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1 total messages Started by Mike Chin Fri, 19 Jan 1990 01:48
FFT S/N replies
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Author: Mike Chin
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 01:48
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The problem with my trying to find S/N from an FFT was 
that I was doing something like:
	sum(bins due to noise)
	----------------------------
	sum(bins due to fundamental)

I should have been doing:
	sqrt{sum((bins due to noise)^2)}
	----------------------------
	sqrt{sum((bins due to fundamental)^2)}
Thanks to  oakhill!radio!charlie@cs.utexas.edu (Charlie Thompson)
for this.

Also, Steve Omner (steveno@tekigm2.men.tek.com) reminded me to
look at the effects of my windowing. My blackmann-harris used
a0-a3 coefficients that has sidelobes at the level I'm trying
to resolve. The ADC manafacturer is sending me their new window
set; we'll see if it makes any difference.

Bob Jewett <jewett%hpl-opus@hplabs.hp.com> advocates using a direct
sine fitting, and sent me a nice program that crunched my simulated
data very well.

Thanks also to the others who gave hints.

Mike Chin
Lawrence Berkeley Labs
MJChin@lbl.gov
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