The DSP-page
of the Digital Signal Processing Group (DSP-group), Tallinn TU, ELIN, MESEL

This page URL http://www.elin.ttu.ee/mesel/R&D/DSP/DSP-page.htm is maintained by the DSP-Group of the Chair of Electronic(al) Measurements (MESEL) and the Laboratory of Electronic Measurements of the Institute of Electronics ( ELIN) at Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Tallinn, Estonia.


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News in the field of DSP:

Leaders of the Texas Instruments's University Programme visited the TTU on January 13, 2004.

TI's GIPS DSP at the Chair of Electronic Measurements, TTU.

Digital Alias-free Signal Processing based on (pseudo)random sampling - DASPTOOL.


 

Events in the field of DSP:


Forthcoming:

The 7th IEEE Nordic Signal Processing Symposium NORSIG 2006, Reykjavik, Island, June 7-9, 2006.

The 10th Baltic Electronics Conference BEC'2006, October 2-4, 2006, Laulasmaa (near Tallinn), Estonia.


Some conference links:
Conference list at the DSP pages of the Georgia Institute of Technology (the GIT).


Retrospect: 
The 6th IEEE Nordic Signal Processing Symposium NORSIG 2004, Espoo, Finland, June 6-11, 2004.
The 9th Baltic Electronics Conference BEC'2004, October 2004, Tallinn, Estonia.
The Nordic Signal Processing Conference, 2002, Norway.
The 8th Baltic Electronics Conference BEC'2002, October 2002, Tallinn, Estonia.
11th Internat. Conf. on FPL and Applications FPL 2001, 27-29 August 2001, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
with a particular emphasis on DSP, Networking and Telecommunications.
Texas Instruments introduces major architectural advancements that will redefine DSP on February 22, 2000.
Go to www.ti.com/february22 to know more.
The 15-th International Conference "BIOSIGNAL'2000", 2000, Brno, Szech Republic.
The 7th Baltic Electronics Conference BEC'2000, October 2000, Tallinn, Estonia.
The 2nd International Conf. and Exhibition "Digital Signal Processing and Its Applications" DSPA'99, 21-14 September, 1999, Moscow, Russia .
1999 Finnish Signal Processing Symposium FinSig'99, May 31, 1999, Oulu, Suomi/Finland - for young researchers.
The 1999 International Workshop on Sampling Theory and Applications SampTA'99.
The 6th Baltic Electronics Conference BEC'98, October 7-9, 1998, Tallinn, Estonia.
The Second European DSP Education and Research Conference, September 23-24, 1998, ESIEE, Paris, France.
The 1997 International Workshop on Sampling Theory and Applications SampTA'97, June 1997, Portugal.
The 1st European DSP Education and Research Conference, Sept. 25-26, 1996, Paris.
Proc. of the 1st European DSP Education and Research Conference, ESIEE, Paris, 1996, 264 pp.
The 1st IEEE DSP Conference, 1996.
International Conferences "BIOSIGNAL", 1972-1998, Brno, Czech Rep.
The 5th Baltic Electronics Conference BEC'96, October 1996, Tallinn, Estonia.
The 1995 International Workshop on Sampling Theory and Applications SampTA'95, September 1995, Jurmala, Latvia.
The 2nd Finnish-Estonian Workshop on Digital Circuits and Algorithms, February 1992, Tallinn, Estonia.
Latvian Signal Processing International Conference, Riga, April 1990.

 

Some designs
of the DSP based instruments:


Bio-impedance analysers:

The DSP based multifrequency bio-impedance analyser.
The DSP based filter for post-processing of cardiac bio-impedance signals.



 

A selection of publications
related to the DSP:

Please, see also the more complete DSP bibliography.

