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Happy New Year 2010

Wishing all the readers of dsplog.com a great year 2010 !

Its been a mixed year for dsplog. Some key milestones
a) Crossing 1000 subscribers with 1100+ comments in March 2009
b) Crossing 100 posts with 2200 subscribers and 2600+ comments in October 2009
c) As I write this, we have 102 posts with 2603 subscribers and 3600+ comments.
Towards [...]

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dspLog turns two! Happy Birthday!

As on 21st October 2007, we moved from blogspot domain at  to the self hosted domain at http://www.dsplog.com. Over the last two years, the blog has grown quite a bit, and am reasonably happy with the progress. Let us look back at the positives and negatives over the last year.

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OCW: Communication System Design

While browsing through the web for materials on the wireless communication and implementation, found this rich set of articles as part of MIT OPEN COURSEWARE program. The course is from Vladimir Stojanovic, course materials for 6.973 Communication System Design, Spring 2006. MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Support Vibha’s Dream Mile event

My friend Mr. Balaji volunteers for Vibha, a non-profit  organization whose mission is to ensure that every underprivileged child attains his or her right to education, health and opportunity.
Vibha, which was founded in 1991 has a volunteer network of 825 members spread across Atlanta, Austin, Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, [...]

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Milestone 1000+ subscribers 1100+ comments

Those who are regular visitors to dsplog.com might have noticed the small FeedBurner chicklet on the side showing subscriber count showing 1000+ subscribers. Its a nice milestone to reach, one that looked so distant when I wrote the first post stating the objective of this blog on 26th February 2007. We now have around 86 [...]

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Migration to Who’s Who theme

After a gap of around 7 months, we decided to migrate to a new template (recall, last time we changed was in May 2008). The template which we decided to use  is designed by Elegant Themes. They have a wide array of themes and I chose to use the Who’s Who theme.

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Books

Happy holidays!

Wishing every one merry Christmas and a great year 2009 and beyond.

I will list down some of the books which I have on my desk. They help me with the math and simulations

Digital Communication: Third Edition, by John R. Barry, Edward A. Lee, David G. Messerschmitt

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Join dspLog at Google FriendConnect

We have installed Google FriendConnect on dspLog.com. With Google Friend Connect, you can:
(a) You can interact with other members who have similiar interests. You will come to know the list of other sites (apart from dspLog.com) where the members have joined. You can add a member as a friend and so on.
(b) You can invite [...]

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Linear to log conversion

In signal processing blocks like power estimation used in digital communication, it may be required to represent the estimate in log scale. This post explains a simple linear to log conversion scheme proposed in the DSP Guru column on DSP Trick: Quick-and-Dirty Logarithms. The scheme makes implementation of a linear to log conversion [...]

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Happy Birthday – dspLog

An important milestone for the dspLog happened on Oct 21st 2008. On this day last year, the blog migrated from the Blogger platform to the independently hosted platform at www.dsplog.com ! Belated birthday wishes for the blog!!!
Looking back, the first year was satisfying – both in terms of contents and traffic. We started [...]

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Negative Frequency

Last week, I received an email from Mr. Kishore. He was wondering about the physical significance of negative frequency. Does negative frequency really exist?
Though I have seen conflicting views on the net (thread in complextoreal.com, thread in comp.dsp), my perspective is that negative frequency exist. The concept of negative frequency helps me a lot to [...]

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Summary – feedback on [dspLog], July 2008

On July30th, 2008 I had sent a request for feedback to 93 subscribers who have opted to receive articles over email. As on 3rd August, I received the response from around 8 persons. Not bad, around 8.5% response. Thanks a lot for the feedback. I will summarize the response from the group and note down [...]

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OT: Happy Schools Blog

Mr. Raghuram contacted me and informed about Happy Schools Blog.
He writes about Graduate School Admission in U.S., Job opportunities for students, University Selection based on his personal experience.
He recently published few articles which might of interest to some of our readers. Here are the URL for few articles:

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ICCBN 2008, July 17-20 2008, IISc, Bangalore

Advanced Computing and Communication Society (ACS) of India is organizing ICCBN 2008 conference (International Conference on Communication, Convergence, and Broadband Networking) from July 17th to 20th 2008 at National Science Seminar Complex at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
ICCBN Conference aims to provide [...]

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