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PREFACE<br />

The working title of this book was Channel Equalization for Everyone. Channel<br />

equalization for everyone? Well, for high school students, channel equalization<br />

provides a simple, interesting example of how mathematics and physics can be<br />

used to solve real-world problems. It also introduces them to the way engineers<br />

think, perhaps inspiring them to pursue a degree in engineering. Similar reasoning<br />

applies to first-year undergraduate engineering students.<br />

For senior undergraduate students and graduate students in electrical engineering,<br />

channel equalization is a useful topic in communications. Data rates on wireless<br />

and wireline connections continue to rise, as do information densities on storage devices.<br />

Packing more and more digital symbols in time or space ultimately leads to<br />

intersymbol interference, requiring some form of equalization. Each new communications<br />

air interface or data storage device poses its own challenges, keeping channel<br />

equalization a topic of research as well.<br />

So how can one book be used to teach channel equalization to such different<br />

audiences? Each chapter is divided into the following sections.<br />

1. The Idea: The idea is described at a level suitable for junior/senior high<br />

school students and first-year undergraduate students with a background in<br />

algebra.<br />

2. More Details: More information is provided that is intended for senior undergraduate<br />

students but is perhaps more suitable for first-year graduate students<br />

more comfortable with many variables in algebra. Differential calculus and<br />

complex numbers are used in a few places. A little bit of probability theory<br />

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