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Rev. 7 — 6 August 2010
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4. Appendix A.1: coherency calculation
The coherency relies on the fact that clock and analog input signal are synchronized and
the first and last samples being captured are adjoining samples: it ensures a continuous
digitized time process for the FFT processing.
To achieve this, one has to follow the equation:
where M is an odd integer equal to the number of periods being acquired and N the
number of samples acquired.
With Fin, Fs and N known, M has to be chosen such that it follows the equation above.
To do this iterative calculation, one has to decide whether Fin or Fs is fixed.
To illustrate this process, let’s consider our current example with Fin = 170 MHz, Fs =
125 Msps and N = 16384 samples acquired:
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if Fin is fixed, this leads to M = 36863 periods of input signal to be acquired and a
real sampling frequency to be Fs = 124.995737 MHz;
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if Fs is fixed, this leads to M = 36863 periods of input signal to be acquired and a real
input frequency to be Fin = 170.005798 MHz.
Those values needs to be programmed in the signal generator and clock generator
before capture is done, otherwise the FFT calculation will lead to a non-coherent result
as shown below:
Fig 41. “NXP_ADC_Acquisition” window: non-coherent capture example
The numbers given for SNR, SFDR are completely wrong if coherency is not respected.