With a novel, less classical approach to the subject, the authors have written a

book with the conviction that signal processing should be taught to be fun. The

treatment is therefore less focused on the mathematics and more on the conceptual

aspects, the idea being to allow the readers to think about the subject at

a higher conceptual level, thus building the foundations for more advanced

topics.

The book remains an engineering text, with the goal of helping students solve

real-world problems. In this vein, the last chapter pulls together the individual

topics as discussed throughout the book into an in-depth look at the development

of an end-to-end communication system, namely, a modem for communicating

digital information over an analog channel.

Richly illustrated with examples and exercises in each chapter, the book offers

a fresh approach to the teaching of signal processing to upper-level undergraduates.