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Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB
Frustrating
Review written by: Paul Andrews From San Diego
I have an expensive version of Matlab with the DSP toolkit. I was excited to learn how to use it from this book. What a let down. The first functions that I found were unusable making the examples worthless. Then I noticed a web site where I could download these functions that were created by the author(sited in the text): the link no longer exists (surprise!) rendering this book worth less than the paper it was printed on! Besides the link to the non-existent site the author gives no more incite into how to enable Matlab to work with this text. Don't buy this book!
Perfect but aging companion to Discrete Time Signal Processing
Review written by: calvinnme From Fredericksburg, Va
This book does exactly what it purports to do - it teaches the reader how to perform signal processing tasks using Matlab. It starts out with signals and systems and moves on to the DTFT, the Z Transform, the DFT, digital filter structures including both IIR and FIR design, and finally covers some advanced topics in adaptive signal processing and communications. It even contains full-blown projects using Matlab on adaptive channel equalization, binary spread spectrum communications, and system identification. The reader should use another text such as Oppenheim's "Discrete Time Signal Processing" to get the theory, and come to this book on how to implement that theory in Matlab. The one drawback is that the book is older, so it is using Matlab 5. Also, another reviewer mentioned that much of the book is inaccessible to users who do not have the rather expensive signal processing toolkit at their disposal. Fortunately, thanks to the open source movement, this last problem has been solved. Octave, now on SourceForge, an open source code repository, has many of the matlab functions available for free that you need to do signal processing.
In conclusion, I highly recommend this book to signal processing students and professionals who wish to incorporate Matlab into their work.
Excellent for review of DSP Mathematics....
Review written by: Earl Hooks From Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
Great companion book to "Understanding Digital Signal Processors" by Lyons and "Digital Signal Processors" by Hayes. I would recommend this book strictly for a companion book. It doesn't go into in-depth detail or explanation of Laplace, z-transforms, or Fourier Transforms but displays a good foundation for MatLab DSP routines.
Great as a Companion Book!!!
Review written by: Omar Castillo Ortiz From Hacienda Heights, CA
I am currently taking a intro to Digital Signal Processing at my university. I find this book is a very good complement to Proakis' Digital Signal Processing book. I have learned a lot about DSP using these two books. the aim of this book is to be a companion book to more traditional DSP books, it tries to be nothing more. In that regard, I believe the book excels. Get it as a supplement/companion to a traditional DSP book and you will learn how to do DSP with MATLAB. Highly recommended!!!
Many functions in examples missing in Matlab R12, R13
Review written by: David Fumento From Manhattan, NY USA
This would be a great book except it needs to be updated for Matlab R12 and (now) R13. Many of the functions referenced in the book (e.g. zplot, freqz) have now in the signal processing toolkit so one really needs to acquire this toolkit to make the book fully useful.