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Title: Signals and Systems by Simon S. Haykin, Barry Van Veen ISBN: 0-471-13820-7 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $103.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (12 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Start with something else..
Comment: ... Admittedly, the book does cover all the concepts, but fails to present the information in the clear, concise manner you want when studying signal processing. Below is one of my favourite quotes, which pretty much surmises the whole book. It's regarding the time-shift property of the z-transform:
"Multiplication by z exp n0 introduces a pole of order no at z = 0 if n0 > 0. In this case the ROC cannot include z = 0, even if Rx does include 0, unless X(z) has a zero of at least order n0 at z = 0 that cancels out all the new poles. If n0 < 0, then multiplication by z exp -no introduces n0 poles at infinity. If these poles are not cancelled by zeros at infinity in X(z), then the ROC of z exp -n0 X(z) cannot include abs(z) = infinity."
I agree with the other reviews too which stated that the examples jump steps and do little to explain the concepts. I even found an error with one (Haykin, it's your example on page 471). In my opinion, if you don't have much time, and want a book that doesn't require a lot of re-reading, keep looking.
Gets 2 stars for covering all the material.
Rating: 1
Summary: Terrible text book
Comment: I'm a UW computer engr student. We use this book here because Van Veen is the author (he is a professor here). The book is aweful. It's just plain bad. The material lacks clarity, the examples are either too easy, too hard, or do not provide any instruction at all. The math often has missing steps leaving the reader clueless as to how one arrives at the final result. The matlab code is worthless -- it doesn't teach anything nor explain anything. I recommend Oppenheim or Schaum's guide. I beg you not to waste your time or money on this ...text.
Rating: 1
Summary: Terrible text book
Comment: I'm a Computer Engineering student at UW-Madison -- same university as the author (Van Veen). We use this textbook here; and I must say, it is TERRIBLE! It is verbose, the examples are not useful nor instructive, the book's math derivations (even in the example problems) have numerous missing steps which leaves the reader clueless as to how one arrives at the final result, and worst of all the material is presented in an extremely obscure way. If you are a beginner to signals and systems I recommend you read through Schaum's Guide. Do not waste your time or money on this book!
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Title: Microelectronic Circuits (Oxford Series in Electrical Engineering) by Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith ISBN: 0195116631 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $112.00 |
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Title: Semiconductor Device Fundamentals by Robert F. Pierret ISBN: 0201543931 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 02 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
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Title: Electronic Circuit Analysis with CD-ROM with E-text by Donald Neamen ISBN: 0072451947 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $129.25 |
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Title: Microelectronics: An Integrated Approach by Roger T. Howe, Charles G. Sodini ISBN: 0135885183 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 20 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics by David K. Cheng ISBN: 0201566117 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 31 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
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