Thursday, April 4, 2019

Can addition of two band limited signals create aliasing?


Can mixing/adding two band-limited signals create any frequencies above Nyquist?



Answer



Ideally no, adding 2 signals should result as a simple sum.


provided you don’t clip


DSP systems have finite dynamic range. A double float has a very large dynamic range so it is not usually a consideration.


Fixed point arithmetic has uniform quantization but the finite dynamic range requires attention.


Floating point is not a uniform quantization, so arithmetic also introduce rounding, which are discontinuous on small scales.


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