Higgins R.J. Digital Signal Processing in VLSI

Analog Devices, 1990. — 612.Do it digitally. These days, this precept goes far beyond personal computers. Inside practically any measuring instrument, communications or audio product, traditional electronic circuits are being emulated in software and firmware. The software drives a new generation of specialized microprocessors whose architecture is optimized to carry out digital signal-processing (DSP) algorithms, typified by the multiply-accumulate computation sequence of digital filters and spectral analysis.
With the gap between the analog and digital worlds bridged by economical analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, the translation of signal processing functions to digital terms is further driven by advantages stability, programmability, enhanced performance, as well as some digital signal processing algorithms and tricks that have no analog equivalent.
DSP computing processes and processors are having an impact similar to effect the microprocessor had on computing. Talking calculators, smart measuring instruments, sophisticated music synthesizers, translating machines and seeing aids for the blind are coming into vogue, and even DSP-based smart toys (pioneered by TI's "Speak and Spell") are commonplace.
This book is for users and potential users of DSP who need to massage signals or create systems and are more interested in its applications than theory (as represented by the classic DSP treatises).Real-World Signal Processing
Sampled Signals and Systems
The Discrete Fourier Transform and the Fast FourierTransform Algorithm
Digital Filters
The Bridge to VLSI
Real DSP Hardware
Software Development for the DSP System
DSP Applications