Customer Reviews

VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

It is very nice book, all the areas are explained in a very clear manner. This is an example for How the book should be!!!

Though being a beginner in VLSI systems,this book helped me get the grip in subjects I considered extremely difficult to grasp.It is well written,with many real-life examples and offers the reader wide range of knowledge . I think it is not only useful but absolutely indispensable for students and professional engineers alike .

If you're a communications system architect or designer, this is a required text for the efficient implementation of modern DSP algorithms.

Having the text for a few months, a group of us have already applied techniques offered in the text in VHDL.

The first chapters cover pipelining, parallel processing, retiming, folding and unfolding theory. These chapters are necessary to really understand DSP optimization concepts. I have not found another text where these concepts are discussed.

The text is positioned well between a pure analytic text, and a "cookbook." Some personal effort is required to code a technique, but this shouldn't be difficult for someone using MATLAB. Once modeled and simulated, the implementer should be able to translate the high level code into VHDL, Verilog, or a programmable DSP such as the TI TMS320 in "C."

Personally, I found Dr. Prahi's discussion of fixed point quantization by canonic signed digit format very useful.

An example problem is provided with each technique to enhance understanding.

I recomend this book to any DSP or Digital Communication student or proffesional!!. It is clear and full with detailed explanation, FIR, IIR, Polyphase Filters etc, etc, etc. Chao!!

This is an excellent book, written by one of the authorities in the field. It offers detailed design techniques that will help the system designer explore the 3-dimension design space and achieve optimizations in all or either of: area, time, energy consumption. The use of specific examples illustrates the techniques, while complicated backround information is well-organized in the Appendices. I used the book as a recommended text book in my 1-semester "VLSI Signal Processing" graduate-level class and the students really loved it. It covers all availble techniques, from the simplest to the most advanced ones, with full explanation of the theory, with complete and detailed implementation steps for a wide range of signal processing algorithms.Since the book does not deal with the design at the physical level, but with transformations of the processing algorithms so that their VLSI implementations will satisfy certain criteria of optimality, it is not absolutely mandatory that the reader has already taken courses in VLSI design, although this could help appreciate the benefits offered by the techniques detailed in the book. The exercises found at the end of each chapter help the reader apply the learned techniques in all kinds of applications. I am convinced that the thoroughness and the high standards accomplished by the author in the writing of this book will help establish it as the leading text or reference book for several years to come.

This is a good book on VLSI DSP system design. I still hope the author could talk something more about implementation, especially VLSI circuit design. It seems this book covers too much about theory instead of design and implementation.