An Efficient Multichannel FFT Demodulator

Abstract

A multichannel binary FSK demodulator for spaceborne application has been implemented using an efficient preweighted and thinned fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm. Theory, configuration, and performance are described and compared with the analog unit which performs the same functions. Being able to perform the first base 16 pass with add-only operations following preweighting, provided the complexity reduction which made it feasible to use the FFT to perform the channelization and predetection filtering.