Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]

Richard G. Lyons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 11, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0137027419 | ISBN-13: 978-0137027415 | Edition: 3

Amazon.com’s Top-Selling DSP Book for Seven Straight Years—Now Fully Updated!

 

Understanding Digital Signal Processing, Third Edition, is quite simply the best resource for engineers and other technical professionals who want to master and apply today’s latest DSP techniques. Richard G. Lyons has updated and expanded his best-selling second edition to reflect the newest technologies, building on the exceptionally readable coverage that made it the favorite of DSP professionals worldwide. He has also added hands-on problems to every chapter, giving students even more of the practical experience they need to succeed.

 

Comprehensive in scope and clear in approach, this book achieves the perfect balance between theory and practice, keeps math at a tolerable level, and makes DSP exceptionally accessible to beginners without ever oversimplifying it. Readers can thoroughly grasp the basics and quickly move on to more sophisticated techniques.

 

This edition adds extensive new coverage of FIR and IIR filter analysis techniques, digital differentiators, integrators, and matched filters. Lyons has significantly updated and expanded his discussions of multirate processing techniques, which are crucial to modern wireless and satellite communications. He also presents nearly twice as many DSP Tricks as in the second edition—including techniques even seasoned DSP professionals may have overlooked.

 

Coverage includes

• New homework problems that deepen your understanding and help you apply what you’ve learned
• Practical, day-to-day DSP implementations and problem-solving throughout
• Useful new guidance on generalized digital networks, including discrete differentiators, integrators, and matched filters
• Clear descriptions of statistical measures of signals, variance reduction by averaging, and real-world signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) computation
• A significantly expanded chapter on sample rate conversion (multirate systems) and associated filtering techniques
• New guidance on implementing fast convolution, IIR filter scaling, and more
• Enhanced coverage of analyzing digital filter behavior and performance for diverse communications and biomedical applications
• Discrete sequences/systems, periodic sampling, DFT, FFT, finite/infinite impulse response filters, quadrature (I/Q) processing, discrete Hilbert transforms, binary number formats, and much more

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Amazon.com's top-selling DSP book for 5 straight years-now fully updated!

Real-world DSP solutions for working professionals!

Understanding Digital Signal Processing, Second Edition is quite simply the best way for engineers, and other technical professionals, to master and apply DSP techniques. Lyons has updated and expanded his best-selling first edition-building on the exceptionally readable coverage that made it the favorite of professionals worldwide.

This book achieves the perfect balance between theory and practice, making DSP accessible to beginners without ever oversimplifying it. Comprehensive in scope and gentle in approach, keeping the math at a tolerable level, this book helps readers thoroughly grasp the basics and quickly move on to more sophisticated techniques.

This edition adds extensive new coverage of quadrature signals for digital communications; recent improvements in digital filtering; and much more. It also contains more than twice as many "DSP Tips and Tricks"… including clever techniques even seasoned professionals may have overlooked.

• Down-to-earth, intuitive, and example-rich, with detailed numerical exercises
• Stresses practical, day-to-day DSP implementations and problem-solving
• All-new quadrature processing coverage includes easy-to-understand 3D drawings
• Extended coverage of IIR filters; plus frequency sampling, interpolated FIR filters
• New coverage of multirate systems; including both polyphase and cascaded integrator-comb FIR filters
• Coverage includes: periodic sampling, DFT, FFT, digital filters, discrete Hilbert transforms, sample rate conversion, quantization, signal averaging, and more

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Richard G. Lyons is a consulting systems engineer and lecturer with Besser Associates in Mountain View, California. He has been lead hardware engineer for numerous signal processing systems for both the National Security Agency (NSA) and Northrop Grumman Corp. Lyons has taught DSP at the University of California Santa Cruz Extension and authored numerous articles on DSP. As associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, he created, edits, and contributes to the magazine’s “DSP Tips & Tricks” column.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 984 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (November 11, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137027419
• ISBN-13: 978-0137027415
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gentle introduction to DSP, October 9, 2005

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This review is from: Understanding Digital Signal Processing (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

If you are considering studying digital signal processing for the first time, I would strongly suggest studying this book in conjunction with the Schaum's outline on digital signal processing, and then going on to a more formal text, such as "Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms and Applications" by Proakis. This book uses and explains the required background mathematics, with instructive diagrams shown throughout. The author also bothers to explain to the reader the "whys" of digital signal processing. For example, the book even takes the time to explain to the reader the reason that you would want to filter digitally in the first place. All of the basics are covered, including the discrete Fourier Transform, Finite and Infinite Impulse Response filters, the Fast Fourier Transform, and a unique chapter on digital signal processing tricks including data windowing tricks, frequency translation without multiplication, and real-time DC removal. Particularly helpful is that filter design methods are broken down algorithmically into numbered steps with the associated equations. Complete design examples of these methods are also shown to hammer home the concept. Throughout the book, the author assumes the audience is an engineer that, in the end, wants to use this information to build something useful, not to sit through one derivation after another.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on DSP ever., October 11, 2005

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Nancy johns Mohlere "Nancy J. Mohlere" (Huntsville, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Understanding Digital Signal Processing (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

I am an engineer who has read many books, good and bad, obfuscating and illuminating, and concise and lengthy. This is the best by far on the complex (double entendre intentional) subject of DSP. His appendices alone are worth the price of the book. I wish every course on DSP used this text.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book, May 19, 2004

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Matthew Donadio (Philadelphia, PA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Understanding Digital Signal Processing (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

OK, let me first start out by saying that I am a little biased here since I helped review the new edition, but this is a fantastic book. While this book isn't a total replacement for the standard DSP tomes like Oppenheim and Schafer, this is a text that all DSP engineers should own.

The second edition expands on the strong points of the first. The book is written by an engineer for other engineers. The topics are accessible to readers, while not being watered down.

Less understood, but extremely important topics such as quadrature processing and Hilbert transforms have expanded coverage in this edition.

The best improvement to this edition is the vastly expanded chapter on DSP Tricks. The tricks are practical applications of DSP theory. These tricks usually are not taught in school, and are often not well known. The number of pages devoted to tricks has doubled to over 100, and unlike other books, cover a broad range of topics. Application areas cover audio processing, digital communications, simulation, analysis, and others.

In summary, you will not be disappointed with this book.