METHOD OF PERFORMING SYNTHETIC INSTRUMENT BASED NOISE ANALYSIS USING PROPORTIONAL BANDWIDTH SPECTRUM ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES

摘要

A system and method for filtering an input signal with at least a first and a second octave portions is presented. A proportional bandwidth filter system includes a bandwidth reducing filter, a down-sampler, and first and second octave filters. The bandwidth reducing filter reduces the bandwidth of the input signal and the down-sampler rolls the second octave portion represented in the reduced bandwidth signal to a top octave portion of a down-sampled signal. The first and second octave filters are comprised of a plurality of proportional bandwidth filters. The first octave filter partitions and converts the first octave portion of the input signal into output signals representing the frequency spectra of the first octave of the input signal. Similarly, the second octave filter generates outputs representing the spectra of the second octave portion of the input signal represented as the top octave portion of a down-sampled signal.