IQ Power Spectrum
The IQ Power Spectrum block converts I/Q data via real-time FFT to SPECTRA:
Left hand side Input:
- IQ
Right hand side Output:
- SPECTRA
The IQ Power Spectrum block should be one of the most used ones. It converts I/Q data in real-time to SPECTRA using an highly optimized FFT algorithm. Using SPECTRA instead of I/Q highly reduces the CPU load of subsequent processing and visualization steps.
The FFT Size can be adjusted from 16 to 1 Million (depending on license). Optional the FFT size is also adjustable via the number of Bins.
Furter on you can switch the IQ Power Spectrum block to a more flexible multi adjustment mode (e.g. for control with further docked blocks):
- Step & Frequency
- RBW
- RBW & FFT
- Step & Frequency & RBW
The FFT Overlapping is fully adjustable (up to 99,9%) same for the power range (60 to 200dB).
The following FFT Window functions are available:
- Hamming
- Hann
- Uniform
- Blackmann
- Blackmann Harris
- Blackmann Harris 7
- Flat Top
- Lanczos
- Gaussion 0.5
- Gaussion 0.4
- Gaussion 0.3
- Gaussion 0.2
- Gaussion 0.1
- Kaiser 6
- Kaiser 12
- Kaiser 18
- Kaiser 36
- Kaiser 72
- Tukey 0.1
- Tukey 0.3
- Tukey 0.5
- Tukey 0.7
- Tukey 0.9
Some interesting FFT tweaking features like FFT Skip Window (the opposite from FFT overlap, removes FFT windows e.g. if you need to save CPU power or if you can/want to reduce the SPECTRA data rate), Super Sample (our unique "oversampling", reducing the overal noise floor), Drop Partial (ignors I/Q data at the end of a segment that dont fit into a window (Hopping mode or IsoLOG)), an adjustable Processing Latency (100µs to 100ms), and a Noise Compensation are integrated:
A typical screenshot using the IQ Power Spectrum block:
Comparing our unique Super Sample and regular mode to see the reduced noise floor:
Typical Mission:
