by Steven W. Smith

The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, by Steven W. Smith, Ph.D, provides a practical introduction to Digital Signal Processing.

Covering a wide range of topics, this book is an ideal introductory text for those new to DSP, and an excellent reference for more experienced users. Begin today to learn more about this powerful technology!

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You may download the book in its entirety here in zip format, The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (zip, 8,102,076 bytes), or by chapter below.

Table of Contents
(pdf, 44,444 bytes)

The Breadth and the Depth of DSP
(pdf, 35,747 bytes)

Statistics, Probability and Noise
(pdf, 412,633 bytes)

ADC and DAC
(pdf, 566,984 bytes)

DSP Software
(pdf, 124,481 bytes)

Linear Systems
(pdf, 202,576 bytes)

Convolution
(pdf, 249,876 bytes)

Properties of Convolution
(pdf, 218,420 bytes)

The Discrete Fourier Transform
(pdf, 372,043 bytes)

Applications of the DFT
(pdf, 330,098 bytes)

Fourier Transform Properties
(pdf, 503, 886 bytes)

Fourier Transform Pairs
(pdf, 425,231 bytes)

The Fast Fourier Transform
(pdf, 133,181 bytes)

Continuous Signal Processing
(pdf, 307,336 bytes)

Introduction to Digital Filters
(pdf, 197,054 bytes)

Moving Average Filters
(pdf, 162, 590 bytes)

Windowed-Sinc Filters
(pdf, 284,033 bytes)

Custom Filters
(pdf, 269,922 bytes)

FFT Convolution
(pdf, 111,724 bytes)

Recursive Filters
(pdf, 292,207 bytes)

Chebyshev Filters
(pdf, 192,013 bytes)

Filter Comparison
(pdf, 122,917 bytes)

Audio Processing
(pdf, 278,119 bytes)

Image Formation and Display
(pdf, 602,682 bytes)

Linear Image Processing
(pdf, 2,028,022 bytes)

Special Imaging Techniques
(pdf, 591,592 bytes)

Neural Networks (and more!)
(pdf, 384,079 bytes)

Data Compression
(pdf, 302,323 bytes)

Digital Signal Processors
(pdf, 434,960 bytes)

Getting Started with DSPs
(pdf, 1,138,758 bytes)

Complex Numbers
(pdf, 285,553 bytes)

The Complex Fourier Transform
(pdf, 399,168 bytes)

The Laplace Transform
(pdf, 1,518,414 bytes)

The z-Transform
(pdf, 221,983 bytes)

Glossary
(pdf, 95,956 bytes)

Index
(pdf, 32,694 bytes)