Crossing the Bridge: Taking Audio DSP from the Textbook to the DSP Design Engineer´s Bench

A set of seven audio digital signal processing (DSP) lab assignments have been developed for intermediate and advanced students in electrical engineering. The laboratory modules are designed to bridge the gap between a solid understanding of the mathematical principles of DSP and the practical issues that arise when implementing algorithms for real time audio processing. The audio DSP lab assignments assume a prerequisite of a one semester course in discrete-time signals and systems. The exercises include basic delay lines, recirculating delay lines for audio effects (echo, flanging, phasing, artificial reverberation), variable and parametric IIR equalizer filters, real time signal synthesis techniques (pseudo-random noise, wave table lookup methods, and direct computation), FFT and short-time Fourier transform (STFT) methods, and nonlinear and adaptive audio processes