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The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

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No other DSP text even comes close. I cannot even begin to describe the worth of this volume in 1000 words, but I will do my best:

1) The author explicitly reviewed important fundamental concepts such as convolution, system response, sampling theorems, etc. He did so with incredible clarity and mathematical precision, while maintaining readability. This is key, as it forms an excellent foundation for using the book as a "from-the-ground-up" DSP trainer.

I (also) highly recommend this text to anyone NEEDING TO LEARN DSP UNDER DEADLINE! I have used this text to mentor undergraduates through capstone design courses involving DSP, with tremendous success.

2) The author makes excellent usage of graphical examples to ensure a solid grasp of the concepts. He does so with equally clear descriptive text.

3) The author presents UNDERSTANDABLE techniques and methodologies for solving real-world DSP problems. His presentation consistently relates the results and examples to the fundamentals, reinforcing the reader's grasp as he or she progresses through the material.

4) Worth mentioning twice: This DSP text is EASY to read!!!!!

If only my entire engineering library were this good. (Note: I am in no way affiliated with the author or publisher.)

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Evarything that the other reviewers say is true. However, his newer book is an update with added material, improve typesetiing, and a CD with programs.

Buy the new book, which has a slightly different title, "DSP for Engineers and Scientists..."

Added note, of November, 2011: I have just edited my old review, changing the rating from one star to four stars. I did not mean to give it a bad review, eight years ago. I just had wanted to alert people of the newer edition of the book. I apologize for not making my message more clear. I think (as I always have) that the author has written the best book on the subject. -J.D.S.

It takes an expert to be able to explain a complicated subject, and Steve Smith is one of those rare experts.

I had no previous experience with signal processing. Within a week of reading this book, I was able to write FFTs, high pass, low pass, and windowed sinc filters in C.

As a bonus, his clear description of convolution, complex numbers, Fourier transform, Laplace transform and Z transform made them all "click".

The only other book I've read that has been able to explain a complicated subject with this level of clarity is Richard Feynman's Physics Lecture series.

Thanks Steve!

I am a mechanical engineer, but lately I have been doing a lot of signal processing and data analysis using MatLab. This book was a great way to get back up to speed. Its clear and concise without geting too bogged down in theory - lots of directly applicable tips and info.
Its also free for download on the author's website, www.dspguide.com, and from Analog Devices website in their training materials area, [...].

I am a graduate mechanical engineering student and I have found that ALL engineers today are required to have a GOOD fundamental understanding of electricity and electronics. The most difficult of electronic concepts to grasp for the uninitiated is DSP. After skimming through other books and becoming quite frustrated hacking my way through others I have found not only the best introduction to DSP in publication, but also one of the best technical books I've ever seen...and I read a lot of technical books outside of required texts. Excellent job by the author...books like this do not come around often enough.

This is an excellent book if you want to understand the concepts and practical aspects of digital signal processing. I have read dozens of DSP books, and found none are better than this for explaining, in words rather than equations, what you are really doing in DSP. There are some equations where required and a background in basic calculus would be helpful but not essential.

This is an excellent companion book to the standard, highly mathematical DSP books (Proakis, Oppenheim, etc) used in Electrical Engineering departments. These books give lots of equations and tell you how to solve them; the DSP book by Smith tells you what the DSP equations are really doing.

This book is very pedagoguish, wich means it is very easy to read. I find this quite unique in technical literature on DSP. The examples are great and help the reader to understand. () That is how great I find this book.

I am on page 40, and the money is already considered well spent.

The author promises at the beginning of the book to explain all DSP concepts without using anything else then elementry math. He has succeeded in doing that from page one to the last one!. Every subject in DSP, no matter how mathematically complex, is described here with clarity that can not be found elsewhere. The explanation about FFT, laplace and Z-Transorm are awesome. It's amazing how subjects as complex as these are explained in plain english that everyone can understand. Also other subjects like neural networks and compression are explained in the most clear way I've seen in any book. An Amazing job. Buy it Now!.

I've only gone through the first 7 chapters of the book and already find it as one of the best book I've ever read. The author explains all the technical DSP concepts with great details yet fundamentally comprehensive.

Read the book, it will get your concept right without too much of maths complication. Once the concept is right, the maths will be there too!!