fft_filter_fff.h

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#ifndef INCLUDED_FILTER_FFT_FILTER_FFF_H
#define INCLUDED_FILTER_FFT_FILTER_FFF_H

#include <gnuradio/filter/api.h>
#include <gnuradio/sync_decimator.h>

namespace gr {
  namespace filter {

    /*!
     * \brief Fast FFT filter with float input, float output and float taps
     * \ingroup filter_blk
     *
     * \details
     * This block implements a real-value decimating filter using the
     * fast convolution method via an FFT. The decimation factor is an
     * interger that is greater than or equal to 1.
     *
     * The filter takes a set of real-valued taps to use in the
     * filtering operation. These taps can be defined as anything that
     * satisfies the user's filtering needs. For standard filters such
     * as lowpass, highpass, bandpass, etc., the filter.firdes and
     * filter.optfir classes provide convenient generating methods.
     *
     * This filter is implemented by using the FFTW package to perform
     * the required FFTs. An optional argument, nthreads, may be
     * passed to the constructor (or set using the set_nthreads member
     * function) to split the FFT among N number of threads. This can
     * improve performance on very large FFTs (that is, if the number
     * of taps used is very large) if you have enough threads/cores to
     * support it.
     */
    class FILTER_API fft_filter_fff : virtual public sync_decimator
    {
    public:
      // gr::filter::fft_filter_fff::sptr
      typedef boost::shared_ptr<fft_filter_fff> sptr;

      /*!
       * Build an FFT filter block.
       * 
       * \param decimation  >= 1
       * \param taps        float filter taps
       * \param nthreads    number of threads for the FFT to use
       */
      static sptr make(int decimation,
                       const std::vector<float> &taps,
                       int nthreads=1);

      virtual void set_taps(const std::vector<float> &taps) = 0;
      virtual std::vector<float> taps() const = 0;

      /*!
       * \brief Set number of threads to use.
       */
      virtual void set_nthreads(int n) = 0;

      /*!
       * \brief Get number of threads being used.
       */
      virtual int nthreads() const = 0;
    };

  } /* namespace filter */
} /* namespace gr */

#endif /* INCLUDED_FILTER_FFT_FILTER_FFF_H */