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Chapter 18 - Digital Signal Processing



For your edification, entertainment, and delight, Mr JACK KLEIN (insert applause here) has kindly provided a support page for Chapter 18. Get the late-breaking news on this chapter by clicking that link! Meanwhile, stay tuned for the errata I have available to me, some of which was provided by Mr Klein himself!

[ Sorry, Jack, was that a bit OTT? ;-) ]

Type Page Error Correction Reported By
Typographical 764 Wrong font Use monospace font for unsigned char (three occurrences).
Typographical 765 Wrong font Use monospace font for unsigned char.
Typographical 766 Wrong font Use monospace font for unsigned char.
Typographical 767 "No code word can start with the same bit sequence of a shorter code word." Change to "No code word can start with the same bit sequence as a shorter code word."
Typographical 781 "a time savings." Change to "a time saving."
Typographical 782 Wrong font In the second sentence "...the argument code indicates...", the word "code" should be in monospaced font. The same applies to the first use of the same word in the following two sentences. Jack Klein
Technical 782 T4_DECODE Should be T4_ENCODE Jack Klein
Typographical 785 Bad indenting. length -= free_bits; should be indented to match the line below. Jack Klein
Typographical 785 Wrong font. Last paragraph: "...the code parameter is NULL." - "code" should be in monospaced font. Jack Klein
Typographical 787 Wrong font Use monospace font for short int.
Typographical 800 Wrong font Use monospace font for unsigned chars.
Mind glitch 806 "Kind of garbled (my fault)" - Jack Jack says - This sentence should end with a period where the comma is in "...bits are garbled,...". The rest of the text should be in another sentence, something like "Still parity is used in some common applications, such as serial communications." Jack Klein
Typographical 806 Wrong font Use monospace font for unsigned chars - two occurrences.
Typographical 807 Bad indenting The third line in main(), "char *nl;", should be indented to match the line above. Jack Klein
Typographical 807 Wrong font Use monospace font for unsigned char.
Typographical 807 Wrong case last paragraph, last sentence "...C's bitwise AND shift operators..." the "AND" should be "and" because the word is used in the English language sense, not as a reference to the C language bitwise AND operator. Jack Klein
Technical 809 Wrong word in "There are only two possible values". Change to "There are only four possible values". Jack Klein
Typographical 809 Missing word in "There are only possible values". Change to "There are only four possible values". Me - yes, this is a different error to the previous one!
Typographical 809 "This is caused by the fact the serial devices"...;. Change to "This is caused by the fact that the serial devices" or, better still, "This is because the serial devices".
Typographical 809 Last paragraph on page, missing word. Change "If the actual data starts off with run of 0 bits or octets" to "If the actual data starts off with a run of 0 bits or octets"
Typographical 810 Penultimate paragraph on this page; wrong font for temp Use monospace font for temp
Typographical 817 Missing word: "When the data read back from does not match" Change to "When the data read back from them does not match"
Clarification 820 "Examples might be volume or light intensity..." "Examples might be sound volume or light intensity..." Jack Klein
Typographical 820 Spelling! Two occurrences of "stationery" Change each occurrence of "stationery" to "stationary"
Typographical 823 CoumptePID Should be ComputePID
Typographical 827 Wrong font Change "output" to "output"
Technical 829 Top paragraph states that the dashed line represents the set point and the solid line represents the process variable in Figures 18.7 through 18.12 inclusive. This is backwards. More information and color JPEGs of the original graphs may be seen on Jack Klein's Chapter 18 Support Page Add the lines (or remove the legend entries!) Jack Klein
Technical 833 Fifth paragraph, second sentence - "Like friction feed forward..." Change to "Like acceleration feed forward"




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