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- From: gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis)
- Newsgroups: comp.dsp
- Subject: Re: DSP project: spectrum reversal
- Message-ID: <1k28e0INNddk@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:42:08 GMT
- References: <1k25kgINNb73@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
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- In article <1k25kgINNb73@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>,
- ccdo017@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (David Kirk) writes:
- |> I am beginning a DSP project and need some assistance as to which
- |> direction I should head.
- |>
- |> The project entails taking the frequency response of any signal
- |> after
- |> it has passed through a simple filter (ie RC filter) and producing a
- |> new signal which has its response reversed:
- |>
- |> | |
- |> |------------ | ----------
- |> | \ -----> | /
- |> | \ | /
- |> | \ | /
- |> |___________________ f |_____________________ f
- |>
- |> I know that taking the FFT will give the spectrum, but it would
- |> be different for different signals. The only constant is the
- |> (analog)
- |> filters response. My design should be able to take any signal of any
- |> spectral make-up.
- |>
-
- Hi !
-
- I am only guessing what you want to do. If you change the sign of every
- other sample of your signal, you will mirror the frequency response
- around Fs/4 (process also termed spectral inversion: swapping the highs
- with the lows). If you want to mirror the frequency response of, for
- example an FIR filter, change the sign of every other sample in the
- filter impulse response (be sure not to flip the central sample.
- Otherwise you will invert the signal). This is a simple way to convert
- a low pass FIR to a high pass FIR with the frequency response mirrored
- around Fs/4.
-
- Changing the sign of every sample is the operation of multiplying the
- signal by a full amplitude sinusoid at f=fs/2. This process amplitude
- modulates the signal out of band such that it aliases perfectly into the
- base band.
-