Digital Filter Design (Topics in Digital Signal Processing)

By C.S. Burrus and Thomas W. Parks

Explains the design and implementation of digital filters on the TMS 320 Signal Processor. The TMS 320 is the leading signal processing device and is produced by Texas Instruments. This book is an applications text written for industrial users of the chip, as well as a supplementary graduate-level text in Digital Filter Design.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471828963
• ISBN13: 9780471828969
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Good for design rules for specific filter types

This old book is pretty handy as a "just the facts ma'am" kind of guide. If you don't already know DSP, don't waste your time. You'll be totally lost and won't know what's going on. However, if you already know DSP and its associated theory and you need design rules in nice labeled steps with some examples and plenty of figures, this is a nice old book to have around. It's not trying to teach you anything, it's just trying to guide you through the design of specific types of filters. The only down side is that the programs that implement the various filters are all in Fortran. However, that is not really a fatal flaw. Every Fortran program is merely implementing an algorithm that has already been thoroughly explained. Unless you're bound and determined to completely lift programs from the book without understanding them AND you don't know Fortran, I'd say this old book is worth having in your library. Don't let my review have you thinking there is no math in this book - there is plenty of it supporting the various filter designs. There are just no textbook explanations. For that I suggest Discrete-Time Signal Processing (2nd Edition) (Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series). It is the definitive guide to DSP for beginners and professionals alike.

not obsolete

Ok, the TMS320 is now heavily outdated. The book was written in 1987, and the chip that it uses as an example was state of the art then. But Moore's Law continued inexorably in the intervening years. TI is still the market leader in DSP and now has much faster chips. No surprise. However, the book itself retains an intrinsic utility. Much of it concerns the explaining of the maths and other ideas in DSPs. Including the crucial concepts of a Finite Impulse Response and an Infinite Impulse Response filter. All still very much germane. The treatment is comprehensive, going into the most common filters, like the Butterworth, and also how to design a filter.