Engineer's Error Coding Handbook [Paperback]

A. Houghton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 1996 | ISBN-10: 041279070X | ISBN-13: 978-0412790706 | Edition: 1

This book is designed both for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in electronic engineering, computer science and communications and for practising engineers engaged in the communications and software industries. It treats the subject from a practical standpoint and presents the underlying mathematics - which in some treatments of the subject can be daunting - in a way which makes them accesible and always directly relevant. Written by an author with extensive experience of the applications of the techniques to a wide range of practical engineering problems, the book presents the reader with systematic explanation of the techniques and methods of error coding. The work is supplemented by software-based experiments enabling the reader to verify the results and to carry out further investigation of the subject. All of the software used in the book can be obtained free of charge from the author's web site on uni/academic/D-H/eee/esg/staff/adh-prof.html

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`... will gladden the heart of the practically inclined... Whether one wants to practise or to move into the research world, this book can act as an excellent launch-pad. ...other textbooks on various topics in this area written in Houghton's style would be very welcome indeed.'
Measurement Science and Technology

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 30, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 041279070X
• ISBN-13: 978-0412790706
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,652,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #77 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > Coding Theory

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice practical book, October 18, 2008

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This review is from: Engineer's Error Coding Handbook (Paperback)

This is a nice little book on coding theory. The author takes a practical approach in describing how coding works, and provides both source and hardware implementations. If you're looking for details on how codes work using mathematical derivations, this is not the book for you. This book guides you through the essential coding concepts, show you the key maths properties that make them work, and by doing so helps put some of the abstract maths you find in other coding books in perspective.