[choochootrain]

how do you recommend getting into this sort of stuff? i have some basic experience with microcontrollers and i'm interested in some dsp hardware projects but i'm not sure where to start as the classes offered do not touch hardware..

[stinos]

the only real way is to get hardware. If you have some experience already, you shouldn't need a course: I can't find the current prices immdeiately, but a couple of years ago something like 250$ got you a fully functional development board (including some analog I/O) + corresponding IDE + signal processing example code of a true DSP like the TI C6000 series. Example of a current version would be http://www.ti.com/tool/tmdxevm6670