Wave expert – Teledyne LeCroy WaveExpert 100H Operators Manual User Manual

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leave it unchecked.

9. Touch

inside

the

Output type field, and make a selection from the pop-up menu.

10. Touch inside the Window field, select a window type.
11. Touch inside the Algorithm field and select either Least Prime

**

or Power of 2

††

from the

pop-up menu.

**

The default algorithm is a least primes algorithm that computes FFTs on transform sizes having lengths that can be

expressed as factors of 2

N

*5

K

. This is very compatible with the record lengths encountered in the oscilloscope, which are

often multiples of 1, 2, 4, 5, or 10.

††

The other choice is a power of two algorithm where the record lengths are in the form of 2

N

. The power of 2 algorithm

generally runs faster than the least primes algorithm. The price that is paid is a record length that is not the same as the
acquired signal. The power-of-two FFT uses the first 2

N

points of the record. For example, if you acquire 500 points in your

trace, the power-of-two FFT would only use the first 256 points.

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