I want to get the fundamental frequency of a signal. I used a time domain approach first. It just sums up the differences between the signal (lets say 2048 samples) and the delayed version of the same signal. I think it's not quite what autocorrelation does because I don't pad the signal with zeros or do circular convolution. Instead, I just accessed older samples. So when compairing the signals with 1 sample delay, I check samples 1 to 2048, for a 5 sample delay I check samples 5 to 2053 and so on. For the full 2048 sample delay, I check 2048 to 4096. This works our really well because I just need the delay where the difference is the lowest. That might not be the fundamental but haveing a closer match is more important for my actual usecase. (writing an oscilloscope)
I ran into performance issues, so I wanted to use FFT instead of the time domain approach. However, I've noticed that because of the zero padding of the signa, I get some kind of triangle window. I guess what would be the equivalent in the time domain approach is using zeros instead of older samples in the delayed signal. (I've attached a screen from Matlab)
My question is if there is some way to use FFT for processing but to get rid of this "triangle window" effect. Or in other words: Is there a way to implement my time domain approach using FFT?
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