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Windowing is a common method to reduce spectral leakage in Fourier analysis. Based on the principle that time domain multiplication corresponds to frequency domain convolution, this paper suggests frequency convolution to implement windowing functions by FIR filter structure. The proposed digital filter has full compatibility for variable length of window and is capable of implementing the three most popular windows, viz. Hanning, Hamming and Blackman. Numerical simulation indicates that the method consumes \(78\,\%\) less area, \(11\,\%\) higher throughput rate than the CORDIC-based (co-ordinate rotation digital computer) method, and achieves \(33\,\%\) lower quantization error for fixed point than the time domain multiplication method. Furthermore, an example of stretch processing in HF radar is shown to reduce the \(99\,\%\) computational complexity because of the segmental frequency points windowing.
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This work is supported by the National Special Program for Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development of China under Grant 2013YQ160793 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 2014212020202.
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Tan, J., Wen, B., Tian, Y. et al. Frequency Convolution for Implementing Window Functions in Spectral Analysis. Circuits Syst Signal Process 36, 2198–2208 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-016-0403-7
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