Learning Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

TI had a couple of years ago a very good book on those subjects

Plenty of good sites listed here:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLG_enUS311US311&q=dsp

yes 1# is right, go to TI for details devics.

you can buy 5000 for speech processing, 6000 or Davinci for your video or audio system, 2000 such as 2018 ,or newest 28x16 can be for control with verious communication interfaces.

haha, in one word, you can use this for all you lists.

what on earth are you going to do? joke?

can someone tell me the name of that book? I searched but couldn't find it...

I have some titles from the reference list of a textbook on dsp's:

Marven, C., Ewers, G., A Simple Approach to Digital Signal Processing, Texas Instruments, 1993

*** TMS320VC5402, Fixed-Point Digital Signal Processor, SPRS079C, Texas Instruments, 1998

*** TMS320C54x, DSPReference Set, Volume 1: CPU and Periperals, SPRU131F, Texas Instruments, 1999

Volume 2: Mnemonic Instruction Set, SPRU172B, Texas Instruments, 1998

Volume 5: Enhanced Peripherals, SPRU302, Texas Instruments, 1999

*** TMS320AD50C/I, TLC320AD52C, Sigma-Delta Analog Interface Circuits With Master-Slave Function, Data Manual, SLAS131e, Texas Instruments, 2000

Kuo, S. M., Lee B. H., Real-Time Digital Signal Processing, John Whiley & Sons Ltd, 2001

Now you really have some serious work to do if you plan on learning all that by yourself (I mean the list you had in your first post). You must know C/C++ programming, assembly would be useful, plus there's the math theory behind the filters. In my opinion, you don't need to understand where each formula comes from, just know the physical meaning of the operations.

It would also be useful to experiment your new knowledge - for TI DSPs we used Code Composer Studio (it has a tutorial too) to write the programs and a development board + had some extra components depending on the application.

Hope this helps

Thank you very much Patricia_a for all the information and guidance. Yes the maths behind DSP is hard. will have to work hard on that. Can you tell me what you meant by " you don't need to understand where each formula comes from, just know the physical meaning of the operations."
thanking again.

So here's what I meant:

In some of the books, especially the TI docs, there are some math formulas that are not explicitly calculated and are given as such. Which means that when you build an application, you don't have to make difficult math operations, you just have to know the final formula, since most of them have already been calculated by people much smarter than you and me. The professor I had sometimes even said: "I don't know how they got to that formula, I just know it's true and it works."

And about the physical meaning, I'll take a simple example: the FIR and IIR filters.

When I was first asked what the difference was between the two I innocently said that one has "a" and "b" coefficients for x and y samples (IIR), and the other one has only "a" coefficients, for x samples (FIR).

This is true but says nothing about their real behavior. The "engineering" answer to that is: when you have a single impulse at the input of the FIR filter, you have an impulse at the output and after a period of time, the impulse disappears, of course, if there is no more input. Which is why its called "finite impulse response" filter. In the case of IIRs, the impulse will be present at the output indefinitely or forever, because every output sample depends on previous output samples (the "b" coefficients are not all zero). So this is the "infinite impulse response" filter.

P.S.: It's all very fresh because I had my DSP exam two weeks ago ;)

your answer is very good. voted by us.

FIR is only concerned by present input and previous input, but IIR is not only concered by input but by previous output.

what we have to do is find out these coefficient. if then statement make this long and complex calculation into simple. especially iir.

however, I have to admit that this is a hard job if you hope to get a wonderful, ideal filter, because various of windows functions need you to select for a project.

Try "The Scientist and Engineers Guide to Digital Signal Processing" on the web at http://www.dspguide.com/ It removes all the mumbo jumbo and makes DSP understandable. Each chapter can be downloaded free, yes free.

I VOTE FOR THIS ONE!! It is great for someone just getting into DSP. I just pulled my copy out to get you the web site, then realized that GUEST beat me to it. I printed the whole bloody thing (double sided), and it fits into a 3 inch binder. This was a few years ago, so let's hope the site is still there. If not, I might still have it on the other computers hard drive.

Sincerely

Bill

The textbook I used while in school was "Digital Signal Processing" by Sanji Mitra. The website to the book is here:

http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/electrical/mitra/

Now, this book goes into Fourier transforms, Z transforms, Laplace transforms as well as a bunch of other mathematical gymnastics. I would say it requires a solid understanding of basic calculus as well as differential equations (and throw in some linear algebra just to be safe.) It is a pretty good textbook, but very technical.

I am not sure what you are looking for. This book contains theory and application. DSP is a complex subject which typically requires study in college to truly understand how it works. If you are an engineer (or mathematician) you can probably learn it on your own. Otherwise, it will take serious study at a university to learn the topics you have listed.

Personally, I did learn most of the topics you listed above while getting my EE degree. I had to use my knowledge learned from many math and engineering classes in order to understand them - and I still am no DSP wizard at all. (Although I did get to design and build analog-to-digital converters in electronics lab!) I am just saying that the subject of DSP is not something an average person can just pick up, read and figure out. But I do not know your background nor the depth of which you want to learn it, so please don't be discouraged by my comments.

Good luck in your pursuits!

well yeah.. I, my self is an undergraduate student. and will be studying DSP in detail next year.I wanted to get an understanding of the subject first because we had a DSP module covering the areas I have mentioned, but it was pretty hard. that's why I wanted to work hard before my final year.

thanking all for your information.