Thread: Real time FFT?
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Old 06-29-2009, 10:00 PM
glen herrmannsfeldt
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Default Re: Real time FFT?

westocl <cweston_@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> It seems thats exactly the case i will have... What i want to do is
>>>>> analagous to having 128 antennas and a situation where i have to
>>> take the FFT for each antenna. So some kind of rotary switch
>>> gives me the new antenna input data at every sample...
>>> and will keep spinning.


(snip)

> I dont mean to sound allusive... I was jut saying that is how you can look
> at the processing i am trying to do.. constantly having differnt blocks of
> data in which to process.


In an FPGA one should be able to do a pipelined parallel implementation,
with one result (full FFT output) per clock cycle, maybe 3 log2(N)
clock cycle latency. As you don't say how but your budget is,
it is hard to say. FPGAs are getting larger pretty fast, though.

-- glen
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