basicdsp(1) BSD General Commands Manual basicdsp(1)NAMEbasicdsp — DSP demonstration program
SYNOPSIS
A program for experimenting with simple audio DSP algorithms.
DESCRIPTION
BasicDSP is a program to apply simple Digital Signal Processing algo‐
rithms to audio signals. The input can either be taken from the sound
card, or be a locally generated sine wave, white noise or impulse signal.
The output is fed to the sound card, as well as to a virtual oscilloscope
and spectrum analyzer.
The DSP algorithm itself is specified in a very straightforward program‐
ming language which has only assignment statements (and on unix a print
statement). Each line contains one statement, and all lines are executed
once for each incoming sample. The input sample is available in variables
named 'in', output into variables named 'out', 'outl' and/or 'outr'.
Here's a simple example program:
a = a + slider1 * (in - a)
outl = a
outr = fir(in, 0.1, 0.3, 0.3, 0.1)
This illustrates defining new variables ('a' in the example), the use of
the sliders, and the use of a built-in function like fir(). The help-
menu gives access to a complete list of built-in variables and functions.
Note: the program was originally written to accompany a series of arti‐
cles on Software-Defined Radio appearing in the Dutch amateur radio jour‐
nal ´Electron´. Another tutorial appeared in the December 2007 issue of
SPRAT.
PROJECT WEBSITE, DOCUMENTATION
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/ham/basicdsp/
AUTHORS
Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Niels A. Moseley
Unix June 16, 2008 Unix
