How to use the fast fourier transform to calculate the output of a transfer function?

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Hi, I have to calculate Y=X*H in the frequency domain and then taking it back in the time domain. I was trying to do it so:
X = fft(x);
H = ones(1, B);
Y = X*H;
y = ifft(Y);
The issue is that X is a 100x1 colummn vector, H is a 1x100 row vector, and so y is 100x100 matrix while I'd want a vector also for the output. What should I do?

Accepted Answer

Honglei Chen
Honglei Chen on 26 Jul 2016
I assume your X, H, and Y are all in frequency domain? In that case, your H has to match the size of X and it should be a element wise multiplication, not a matrix multiplication, so you need to use .* instead of *. For example,
X = fft(x);
H = ones(size(X));
Y = X.*H;
y = ifft(y);
HTH

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