Opetustarkoituksiin soveltuvien digitaalisen signaalinkäsittelyn toteutusten vertailu

The recent rapid increase in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications motivates university students in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to study fundamental DSP courses. Those fundamental courses are usually taught in theory with some MATLAB example codes. To teach DSP technology in more practical way, multimedia demonstrations and hardware experiments can be considered as complementary solutions for DSP courses to raise the interests of students. The purpose of this thesis is to search and examine more DSP solutions for educational use. Besides MATLAB, hardware/software solutions like Texas Instruments DSP Starter Kit, Snack Sound Toolkit, Synthesis Toolkit (STK) and Pure Data (PD) are found. In order to demonstrate these solutions to students, development environment is successfully built. Short-term demonstrations have been given in basic DSP courses to gather feedback from students. Furthermore, several interviews are organized to acquire comments from DSP courses lecturers, MATLAB session assistants and experienced researchers. For DSP educational purpose, MATLAB may still stand with its own position depending on DSP functionality as well as popularity in DSP books. Other solutions show their docent values to be an optional choice for students with different study background