... BruceW.BomarIntroduction•NumberRepresentation•Fixed-PointQuantizationErrors•Floating-PointQuan-tizationErrors•RoundoffNoise•LimitCycles•OverflowOscillations•CoefficientQuantizationError•RealizationConsiderationsTHESTUDYOF“SIGNALSANDSYSTEMS”hasformedacornerstoneforthedevelopmentofdigitalsignalprocessingandiscrucialforallofthetopicsdiscussedinthisHandbook.Whilethereaderisassumedtobefamiliarwiththebasicsofsignalsandsystems,asmallportionisreviewedinthischapterwithanemphasisonthetransitionfromcontinuoustimetodiscretetime.Thereaderwishingmorebackgroundmayfindinitanyofthemanyfinetextbooksinthisarea,forexample[1]-[6].Inthechapter“FourierSeries,FourierTransforms,andtheDFT”byW.KennethJenkins,manyimportantFouriertransformconceptsincontinuousanddiscretetimearepresented.ThediscreteFouriertransform(DFT),whichformsthebackboneofmoderndigitalsignalprocessingasitsmostcommonsignalanalysistool,isalsodescribed,togetherwithanintroductiontothefastFouriertransformalgorithms.In“OrdinaryLinearDifferentialandDifferenceEquations”,theauthor,B.P.Lathi,presentsadetailedtutorialofdifferentialanddifferenceequationsandtheirsolutions.Becausetheseequationsarethemostcommonstructuresforbothimplementingandmodellingsystems,thisbackgroundisnecessaryfortheunderstandingofmanyofthelatertopicsinthisHandbook.Ofparticularinterestareanumberofsolvedexamplesthatillustratethesolutionstotheseformulations.c1999byCRCPressLLCWhile ... Manolakis, D.G.,Introduction to Digital Signal Processing , Macmillan, New York;Collier Macmillan, London, 1988.[6] Oppenheim, A.V. and Schafer, R.W.,Discrete Time Signal Processing , Prentice-Hall, ... practicalconsiderations for realizations of digital signal processing applications, with a special emphasis onfiltering.References[1] Jackson, L.B.,Signals, Systems, and Transforms,Addison-Wesley,...