An Introduction to Digital Signal Processing with MathCad(r)

By Robert O. Harger

This unique, interactive package combines a text-based presentation of the traditional, core concepts of digital signal processing with a bound-in CD-ROM containing a complete implementation of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534951414
• ISBN13: 9780534951412
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Pws Pub Co
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent practical introduction to DSP

Having used this book to develop actual applications in the real world, I can heartily recommend it with some authority. Most books that cover this subject either skip over the math entirely, leaving you with a vague concept but no useable skills, or dive head-deep into pages of math, giving the impression that the subject is hopelessly complex. Even when the math is adequately covered, there are often "understood" but unexplained conventions in the notation that can lead you very astray. With the MathCad examples you can work with actual useable systems (in simulated form) as you study, making it possible to crack this hard-shelled nut more easily. And the use of MathCad keeps the author honest - everything has to be explicitly defined using well-known MathCad conventions to work. So if you see it in the book, you can do it in the real world. It is also easy to extend or customize the examples, making it possible to develop actual systems with the examples as a starting point. It is not, however, possible to save this work with the supplied "reader" edition of MathCad. Caveats? It helps to have a working knowledge of MathCad or a similar tool, but this is not absolutely necessary. A tutorial is supplied. If you are serious about using DSP you should have MathCad, MatLab or a similar tool available. To do all the transformations and algebra by hand would take forever and you would miss some of the most useful tools. You definitely need a PC to get the most from this book. Overall, highly recommended.

GREAT BOOK

Great book giving a realistic description of how the maths work in real dsp applications. Necessary for every student in either DSP or comms to essentially understand and feel what is described in theory.

Fantastic!

Great book, it's worth twice as much as quoted.