DSP First: A Multimedia Approach

by James H. McClellan, Ronald W. Schafer, Mark A. Yoder

For introductory courses (freshman and sophomore courses) in Digital Signal Processing and Signals and Systems. Text may be used before the student has taken a course in circuits.

DSP First and it's accompanying digital assets are the result of more than 20 years of work that originated from, and was guided by, the premise that signal processing is the best starting point for the study of electrical and computer engineering. The "DSP First" approach introduces the use of mathematics as the language for thinking about engineering problems, lays the groundwork for subsequent courses, and gives students hands-on experiences with MATLAB. 

The Second Edition features three new chapters on the Fourier Series, Discrete-Time Fourier Transform, and the The Discrete Fourier Transform as well as updated labs, visual demos, an update to the existing chapters, and hundreds of new homework problems and solutions.

Genres: Reference, Engineering, Textbooks, Electrical Engineering

582 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Jack Perng · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good intro DSP book, presenting everything at a good pace. Also nice for those who want a bit of review. Might be a bit too introductory at times though.

[Myron Davis · Rating 2 out of 5]

As an introductory DSP text, DSP First covers quite a bit of ground: 1)a review of complex number manipulation and phasor representation
2)common concerns with sampling, aliasing, and hardware implementation
3)the important concepts of linearity and time invariance
4)Fourier and FFT
5)signals & systems review (convolution, cascading, impulse response, step function, impulse signal, cascading)
6)comparisons of signals/systems in the time domain, frequency domain, and z-domain
7)and all manner of filters (FIR, bandpass, feedback, feed forward, etc.)

Because I read a preliminary edition of the text, there were math, figure misidentification, or typographical errors in various places, but overall the text was still understandable in most cases. The largest drawbacks of this particular version of the text were a lack of an index or problem set answers. I'm not sure if those improvements have been made in subsequent printings, but I would hope so.

[Nick Black · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't know why GT used this book in EE2200. It was pretty godawful :/.

[Angelie]

First book in college to make me cry tears of hate