fundamental frequency from tone/audio/noise IC solution.

Robert Thompson

Hey All.

Surely somebody has made an IC which accepts a tone/audio/noise signal and reports the fundamental frequency in that signal! When I started looking for a suitable candidate I was pretty confident that somebody would have made one that output a 'float', 'single' or 'double' using serial comms but I just don't find it.

I have been Google-ing (using other search mechanisms well known, some embedded by manufacturers or resellers and some less well known ones) and I can get a lot of noise and over-powered devices but I can't find a single IC solution for deriving the fundamental frequency from a signal.

I would be (embarrassed if it's too easy for you but) terribly grateful to have a couple of candidates shoved under my nose at this point - even the low-end DSPs seem expensive (and a waste of power) to consider for this task.

over 14 years ago

0 Thomas Gulba over 14 years ago

TI__Intellectual 2770 points

Hello Robert,

I am very sure that the designated IC you are looking for doesn't exsist in our portfolio.

But have you seen our recent announcement that we have broke the 2$ DSP barrier with our C5000 Ultra Low Power DSPs? Maybe this part could solve you cost and power issue.

Here is the link to the starting page: http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/dsp/platform/c5000/whats_new.page?DCMP=dsp-c5000-c553x-110830&HQS=dsp-c5000-c553x-pr-lp

Does this help?

Thomas

0 Neil Albaugh over 14 years ago in reply to Thomas Gulba

Genius 5430 points

Thomas;

If this is capable of performing an FFT on the signal, it may do the job that Robert is looking for.

0 Thomas Gulba over 14 years ago in reply to Neil Albaugh

TI__Intellectual 2770 points

Hi Neil,

I am not an expert for this part, but there exists a library ("DSPLIB") which has a FFT function implemented. Here is a link to the overview of all functions: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/C5000_Software_Algorithms

Thomas

0 Robert Thompson over 14 years ago in reply to Thomas Gulba

Prodigy 85 points

Thanks Thomas, Neil.

You guys are great, it does look like I am going to end up feeling like I've used a sledge-hammer where I was trying to 'smithy' instead but the specific device you guys seem to be suggesting is a very dainty looking sledgehammer and I see some likelihood that perhaps I can ditch about AU$6 worth of the AU$6.72 I managed to do it for before (Atmel proc with a bunch of passives) and take one of these for about $2.00 and supply a lot more functionality (including precision and reliability) than I was ever going to manage for less than about $20 with my previous thinking.

Thanks very much, I noted this thread had responses a couple of days ago but my personal life took a bit of a setback and I wasn't able to respond in thanks till now.

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