Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] book/video (MIT courseware, whatever) recommendations?

[Kunal Kandekar]

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 <address@hidden> 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

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