Advanced Signal Processing

David Creasey joined GEC (Telecommunications) Limited, Coventry, on a 5-year apprenticeship. As part of this apprenticeship he attended Southampton University, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in Electrical Engineering in 1961. In 1963, he was appointed Hirst Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. In 1966 he was awarded his PhD for studies involving realiability in computing systems. Subsequently he became a lecturer, and then senior lecturer, in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Birmingham, where his main research interests have concerned signal processing for sonar systems. He is now Director of the Wolfson Underwater Acoustics Unit at the University. He has served on a number of outside bodies and is presently a member of the IEE Professional Group Committee E15 (Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics).

• Chapter 1: Transmitter aerialsChapter 2: High power amplifier design for active sonarChapter 3: Radar transmittersChapter 4: Receiver array technology for sonarChapter 5: New underwater acoustic sensorsChapter 6: Diversity techniques in communications receiversChapter 7: GaAs IC amplifiers for radar and communication receiversChapter 8: Integrated optical techniques for acousto-optic receiversChapter 9: Logarithmic receiversChapter 10: CCD processors for sonarChapter 11: Learning from biological echo ranging systems?Chapter 12: Acousto-optic correlatorsChapter 13: GaAs MESFET comparators for high speed Analog-to-Digital conversionChapter 14: Designing in siliconChapter 15: Very high performance integrated circuitsChapter 16: Very high speed integrated circuits (VHSIC) technology for digital signal processing applicationsChapter 17: Digital filtersChapter 18: Display typesChapter 19: Scan converters in sonarChapter 20: Display ergonomicsChapter 21: SimulatorsChapter 22: High throughput sonar processorsChapter 23: Optical fibre systems for signal processingChapter 24: Satellite communicationsChapter 25: A VLSI array processor for image and signal processingChapter 26: VHPIC for radarChapter 27: High performance and high speed integrated devices in future sonar systemsChapter 28: AdaChapter 29: Future for cryogenic devices for signal processing applicationsChapter 30: Application of the ICL distributed array processor to radar signal processingChapter 31: Advanced image understandingChapter 32: Advanced signal processing aspects of automatic speech recognitionChapter 33: VLSI architectures for real-time image processing