Michael G. Morrow - Real-Time Digital Signal Processing from MATLAB to C with the TMS320C6x DSPs, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

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T HIS book would not have been possible without the support and assistance of Texas Instruments (TI), Inc. In particular, the authors would like to extend a sincere thank you to Cathy Wicks, whose tireless efforts in directing TIs worldwide University Program has helped make DSP affordable for countless students and professors. Cathys predecessors Christina Peterson, Maria Ho, and Torrence Robinson also contributed to our efforts that eventually resulted in this book. TIs support of DSP education is unsurpassed in the industry, and the authors greatly appreciate such a forward-looking corporate vision.

We would also like to thank Nora Konopka and Kyra Lindholm of CRC Press (part of the Taylor & Francis Group), who helped guide this third edition to completion. Their ready help, quick responses, and never-failing sense of humor should be the model to which other publishers aspire. Note that we provided the manuscript to the publisher fully formatted in camera-ready form, so any typos are the fault of the authors, not the publisher.

The authors would like to acknowledge Robert W. Conant for his valuable contributions to the chapter on QPSK digital receivers, and Brian L. Evans for his helpful suggestions regarding coverage of PN sequences in the text. Robert F. Kubichek, at the University of Wyoming, also provided many excellent suggestions and feedback.

This book was certainly improved because of the input of both anonymous reviewers and the experiences of the many users of the first and second editions, who gave us valuable feedback and many excellent suggestions.

We would be remiss if, in these brief acknowledgments, we omitted a plug related to the mechanics of writing the text: this book was typeset using LATEX, a wonderfully capable document preparation system developed by Leslie Lamport as a special collection of macros for Donald Knuths TEX program (specifically, we used the pdfLATEX variant of pdfTEX created by Han The Thanh to directly produce output as a PDF file). LATEX is ideally suited to technical writing, and is well supported by the worldwide members of the TEX Users Group (TUG); investigate http://www.tug.org/ for details. TEX, LATEX, and pdfLATEX are freely available in the public domain (the name TEX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society). We used the excellent TeXstudio freeware editor (see http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/ ) as a front-end to the comprehensive TeX Live distribution of LATEX freely provided by the TEX Users Group. For maintaining the database of bibliographic references in the standard BIBTEX syntax, we used the freely available and highly capable JabRef program (see http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ ). All these programs are not only free, but also available for a variety of operating systems. Figures in this book were created mainly with one of two programs: Canvas and MATLAB. Canvas is a high-end technical drawing package by ACD Systems of America, Inc.; it can create and manipulate both vector and bit-mapped graphics in the same figure, providing a capability similar to both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop combined all in one package. MAT-LAB, by The MathWorks, Inc., is an incredibly powerful numerical computing environment and a fourth-generation programming language, with many Toolbox extensions available for various specialized fields.