I recently came across this, although I have not read it yet. They happen to have a mostly-complete version of their book for free download as well: http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/telebreak.html
Kunal On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Scott Johnston <[email protected]>wrote: > I would suggest Telecommunication Breakdown by Johnson, Sethares, and > Klein. > > It starts simple and builds up a complete modem, although it doesn't have > much on the electromagnetic stuff. > > Scott > > Kunal Kandekar wrote: > >> It would be useful to know the background of whoever this would be for. >> EE? Computer Science? Familiarity with trigonometric functions and some >> basic calculus would be helpful for getting up to speed. >> I would advise against the MIT courseware link... I found it overly >> theoretical, and pretty much the exact thing you don't want (crazy math and >> algorithms). Personally, I found the tutorials at this link from >> SuggestedReading helpful, although I had studied some of the basics in >> undergrad courses 10 years ago, so I had some background: >> http://www.complextoreal.com/tutorial.htm >> >> They're not the most polished write-ups (some typos, formatting errors), >> but I found it easy to follow and the diagrams are very helpful, and may >> meet your criteria of not being too textbook-ish. >> >> Kunal >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Brett L. Trotter >> <[email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Is there one or two books that give a pretty comprehensive, yet >> low base >> communications/DSP knowledge requirement that would be a guided >> walkthrough of waves and fields, various forms of modulation, >> carriers, >> filters, sidebands, etc? I'm really looking for something that's >> either >> not a textbook, or not written like one- most textbooks are very >> dry and >> hard to understand without someone guiding the experience and >> asking the >> right questions. I realize the material is fairly dry, so I understand >> that it's not going to be a crichton novel, but the less crazy >> math and >> algorithm intensive it is, the better. >> >> Long story short, what's a good way to get a more solid grasp of how >> driving a DAC can create electromagnetic waves, and what can one >> do with >> those waves. I'd really really like to walk away understanding how >> complex numbers turn into constellations are really formed as an >> electromagnetic wave, etc, and the real guts of some basic things like >> FM and DSSS. >> >> -Brett >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >> >> >> > -- > Scott Johnston > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA 02420-9108 > (781) 981-8196 > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >
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