functionrealFFTsamplePoints

Information

Syntax

ns = realFFTsamplePoints(f_max, f_resolution, f_max_factor=5);

Description

From the maximum interested frequency f_max (in [Hz]) and the frequency resolution f_resolution (in [Hz]) the function computes the number of sample points ns that is as small as possible and fulfills the following criteria:

• Maximum FFT frequency ≥ f_max_factor*f_max (= the largest frequency value of the frequency vector).
• Frequency axis resolution is f_resolution.
• The number of sample points is expressed as 2^a*3^b*5^c (and a,b,c are appropriate Integers).
• The number of sample points is even.

Note, in the original publication about the efficient computation of FFT (Cooley and Tukey, 1965), the number of sample points must be 2^a. However, all newer FFT algorithms do not have this strong restriction and especially not the open source software KissFFT from Mark Borgerding used in this function

References

Mark Borgerding (2010):

KissFFT, version 1.3.0. http://sourceforge.net/projects/kissfft/.
 

James W. Cooley, John W. Tukey (1965):

An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series. Math. Comput. 19: 297-301. doi:10.2307/2003354.
 

Martin R. Kuhn, Martin Otter, Tim Giese (2015):

Model Based Specifications in Aircraft Systems Design. Modelica 2015 Conference, Versailles, France, pp. 491-500, Sept.23-25, 2015. Download from: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/118/053/ecp15118491.pdf

Example

ns = realFFTinfo(f_max=170, f_resolution=0.3)

results in the following output:

ns = 5760

See also

realFFTinfo, realFFT, realFFTwriteToFile

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