ABSTRACT A graphically-orientedMATLAB programwritten by the au- thors facilitates teaching real-world digital signal process- ing concepts such as quantization of digital filter coeffi- cients that occur in fixed-point processors, for example the widely used TMS320C5x. While many universities have or plan to buy the inexpensive floating-point TMS320C31 DSKs for pedagogical reasons, this MATLAB program sim- ulates certain fixed-point effects on these floating-point de- vices and eliminates the need to purchase expensive special- ized software programs or extra hardware. The programde- scribed in this paper provides an interactive graphical user interface which communicates directly with the DSK, and demonstrates in real-time how coefficient quantization ad- versely affects filter performance, without the need for te- dious programming of the TMS320C31.