A METHOD OF SIGNAL SAMPLING

摘要

A method of processing a high frequency signal containing at least two different fundamental frequencies F1 and F2 and their harmonic components in order to extract at least one harmonic component of each of the two fundamental frequencies comprises sampling the signal at two sampling frequencies CK1 = F1 (M1/N1) and CK2 = F2 (M2/N2), where M1 and N1 are a first pair of integers having no common factor and M2 and N2 are a second pair of integers having no common factor. The sample values resulting from sampling at CK1 are stored cyclically in a set of M1 memory locations such that the nth sample value is stored cumulatively in the remM1 [n] the memory location, and the sampled values resulting from sampling at CK2 are stored cyclically in a set of M2 memory locations such that the nth sample value is stored cumulatively in the remM2 [n] th memory location. The sampling is continued at each sampling frequency CK1 and CK2 until sufficient sample values have been stored in each memory location of the corresponding set M1 or M2 to substantially average out the other fundamental frequency (s) and its/their harmonic components. Finally, a Fourier analysis of the sample values in each set M1 and M2 of memory locations is performed to extract the said at least one harmonic component of each fundamental frequency F1 and F2.