Signal Processing with Free Software : Practical Experiments (Hardcover)

Preface vii

Introduction ix

Chapter 1. Generating Elementary Signals 1

1.1. General points 1

1.2. Generation of elementary wave forms 2

1.3. Elementary signal processing operations 4

1.4. Using other file formats 8

Chapter 2. Signal Analysis 13

2.1. Measuring the temporal and frequency characteristics of a signal 13

2.2. Time-frequency analysis of a signal 16

2.3. Non-parametric spectral analysis 18

2.3.1. Analytical case studies 20

2.3.2. Practical application 23

Chapter 3. Signal Processing 27

3.1. Sampling 27

3.1.1. Analytical case studies 29

3.1.2. Practical applications 35

3.2. Resampling 37

3.3. “Analog” filtering 38

3.3.1. Analytical case studies 40

3.3.2. Practical applications 44

3.4. Digital filtering 53

3.4.1. Analytical case studies 53

3.4.2. Practical applications 63

Bibliography 67

Index 69