摘要:
A fully digital spectrum analyzer accepting as an input either an analog signal or a series of digital numbers and using time compression and DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform) techniques to provide the spectral component values of the input signal. Novel techniques and means are used in obtaining the power values for selected spectral lines and in averaging these power values. Statistically controlled noise is added to the input of the spectrum analyzer to enhance its resolutin beyond the resolution which would be otherwise available. Advanced and efficient techniques are used for generating and applying trigonometric functions in the course of finding the real and imaginary part of Fourier transforms, and for providing running averages of the power spectra.
摘要:
The resolution of analog-to-digital conversion is enhanced by combining the analog input signal, prior to sampling, with a statistically controlled noise signal. The noise signal has a defined probability density function, and its power density spectrum is outside the spectra of the analog input signal and the sampling signal so that none of the noise energy is in the frequency interval of the data of interest following sampling.