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Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB (Bookware Companion)

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This book does exactly what it purports to do - it teaches the reader how to perform signal processing tasks using Matlab. It starts out with signals and systems and moves on to the DTFT, the Z Transform, the DFT, digital filter structures including both IIR and FIR design, and finally covers some advanced topics in adaptive signal processing and communications. It even contains full-blown projects using Matlab on adaptive channel equalization, binary spread spectrum communications, and system identification. The reader should use another text such as Oppenheim's "Discrete Time Signal Processing" to get the theory, and come to this book on how to implement that theory in Matlab. The one drawback is that the book is older, so it is using Matlab 5. Also, another reviewer mentioned that much of the book is inaccessible to users who do not have the rather expensive signal processing toolkit at their disposal. Fortunately, thanks to the open source movement, this last problem has been solved. Octave, now on SourceForge, an open source code repository, has many of the matlab functions available for free that you need to do signal processing.
In conclusion, I highly recommend this book to signal processing students and professionals who wish to incorporate Matlab into their work.

Ingle and Proakis' book isn't a bad deal if you have to learn MATLAB and DSP at the same time. There are plenty of MATLAB examples, however, I was disappoined in all the discrepancies between the code listed in the book and the code downloaded from the publisher (Brooks/Cole). Also, as a DSP beginner, I wish I & P had included more diagrams. For newcomers to DSP, Richard Lyons' "Understanding Digital Signal Procssing" is still the best book available (in my opinion).

I started studying (seriously) both digital signal processing and MATLAB with this book. Its explanations as well as its examples were an incredible help for me.

Even now, after reading higher-level books, I have this one near my desk for reference. I just like it.

Great companion book to "Understanding Digital Signal Processors" by Lyons and "Digital Signal Processors" by Hayes. I would recommend this book strictly for a companion book. It doesn't go into in-depth detail or explanation of Laplace, z-transforms, or Fourier Transforms but displays a good foundation for MatLab DSP routines.

I am a graduate Student who has has had no proir use of MATLAB I am taking a DSP course this semester and this book got me into the thick of things right away since my instructor assumed I could use MATLAB already.A must for any DSP student

I have an expensive version of Matlab with the DSP toolkit. I was excited to learn how to use it from this book. What a let down. The first functions that I found were unusable making the examples worthless. Then I noticed a web site where I could download these functions that were created by the author(sited in the text): the link no longer exists (surprise!) rendering this book worth less than the paper it was printed on! Besides the link to the non-existent site the author gives no more incite into how to enable Matlab to work with this text. Don't buy this book!

While this is not a book to use to learn concepts,it sure takes you to a deeper level of DSP learning thru clear hands-on examples. Not to mention a few intuitive results which surprise you here and there.

This would be a great book except it needs to be updated for Matlab R12 and (now) R13. Many of the functions referenced in the book (e.g. zplot, freqz) have now in the signal processing toolkit so one really needs to acquire this toolkit to make the book fully useful.

I am currently taking a intro to Digital Signal Processing at my university. I find this book is a very good complement to Proakis' Digital Signal Processing book. I have learned a lot about DSP using these two books. the aim of this book is to be a companion book to more traditional DSP books, it tries to be nothing more. In that regard, I believe the book excels. Get it as a supplement/companion to a traditional DSP book and you will learn how to do DSP with MATLAB. Highly recommended!!!

If you want a really good book to understand DSP using Matlab , there is no other book that even comes close to this. Lucidly written, with plenty of examples, this book brings you the utter joy of learning DSP by using it.

It is really fortunate that DSP has such a good stream of books form the likes of Richard Lyons to the venerable Oppenheim to the practical Proakis.

This is the one book that has really earned its price.