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DSP Fundamentals Terms

Foundational concepts: sampling, aliasing, Nyquist rate, quantization, signals as sequences, complex sinusoids, frequency vs phase.

10 terms in this category.

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  • Bandwidth (signal) Signal bandwidth is the span of frequencies occupied by a signal, typically measured in hertz (Hz) between defined lower and upper frequency...
F
  • Frequency Domain The frequency domain is a representation of a signal in terms of its constituent complex spectral components (capturing both amplitude and p...
  • Frequency Response
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  • Group Delay Group delay is the negative derivative of a filter's or system's phase response with respect to frequency, representing how long different f...
I
  • Impulse Response The impulse response of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system is the output produced when the input is a unit impulse (Dirac delta for contin...
P
  • PCM Pulse-Code Modulation (PCM) is a method of representing a continuously varying analog signal as a sequence of discrete digital samples, each...
  • Phase (signal) Phase is the offset of a periodic signal relative to a reference signal or waveform origin, expressed as an angle in degrees or radians. It ...
S
  • SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) is the ratio of the power of a desired signal to the power of background noise in the same channel or measuremen...
T
  • Time Domain The time domain is a representation of a signal as a function of time, where the amplitude (voltage, current, or other physical quantity) is...
  • Transfer Function A transfer function is a mathematical representation, typically expressed in the Laplace domain (s-domain) for continuous-time systems or th...