Practical Dsp Modeling, Techniques, and Programming in C (Paperback)

by Don Morgan (Author)

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Product Description
This book serves as a bridge between DSP theory and real-world applications. It provides scientific or engineering programmers with the ability to use this exciting technology without requiring a thorough theoretical or highly mathematical background.

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Designed as a link between digital signal processing (DSP) theory and the practical application. Covers the methods necessary to apply DSP immediately to a project. Packed with examples and projects plus a data acquisition system users can build themselves or purchase. The disk features code examples from the book, a software digital oscilloscope and Mathcad documents representing several analysis tools described. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers); 1 edition (December 19, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471006068
• ISBN-13: 978-0471006060
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,630,426 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't live up to its press, May 13, 2000

By	John Wigton (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Practical Dsp Modeling, Techniques, and Programming in C (Paperback)

Level of content is inconsistent; going from some basic paragraphs to advanced material, with no explanation/bridge in between. "Assuming no background in high level math" is less than accurate (unless you just want to use the formulas and not understand what's going on). Look elsewhere if you want a self-study book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good DSP book for practical engineers, February 19, 2003

By A Customer

The book pays attention to real problems in DSP implementation with C and assembly code combined with hardware examples such as a data acquisition board including a schematic printing, which can help you to understand the integration of the whole system, and this is important for beginners.

Not like most of DSP books emphasizing on mathematical equation deductions such as FFT etc, which is easy to find in other DSP book such as Alan V. Oppenheim etc's "Discrete digital signal processing", the book emphasized on DSP implementations by using C and giving good explanations, and assembly subroutines such as key FFT core algorithm if necessary, which is quite common in DSP engineering practice.

As to the mathematical prerequisite, the author does claim that the knowledge of first-year calculus and understanding of microcomputer and programming are helpful. However, for any in depth understanding of such topics this is very normal and basic and by no means a picky requirement. You can not claim that the first-year calculus means advanced math in general!

The case studies in the book are running in an x86 microcontroller based system board, which is not popular today. However the corresponding C code is general, and still you can learn something from that assembly subroutine.

That DACQ board mentioned in the book might not be available right now considering that the book is written 8 years ago, in addition, the schematic printing is too small to view easily.

It might be good have some case studies in control applicatiions which are now more and more popular in DSP application in industry. However, this is a general problem for almost all published DSP books.

Anyway, I will recommend this book for practical DSP application person or embedded system programmer who want to know more on the practical side such as programming and system integration other than only theory. Compared with most DSP books published, this one is still very unique and much better in introducing hands on techniques.

I really hope that the author can update this book for a new edition.