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What Is A Digital Signal Processing System?

This document discusses digital signal processing (DSP) systems. It defines DSP as representing signals as discrete mathematical sequences and processing those signals algorithmically to analyze and modify the information within. A typical DSP system involves analog to digital conversion via an ADC, digital processing using a DSP chip, then digital to analog conversion via a DAC. Key components include transducers, filters, amplifiers, ADCs, DSP chips, DACs, and output transducers. DSP systems offer advantages like flexibility and precision but also have disadvantages like higher power consumption compared to analog systems.

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What Is A Digital Signal Processing System?

This document discusses digital signal processing (DSP) systems. It defines DSP as representing signals as discrete mathematical sequences and processing those signals algorithmically to analyze and modify the information within. A typical DSP system involves analog to digital conversion via an ADC, digital processing using a DSP chip, then digital to analog conversion via a DAC. Key components include transducers, filters, amplifiers, ADCs, DSP chips, DACs, and output transducers. DSP systems offer advantages like flexibility and precision but also have disadvantages like higher power consumption compared to analog systems.

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Contents

 What is a Digital Signal Processing System?


 What is Digital Signal Processing (DSP)?
 Block diagram of a DSP system
 Applications of a Digital signal processing system
 Advantages of a Digital Signal Processing system
 Disadvantages of a Digital Signal Processing system

What is a Digital Signal Processing System?

 Let’s start with the individual meaning of the words defining Digital Signal Processing in its
entirety.
 Digital: In digital communication, we use discrete signals to represent data using binary
numbers.
 Signal: A signal is anything that carries some information. It’s a physical quantity that
conveys data and varies with time, space, or any other independent variable. It can be in the
time/frequency domain. It can be one-dimensional or two-dimensional. Here are all the
major types of signals.
 Processing: The performing of operations on any data in accordance with some protocol
or instruction is known as processing.
 System: A system is a physical entity that is responsible for the processing. It has the
necessary hardware to perform the required arithmetic or logical operations on a signal. Here
are all the major types of systems.
 Putting all these together, we can get a definition for DSP.

What is Digital Signal Processing (DSP)?

Digital Signal Processing is the process of representing signals in a discrete mathematical sequence of
numbers and analyzing, modifying, and extracting the information contained in the signal by carrying out
algorithmic operations and processing on the signal.
Block diagram of a DSP system

Block diagram of a digital signal processing system (DSP)


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 The first step is to get an electrical signal. The transducer (in our case, a microphone) converts
sound into an electrical signal. You can use any transducer depending upon the case.
 Once you have an analog electrical signal, we pass it through an operational amplifier (Op-Amp)
to condition the analog signal. Basically, we amplify the signal. Or limit it to protect the next
stages.
 The anti-aliasing filter is an essential step in the conversion of analog to a digital signal. It is a
low-pass filter. Meaning, it allows frequencies up to a certain threshold to pass. It attenuates all
frequencies above this threshold. These unwanted frequencies make it difficult to sample an
analog signal.
 The next stage is a simple analog-to-digital converter (ADC). This unit takes in analog signals
and outputs a stream of binary digits.
 The heart of the system is the digital signal processor. These days we use CMOS chips (even
ULSI) to make digital signal processors. In fact, modern processors, like the Cortex M4 have
DSP units built inside the SoC. These processor units have high-speed, high data throughputs,
and dedicated instruction sets.
 The next stages are sort of the opposite of the stages preceding the digital signal processor.
 The digital-to-analog converter does what its name implies. It’s necessary for the slew rate of the
DAC to match the acquisition rate of the ADC.
 The smoothing filter is another low-pass filter that smoothes the output by removing unwanted
high-frequency components.
 The last op-amp is just an amplifier.
 The output transducer is a speaker in our case. You can use anything else according to your
requirements.

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