Glenn,

Is your "expected" correspond to floating point or quantized
model of signal processing? Quantization leads to staircase
approximation of signal; difference w analog signal appears
as broad band noise.

Don

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On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, G Jones wrote:

> Hello,
> I am seeing ~ 1% changes in total power in a 1 MHz PFB spectrometer channel
> when I apply a test tone 20 dB above the noise in 1 MHz many channels away.
> This corresponds to ~ 40dB leakage rejection between channels, which seems
> lower than I would have thought for a 2-tap, 2048 point Hamming window, for
> which I would expect ~120 dB rejection in voltage, so 60dB in power. I have
> tried this experiment in a PFB both without rounding and with round to even
> enabled, with the same result. Robert Jarnot suggested that this could be
> due to intermodulation products from the test tone going through the
> discretized transfer function of the ADC. Have other people experienced this
> problem? Is there any way around it? It seems like this severely limits the
> PFB's usefulness.
> 
> Thanks,
> Glenn
> 

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