What is the amplitude of a DFT?

In a normal DFT, each harmonic amplitude is the result of N complex multiplies with N different complex exponentials – giving a total of N2 multiplies for all N harmonics. When N is a power of 2, many of these multiplies concern identical numerical multiplicands and many of the complex exponentials are zero or 1.

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What is DFT spectrum?

The goal of spectrum analysis is often to determine the frequency content of an analog (continuous-time) signal ; very often, as in most modern spectrum analyzers, this is actually accomplished by sampling the. analog signal, windowing (truncating) the data, and computing and plotting the magnitude of its DFT. It.

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