An Interactive Multimedia Introduction to Signal Processing - Softcover

Karrenberg, Ulrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540435093 ISBN 13: 9783540435099

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2002

Synopsis

This innovative book and CD-ROM learning system offers students and teachers a hands-on, interactive tool that makes the concepts and tools of modern, computer-based signal processing immediately understandable. Built around interactive software (DASYLab) and supported by 240 illustrations, Karrenberg's self-tutorial emphasizes the underlying principles of signals and systems while avoiding mathematical models and equations. This approach makes the material more accessible to readers who may lack mathematical and programming sophistication yet need to use or instruct others in the skills. The CD contains all programs, videos, manuals, and the complete text. The S-version of DASYLab for Windows provides an interactive development environment for the graphic programming of signal processing systems, and, more generally, microelectronics systems. Through active links, block diagrams, a pc sound card, and a microphone, users perform signal processing of real signals, attaining a visceral knowledge of the concepts and methods. More than 200 pre-programmed systems and transparencies are included.Interactive Multimedia Introduction to Signal Processing has been awarded a prestigious digita2002 award. Digita awards are one of the most important multimedia prizes in Germany's educational market. They are awarded annually to the best educational software in various categories.

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Review

From the reviews:

"I recently came across the book 'A Multimedia Interactive Introduction to Signal Processing.' It was uplifting to see a book that truly ???communicates??? to the reader and provides the reader with a vision that ???...stretches to infinity.??? Congratulations to Prof. Karrenberg and thanks for sharing this gift." (Prof. Kevin Fynn, CEO, Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute)

., ."I am really impressed with your explanations and examples in DASYlab. It makes the math behind signal processing so much easier to understand..." (Gustavo E. Herrera, CenSSIS, Northern University, Boston, MA)

"Using a multimedia approach, the author helps new signal processing readers to remove the ???difficult??? part of signal processing by providing readers with an interactive base. ??? An Interactive Multimedia Introduction to Signal Processing is a welcome read to all those new to signal processing and to professionals working in this field. This book will be of practical use to university lecturers, students of engineering sciences interested in learning signal processing, and recent electrical engineering graduates." (Dharmendra Lingaiah, IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, Vol. 20 (5), 2004)

"This book is written principally for undergraduate students. ??? It is easy to operate and offers an effective instrument for developing, modifying and optimising the design of entire systems and their applications. ??? As recognition for this, the book was awarded the 2002 Digita award (presented annually to the best education software). ??? With the software, it is fun to invent, check, modify, etc. signal processing applications and I enjoyed it ??? ."(Giovanni Sicuranza, IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, September, 2003)

From the Back Cover

A didactic concept is undertaken for microelectronics, computer technology and communication engineering, which deals with the visualization of signals and processes in addition to graphical programming of signal processing systems. Through the utilization of a professional and globally supported software for metrology and control engineering, DasyLab, useful applications can be developed, modified and optimized.
Computer supported processing of real signals is made possible over the sound card and the parallel port. Over two hundred pre-programmed signal engineering systems and design transparencies are provided.
Pictures also play a dominant rule in this book: there are numerous introduction-videos, one for every chapter, more than 250 high-quality pictures and - most important – all the "living" experiments and their results are visualized. With this learning system, readers can now make use of "equipment" and software, which was practically unaffordable for individuals in the past.
What's more, here is a very new concept for learning Signal Processing, not only from the physically-based scientific fundamentals, but also from the didactic perspective, based on modern results of brain research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540435093
• ISBN 13: 9783540435099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 422