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Magnitude and Phase Spectra: Bin Frequencies, |X|, ATAN with Quadrant Correction and Decibels

Lesson 5 of 817 minLab

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You turn a 16-point DFT result into a readable spectrum: the frequency of every bin, the magnitude, the phase in degrees with a hand-made quadrant correction and the level in dB against a reference.

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