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Module by: Douglas L. Jones, Swaroop Appadwedula, Matthew Berry, Mark Haun, Jake Janovetz, Michael Kramer, Dima Moussa, Daniel Sachs, Brian Wade

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Name: Spectrum Analyzer: Introduction to Fast Fourier Transform
ID: m10027
Language: English (en)
Summary: The Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an efficient algorithm for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform. The FFT is a block-based algorithm.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: bit-reversed, block-based algorithms, boxcar, DFT, discrete Fourier transform, discrete time Fourier transform, DSP, DTFT, fast Fourier transform, FFT, hamming, mainlobe, sidelobe, spectral analysis, twiddle-factor
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 1.0)

Authors: Douglas L. Jones (dl-jones@uiuc.edu), Swaroop Appadwedula (appadwed@uiuc.edu), Matthew Berry (mjberry@uiuc.edu), Mark Haun (markhaun@uiuc.edu), Jake Janovetz (jake@janovetz.com), Michael Kramer (kramer@ifp.uiuc.edu), Dima Moussa (dmoussa@uiuc.edu), Daniel Sachs (sachs@uiuc.edu), Brian Wade (bwade@uiuc.edu)
Copyright Holders: Douglas L. Jones (dl-jones@uiuc.edu), Swaroop Appadwedula (appadwed@uiuc.edu), Matthew Berry (mjberry@uiuc.edu), Mark Haun (markhaun@uiuc.edu), Jake Janovetz (jake@janovetz.com), Michael Kramer (kramer@ifp.uiuc.edu), Dima Moussa (dmoussa@uiuc.edu), Daniel Sachs (sachs@uiuc.edu), Brian Wade (bwade@uiuc.edu)
Maintainers: Mark Butala (butala@uiuc.edu), Matthew Berry (mjberry@uiuc.edu), Douglas L. Jones (dl-jones@uiuc.edu), Ricardo Radaelli-Sanchez (ricky@alumni.rice.edu), Swaroop Appadwedula (appadwed@uiuc.edu), Daniel Sachs (sachs@uiuc.edu), Robert Morrison (rlmorris@uiuc.edu)

Version: 2.19 (history)
Created: Jun 1, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5
Revised: Feb 25, 2004 12:49 pm US/Central

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Jones D, Appadwedula S, Berry M, et al. Spectrum Analyzer: Introduction to Fast Fourier Transform [Connexions Web site]. February 25, 2004. Available at: http://cnx.org/content/m10027/2.19/.

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Jones, D., Appadwedula, S., Berry, M., Haun, M., Janevitz, J., Kramer, M., Moussa, D., Sachs, D., & Wade, B. (2004, February 25). Spectrum Analyzer: Introduction to Fast Fourier Transform. Retrieved from the Connexions Web site: http://cnx.org/content/m10027/2.19/

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Jones, Douglas, Swaroop Appadwedula, Matthew Berry, Mark Haun, Jake Janevitz, Michael Kramer, Dima Moussa, Daniel Sachs, and Brian Wade. "Spectrum Analyzer: Introduction to Fast Fourier Transform." Connexions. February 25, 2004. http://cnx.org/content/m10027/2.19/.

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Jones, D., Appadwedula, S., Berry, M., Haun, M., Janevitz, J., Kramer, M., Moussa, D., Sachs, D., & Wade, B. 2004. Spectrum Analyzer: Introduction to Fast Fourier Transform. Connexions, February 25, 2004. http://cnx.org/content/m10027/2.19/.

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Jones, Douglas, Swaroop Appadwedula, Matthew Berry, Mark Haun, Jake Janevitz, Michael Kramer, Dima Moussa, Daniel Sachs, and Brian Wade. Spectrum Analyzer: Introduction to Fast Fourier Transform. Connexions. 25 Feb. 2004 <http://cnx.org/content/m10027/2.19/>.