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  <name>Preface to DSP Lab International Demo</name>
  <metadata>
  <md:version>**new**</md:version>
  <md:created>2004/02/08 18:08:43.627 US/Central</md:created>
  <md:revised>2004/02/08 18:16:27.934 US/Central</md:revised>
  <md:authorlist>
    <md:author id="jpfrantz">
      <md:firstname>Patrick</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Frantz</md:surname>
      <md:email>jpfrantz@rice.edu</md:email>
    </md:author>
  </md:authorlist>

  <md:maintainerlist>
    <md:maintainer id="jpfrantz">
      <md:firstname>Patrick</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Frantz</md:surname>
      <md:email>jpfrantz@rice.edu</md:email>
    </md:maintainer>
  </md:maintainerlist>
  
  <md:keywordlist>
    <md:keyword>DSP</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>Digital</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>Signal</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>Processing</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>International</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>Texas Instruments</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>TMS320</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>Japanese</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>Chinese</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>Thai</md:keyword>
  </md:keywordlist>

  <md:abstract>The following course serves as a demo for the use of Connexions with languages other than English and in the context of a DSP laboratory course. English-language material has been borrowed from Doug Jones' course ECE320 at UIUC. Partial translations of the course material are given in the Japanese, Chinese and Thai languages.</md:abstract>
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    <para id="p1">
       This course is a demonstration course to show DSP-related content in languages other than English. It is intended to serve the following purposes:
	
	<list id="list1" type="enumerated">
		<item>To spread DSP technology and help establish DSP lab courses outside the US.</item>
		<item>To show that Connexions can support other languages and fonts, especially Asian.</item>
		<item>To demonstrate the Connexions project to those in other countries.</item>
	</list>
    </para>
    <para id="p2">
    	For this demonstration course, content has been prepared in the following languages:
	<list id="list2" type="bulleted">
		<item>Japanese</item>
		<item>Chinese (Mandarin)</item>
		<item>Thai</item>
	</list>
    </para>
    <para id="p3">
    	All of the original material for this demonstration course has been taken from Doug Jones' ECE320 at UIUC, which is a senior-level DSP lab course based on the Texas Instruments TMS320C54x. Many thanks to Doug and others at UIUC for their hard work in  preparing the original course material.
	</para>

	<para id="p4">
	<note type="Important">In order to properly view all the content, you will need to install the necessary fonts for the Japanese, Chinese and Thai languages.</note>
    </para>   
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