On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Kunal Kandekar <kunalkande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'll give it a shot. I studied DSP etc. in college, but have worked > mostly in pure software development, so I may be able to guess what > you need to focus on. This may be contentious advice, and I'll defer > to anyone with differing views. > > The following may be a good reading order for you: > > 1. DSP - starting with the basics of signals & systems, sampling etc. > "Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by Richard Lyons is a really > good reference, but you can try starting off with the free online book > at http://www.dspguide.com/, and see if that is enough for your needs. > It's been a while since I've read through either reference, but I > remember they were both good, although the Lyons book is a classic. > > 2. Digital Communications: DSP as applied to communications... > modulation, demodulation, coding etc. Personally, I found the MIT > course ("Principles of Digital Communications I" on OCW) way too > theoretical, so you can skip that. Any of the books may be a really > good reference, but I've only read Proakis. The > http://www.complextoreal.com/tutorial.htm website may be useful too. > > 3.Software Radio in General - once you understand the previous two > sections, you'll see that most signal processing can be implemented as > algorithms on a stream of numbers. The details of Software Radio may > then be intuitive to you as a programmer. So it may be enough to skim > through some of the briefer references in this section, and focus on > the GNU Radio docs / articles. > > If you don't need to mess with the FPGA or the hardware, you can > safely skip the Electronics and Verilog sections. If you don't need > to deal with techniques requiring advanced RF topics or antenna design > (e.g. MIMO etc.), you can safely skip the Radio and RF design section, > although a skim of Wikipedia on the topic can't hurt. > > I think http://www.complextoreal.com/tutorial.htm may be a decent > starting point for both, DSP basics, and digital communications. I > haven't gone through all the tutorials there yet, but I thought the > "Fourier Analysis Made Easy" tutorials were easy to read. Keep in > mind, I already had studied DSP previously, so it may not be as easy > for a complete beginner. > > Hope this helps. > > Kunal
Kunal, This is really good. Would you be up for putting this on the Wiki page for future reference? Thanks! Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
