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Digital Signal Processing, 10th Edition
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Digital Signal Processing, 10th Edition

by Maurice Bellanger, Benjamin A. Engel
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 28m
English
Wiley
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2The Discrete Fourier Transform

The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is introduced when the Fourier transform of a function is to be calculated using a digital computer. This type of processor can handle only numbers and, in a quantity limited by the size of its memory. It follows that the Fourier transform:

upper S left-parenthesis f right-parenthesis equals integral Subscript minus infinity Superscript infinity Baseline s left-parenthesis t right-parenthesis e Superscript minus normal j Baseline 2 pi italic f t Baseline normal d t

must be adapted, by replacing the signal s(t) with the numbers s(nT) which represent a sample of the signal, and by limiting to a finite value N the set of numbers on which the calculations are carried out. The calculation then provides numbers S*(f) defined by

upper S asterisk left-parenthesis f right-parenthesis equals sigma-summation Underscript n equals 0 Overscript upper N minus 1 Endscripts s left-parenthesis italic n upper T right-parenthesis e Superscript minus normal j Baseline 2 italic pi fnT

As the computer has limited processing power, it can only provide results for a limited number of values of the frequency f, and it is natural to choose multiples of a certain frequency step Δf. Thus,

upper S asterisk left-parenthesis k normal upper Delta f right-parenthesis equals sigma-summation Underscript n equals 0 Overscript upper N minus 1 Endscripts s left-parenthesis italic n upper T right-parenthesis e Superscript minus normal j Baseline 2 pi italic n k normal upper Delta italic fT

The conditions under which the calculated values form a good approximation to the required values are examined below. An interesting simplifying choice is to take Δf = 1/NT. Then there are only N different values of S*(k/NT), which is a periodic set of period N since:

upper S asterisk left-bracket left-parenthesis k plus upper N right-parenthesis slash italic upper N upper T right-bracket equals upper S asterisk left-parenthesis k slash italic upper N upper T right-parenthesis

On the other hand, the transform thus calculated ...

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