DSP see-through: Going beyond talk-through

Engineering educators have found that students making the transition to real-time digital signal processing (DSP) from the more comfortable world of off-line processing using MATLAB must establish confidence in the hardware and software platform before significant learning can begin. In the audio realm, a talk-through project accomplishes this. For moving on to a more complicated signal such as video, the authors propose the use of a see-through project. A description of a see-through project on a high-performance real-time DSP platform, and how this can lead to better follow-on learning, is provided.