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Re: LF: RE: SAQ Receiver for Window$

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Subject: Re: LF: RE: SAQ Receiver for Window$
From: Wolf DL4YHF <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:55:08 +0100
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Hi Johan and group,

You wrote..


Yes, but SAQrx uses a complex FIR filter for the main
selectivity so it will take some CPU power if you want:

1. narrow passband width AND...
2. small ripple in the passband AND...
3. steep skirts AND...
4. large stopband attenuation

i.e. a "brickwall" response.

A complex FIR with, for example:

  Passband width = 100 Hz
  Passband ripple <= 0.1 dB
  Stopband width = 150 Hz
  Stopband attenuation = 80 dB (either side of +/-75 Hz)

designed with Parks-McClellan requires 2 * 1526 = 3052 taps.
The main filter in SAQrx is run at Fs = 11025 Hz.
I think ~3000 taps would work OK on a fast machine although
I haven't checked it. The existing 1000Hz filter has 2*206 taps.

As an alternative (since you already have the forward and inverse FFT in your C-library) you could use FFT convolution for the filter, which *greatly* speeds up large filter kernels. The basic principle is to split up the incoming signal into overlapping FFTs (with say 4096 to 16384 points), preferably using 50 % overlap and a raised cosine window, then do the filtering by multiplying the spectra with the filter's amplitude, and finally transform back to the time domain using the 'inverse' FFT. Because (sin(x)^2) + (cos(x)^2) = 1, there is no unwanted amplitude modulation caused by the FFT windowing if a 50 % overlap is used. I use this method in my own application, and it allows to run filters in 'real time' which are impossible with the classic FIR implementation (with convolution in the time domain). You don't even need to design the filter coefficients; all the algorithm needs is the filter's frequency response. A similar method is described in 'The Scientist's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" (look for the overlap/add method in chapter 18; it's available online for free ).

Cheers,
 Wolf DL4YHF

(happy to be back from hospital)



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