Upsampling - Rhea

By: Michael Deufel

1. Introduction

The purpose of Upsampling is to manipulate a signal in order to artificially increase the sampling rate. This is done by...

We will overview the whole process but focus on the effect upsampling has in the frequency domain

2. Derivation

We will start with discrete signal $ x_1[n] $

now we "pad with zeros" to define $ x_2[n] $

$ x_2[n] = \begin{cases}x_1[\frac{n}{D}], & \text{if} \frac{n}{D} \in \mathbb{Z} \\0, &\text{else} \end{cases} f $

note: $ D $ must be an integer greater then one

$ x_2[n] $ can also be defined by

$ x_2[n] = \sum_{k} x_1[k] \delta[n-kD] $

Taking the DTFT of $ x_2[n] $

$ X_2(\omega) = \sum_{n} ( \sum_{k} x_1[k] \delta[n-kD]) e^{-j\omega n}) $

switching the order of the summations you can get

$ X_2(\omega)= \sum_{k}x_1[k] ( \sum_{n}\delta[n-kD]) e^{-j\omega n}) $

where,

$ \sum_{n}\delta[n-kD]) e^{-j\omega n} = e^{-j\omega kD} $

therefor,

$ X_2(\omega) = \sum_{k} x_1[k] e^{-j\omega kD} $

This is just the DTFT of the original signal scaled by D

Now LPF with filter that has cutoffs at $ \frac{\pi}{D} $ and $ \frac{- \pi}{D} $ to remove the unwanted repetitions

3. Graphical Example in the Frequency Domain

The first graph shows the signal $ X_1(w) $ which is periodic with period 2\pi

The second graph shows the signal $ X_2(W) $ which is also periodic with period 2\pi but contains unwanted repetitions of the signal

The third graph shows the Final Signal after it has been passed through the LPF to remove the unwanted repetitions

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4. Conclusion