Signal Processing

Sampling Calculator

Plan sampling and see when a continuous signal becomes an alias.

Sampling setup

Nyquist frequency
Samples / period
Record duration
FFT resolution
Alias frequency
FFT size for target
Original signalSamplesApparent alias

Nyquist is the lower limit

A sinusoid must be sampled above twice its frequency to avoid an ambiguous representation. Real acquisition systems need additional transition bandwidth for their anti-aliasing filter, so exactly two samples per period is not a practical design target.