Professor De Boer's list of
TEXTBOOK ERRATA
(last update 1/30/2012)
Proakis and Salehi
Fundamentals of Communication Systems. ISBN 0-13-147135-X
Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.
(Link to errata for the 2nd edition)
The publisher's list of errata was at one time available from a URL at http://vig.prenhall.com. That link appears to be dead. The file available here dates from 2005.
In addition note these errata:
Page 31, Example 2.1.7Replace "A/2" with just "A" in four places.
Page 44, Equation 2.1.42
Replace the symbol
(script "L") with the symbol 
(script "T") in every instance.
(Three replacements)
Page 68, Equation below the line that starts "To show. . ."
Replace dt with df.
Page 106, Problem 2.6 part 2 and following
The name of the function, x2(t), is missing and should be inserted. The corrected statement is:
2. x2(t) = cos(120πt + π/3)Then in the following parts each of the subscripts needs to be incremented by one so that the subscript matches the number of the part.
Also change Part 7 of this problem from
"x6(t) = x1(t) – x2(t), where x1(t) is even and x2(t) is odd" to
"x7(t) = xa(t) – xb(t), where xa(t) is an even function and
xb(t) is an odd function"
(The authors do not intend to refer back to parts 1 and 2 of this problem. They instead wish to refer to any general even and odd pair of functions. Also, the subtraction sign in this problem statement is not an error.)
Updated 1/30/2012.
Page 158-159, Problems 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.6.
In each of these problems, when the authors mention, "DSB" they mean, "DSB-SC."
Page 163, Figure 4.2
The plot in the row labeled "FM Signal" and in the right-hand half of that row is just plain wrong. Ignore it. (A correct plot of this concept but using a different style of presentation can be found here.) (posted 3/24/2016)
Page 206, Problem 4.16.
The units on the peak frequency deviation are incorrectly given.
Replace "Hz/v" with "Hz".
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