Information Theory and Communications
Multirate/Wavelet/Adaptive Signal Processing
Source Coding
VLSI/VHDL

  1. Elements of Information Theory/Thomas M. Cover

    2. Q366.C873

    An excellent textbook on information theory

  2. Principles of Digital Communication and Coding/A. J. Viterbi
    3. TK5103.7.V843

    An excellent textbook on communications

    (These two books are highly recommended)
  3. Digital transmission theory/Benedetto, Sergio
    TK5103.7.B462/1987

    Another excellent textbook on communications
  4. Information theory and reliable communication/ Robert G. Gallager

    5. Q360.G162/1968

    A good book on information theory and error control codes. Water-filling theory, etc…
  5. Principles and practice of information theory/ Richard E. Blahut

    6. Q360.B633/1987

    A good information material on another view
  6. Digital transmission of information/ Richard E. Blahut

    7. TK5103.7.B633 /1990

    An excellent book on principles of digital communications.

  7. Convolutional coding: fundamentals and applications/ L. H. Charles Lee
    TK 5103.7.L477C/1997

    a nice book on Convolutional Coding and Trellis Coded Modulation
  8. Principles of data communication/ R.W. Lucky

    9. TK5105 L941/1968

    A good introduction book on telecommunications, such as equal Nyquist bandwidth for baseband transmission.
  9. Digital communications

    10. Proakis, John G. TK5103.7.P962 /1995

    Haykin, Simons TK5103.7.H419

  10. Data communications principles/ R. D. Gitlin, J. F. Hays, S. B. Weinstein

    11. TK5105.G536 /1992

  11. Digital modulation and coding/Stephen G. Wilson

    12. TK5102.9.W753/1996

    Good book on practical communication engineering.
  12. Theory and practice of error control codes/ Richard E. Blahut

    13. QA268.B633/1983

    An excellent book on ECC, especially on Block Cyclic Coding (BCH and RS), the RS coding algorithms is well depicted.
  13. Error-control techniques for digital communication/ Arnold M. Michelson

    14. TK5103.7.M623 /1985

    A good guide to block codes and convolution codes, and performance analyze.

  14. Error-correcting coding theory/ Man Young Rhee(Korea)

    15. TK5102.5.R469 /1989

    A practice and easy understanding depiction on coding, such as RS coding, viterbi decoding for convolution codes.
  15. Source and channel coding: an algorithmic approach/ John B. Anderson, Seshadri Mohan

    16. QA268.A547 /1991

    Some modern treatment on trellis code and VLSI implementation on error-control code, maybe useful.
  16. Introduction to trellis-coded modulation with applications/Ezio Biglieri et al.

    17. TK 5106.7 I61/1991

    Detail algorithms on TCM are depicted here, including multi-dimension TCM
  17. International Symposium on Turbo Codes

    18. TK510292I61 1997

  18. Convolutional codes-an algebra approach/Ph. Piret

    19. QA268.P667/1988

    A book on nonbinary convolutional codes

  19. An introduction to the theory of groups/Joseph J. Rotman

          A171.R848/1988

          A good guide to group theory, but need more time to read.

  1. Wavelets and subband coding/M. Vetterli
    TK5102.9.V591/1995

    an excellent book on filter banks and wavelet
  2. Multiresolution signal decomposition: transforms, subbands, and wavelets/ Ali N. Akansu

    3. TK5102.5 A313 /1992

    The relationship between filter-banks and wavelet is clearly depicted. And some transforms, DCT, FFT, are well specified.

  3. Multirate systems and filter banks/ P.P. Vaidyanathan

    4. TK5102.5 V128/1993

    A good guide for multirate filter-banks.
  4. Subband and wavelet transforms: design and applications/ Ali N. Akansu

    5. TK5102.5 S941/1996

    Some topics, such as echo cancellation and multicarrier modulation worth reading.
  5. Wavelets and filter banks/ Nquyen

  6. Signal processing with lapped transforms / Henrique S. Malvar.

    7. TK5102.2.M262 /1992

    The time-domain relationship between LOT and cosine modulated filterbanks is well depicted.
  7. Multirate digital signal processing: multirate systems, filter banks, wavelets. /N.J. Fliege

    8. TK5103.7 F621/1994

    Some filter design techniques are worth reading, but maybe nothing else.
  8. Wavelet basics/1995
    TK5102.9.C454

    A good breif guide to wavelet
  9. Adaptive filters and equalisers
    TK7872.F5M956/1988              
  1. Introduction to Data Compression/Khalid Sayood
    2. TK5102.92 S275

    A practical book on source coding, with sample source code provided

  2. Digital coding of waveforms: principles and applications to speech and video
    TK5102.J42/1984

    A good textbook on source coding
  3. Text Compression
    QA76.9.T48B435/1990

    lossless compression, i.e., Huffman/Arithmetic Coding and source probability distribution modeling
  1. VHDL made easy! /, Pellerin, David
  2. VHDL designer's reference/Jean-Michel Bergé
    TK7885.7.V597v/1992
  3. VHDL and FPLDs in digital systems design, prototyping and customization/Salcic, Zoran
    TK7868.D5S161/1998
    Altera Max2Plus stduent edition CD-ROM included
  4. HDL chip design : a practical guide for designing, synthesizing, and simulating
    ASICs and FPGAs using VHDL or Verilog     / Douglas J. Smith
    TK7874.6.S645/1996
  5. The VHDL reference : a practical guide to computer-aided integrated circuit design including VHDL-AMS / Ulrich Heinkel... [et al.]/2000TK7885.7 V597vt
  6. Digital design with Verilog HDL/ Sternheim, Eliezer
  7. VHDL answers to frequently asked questions/, Cohen, Ben,
  8. Basic VLSI design: systems and circuits/Douglas A. Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian.
    TK7874.P977/1988
    MOS (nMOS/pMOS/CMOS) VLSI stick rules

 

  1. Matrix theory: a second course/1987
    QA188.R77
  2. Matrix analysis/QA188.H813
    Roger A. Horn, Charles R. Johnson/1985
  3. Internet programming/TK5105.875.I57J49
    Kris Jamsa, Ken Cope/1995
  4. CDMA systems engineering handbook/ Lee, Jhong S.
  5. Gigabit Ethernet : migrating to high-bandwidth LANs/  Kadambi, Jayant.