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Digital Signal Processing Demystified (Engineering Mentor Series)

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This is a good book for readers who didn't have much background in math and DSP fields. It contains lots of useful information. But for a experienced engineer or colleage students, this book is a little too easy.

I found this to be a very useful book, although I did not use the CD-ROM. I think the author develops the concept of the z-transform and DFT very nicely and intuitively. The sections on FIR and IIR filters seem to go by relatively quickly, however. People trained in technical fields outside of EE may find this a very helpful tool for grasping core DSP ideas.

For a person looking for a simple introduction to DSP, this book is a good start. Many of the theories are presented very simply. For an in-depth understanding, I would've liked to see references at the end of each chapter that would lead me to books that might deal the topic(s) in greater detail. But for a person looking for a foothold in DSP, this book is highly recommended.

Not enough math to teach a college course from it, but it's still packed with useful information. A good gap filler between how the real world works and how it's done theoretically. If it had C code segments, I'd give it that last star.

The book is very good, you can share the author's thinking and it is very interesting for beginners or engineers who do not like to go through complicated mathematical proofs.
The CD ROM calculator is nice to use, but it needs more improvement especially in scale adjustments. The calculator can be better improved by developing some interfaces for copy and paste utilities including presenting numbers on the graphs. I almost finished most of it the same day I purchased, but still cannot be used alone to understand DSP. Nevertheless, it was a wonderful experience to grasp interesting interpretation of the authors' thinking, which reflects practicality dimension to the subject. Well done

This wonderful book was the first one I ever came across that made sense to me, coming from an software 'n audio background rather than being a full-on EE head. In fact, the book is well worth the price for chapters 6 and 7 alone describing in amazingly clear and simple language the principles behind the Fourier transform.

Actually, I did not read this book, but rather thumbed through it and read a few paragraphs. I was hoping to find an intermediate text on DSP, but found "Digital Signal Processing Demystified" to be a bit too elementary for my taste. Don't get me wrong though. If your looking for a basic description with the minimum requirement of mathematical formulas, this book is for you. It is very well written and does a great job of explaining the fundamental concepts. Don't expect to walk away from it knowing how to derive filter coefficients though.

This is one of the best books I have found for getting you up to speed fast on how to use digital signal processing. The author provides all the necessary math background, the text is easy to read and the examples are practical. The accompanying CD is a virtual DSP laboratory that is well worth the price of the book itself. I highly recommend this book to anyone trying to learn about and use DSP.