Publications of the general interest:
Steven W.Smith. The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing".
California Technical Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-9660176-3-3.
The book is kindly provided for downloading from http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm, but, please, follow the rules of copyright and permissible use.
 E.C.Ifeachor, and B.W.Jervis. Digital Signal Processing. A Practical Approach.
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.
 Leland B. Jackson (Univ. of Rhode Island). Digital Filters and Signal Processing.
2nd Edition, ~1994, ça 500 pp.
 O.Vainio. Digital Signal Processors: A Short Overview.
In: Proc. 2nd Finnish-Estonian Workshop on Digital Circuits and Algorithms, Tallinn, Feb. 1992, 11 pp.
 R.W.Hamming. Digital Filters. 2nd edition.
Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series (A.V.Oppenheim).
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1983.
 M.Paul. Digitale Messwertverarbeitung. Methoden und Fallstudien.
VDE-Verlag GmbH, Berlin und Offenbach, BRD, 1982.
 S.D.Stearns. Digital Signal Analysis.
Hayden Book Company, Inc., Rochelle Park, New Jersey, 1975.
 A.V.Oppenheim and R.W.Schafer. Digital Signal Processing.
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1975.
 L.R.Rabbiner and B.Gold. Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing.
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1975.
 G.Doetsch. Anleitung zum praktischen gebrauch der Laplace-Transformation und der z-Transformation. 3. Auflage.
Oldenburg, 1967.
Publications with the co-authorship of Estonian scientists and engineers:
Worldwide and in Europe:
 O.Märtens, M.Min, H.Trampärk, A.Liimets.
High-performance analogue measurement using internal enhanced PWM and ADC of a DSP-chip.
In: Conf. Proceedings Book of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing WISP 2007, October 3-5, 2007, Alcala, Spain, pp.59-63, ISBN 1-4244-0829-6
 O.Märtens.  DSP-Based Device for Multifrequency Bio-Impedance Measurement.
- Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol.37, 1999, Supplement 1, Proc. of the 11th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering NBCBME'99, June 6-10, 1999, Tallinn, Estonia, pp.165-166.
 O.Märtens.  DSP-based AC Measurement Unit.
In: Proc. of the 1999 Finnish Signal Processing Symposium FinSig'99, May 31, 1999, Oulu, Suomi/Finland, pp.247-251. (for young researchers).
 O.Märtens,  H.Märtin, T.Parve, A.Ronk, and M.Min.
Digital post-processing of the bio-impedance signal.
In: Proc. of the Xth ICEBI, Barcelona, 1998.
   
Publications in Estonia and other Baltic states:
 I.Bilinskis, G.Cain. Wish us good luck! Digital Alias-free Signal Processing.
- Baltic Electronics. Technical journal. Vol.2, No.2, June 1996, pp.4-7.
 K.Bilius, V.Laukys, S.Rupkus. Digital Signal Processors and Their Application.
- Baltic Electronics. Technical journal. Vol.1, No.2, December 1995, pp.20-21.
 I.Mednieks, A.Mikelsons. Decomposition of signals containing components with overlapping spectra.
- Proc. of Latvian signal processing international conf., vol.1, pp.348-353, Riga, April 1990.
 I.Arro.  Signaalide digitaaltöötlus. (Digital processing of signals)
Tallinn, TTÜ, Signaalitöötluse õppetool, 1996, 209 lk. (in Estonian)
 A.Meister.  EEG-signaalide numbriline töötlus (Digital Processing of the EEG signals).
Tallinn Technical University, 1995. (in Estonian)
 Ilmar Arro. Numbriline signaaltöötlus (Digital Signal Processing).
Tallinn Technical University, 1995. (in Estonian)
 Olev Märtens.  Digitaalfiltrite projekteerimine (Design of Digital Filters). Loengukonspect (Lecture notes).
Tallinn, Tallinn Technical University, 1996/97. (in Estonian)
 Ants Meister.  Signaalitöötlus paketiga MATLAB. Õppevahend.
Tallinn, TTÜ, Raadio- ja sidetehnika instituut, 1994. 32 lk.
 Tõnu Trump.  Some New Aspects of Digital Filtering. Theses of Tallinn Technical University. (for the degree of Doctor of Engineering).
Tallinn, TTU, Department of Radio and Communication Engineering, Chair of Signal Processing, 1993, 105 pp. (incl. 88 pp. of text, 11 pp. of bibliography).
 Ants Ronk, An Extended Block-Adaptive Fourier Analyser for Analysis and Reproduction of Periodic Components of Band-Limited Discrete-Time Signals. PhD thesis.
Tallinn, TTU, 2002, 90 pp.
 Olev Märtens. DSP-based RMS Measurement Converter.
In: Papers of the Conference Telecommunication '98, dedicated to the International Telecommunication Day, May 15, 1998, TTU, Estonia, pp.66-72.
The Section of Digital Signal Processing. Proc. of the (Estonian) Republican Scientific and Engineering Conference dedicated to the Day of Radio Engineering. Part 1.
Tallinn, Estonia, 1983. (in Russian)




 
 

DSP-related WWW-sites:

Worldwide, in Europe, in Nordic Countries:

  • Texas Instruments' (TI) Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) - the leader in production.
    Please, see about the 1 GIPS TMS320 starter kit.
  • National Instruments' Signal Processing Software.
  • Motorola Comp. DSP Library, Development Software (download), etc.
  • Analog Devices.
  • The DSP design (by prof. E.C.Ifeachor et al.) at the University of Plymouth, UK..
  • SI: DSP Group.
  • D.S.P. Research Group at the University College Dublin (Ireland).
  • DSP Laboratory at MIT, BME (Hungary).

