Apologies for my earlier munged message.

alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
>> > I do not know what is your background in electronics, but for me a
>> > book about DSP by Lyons helped me a lot to understand the FFT (Fast
>> > Fourier Transform) which is the foundation of SDR.
>> >
>>
>> FFTs give me butterflies :-).
>>
>> It may well be enough to understand what the FFT DOES rather than
>>
>> HOW it does it in technical detail.
>>
>> So understanding what the Fourier Transform (FT - Analog foundation for
>> FFT) does may well be enough
>>
>> AND a sliding correlation of a sine and cos wave across a data / signal =
sample
>> can easily show how and why.
>> The "aha moment" from a simple graph paper or simulation example may be
>> enough to demystify the subject adequately to allow greater detail to be
>> (more) happily accepted.
>>
>> It's quite likely that somebody here recalls a paper or demo that does j=
ust
>> this. It's been 'a few decades' since I played with such 'in anger'.
>> Lonnnng ago FFTs on a MC6800 happened. That's something like
>> implementing them on a 16F84, but with external memory :-).
>
> Russell,
> There was a discussion here within the last 3 months IIRC where a couple =
of
> Analog Devices books were mentioned. I found the one I recommended gave m=
e an
> reasonable insight into the basics of DSP, sorry, can't find my archive o=
f the
> link at the moment.
>
> But a DSP book by Lyons was mentioned, so an amazon search reveals three
> likely candidates, at varying cost ...
>
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processing-Richard-=
ebook/dp/B004DI7JIQ/ref=3Dpd_sim_351_1?_encoding=3DUTF8&psc=3D1&refRID=3D7J=
WZENGWF11ZB0766AKN

The professor of my DSP course arranged for his students to obtain free
copies _Digital Sigal Processing in VLSI_ (Higgins), which is published
by Analog Devices.

https://www.abebooks.com/9780132128872/Digital-Signal-Processing-Vlsi-Analo=
g-013212887X/plp=20

Thank you,

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