Telecommunications & Signal Processing Laboratory

libtsp Library Routines

The libtsp package is a library of routines for signal processing. It also includes a number of general purpose routines useful for program development. Examples of programs using this library for filtering, LPC analysis/synthesis and resampling are available as part of the AFsp package.

The libtsp library routines are divided into a number of categories, with the first two letters of the routine name keyed to the category. Examples of the functions available are listed for each category.

AF - Audio file routines

• Open and close audio files
• Read and write audio files

FI - Filtering routines

• Filter a signal (FIR and IIR filters)
• Generate windows (Hamming, Kaiser and raised-cosine)
• Design Kaiser-windowed lowpass filters
• Read filter coefficient files

FL - File routines

• Fill in the full path name for a file name
• Return the creation date for a file
• Prompt and read a line of text
• Read and write numeric data

FN - Functions

• Bessel function (0'th order modified)
• Greatest common divisor
• Series expansion of Chebyshev polynomials
• Log base 2

MA - Matrix routines

• Allocate space for a matrix
• Print a matrix
• Calculate quadratic and bilinear forms
• Solve equations (Cholesky decomposition and Toeplitz matrix)

MS - Miscellaneous routines

• Convolve coefficients of two arrays
• Nearest integer, floor and ceiling functions
• Interpolate a table of values (linear and cubic)
• Rational approximation to a value

SP - Signal processing routines

• Fast Fourier transform (complex and real)
• Discrete cosine transform
• Calculate covariance or autocorrelation from a block of data
• Convert between linear prediction parameters (error filter coefficients, predictor coefficients, cepstral coefficients, line spectral frequencies, reflection coefficients, autocorrelation coefficients)
• Solve for linear prediction coefficients (covariance and autocorrelation methods)
• Calculate the mean-square filtering error
• Distance measures (Itakura-Saito and RMS log LPC)
• Quantize a value given a table of boundaries (binary search)

ST - String routines

• Copy and concatenate strings
• Decode numeric values from a string
• Match a string to a table of keywords

UT - Utility routines

• Decode command line options
• Error message routines

VR - Vector routines

• Print a vector of values
• Vector functions (zero an array, convert to dB, dot product, minimum, maximum, scale, add, subtract, multiply)

Audio file routines

AFclose - Close an audio file

AFopenRead - Open an audio file for reading

AFopenWrite - Open an audio file for writing

AFreadData - Read data from an audio file (return float values)

AFsetFileType - Set the input audio file type

AFsetHinfo - Set the audio file header information string

AFsetNHpar - Set defaults for headerless audio files from a string specification

AFwriteData - Write data to an audio file (float input values)

Filtering routines

FIKaiserLPF - Generate a Kaiser windowed lowpass filter

FIbiquad - Filter a signal using a biquadratic IIR filter

FIconvSI - Filter a signal with an FIR filter (sample rate change)

FIconvol - Filter a signal with an FIR filter

FIdeem - Deemphasize a signal using a first order recursive filter

FIfiltAP - Filter a signal with an all-pole IIR filter

FIfiltIIR - Filter a signal using a cascade of biquadratic IIR filters

FIgdelFIR - Calculate the group delay for an FIR filter

FIgdelIIR - Calculate the group delay for a cascade IIR filter

FIpreem - Preemphasize a signal using a first difference filter

FIreadFilt - Read a filter coefficient file

FIwinHCos - Generate a Hamming/cosine window

FIwinHamm - Generate a Hamming window

FIwinKaiser - Generate a Kaiser window

FIwinRCos - Generate a raised-cosine window

File routines

FLbackup - Rename an existing file

FLbaseName - Return the last component of a file path

FLdate - Find the last modification time for a file (by name)

FLdefName - Fill in file name components from a default string

FLdirName - Return all but the last component of a file path

FLexpHome - Expand the home directory specification for a file

FLextName - Return the extension component of a file name

FLfReadData - Read numeric data in text form from a file

FLfWriteData - Write a float array in text form to a file

FLfileDate - Find the last modification time for an open file

FLfullName - Expand a file name path

FLgetLine - Read a line of text from a file

FLgetRec - Read and assemble a text record from an input stream

FLhomeDir - Get the home directory for a user

FLpathList - Fill in a directory for a file name from a list of paths

FLpreName - Return the last component of a file name stripped of its extension

FLprompt - Print a prompt

FLreadLine - Print a prompt and read a line of text

Functions

FNbessI0 - Evaluate the zeroth-order modified Bessel function of first kind

FNevChebP - Evaluate a series expansion in Chebyshev polynomials

FNgcd - Find the greatest common divisor of two integer values

FNiLog2 - Find the integer greater or equal to log (base 2)

FNsinc - Evaluate the sin(pi*x)/(pi*x) function

Matrix routines

MAdAllocMat - Allocate a matrix of double values

MAdFreeMat - Free an allocated double matrix

MAdPrint - Print a double matrix along with a header text

MAfAllocMat - Allocate a matrix of float values

MAfChSolve - Solve a positive definite set of equations

MAfFreeMat - Free an allocated float matrix

MAfPrint - Print a float matrix along with a header text

MAfSubMat - Set up pointers to a submatrix of a matrix of float values

MAfSyBilin - Calculate a bilinear form for a symmetric matrix

MAfSyQuad - Calculate a quadratic form for a symmetric matrix

MAfTpQuad - Calculate a quadratic form for a symmetric Toeplitz matrix

MAfTpSolve - Solve a Toeplitz set of equations

MAiPrint - Print an integer matrix along with a header text

MAlPrint - Print a long integer matrix along with a header text

Miscellaneous routines

MSconvCof - Convolve the coefficients of two arrays

MSdNint - Nearest integer function

MSfGaussRand - Generate a Gaussian pseudo-random value

MSfUnifRand - Generate a uniformly distributed pseudo-random value

MSiCeil - Ceiling function for the ratio of two integers

MSiFloor - Floor function for the ratio of two integers

MSiPower - Integer raised to an integer power

MSintLin - Interpolate a table of values using a piecewise linear interpolant

MSintMC - Interpolate a table of values using a piecewise monotonic cubic interpolant

