Digital Signal Processing [Hardcover]

Sanjit Mitra (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 6, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0073048372 | ISBN-13: 978-0073048376 | Edition: 3

Digital Signal Processing: A Computer-Based Approach is intended for a two-semester course on digital signal processing for seniors or first-year graduate students. Based on user feedback, a number of new topics have been added to the third edition, while some excess topics from the second edition have been removed. The author has taken great care to organize the chapters more logically by reordering the sections within chapters. More worked-out examples have also been included. The book contains more than 500 problems and 150 MATLAB exercises.

New topics in the third edition include: short-time characterization of discrete-time signals, expanded coverage of discrete-time Fourier transform and discrete Fourier transform, prime factor algorithm for DFT computation, sliding DFT, zoom FFT, chirp Fourier transform, expanded coverage of z-transform, group delay equalization of IIR digital filters, design of computationally efficient FIR digital filters, semi-symbolic analysis of digital filter structures, spline interpolation, spectral factorization, discrete wavelet transform.

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About the Author

Sanjit Mitra, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Professor Mitra transferred to UCSB in July 1977 after 10 years at UC Davis. He obtained his B.Sc. with honors in Physics (1953) and the M.Sc. (Tech.) in Radio Physics and Electronics (1956) in India. He then obtained his M.S. (1960) and Ph.D. (1962) in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. He has published over 600 papers in the areas of analog and digital signal processing, and image processing. He has also authored and co-authored twelve books, and holds five patents. Dr. Mitra has served IEEE in various capacities including service as the President of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society in 1986, and has held visiting appointments in Australia, Austria, Finland, India, Japan, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 896 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 3 edition (January 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073048372
• ISBN-13: 978-0073048376
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.1 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not useful for exam preparation, May 16, 2007

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G. Gonzalez "ProEngineer" (Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Signal Processing (Hardcover)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless as an introductory text, January 7, 2012

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Russell Friesenhahn - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Digital Signal Processing (Hardcover)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great as a reference, probably not for a beginner, June 9, 2007

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Sujith (Bangalore, India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Signal Processing (Hardcover)

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.