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What is "percentage distortion"? 26 30 (10/25/2012 6:43:00 PM) comp.dsp Starting about 1950, when I first got serious about audio, I have periodically run into arguments about how to decide what "10% harmonic distortion" means. Some were both subtle and bitter. For example, if ... Jerry

Way off topic. 41 39 (10/1/2012 3:18:35 AM) comp.dsp If anyone has been wondering, I am and have been fine. I hope to get back into the swim soon. Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. ��������������������������... Jerry

An interesting lecture. 3 53 (5/18/2012 2:54:17 AM) comp.dsp I just returned from a Princeton Section ACM/IEEE-CS meeting at which the speaker was Joo Won Park. He is an assistant professor of music at Community College of Philadelphia and an electronic musician and c... Jerry

RIP Jim Marshall 38 46 (4/5/2012 10:32:58 PM) comp.dsp http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/05/international/i060752D77.DTL&tsp=1 Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. ��������������������������������... Jerry

OT Manned reentry 16 48 (2/21/2012 1:38:46 AM) comp.dsp I just saw an interview with John Glenn, one of the space pioneers, on PBS. He was the first American to orbit Earth and reenter (and later a US Senator.) It awakened a memory probably worth sharing. Backgro... Jerry

Incremental encoder centration 8 38 (1/2/2012 3:32:57 AM) comp.dsp Robert, I'm sorry to have led you astray by going a bit off Tim's topic. I am not addressing Tim's problem where adjacent bits can be arbitrarily chosen to be black or clear. The disk I have in mind has alte... Jerry

OT Ping Rune #2 2 38 (12/22/2011 5:06:21 AM) comp.dsp The following message to was undeliverable. The reason for the problem: 5.4.7 - Delivery expired (message too old) 'timeout' Part 1.2 Subject: IPPC From: Jerry Avins Date: 12/20/2011 1:29 PM To: Rune Allnor ... Jerry

OT. A new take on the halting problem 3 39 (12/4/2011 3:30:46 AM) comp.dsp An homage to Ted Geisel: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/19/how-dr-suess-would-prove-the-halting-problem-undecidable/ Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.... Jerry

OT! More politics of the religious right 12 47 (10/6/2011 5:35:47 PM) comp.dsp A friend sent me this: Fred Phelps has just announced that he and the Westboro Baptist Church will picket the funeral of Steve Jobs because God Hates Those Who Work For Themselves And Not For God. The mess... Jerry

OT Why DSP consultants are (by and large) well paid 183 50 (9/29/2011 3:31:52 AM) comp.dsp http://cdn.videosift.com/static/Miss-USA-2011-Should-Math-Be-Taught-In-Schools/index.html?1315892583 God help us! Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. ... Jerry

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Off-Topic: Circuit breaker. Latch position? 9 17 (12/14/2012 1:22:49 AM) comp.dsp I bought a new home in December 2011. After some time the kitchen lights and the lights in the living room started to switch off randomly. Some days it would happen 3-4 times in a row. Other days it would on... mjames2393 (69)

Merry Christmas 14 23 (12/14/2012 2:18:23 AM) comp.dsp Greetings Earthlings, Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those of you who do not celebrate Christmas such a... Rick

discrete fourier series and transform 53 28 (12/23/2012 1:00:28 PM) comp.dsp Sirs, Can you explain what is discrete fourier series vis-a-vis discrete fourier transform? Thanks, Manish ... manishp

complex numbers 50 26 (12/25/2012 2:19:23 PM) comp.dsp Sirs, I am reading tutorial on quadrature signals by Rick Lyons. I did not know where to clarify some questions, hence i am putting on this forum. I have read complex numbers before and even this time, i... manishp

How to design ultra-narrow bandpass digital filter with linear phase characteristic? 30 20 (2/6/2013 8:37:14 AM) comp.dsp I am trying to design bandpass filter that has linear phase characteristic given the following specifications: 1) Sampling rate, Fs=20 MHz, 2) Lower stopband freq, fs1=1.998 MHz, 3) Lower passband freq, fp... yweesoon (8)

RMS calculation 59 34 (2/15/2013 7:19:51 AM) comp.dsp Hello all, I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of a standards document on discrete calculation of RMS voltages and currents. The application involves a narrow band noise signal from ... dearman.mark (137)

Sum of sine waves with min peak value 26 16 (2/28/2013 2:35:46 AM) comp.dsp Hi I would like to add together a group of about 10 sine-waves that are all harmonically related (for example, 10Hz, 20Hz ... 100Hz). Assume all the amplitudes are equal. How can I set the phases of each com... jimcraig627 (6)

dsp eval kits 24 18 (3/7/2013 7:42:11 AM) comp.dsp can you recommend on that has adc and dac floating point processing. Doesn't need to be too powerful. suit basic motor control. eg only needs to implment basic integrators/lag lead compensators. ... gyansorova (854)

Whitening in Frequency Domain 29 12 (3/8/2013 3:39:30 AM) comp.dsp Hello - I want to create a whitening filter in the frequency domain, and I have implemented such a filter (as an adaptation of some older code), but I believe it is incorrect as I am getting some odd edge... dspillini

Sine Lookup Table with Linear Interpolation 120 19 (3/16/2013 10:30:51 PM) comp.dsp I've been studying an approach to implementing a lookup table (LUT) to implement a sine function. The two msbs of the phase define the quadrant. I have decided that an 8 bit address for a single quadrant ... gnuarm (2644)