SLIDE 8 Digital Signal Processing and System Theory| Advanced Signals and Systems| Discrete Systems
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Digital Signal Processing and System Theory| Advanced Signals and Systems| Discrete Systems
Discrete Systems
System Classification – Part 2
Continuous, discrete, and digital systems (continued):
In discrete systems the state variables usually describe the contents of memory elements. In continuous systems usually energy-storing elements are described by the state variable. Some general comments:
A system taking a number of input sequences and producing a number of output
sequences (and ) may, of course, be generally seen as a computing system.
However, digital computers necessarily work with quantized (limited word length)
signals and variables. These digital systems are a special type of discrete systems.
Here (in this lecture) we will deal only with discrete systems – digital systems are
treated in the lecture “Advanced digital signal processing”.