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Digital Signal Processing: A Computer-Based Approach with CDROM (McGraw-Hill Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

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Although this book has a good amount of Matlab examples, they will not help you prepare for any practical DSP exams. I recently bought this book as a required textbook for a graduate course on DSP and I found myself having to use my undergraduate book on DSP (Proakis) for learning the material and preparing for my exams. This book's weakness lies in the fact that the examples are not worked out in detail, but rather they are shown through the use of matlab functions and commands which will in no way prepare you for working out a problem's answers using the tried and true paper, pencil, and calculator approach. I found myself frustrated several times during my homework assignments because there were not enough examples worked out showing the nitty gritty details of the solution. Instead, the solutions were in matlab which only helps if the problem being solved is asking for a matlab solution. The only plus side of this book is that it does use matlab to teach some DSP concepts just as the title says but I agree with the other reviewers that this book is nothing special. I found Proakis and Manolakis to be a far better book with worked out problems and only used this Mitra book for matlab problems on DSP.

Digital signal processing is a difficult subject, especially for beginners, and this book does nothing to alleviate the situation for the new learner.

After reading multiple DSP books, it's painfully obvious that the explanations in this book are confusing and opaque. Often equations and mathematical proofs are buried within text paragraphs making it extremely difficult for the reader to follow along. The MATLAB experiments are not the panacea one is led to believe. I personally struggled in a DSP class for 6 weeks until I decided to go against the class requirements and I started over by reading the Oppenheim book. The Oppenheim book is a thorough treatment of the subject and is simply better.

The Oppenheim book, still difficult, but better explained and very thorough
Discrete-Time Signal Processing (3rd Edition) (Prentice Hall Signal Processing)

The Schaum's outline was useful as a reference and explained some of the fundamental concepts well, but I would NOT use it as the sole reference.
Schaums Outline of Digital Signal Processing, 2nd Edition (Schaum's Outline Series)

This book may be a better starter for the beginner due to its simpler explanations. Serious practitioners would probably move to Oppenheim eventually
Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition)

This book provides almost all experimental learning with little math explanation. It's been useful for getting a "feeling" of how things work and was a lot of fun.
Practical Signal Processing

Furthermore, Mitra ensures that the problems at the end of the chapters are different for the International version of his book. I don't know how common this is, but I have never encountered this before in undergrad or graduate courses. I don't know what goals the author had in doing this besides possibly selling more books. I would like to give the person the benefit of doubt, but, like I said, I have no encountered this before.

This book helped me the most while working on my car. I used it as a tirestop when I jacked up the car. It forever resides in my trunk for this purpose.

This book is wonderful as a reference for those conversant in DSP. This book's primary strength is the breadth and depth of the material covered. This book contains material on a wide variety of topics; more than most DSP textbooks. The other selling point of this book is its close association with MATLAB. There are quite a few MATLAB examples in the companion CD. Using MATLAB makes learning DSP much easier and more intuitive. The reader can play around with the example programs to get a real feel for the subject matter. Beginners might find this book a bit difficult to read through. In a few places the explanation is either not clear or could have been written more intuitively. For newbies, I would probably suggest other books which are better written (such as Proakis).

I particularly liked the following sections:
Chapters 3-5 - Especially the sections of filter design for A/D and D/A converters. I like that the z-transform is introduced after Fourier transform.
Chapter 8 - A comprehensive treatment of filter structures.
Chapter 12 - Good coverage of issues associated with fixed point implementations. This can be appreciated more by practicing engineers.
Chapter 15 - This chapter looks at a few real world applications of DSP. Its both informative and insightful. This was my favorite chapter.

As for the content, the book avoided some definition jungles that some other book tangled with, so it's easy for a beginner to grasp. However you'll want the Oppenheim book when you wonder "where did he get that conclusion/theorem/equation?" Also the solutions to the problems is a pandemonium of errors and typos, especially in the latter chapters. So be confident when you're doubtful of the corrections your professor made on your homework!
Bought it from BooksRus as used book. No marks, no tears, no water stains. Literally "like new".

Used this book for an intro to DSP course. Fairly high level for someone who is not interested in DSP applications or new to the field. Helpful in understanding applications of DSP.

I can't say how this would be as an intro to signal processing, but it's an excellent book for the working engineer. This one spends more time on top of my desk than any of my other textbooks. It includes lots of examples, illustrations, Matlab code, review materials, etc. And Mitra is the king of allpass filters!

This is very good book for teaching and for self study of digital signal processing. It is especially useful for Matlab users.

The text came in time for class to begin even though the time was short.