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LabVIEWChannelizer

Solution

WhyChannelize?

Spectrummonitoringandsignalanalysishavemanyapplicationareas,bothcivilian

andmilitary.Aswirelesstechnologiesarebecomingmorecommon,theRFspectrum

getsmorecrowdedandhavingtherighttoolstoanalyzethesignalsbecomesmore

important.Byusingchannelizationtechniquesitispossibletouseasinglewideband

receiverandstillanalyzethousandsofsignals.

Whenmonitoringawideband

sourcetherecanbemanydifferent

SignalsofInterestsignalsofinterestthatmustbe

analyzed,demodulated,decodedor

processedinotherways.However,

processingtheentirewideband

foreveryinterestingsignalistoo

CPUintensive.Instead,thesignals

ofinterestshouldbeextracted

fromthewidebandsourcetomake

itpossibletoprocesseachsignal

individually.Thiscanbeachieved

byfilteringanddecimationofthe

widebandsignalwhi