enbw

Equivalent noise bandwidth

Syntax

bw = enbw(window)

bw = enbw(window,fs)

Description

bw = enbw(window) returns the two-sided equivalent noise bandwidth, bw, for a uniformly sampled window, window. The equivalent noise bandwidth is normalized by the noise power per frequency bin.

bw = enbw(window,fs) returns the two-sided equivalent noise bandwidth, bw, in Hz.

Examples

Equivalent Noise Bandwidth of Hamming Window

Determine the equivalent noise bandwidth of a Hamming window 1000 samples in length.

bw = enbw(hamming(1000))

bw = 1.3638

Equivalent Noise Bandwidth of Flat Top Window

Determine the equivalent noise bandwidth in Hz of a flat top window 10000 samples in length. The sample rate is 44.1 kHz.

bw = enbw(flattopwin(10000),44.1e3)

bw = 16.6285

Equivalent Rectangular Noise Bandwidth

Obtain the equivalent rectangular noise bandwidth of a Von Hann window and overlay the equivalent rectangular bandwidth on the window's magnitude spectrum. The window is 1000 samples in length and the sampling frequency is 10 kHz.

Set the sampling frequency, create the window, and obtain the discrete Fourier transform of the window with 0 frequency in the center of the spectrum.

Fs = 10000;
win = hann(1000);
windft = fftshift(fft(win));

Obtain the equivalent (rectangular) noise bandwidth of the Von Hann window.

bw = enbw(hann(1000),Fs)

bw = 15.0150

Plot the squared-magnitude DFT of the window and use the equivalent noise bandwidth to overlay the equivalent rectangle. The two-sided bandwidth is split evenly across the spectrum.

freq = -(Fs/2):Fs/length(win):Fs/2-(Fs/length(win));
maxgain = 20*log10(abs(windft(length(win)/2+1)));

plot(freq,20*log10(abs(windft)))
hold on
plot(bw/2*[-1 -1 1 1],[-40 maxgain maxgain -40],'--')
hold off

xlabel('Hz')
ylabel('dB')
axis([-60 60 -40 60])

Input Arguments

window — Window vector

real-valued row or column vector

Uniformly sampled window vector, specified as a row or column vector with real-valued elements.

Example: hamming(1000)

Data Types: double | single

fs — Sampling frequency

positive scalar

Sampling frequency, specified as a positive scalar.

Output Arguments

bw — Equivalent noise bandwidth

positive scalar

Equivalent noise bandwidth, specified as a positive scalar.

Data Types: double | single

More About

Equivalent Noise Bandwidth

The equivalent noise bandwidth of a window is the width of a rectangle whose area contains the same total power as the window. The height of the rectangle is the peak squared magnitude of the window’s Fourier transform.

Assuming a sampling interval of 1, the total energy for the window, w(n), can be expressed in the frequency or time-domain as

$${\displaystyle {\int }_{-1/2}^{1/2}{\left|W(f)\right|}^2}df={\displaystyle \sum _n{\left|w(n)\right|}^2}.$$

The peak magnitude of the window’s spectrum occurs at f = 0. This is given by

$${\left|W(0)\right|}^2={\left|{\displaystyle \sum _{n}w}(n)\right|}^2.$$

To find the width of the equivalent rectangular bandwidth, divide the area by the height.

$$\frac{{\displaystyle {\int }_{-1/2}^{1/2}{\left|W(f)\right|}^2}df}{{\left|W(0)\right|}^2}=\frac{{\displaystyle \sum _n{\left|w(n)\right|}^2}}{{\left|{\displaystyle \sum _{n}w}(n)\right|}^2}.$$

See Equivalent Rectangular Noise Bandwidth for an example that plots the equivalent rectangular bandwidth over the magnitude spectrum of a von Hann window.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation
Generate C and C++ code using MATLAB® Coder™.

Version History

Introduced in R2013a