TSA Capon Spectrum VI
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TSA Capon Spectrum VI
Owning Palette: Correlation and Spectral Analysis VIs
Requires: Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit
Computes the single-sided power spectral density (PSD) of a univariate time series Xt by using the Capon method. The Capon method uses a nonparametric method based on finite impulse response (FIR) filters to estimate the signal spectrum. Wire data to the Xt input to determine the polymorphic instance to use or manually select the instance.
TSA Capon Spectrum (Waveform)

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frequency bins specifies the number of frequency bins for which this VI computes the single-sided power spectral density PSD. The length of the single-sided PSD is (frequency bins/2+1). The default is 1024. | ||||||
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Xt specifies the univariate time series. | ||||||
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FIR filter length specifies the length, in samples, of the finite impulse response (FIR) filter this VI uses to estimate the PSD. FIR filter length must be less than n–10 where n is the length of Xt. | ||||||
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error in describes error conditions that occur before this node runs. This input provides standard error in functionality. | ||||||
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dB on? specifies whether this VI returns the PSD in decibels or in a linear scale. If dB on? is TRUE, this VI returns the PSD in decibels. If dB on? is FALSE, this VI returns the PSD in a linear scale. The default is TRUE. | ||||||
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PSD returns information about the single-sided power spectral density (PSD).
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unit returns the engineering unit of the PSD. You can specify an engineering unit for a time series by using the TSA Scale to EU VI. | ||||||
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error out contains error information. This output provides standard error out functionality. |
TSA Capon Spectrum (Real)

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sampling rate specifies the sampling rate, in hertz, of the univariate time series Xt. The default is 1. | ||||||
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frequency bins specifies the number of frequency bins for which this VI computes the single-sided power spectral density PSD. The length of the single-sided PSD is (frequency bins/2+1). The default is 1024. | ||||||
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Xt specifies the univariate time series. | ||||||
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FIR filter length specifies the length, in samples, of the finite impulse response (FIR) filter this VI uses to estimate the PSD. FIR filter length must be less than n–10 where n is the length of Xt. | ||||||
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error in describes error conditions that occur before this node runs. This input provides standard error in functionality. | ||||||
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dB on? specifies whether this VI returns the PSD in decibels or in a linear scale. If dB on? is TRUE, this VI returns the PSD in decibels. If dB on? is FALSE, this VI returns the PSD in a linear scale. The default is TRUE. | ||||||
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PSD returns information about the single-sided power spectral density (PSD).
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error out contains error information. This output provides standard error out functionality. |
TSA Capon Spectrum (Complex)

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sampling rate specifies the sampling rate, in hertz, of the univariate time series Xt. The default is 1. | ||||||
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frequency bins specifies the number of frequency bins for which this VI computes the single-sided power spectral density PSD. The length of the single-sided PSD is (frequency bins/2+1). The default is 1024. | ||||||
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Xt specifies the univariate time series. | ||||||
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FIR filter length specifies the length, in samples, of the finite impulse response (FIR) filter this VI uses to estimate the PSD. FIR filter length must be less than n–10 where n is the length of Xt. | ||||||
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error in describes error conditions that occur before this node runs. This input provides standard error in functionality. | ||||||
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dB on? specifies whether this VI returns the PSD in decibels or in a linear scale. If dB on? is TRUE, this VI returns the PSD in decibels. If dB on? is FALSE, this VI returns the PSD in a linear scale. The default is TRUE. | ||||||
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PSD returns information about the single-sided power spectral density (PSD).
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error out contains error information. This output provides standard error out functionality. |
Example
Refer to the Power Spectral Density Estimation VI in the labview\examples\Time Series Analysis\TSAGettingStarted directory for an example of using the TSA Capon Spectrum VI.











