, Hightstown, NJ, 1987.
- J. Proakis and D. Manolakis, Digital Signal Processing, Macmillan, New York, 1988.
- L.R. Rabiner & R.W. Schafer, Digital Processing of Speech Signals, Prentice Hall, 1978.
Articles (Amateur)
- J. Albert, "A New DSP For Packet," QEX, January 1992, pp 3-5.
- J. Albert and W. Torgrim, "Developing Software for DSP," QEX, Oct 1992, pp 3-6.
- B. Bergeron, "Digital Signal Processing Part 1: The Fundamentals," Ham Radio, Apr 1990, pp 24-35.
- B. Bergeron, "Digital Signal Processing: Working in the Frequency Domain, "Communications Quarterly, Fall 1990, pp 45-54.
- B. Bergeron, "Digital Signal Processing: Image Processing," Communications Quarterly, Spring 1991, pp 23-36.
- B. Bergeron, "Digital Signal Processing: Artificial Intelligence Techniques, "Communications Quarterly, Winter 1991, pp 77-87.
- B. de Carle, "A Receiver Spectral Display Using DSP," QST, Jan 1992, pp 23-29.
- A. Dell'Immagine, "Digital Filter For EME Applications," QEX, May 1992, pp 3-6.
- B. Hale, "An Introduction to Digital Signal Processing," QST, Jul 1991, pp 35-37.
- D. Hershberger, "Low-Cost Digital Signal Processing for the Radio Amateur," QST, Sep 1992, pp 43-51.
- R. Olsen, "Digital Signal Processing for the Experimenter," QST, Nov 1984, pp 22-27.
- S. Reyer, and D. Hershberger, "Using the LMS Algorithm For QRM and QRN Reduction," QEX, Sep 1992, pp 3-8.
DSP Manufacturers:
| Manufacturer |
DSP products |
Analog Devices
DSP Division
One Technology Way
P.O. Box 9106
Norwood, MA 02062-9106
tel: 617-461-3881
fax: G17-461-3010 |
ADSP-2100 series DSP processors |
AT&T
555 Union Blvd.
Allentown, PA 18103
tel: 800-372-2447
fax: 215-778-4106 |
WE-DSP16/32 DSP processors |
Burr-Brown
P.O. Box 11400
Tucson, AZ 85734-1400
tel: 800-548-6132
fax: 602-741-3895 |
AT&T DSP32 development products |
Motorola
500S East McDowell Road
Phoenix, AZ 85008
BBS: 512-891-3773 |
56000- and 96000- series processors |
NEC
401 Ellis Street
Mountain View, CA 94039
tel: 41S-960-6000
(Cheshire, CT sales office: 271-1311) |
uPD77 series DSP processors |
Novatech Instruments
1530 Eastlake Ave E
Seattle WA 98102
(206) 328-6902 |
DDS-3 12 MHz DSP kit |
OKI
785 N. Mary Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
tel: 408-720-1900
fax: 408-720-1918 |
MSMG99200-series processors |
Texas Instruments
P.O. Box 401560
Dallas, TX 75240
tel: 214-995-2011
fax: 214-997-5250
BBS: 713-274-2323
Customer Response Center: 800-232-3200 |
TMS320 series DSP processors |
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