Barry Cheetham, senior lecturer in The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, is combining his academic expertise in communications, networks and digital signal processing with his love of choral singing.

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It is time to connect them to the real world--and that means new generations of sensors, robotics and digital signal processing.

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Astounding advances have arrived ever since the analog innards of wireless gadgets gave way to digital-signal processing chips.

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Its exceptionally sophisticated 10-bit video digital signal processing provides for adaptive de-interlacing of both SD and HD sources, edge enhancement without ringing, and uniquely adaptive noise reduction, as well as extensive color and grey level calibration.

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For example you might have Texas Instrument or TI which is the biggest supplier in the base-band market or DSP (Digital Signal Processing) but still have competition from the likes of Lucent, Motorola, Qualcomm.

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Embedded Processing products, which were responsible for 14% of 2009 revenues, consist of digital signal processors (DSPs) and microcontrollers.

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In the future, we hope that a global army of open-source code developers, students and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest.

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Furthermore, the LightSpeaker's 2.5-inch wide dispersion driver uses digital signal processing to optimize high- and low-frequency output for a full spectrum of sound.

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