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Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the TMS320C6713 and TMS320C6416 DSK (Topics in Digital Signal Processing)

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This is the 2nd edition of the book by Rulph Chassaing and Donals Reay...I don't have the first edition so I cannot comment on the differences. This book is a lime green and black cover. Very appealing! I am surprised just how gentle the book steps through the subject matter before it gets heavy into IIR, FIR, FFT and Adaptive Filters. I haven't reached the end of the book yet. I'm going through every excercise and I find them helpful as I go along, sort of building blocks that depend upon one another. The book is incremental in the order of difficulty. I'm sure some of the DSP experts can jump around, but that is not my tactic with this book. DSP is not for the faint hearted. This book is definitelly 100% geek oriented, technical and to the point. I'm am going through it cover to cover. I love the excercises with the GEL capabilities. They are nice, because they are not just static pieces of code. They introduce dynamics to what otherwise could be just another boring fixed frequency and gain sinusoid. The authors seem to be very thorough on the waveform generation portion. Methods used are LUTs, Mathematically Generated, Matlab generated and imported waveforms (very nice approach). Some approaches I have not seen before and I'm glad the authors chose to be very experimental about their sinusoid generation. There are fun excercises spread throughout this book, I can clearly see this gazing through the chapters and I cannot wait to get to the more exciting chapters such as building an FFT based graphic equalizer, speach synthesizer, digital quadrature encoder and so much more. I will probably come back throughout time and give a more adequate review of the book, but in my opinion, it is well laid out and although not particularly a beginner's journey through DSP, I would say why not? Just grab "Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by Richard G. Lyons and additionally "Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB" by Proakis to get you through the tougher maths and some Matlab based proofs. There are some Matlab excercises toward the end of the book in the last few chapters. This book is generally intended for senior Undergrad or first year Graduate course in Computer Engineering. It requires knowledge of some C and linear equations. I found it very straighforward to understand with some help from the afforementioned books from Lyons and Proakis. Watch out for some small directory issues with the DSK. Depending on which version you use it may be a little pesky having to change endianess in the compiler options. I found I had to do that for every example in the book. Tidious, but not the end of the world. It's not the authors fault. I think more of a project compatability issue with the older DSKs. The price to update to the latest DSK is $99.00 on the Spectrum Digital site. Maybe worth it to some folks to upgrade or get the latest DSKs. I also find it interesting that in at least one of the chapters in the book the authors mention wiring up two DSKs one for signal generation and another for detection! All I have to say to that is...Are you kidding me? That's > $1K in DSKs...Either way, I'm going to purchase the second one, I can see that it is necessary. Couldn't a sound card be used to generate the required signal patterns? Am I missing something...Ugh! Anyway, great book and kudos for the authors. I'm sure many folks in DSP will find this useful and will write more thorough reviews than I've been able to write to this point! I will write more on the next pass...Enjoy your TMS320C6713/TMS320C6416 and your Chassaing/Reay DSP tutorials! They are worth every penny and they make DSP learning fun and less painful!

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