Plateau Detector

Detects a plateau and marks the middle.

Detect a plateau of a-priori known height. Input is a stream of floats, the output is a stream of bytes. Whenever a plateau is detected, the middle of that plateau is marked with a '1' on the output stream (all other samples are left at zero).

You can use this in a Schmidl & Cox synchronisation algorithm to interpret the output of the normalized correlator. Just pass the length of the cyclic prefix (in samples) as the max_len parameter).

Unlike the peak detectors, you must the now the absolute height of the plateau. Whenever the amplitude exceeds the given threshold, it starts assuming the presence of a plateau.

An implicit hysteresis is provided by the fact that after detecting one plateau, it waits at least max_len samples before the next plateau can be detected.

Parameters

(R): Run-time adjustable

Max plateau length

Maximum length of the plateau

Threshold (R)

Anything above this value is considered a plateau

Example Flowgraph

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Source Files

C++ files

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Header files

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Public header files

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Block definition

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