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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147853 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

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Customer Reviews

The Perfect Aid for Better Grades. Not.
Digital Signal Processing tends to be a difficult subject to learn because many text books focus on mathematics rather than doing something useful with it. This text book is one of them.

What this book is useful for: Confirming your lecture notes when you already understand a subject.

Bad points. Hard to read text.

No real-world examples of any note.

Here's the "xyz" equation. Isn't it wonderful. Yes,
but what do I actually do with it?

Does not mention adaptive filtering at all.

Good Points: Very competitively priced, even for the hard-up
student.

Suggestion: A much better book is Digital Signal Processing, A
practical approach by Ifeachor and Jervis.

OK for detailed reference but not for the faint-hearted
Any book which gives more than a cursory coverage or explanation of DSP has to include some level of mathematical detail. Having studied DSP from different approaches, I did my level best to remind myself of this whilst ploughing through the text.

The problem with this book is that it indulges in mathematical derivations and notation to an excessive extent, and therefore loses sight of the wood for the trees. In addition, there is a noticeable absence of any visualisation hints, application examples or rules of thumb. I cite this not because I was incapable of understanding the aforementioned derivations (an electronic engineering degree gave me all the background I needed, and more), it is simply that the author seems to love the derivations more than their ultimate utilisation, i.e., actual DSP examples and applications.

Overall, it is really not a suitable study textbook for an engineering or science student, whose main ideology is to use mathematics as a means to an end, a tool for getting the job done.

This is a good reference book
I used this book in the DSP class in Georgia Tech. I think it is very useful and explains many complicated issues in plain theory. It uses a lot of examples which are difficult to find in the textbook, like the Oppenheim and Schafer, Discrete-Time Signal Processing.