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

[James Blachly]

National Instruments also has some nice RF tutorials on their web site.

In particular, I found this one very helpful in understanding I/Q data:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4805

Warm regards,
James S. Blachly, MD


On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Brett L. Trotter 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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