Chirp

 

A chirp signal is a sinusoid whose frequency changes linearly from an initial value to a target one. The Chirp block outputs a chirp signal by the following equation.

 

 

where,

 

t is the simulation time.

y is the output.

 

Dialog box

Figure 1  Chirp dialog box

 

Parameters

Parameter(s)

Description

Initial Frequency

finitial

Enter the Initial frequency of the signal.

Target Time

ttarget

Enter the Time at which the frequency of the signal reaches ftarget.

Frequency at Target Time

ftarget

Enter the Frequency of the signal at the target time.