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- From: liuc@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Chia-Liang Liu Ka -Leung Lau)
- Newsgroups: comp.dsp
- Subject: Re: Energy within a Digitized Pulse
- Keywords: Attenuation, Energy
- Message-ID: <15598@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 03:43:27 GMT
- References: <15498@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <TeNmoB1w164w@gmp.lonestar.org>
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- Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- In article <TeNmoB1w164w@gmp.lonestar.org> greg@gmp.lonestar.org (G.R. Basile) writes:
- >
- >I agree. What has piqued my curiousity is how to derive an exact solution
- >of the power of the continuous time signal from the sampled data. What about
- >taking an fft of the samples and than summing the square of the magnitudes ?
- >What errors are introduced?
- >
- >Greg Basile
- >greg@gmp.lonestar.org
- >
-
- The information provided by a digitized signal and its FFT is
- identical. Since you can not calculate the energy of a signal from
- its samples EXACTLY, you can't calculate it from its FFT either. If
- you are not satisfied with the approximation, the best way is to LPF
- the digitized signal and measure the analog power assuming you
- sample the signal above the Nyquist rate and the filter doesn't cause
- distortion, attenuation, ..... etc.
-
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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)
-