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- From: liuc@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Chia-Liang Liu)
- Newsgroups: comp.dsp
- Subject: Re: Energy within a Digitized Pulse
- Keywords: Attenuation, Energy
- Message-ID: <15498@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 19:47:49 GMT
- References: <15458@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <uJVgoB1w164w@gmp.lonestar.org>
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- In article <uJVgoB1w164w@gmp.lonestar.org> greg@gmp.lonestar.org (G.R. Basile) writes:
- >
- >Isn't this only an approximation? For a countinuous signal the power is
- >evaluated as the Integral of the function over a given period divided by
- >the period. Isn't the above algorithm akin to evaulating the integration
- >with Riemann sums. Simpson's rule could be used to increase the accuracy.
- >I would think that the error gets significant as the the frequency of
- >the function approaches half the sampling frequency.
- >What would be an exact solution ?
- >
-
- Yes and No! If you try to evaluate the energy of the original
- continuous signal, you either use Simpson's rule or over-sample
- the signal to increase the accuracy. However if you are talking about
- the energy of a sampled_and_hold signal, sum and multiply by Ts is
- what you want.
-
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- Ka-Leung Lau ( Chia-Liang Liu )
- Digital Communications Research Laboratory
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of California, Davis (Cal Aggies)
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