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The practical applications of electronic signal processing range from aircraft autopilots to medical diagnosis, from satellite communications to the automatic reading of fingerprints. It has been said that, of all the branches and topics into which electronic engineering is now divided, signal processing is the most pervasive. It is not hard to see why. If we take the word processing to mean the modification of a signal as it passes through a circuit or system, it is clear that almost every electronic application involves some type of signal processing. In this chapter we develop a few important topics in this field. Most of them have already been mentioned in this book, and are strongly related to the analytical methods of earlier chapters.
“I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal.”
Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), putting a telescope to his blind eye during the Battle of Copenhagen
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© 1986 Paul A. Lynn
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Lynn, P.A. (1986). Signal Processing. In: Electronic Signals and Systems. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18461-3_8
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