Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Discrete Fourier Transform

Discrete Fourier Transform

Using DFT, discrete time data is converted into a discrete frequency representation. The experiment focussed on finding the DFT of input signal x[n]. In the first case, the input signal was a N point sequence, so the output of DFT was also a N point sequence. In the second case, the length of input signal was increased by zero padding. The result showed that, frequency spacing for output signal decreased. As a result, approximation error decreased.
DFT gives an approximate spectrum and is computationally slow.

10 comments:

  1. DFT also increases the resolution of the spectrum

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    1. Zero padding at the end of the signal helps in increasing the resolution.

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  2. DFT is periodic in nature because of periodic nature of twiddle factor

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    1. In DFT, we assume signal to be periodic.

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  3. DFT is discrete version of DTFT.

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  4. DFT requires a lot of calculations hence we use FFT.DFT is used for Fourier analysis of signals

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    1. As FFT has more parallelism than DFT, it is faster.

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  5. Input signal is assumed to be periodic for DFT computation.

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    1. Yes and hence its response is discrete in nature.

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