Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to average a steam

[wolfgang buesser]

Eric Blossom wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:43:23PM +0200, Wolfgang Buesser wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> what is the simplest way to caluclate the average of a stream?
>> 
>> I generate a stream of fixed length using head(). I would like to
>> calculate the linear average (i.e.
>> sum_of_all_samples/number_of_samples).
>> 
>> Thanks
>>      Wolfgang
>> 
> 
> Depending on your exact needs, an IIR filter will do a reasonable job
> of computing a running approximation to the average value of a stream.
> 
> See gr_single_pole_iir_filter_*
> 
>  
> http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/classgr__single__pole__avg__filter__ff.html
>  
> http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/classgr__single__pole__iir__filter__cc.html
> 
> Absent a better idea, start with alpha == 0.001
> 
> Eric
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Hmm,

I would prefer to have the same weight for all samples. So I guess
I am looking for an FIR with N-taps 1/N each, collapsing the whole stream
to just a single value. But I guess really setting up this filter and
picking out the
last output-value would be a rather inefficient way of performing the task.

Wolfgang
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