FRED J. TAYLOR is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of The Athena Group. He is also Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer and Information Science at the University of Florida. The author of ten books and holder of four patents, Dr. Taylor serves as a consultant to government agencies, industries, and Boards of Higher Education as well as the National Research Council.

• PREFACE ix CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING 1CHAPTER 2 SAMPLING THEOREM 11CHAPTER 3 ALIASING 21CHAPTER 4 DATA CONVERSION AND QUANTIZATION 29CHAPTER 5 THE Z-TRANSFORM 41CHAPTER 6 FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE FILTERS 53CHAPTER 7 WINDOW DESIGN METHOD 71CHAPTER 8 LMS DESIGN METHOD 83CHAPTER 9 EQUIRIPPLE DESIGN METHOD 95CHAPTER 10 FIR: SPECIAL CASES 113CHAPTER 11 FIR IMPLEMENTATION 127CHAPTER 12 CLASSIC FILTER DESIGN 151CHAPTER 13 IIR DESIGN 167CHAPTER 14 STATE VARIABLE FILTER MODELS 183CHAPTER 15 DIGITAL FILTER ARCHITECTURE 197CHAPTER 16 FIXED-POINT EFFECTS 215CHAPTER 17 IIR ARCHITECTURE ANALYSIS 231CHAPTER 18 INTRODUCTION TO MULTIRATE SYSTEMS 249CHAPTER 19 MULTIRATE FILTERS 263BIBLIOGRAPHY 279APPENDIX 281GLOSSARY 287INDEX 295