Excellent free DSP Book]

Andre' Kesteloot akestelo@bellatlantic.net
Wed, 24 May 2000 08:08:51 -0400


Talbot Andrew wrote:

> For a very good book on DSP  look at  WWW.DSPGUIDE.COM
> Title  "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing"
> by Steven W Smith
>
> To quote from the preface :
>
> "This book was written for Scientists and Engineers........ The goal is
> to present practical techniques while avoiding the barriers of detailed
> mathematics and abstract theory"
>
> Just what I like, and based the few bits I've read so far appears to be
> true.  Charles, G4GUO, described it as the best intro book for DSP he
> had ever seen.
>
> Unusually, it can be downloaded FREE in .PDF format, as well as
> purchased online for $64 plus P&P.  Each chapter (35 files in total) is
> a separate file and has to be downloaded one at a time.  I suggest
> downloading and reading FRONTMAT.PDF first which contains the index, and
> means you only need to download interesting chapters as and when.
>
> I intensely dislike reading from the computer screen, printing out each
> page on a Laserprinter costs considerably more than buying the book and
> takes ages from Acrobat reader, so an order has been sent............
>
> Andy  G4JNT