Why buy this book?
Review written by: Ryanov From Conroe, TX United States
This book is basically just precisely what the TI lab manuals have in them. In fact, this book poorly explains most topics, and it does not provide proper explanation of the example code. Further, the labs are basically done for you! There is actually nothing to do except run the labs and complete a few mundane tasks. My professor and TA even said this book was poor as textbooks go. I've read other books on programming microcontrollers, CPUs, etc., and those have had full explanations of the given code examples. Much of the information in this book simply seems to assume you already know the material.

response to the posted review
Review written by: Nasser Kehtarnavaz From Plano, TX United States
As the author of the book, I find it very annoying to see a comment posted stating the availability of the materials from the TI manuals without understanding what the objective of the book has been. As stated in the preface of the book, the processor material in this book is a restructured, modified, and condensed version of twenty or so TI manuals on the TMS320C6000 so that it can be used as a textbook for a real-time hands-on DSP lab course. Many schools have used this book as the text for their DSP lab courses. Although some figures have been redrawn with the permission of TI, the entire writing is done by the authors. The use of information stated in any manual should not be confused with its presentation within the context of a lab course. There are many similar DSP lab books which have used the information from TI manuals.

DSPer
Please be aware that there is nothing in this book that is not available from TI. The authors took material from the TI manuals VERBATIM.

I do not know ehy they wrote this book.