FFT sanity check.

Debugging an FFT... If an FFT time-domain input comprises say, 1.5 cycles of sine starting positive going followed by another 1.5 cycles of sine starting positive going - in other words has 3 cycles with an inversion half way along, then the real and imaginary FFT outputs at the 3-cycle frequency should be zero. That's right, isn't it? Cheers -- Syd

On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:46:53 +0100, Syd Rumpo <usenet@neonica.co.uk> wrote: >Debugging an FFT... > >If an FFT time-domain input comprises say, 1.5 cycles of sine starting >positive going followed by another 1.5 cycles of sine starting positive >going - in other words has 3 cycles with an inversion half way along, >then the real and imaginary FFT outputs at the 3-cycle frequency should >be zero. > >That's right, isn't it? > >Cheers >-- >Syd I shouldn't have been so terse with my previous response, and I actually misinterpreted what you'd said, anyway. It does look like bin 3 should be zero. The computation for bin 3 is essentially a correlator, and since the correlations for the first half and the second half will have opposite sign they cancel. The discontinuity adds a lot of other frequency content, though, that gets splattered around among the other bins. Eric Jacobsen Anchor Hill Communications www.anchorhill.com

On 19/07/2012 17:06, Eric Jacobsen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:46:53 +0100, Syd Rumpo <usenet@neonica.co.uk> > wrote: > >> Debugging an FFT... >> >> If an FFT time-domain input comprises say, 1.5 cycles of sine starting >> positive going followed by another 1.5 cycles of sine starting positive >> going - in other words has 3 cycles with an inversion half way along, >> then the real and imaginary FFT outputs at the 3-cycle frequency should >> be zero. >> >> That's right, isn't it? >> >> Cheers >> -- >> Syd > > I shouldn't have been so terse with my previous response, and I > actually misinterpreted what you'd said, anyway. > > It does look like bin 3 should be zero. > > The computation for bin 3 is essentially a correlator, and since the > correlations for the first half and the second half will have opposite > sign they cancel. The discontinuity adds a lot of other frequency > content, though, that gets splattered around among the other bins. > > > Eric Jacobsen > Anchor Hill Communications > www.anchorhill.com Thanks, Eric. -- Syd

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