First Principles of Discrete Systems and Digital Signal Processing

This textbook presents both discrete systems and digital signal processing in a conversational style that relies on a minimum of mathematics. The authors use carefully crafted pedagogy and detailed examples to improve students' problem solving skills, to help them see interrelationships and connections, and to integrate new material with what they have seen in previous chapters. The book also provides a number of computer-based methods for solving problems.

Here is a valuable book for a first undergraduate course in discrete systems and digital signal processing (DSP) and for in-practice engineers seeking a self-study text on the subject. Readers will find the book easy to read, with topics flowing and connecting naturally.

Fundamentals and first principles central to most DSP applications are presented through carefully developed, worked out examples and problems. Unlike more theoretically demanding texts, this book does not require a prerequisite course in linear systems theory. The text focuses on problem-solving and developing interrelationships and connections between topics. This emphasis is carried out in a number of innovative features, including organized procedures for filter design and use of computer-based problem-solving methods.

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