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Sean2
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5 years ago

FFT IP not behaving as expected.

I'm trying to use the FFT IP on Quartus Prime Pro 18.1 to do an inverse fft. When I input an fft of a signal I created in Matlab that has a frequency of 23, I do not get the expected output signal. W...
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SengKok_L_Intel
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5 years ago

Is the input data compliance with the single floating-point format? Does it work well with FFT before proceeding with iFFT? How about if change the input order to natural?


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    Sean2
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    5 years ago

    The input data is in single floating-point format. When I change the input setting of the IP to natural input and input the signal in it's normal order, I get a very noisy output that is not at the desired frequency. When I use this natural input setting and input the data in radix-4 digit reverse order, I get a frequency spike at 86 instead of 23.

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    5 years ago

    When I use a testbench with just an FFT IP instead of an inverse FFT, I get the expected output of a spike at 23 after using Matlab code on the output to rearrange the radix-4 digit reverse order. However, when I hook up the FFT IP to the inverse FFT IP through Avalon streaming, the fft produces a different output.