Customer Reviews

Analog and Digital Signal Processing

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The author tries to write a book that is the be-all and end-all of SP books. By trying to cover both analog and discrete signals all at once, he succeeds only in confusing the reader. Even if he had only tried to cover one of the topics, I'm not sure he would have succeeded. Examples are few and far between - not to mention difficult to follow. Sometimes, he makes reference to equations that have been derived textually and are hidden somewhere in an obscure paragraph. This book could have been much better written. I didn't like it.

Not a bad book, but the reader should have basic DSP background before reading. I suppose that's why this is not an Introduction to Analog and Digital Signal Processing. Some sections of the book present the material in a "there it is" fashion, with out much explanation. Sometimes it could be hard to make a correlation between what the graphs are trying to show vs. the printed text. Otherwise, good for more advanced DSP applications.

I used this book in school, and recently (after several years out of school) tried to use it as a reference to re-learn DSP. What a nightmare; the author has chosen to use a format that I would describe more as an abstract than a book. As a text in a college course, this book was mediocre, as a reference it is poor. I eventually gave up and purchased Richard G. Lyons book Understanding Digital Signal Processing, which is an absolutely outstanding example of how a book ought to be written.

This book has me and my class totally confused. Even if we kinda understood what he was talkin about there isn't good examples or solutions to problems. Unless the information comes falling out of the sky we won't learn anything more than what we've started with by reading this book.

This book is definitely not one of the best books I have ever seen to tackle this subject. Many of the derivations are extremely difficult to follow due to the format in which the equations are presented. Also the example problems that are given seem to take the most difficult case instead of a simpler one that could more easily illustrate what is to be learned.

Lousy and sad for a 2nd edition. Examples are few and far between despite other reviewer's comments. Our professor has been kind enough to keep a log of the errors students have identified. There is a solutions manual for this but many of the answers contain errors as well. The only purpose for choosing this book is it covers both Continuous and Discrete analysis. This book will not even be a good reference later so hopefully I can find someone to take it off my hands.

This is the worst text book that I've used in any course. As a physics senior, I suspected the material in an introductory EE course to be pretty straightforward, which it is. Ambaradar sure doesn't make it that way. With few worked examples, terse explanations and no odd-answered problems Ambaradar makes self-checking and learning almost impossible. Not recommended.

This book isn't a very easy read. I just took a graduate level class which utilized this book, and I and my class mates agree it isn't very easy to follow. Signals and Systems analysis involves some pretty complex material and this book seemed to speed through these complex topics a little to quickly. There weren't enough examples and the examples that were in the book, often bore little resemblance to the homework questions. Bottom line this shouldn't be a one semester (or quarter in my case) course and until university administraters realize this, books like this will continue to be the norm.

Using this book at work, It is not an easy read if your not familiar with the material

Not the Best Book and Needs Solution Manual, can't find one anywhere and it would make there teaching much better.