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3.1 CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
On completion of this chapter, the reader should be able to
1. explain the concepts of sampling and reconstruction;
2. convert decimal numbers into unsigned binary, 2’s complement signed or floating-point formats, and convert binary numbers back to decimal;
3. explain quantization and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR);
4. be able to use difference equations and manipulate them for a given task;
5. be able to iterate difference equations and turn this into code for a digital signal processing (DSP) implementation; and
6. explain ideal reconstruction and derive the polynomial interpolation for a signal.