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- Does FFT have to be power of 2?
- Are FFTs limited to sizes that are powers of 2?
- What is the number of samples sample values that we usually choose for FFT?
- What is FFT power?
Does FFT have to be power of 2?
Sure, you can use a radix-2 FFT to compute FFTs for lengths not a power of 2 (but it is not as efficient as using methods specifically tailored to the factors of the sequence length).
Are FFTs limited to sizes that are powers of 2?
1.6 Are FFTs limited to sizes that are powers of 2? No. The most common and familiar FFTs are “radix 2”. However, other radices are sometimes used, which are usually small numbers less than 10.
What is the number of samples sample values that we usually choose for FFT?
The number of samples (N) in the FFT must be an integer power of 2. Therefore, N = 2p, where p is a positive integer. This rule minimizes the number of multiplications—and therefore the computation time—needed to compute the coefficients of the Fourier series.
What is FFT power?
The FFT is the Fast Fourier Transform. It is a special case of a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), where the spectrum is sampled at a number of points equal to a power of 2. This allows the matrix algebra to be sped up. The FFT samples the signal energy at discrete frequencies.
