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

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