MSlCeil - Ceiling function for the ratio of two long ints

MSlFloor - Floor function for the ratio of two long ints

MSratio - Find a ratio of integers approximation to a floating point value

Signal processing routines

SPautoc - Calculate the autocorrelation for a data sequence

SPcFFT42 - Fast Fourier transform (complex data)

SPcepXpc - Convert cepstral coefficients to predictor coefficients

SPcorBWexp - Bandwidth expand a set of correlation values

SPcorFilt - Find filter coefficients to minimize the mean-square error

SPcorFmse - Calculate the mean-square filtering error

SPcorPmse - Calculate the mean-square prediction error

SPcorXpc - Find predictor coefficients from autocorrelation values

SPcovCXpc - Find predictor coefficients using the covariance lattice method (Cumani)

SPcovFilt - Find filter coefficients using the covariance approach

SPcovFmse - Find the mean-square error for a filter (covariance specified)

SPcovLXpc - Find predictor coefficients using the covariance lattice method

SPcovMXpc - Find predictor coefficients using the modified covariance method

SPcovPmse - Calculate the mean-square prediction error (covariance specified)

SPcovXpc - Find predictor coefficients using the covariance method

SPcovar - Calculate a correlation (covariance) matrix for a data sequence

SPecXpc - Convert prediction error filter coefficients to predictor coefficients

SPfDCT - Calculate the discrete cosine transform

SPlpcISdist - Calculate the Itakura-Saito LPC spectral distance measure

SPlpcLSdist - Calculate the RMS log LPC spectral distance measure

SPlsfXpc - Convert LSF's to predictor coefficients

SPpcBWexp - Bandwidth expand a set of predictor coefficients

SPpcXcep - Convert predictor coefficients to cepstral coefficients

SPpcXcor - Convert predictor coefficients to correlation values

SPpcXec - Convert predictor coefficients to prediction error filter coeffients

SPpcXlsf - Convert predictor coefficients to line spectral frequencies

SPpcXrc - Convert predictor coefficients to reflection coefficients

SPquant - Binary search for a bounding interval

SPrFFT - Fast Fourier transform of a real sequence

SPrcXpc - Convert reflection coefficients to predictor coefficients

String routines

STcatMax - Concatenate at characters to a string (maximum length specified)

STcopyMax - Copy at most Maxchar characters to a string

STcopyNMax - Copy N characters characters to a string

STdec1double - Decode a double value

STdec1float - Decode a float value

STdec1int - Decode an integer value

STdec1long - Decode a long integer value

STdecDfrac - Decode a ratio specification of two double values

STdecIfrac - Decode a ratio specification of two integer values

STdecIrange - Decode a range specification for integer values

STdecLrange - Decode a range specification for long integer values

STdecNdouble - Decode double values (variable number)

STdecNfloat - Decode float values (variable number)

STdecNint - Decode integer values (variable number)

STdecNlong - Decode long integer values (variable number)

STfindToken - Find the first token string in a string

STkeyMatch - Match a string to keyword strings

STkeyXpar - Decode keywords and return parameter values

STstrLC - Copy a string, changing uppercase characters to lowercase

STtrim - Copy a string, trimming leading and trailing white-space

STunQuote - Copy a string, removing outer quote characters

Utility routines

UTdate - Return a date/time string for the current time

UTerror - Print user and system error messages, stop with error status set

UTfree - Deallocate a block of memory

UTgetOption - Decode command line options and arguments

UThalt - Print an error message, stop with error status set

UTmalloc - Allocate a block of memory

UTrealloc - Reallocate a block of memory

UTsetProg - Set the program name for messages

UTsysMsg - Print user and system warning messages

UTuserName - Get the user name and host name

UTwarn - Print a warning message

Vector routines

VRdPrint - Print a double array along with a header text

VRdZero - Zero an array of doubles

VRfAdd - Element-by-element sum of two float arrays

VRfAmpldB - Convert each value in an array of amplitudes to a decibel value

VRfCheckSym - Determine if an array of floats is symmetric or anti-symmetric

VRfCopy - Copy an array of floats

VRfDiffSq - Find the sum of squares of the differences for two float arrays

VRfDotProd - Dot product of two float arrays (double result)

VRfLog10 - Find the logarithm (base 10) of each element of an array

VRfMax - Return the maximum value in a float array

VRfMin - Return the minimum value in a float array

VRfMult - Element-by-element product of two float arrays

VRfPow10 - Find 10 raised to the power of each element of an array

VRfPrint - Print a float array along with a header text

VRfRev - Reverse the order of the elements of an array

VRfScale - Multiply each element of a float array by a scalar value

VRfSet - Set each element in an array of floats to a given value

VRfShift - Shift the elements of an array of floats

VRfSubt - Element-by-element subtraction of two float arrays

VRfSum - Calculate the sum of elements in an array of floats

VRfZero - Zero an array of floats

VRiPrint - Print an integer array along with a header text

VRiZero - Zero an array of ints

VRlPrint - Print a long integer array along with a header text

Author / revision

P. Kabal - kabal@ECE.McGill.CA
Telecommunications & Signal Processing Laboratory
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2A7