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Takes a signal in and performs a full Signal in Noise and Distortion (SINAD) analysis, including measuring the fundamental frequency tone and returning the fundamental frequency and SINAD level in dB. The data type you wire to the signal in input determines the polymorphic instance to use. Details  Example

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SINAD Analyzer 1 Chan

	signal in is the input time-domain signal.
	export signals selects the signal to export to exported signals. 0 none—Fastest computation 1 input signal 2 detected signal—Single sine tone 3 residual signal—Signal minus tone
	error in describes error conditions that occur before this VI or function runs. The default is no error. If an error occurred before this VI or function runs, the VI or function passes the error in value to error out. This VI or function runs normally only if no error occurred before this VI or function runs. If an error occurs while this VI or function runs, it runs normally and sets its own error status in error out. Use the Simple Error Handler or General Error Handler VIs to display the description of the error code. Use error in and error out to check errors and to specify execution order by wiring error out from one node to error in of the next node. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred before this VI or function ran or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred before this VI or function ran. The default is FALSE. code is the error or warning code. The default is 0. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source specifies the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning. The default is an empty string.
	advanced search controls the frequency domain search area, which is the center frequency and width, used for finding the fundamental frequency tone of the signal. approx freq. is the center frequency used in the frequency domain search for the fundamental tone frequency. If set to the default value of –1.0, the tone with the highest amplitude is used as the fundamental tone. search is the frequency width, as a percentage of the sampling rate, for the frequency domain search for the fundamental tone frequency.
	exported signals contains the signals specified by export signals. exported time signal is the waveform containing the exported time signal as selected by export signals. exported spectrum (dB) is the spectrum of the exported time signal as selected by export signals. f0 is the start frequency of the spectrum expressed in hertz. df is the frequency resolution of the spectrum expressed in hertz. dB Spectrum (Hann) is the magnitude spectrum of the (Hanning) windowed input signal expressed in dB.
	detected fundamental frequency contains the detected fundamental frequency resulting from searching the frequency domain. Use advanced search to set the frequency search range.
	SINAD contains the measured Signal in Noise and Distortion (SINAD) expressed in dB. SINAD is defined as the ratio of the RMS energy of signal in to the RMS energy of signal in less the energy in the fundamental. To compute the THD Plus Noise in dB, simply negate the SINAD in dB.
	THD Plus Noise contains the measured total harmonic distortion plus noise. THD Plus Noise is defined as the ratio of the RMS energy of signal in less the energy in the fundamental to the RMS energy of signal in. To compute THD Plus Noise as a percentage, you must multiply it by 100.
	error out contains error information. If error in indicates that an error occurred before this VI or function ran, error out contains the same error information. Otherwise, it describes the error status that this VI or function produces. Right-click the error out front panel indicator and select Explain Error from the shortcut menu for more information about the error. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred. code is the error or warning code. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source describes the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning.
	measurement info returns information about your measurement, mainly warnings for inconsistencies in your input signal. uncertainty is reserved for future use. Warning is TRUE if a warning is generated during processing. comments contains a warning message when Warning is true.

SINAD Analyzer N Chan

The multichannel waveform array input should be the result of a multichannel acquisition where each element of the array of waveforms is a distinct and separate channel of data.

	signals in is the array of input time-domain signals.
	export signals selects the signal to export to exported signals. 0 none—Fastest computation 1 input signal 2 detected signal—Single sine tone 3 residual signal—Signal minus tone
	error in describes error conditions that occur before this VI or function runs. The default is no error. If an error occurred before this VI or function runs, the VI or function passes the error in value to error out. This VI or function runs normally only if no error occurred before this VI or function runs. If an error occurs while this VI or function runs, it runs normally and sets its own error status in error out. Use the Simple Error Handler or General Error Handler VIs to display the description of the error code. Use error in and error out to check errors and to specify execution order by wiring error out from one node to error in of the next node. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred before this VI or function ran or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred before this VI or function ran. The default is FALSE. code is the error or warning code. The default is 0. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source specifies the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning. The default is an empty string.
	advanced search controls the frequency domain search area, which is the center frequency and width, used for finding the fundamental frequency tone of the signal. approx freq. is the center frequency used in the frequency domain search for the fundamental tone frequency. If set to the default value of –1.0, the tone with the highest amplitude is used as the fundamental tone. search is the frequency width, as a percentage of the sampling rate, for the frequency domain search for the fundamental tone frequency.
	exported signals is an array of exported signals. exported time signal is the waveform containing the exported time signal as selected by export signals. exported spectrum (dB) is the spectrum of the exported time signal as selected by export signals. f0 is the start frequency of the spectrum expressed in hertz. df is the frequency resolution of the spectrum expressed in hertz. dB Spectrum (Hann) is the magnitude spectrum of the (Hanning) windowed input signal expressed in dB.
	detected fundamental frequencies is an array containing the detected fundamental frequency resulting from searching the frequency domain for each waveform.
	SINAD is an array containing the measured Signal in Noise and Distortion (SINAD) for each waveform expressed in dB. SINAD is defined as the ratio of the RMS energy of the input signal to the RMS energy of the input signal less the energy in the fundamental. To compute the THD Plus Noise in dB, simply negate the SINAD in dB.
	THD Plus Noise is an array containing the measured total harmonic distortion plus noise for each waveform.
	error out contains error information. If error in indicates that an error occurred before this VI or function ran, error out contains the same error information. Otherwise, it describes the error status that this VI or function produces. Right-click the error out front panel indicator and select Explain Error from the shortcut menu for more information about the error. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred. code is the error or warning code. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source describes the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning.
	measurements info is an array that returns information about your measurement, mainly warnings for inconsistencies in your input signal. uncertainty is reserved for future use. Warning is TRUE if a warning is generated during processing. comments contains a warning message when Warning is true.

SINAD Analyzer Details

This VI is designed to process a single channel or multiple channels continuously, typically from within a For Loop or a While Loop.

THD Plus Noise is the negative of the SINAD in dB.

Example

Refer to the Basic SINAD Measurement VI in the labview\examples\measure\maxmpl.llb for an example of using the SINAD Analyzer VI.