| Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists |  | Author: Steven Smith
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Pages: 650
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 075067444X
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3822
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Publication Date: November 6, 2002
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In addition to its thorough coverage of DSP design and programming techniques, Smith also covers the operation and usage of DSP chips. He uses Analog Devices' popular DSP chip family as design examples. Also included on the CD-ROM is technical info on DSP processors from the four major manufacturers (Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, Motorola, and Lucent) and other DSP software.
*Covers all major DSP topics
*Full of insider information and shortcuts
*Basic techniques and algorithms explained without complex numbers
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 An excellent introduction, and more April 29, 2010
Jay P
This is an excellent introduction to digital signal processing.
The book is very thorough in the topics it covers, and the author ties the concepts to reality very well by using examples, and tells why these concepts are important. Terms are defined and explained well.
The book isn't mathematically rigorous; it uses enough math to explain DSP, but for a more complete mathematical treatment, other, more advanced books would be better. Nevertheless, this book is much more than just a beginner's book.
Many small computer programs are given to illustrate some of the computation methods. These are very adequate for their purpose of explanation, but since programming is not the subject of the book, the programs are not at all advanced.
DSP can be a difficult subject for a non-electrical engineer who did not learn about it in school. There are books on the subject that are complete, but so filled with advanced mathematics that a beginner can easily get lost in the first chapter. On the other hand, there are books that are so simplified that they present nothing but banal generalities about DSP.
So I was very happy to discover this book. It has enough math to explain the subject, but not too much. Most importantly though, the author repeatedly ties the DSP concepts to reality, so that I can picture what an algorithm has to do, rather than presenting equations whose meaning I don't understand. The author does a great job of explaining the powerful abstractions of DSP using concretes that I can understand and visualize.
Finally, the author's enthusiasm for the subject really shows in the book - and results in a book that is written in a lucid style.
 DSP for dummies? March 22, 2010
Christopher (Pennsylvania)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
this is one of the worst books i ever forced myself to read. in spite of this, i give it two stars because it actually had the information i was looking for, and its pretty darn cheap. its also a quick read, more like reading a novel than studying. you can probably breeze throught the text in about a week. the bad part is the presentation.
the authors use of figures is horrific. most explanations are conveyed through the figures without much support in the text. he makes a habit of placing the figures so that you need to turn a page or two to see what he is referring to. often in his textual discussion he assigns letters to different parts of a figure, but he fails to actually place the letters in the figure itself! (for instance, he will refer to "figure 10-3(c)", but figure 10-3 is a just a bunch of graphs without any letters telling you which one is (c))
it can be said that one of the highlights of the book is that the author dispenses with mathematical rigor and derivations. however, he goes far beyond that and makes several statements that either make no sense or are downright false. for instance, in discussing the discrete fourier transform, he says "if x[n] <--> mag(f) & phase(f) then x[n+s] <--> mag(f) & phase(f) + 2pisf". he wants to say that a time shift transforms into a phase shift, but he is implying that each time corresponds to a single frequency.
the authors worst mistake is assuming that his readers are really really stupid. he makes statements such as "i know it doesnt make sense. just memorize it." and "dont try to think about this one or your head will explode." why does he have to be so condescending? the title even states that it is written for "engineers and scientists". his ineffable wisdom also decided that we are incapable of using complex arithmetic. i dont know about you, but i was taught complex arithmetic in like the 7th grade. the complex dft is considerably simpler than the real dft, yet he pretty much puts it in an appendix at the back because he considers it too hard for us.
the author again manifests his lack of faith in his readers, and his utter ignorance, by chosing to describe the algorithms using BASIC! for instance, convolution can be expressed as a simple summation, but he chooses to explain it using a BASIC program about a dozen pages before he gives the mathematical formula. i dont know why he felt compelled to use a formal language anyway, but the reason he's using BASIC is obvious: we're a bunch of dummies and with a name like BASIC it must be comprehensible to us.
very readable book that explains very well complex things November 30, 2009
Jose Orozco Flores (Miami, FL United States)
i like the fact that this book uses examples and narrative to explain things rather than using math stuff everywhere like other books do. From the very beginning this book introduces program examples on how programs are implemented to create the discrete functions that describe signals and processing and explains how they are related with the continuous or analog world. I highly recommend this book for everyone who wants to understand concepts without having to understand all the math that is involved. i have not finished the book but it indicates it also contains the math stuff at the very end for those who like or understand things that way too.
Excelent, practical, elegant presentation of deep concepts. September 3, 2009
J. Swope
For anyone who wants to get up and running quickly with DSP algorithms without wading through overwhelming quantity of math and theory first, I can't recommend this highly enough. The author did a great job presenting the concepts in an intuitive way, so you gain a good intuitive grasp of what is going on. He also provides actual some actual code and algorithms to help you get up and running quickly, and provides the key math without all the unnecessary proofs. And he does this without sacrificing the beautiful concepts underlying the theory.
This book gave me more capability and intuitive understanding for real-world signal processing algorithms than my undergraduate DSP class did. Not that my class was bad; it was... well, academic- a lot of theory without gut-level intuitive understanding. This book is the opposite, and a good compliment to the academic approach.
I already had the free version but bought this anyway to support the author and to have a full printed version. It's that good.
The best in DSP August 30, 2009
Ronaldo Duarte (Brazil)
I have already known this book by its free pdf version available on the web. The book is amazingly "strait to the point" and covers in a simple way the normal complexity in DSP. This book is excellent and mandatory to be added to "Oppenheim" and any other that cover the DSP math. Congratulations to the author!
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