    In Estonia and in the Baltic States (Latvia and Lithuania):

  • DSP in the study subjects of the EFTI at the University of Tartu / Universitas Tartuensis, Tartu, Estonia.
  • DSP in the Institute of Telecommunication and Radio Engineering of Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Tallinn, Estonia.
  • DSP in the Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia.
  • M & T Ltd., Tallinn, Estonia.
  • The Estonian DSP Club - Does it exist ?


    Some other WWW-sites

    Sites concerning the applications of the DSP and related teaching activities:

  • DSP in multiple study subjects of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Telecommunication of the Tallinn Technical University;
  • Spatial imaging, speech interfaces, etc. at the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
  • Center for Signal and Image Processing at Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT).
  • Application of DSP for biomedical signal processing - in the study subjects (R60, et al.) of the Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology EFTI at the University of Tartu;
  • DSP in the study subjects at the University of Tartu (R23 "Digital Signal Processing", and R615 "Fundamentals of Signal Processing" with the Interactive lecture notes by Peeter Saari, the Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology EFTI at the University of Tartu).
     
     

    Companies and Institutions dealing with the DSP (incl. Societies, etc.):

    Worldwide, in Europe, in Nordic Countries:

  • Intel (Intel 2920 in 1979 was the 1st general purpose DSP, had on-chip ADC)
  • Texas Instruments, Inc., U.S.A.
  • Motorola Comp. (USA) DSP Library, Development Software (downloading), etc.
  • Analog Devices, U.S.A.
  • DSP at Lucent (Bell Labs).
  • LSI Logic Corp., U.S.A.
  • N.E.C., Japan.
  • DSP-page of the Dept. of Astronomy at Seoul National University, South Korea.
  • AT&T Microelectronics
  • SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, France.
  • A Signal Processing Information Base, and its list of DSP research groups all over the World.
  • The European Association for Signal Processing.
  • The Signal Processing Activity in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
  • The Signal Processing and Artif. Neural Networks Lab. of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
  • SI: DSP Group.
  • Samsung Electronics (DSP in 1997).
  • The International Laboratory for DASP (Digital Alias-free Signal Processing).
  • Department of Digital Signal Processing of the IREE of the Acad. Sciences of the Czech Rep.

    In the Nordic-Baltic Region:
  • The Signal Processing Laboratory of Tampere University of Technology
  • Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga, Latvia.
    In Estonia:
  • M&T Electronics Ltd. (alternative web-pages).
  • Estroonika AS (DSP-cards, programmes, development systems)
  • The Chair of Signal Processing of the Institute of Radio- and Telecommunication Engineering of Tallinn University of Technology (TUT).
  • The DSP-related pages of the Institute of Physics at the University of Tartu.

     

    Keywords and Related topics

    Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC or A/D conversion)
    Applications of the DSP.
    Assembler (a Programming Language).
    Audio signal processing (incl. audio data compression, mpeg layer 3 or mp3, wma, etc.).
    Bioelectrical signals processing (also Medical signal processing).
    C-language (a Programming Language).
    Cache memory.
    Computer Architecture (especially the Harvard architecture - separate program and data memories).
    DASP - Digital Alias-free Signal Processing (see http://dasptool.edi.lv).
    DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform).
    Digital filtering (see also Bioelectrical signal processing).
    Digital Signal Processing/Processor DSP (please, see also DSP at the pages of the Chair of Applied Electronics of the ELIN at Tallinn UT, and DASP).
    Digital-to-Analog Conversion (DAC or D/A, see also ADC or A/D conversion)
    Direct Memory Access (DMA).
    Discrete Signal Processing (see also Digital Signal Processing or DSP).
    Emulator.
    FFT (Fast Fourier Transform).
    Filtering/Filters (finite impulse response or FIR, infinite impulse response or IIR).
    Fixed point (16- and 24-bit) and Floating point (32-bit) formats.
    Fourier Transform (see also DFT and FFT).
    Hairing Aids.
    Image processing (see also Video, Pattern recognition).
    Linker.
    Medical signal processing (see also Biomedical signals processing).
    Multiplexer/Multiplexing.
    Parallel processing.
    Pattern recognition (see also Image processing, mpeg, etc.).
    Pipe line.
    Programming (languages: Assembly, C, DSP/C).
    Sensory Aids for the Hairing Impaired.
    Signal processing.
    Simulator.
    Software (for designing, e.g. for designing of digital filters).
    Sound processing (see also Audio signal processing and audio data compression: mpeg layer 3 (mp3) encoding, wma, etc.).
    Speech processing.
    Starter kit.
    Test(ing).
    Video signal processing (see also Image processing, video data compression, Motion Picture Expert Group - the mpeg, and mpeg layer 3 or mp3 for Audio).

    Compiled: 15.10.1997.  Last changed: 08.10.2007.