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Re: How to downsample this signal?

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Piotr Wyderski <peter.pan@neverland.mil> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have the 50Hz mains voltage signal sampled at 12bit/100kHz. This
> high frequency is for rapid detection of overvoltage conditions.
> However, for
> further processing this sample rate is way too high, so I'd like to
> change the sampling rate by a factor ~100 (not a very critical value,
> just "sensibly low").
>
> The thing will be implemented on a PSOC5LP, which has a dedicated
> digital filter block capable of ~32e6 FMACs per second with fixed
> 24 bit resolution. I'll use half of that for other purposes and would
> like to retain data accuracy at least 12 bit. The dominant signal
> is around 50Hz and its quality should remain high, especially the
> phase relations.
>
> Given that constraints, what architecture would you suggest to
> do that? I was thinking about not using multiplication at all
> (at least at the high freuency stage) and implement two cascaded
> order 4, decimation ratio 8 CICs, which fit in the 24-bit registers
> and provide combined decimation ratio of 64, which is fine. Then
> clean up the output with a FIR. This combo worked years ago in
> the FPGA world, where multiplication was a problem. But I think
> I loose something important by not using the available MAC unit,
> so could you please suggest me a better approach?

Piotr,

CICs are not really very good decimation filters, in general. That
is, they alias, and there is no way to "clean up" the signal 
afterwards.

What I don't understand is why, with the sledgehammer processor
you have, you don't do a decent polyphase filter with a good
FIR?
-- 
Randy Yates, DSP/Embedded Firmware Developer
Digital Signal Labs
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com

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