# Splitting a vector at the output of the FFT **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [March 18, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/splitting-a-vector-at-the-output-of-the-fft/234630 "2015-03-18T16:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![addis\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@addis\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/addis_a)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/splitting-a-vector-at-the-output-of-the-fft/234630/1 "2015-03-18T16:32:46Z")
Hello GNUR’s! I am a newbie in this community so I may pose a very simple question… I am trying to split via GUI the output vector of the FFT block in two halves, one with the upper part and one with the lower part -i.e. I don’t want a duplicate of the output vector-. Say I have a FFT of 1024 points, how do I split the output into the first 512 points and the final 512 points? This leads me to the related question of how is the FFT implemented: is the DC component coming first and then the positive part of the spectrum with fftSize/2 samples to be finally followed by fftSize/2-1 of the negative part? Or is it some other way? Moreover, is it normalized by the number of points? Thank you very much. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Pascual\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Alejandro\_Pascual\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alejandro_Pascual_L)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/splitting-a-vector-at-the-output-of-the-fft/234630/2 "2015-03-18T16:54:55Z")
Hi Alejandro, are you sure you want to use the FFT sinks? They basically “just” internally put the sample stream into vectors of fftlen length, then calculate the dB(abs(fft(these vectors))), and display the result. What you’re describing sounds more like you’d want to use the standalone, not-graphical-sink FFT block. The FFT is defined as most of the time in DSP: each bin corresponds to a specific exponent in the complex exponential function, ie. e^(j_n\_bin_omega); compare [1]. Greetings, Marcus [1] > **[The 1d Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) (FFTW 3.3.10)](http://www.fftw.org/doc/The-1d-Discrete-Fourier-Transform-_0028DFT_0029.html#The-1d-Discrete-Fourier-Transform-_0028DFT_0029)** > > The 1d Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) (FFTW 3.3.10) ---
**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Pascual\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Alejandro\_Pascual\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alejandro_Pascual_L)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/splitting-a-vector-at-the-output-of-the-fft/234630/3 "2015-03-20T16:12:06Z")
Thanks for the quick reply! When I said splitting in the GUI I meant using the flowgraph (instead of digging into the code) not using the sink FFT. As you say, I am using the standalone block for the FFT and I want to split its output. Is there any block to do so or any kind of snippet of code to add in the fields of the parameters of the subsequent blocks? Regarding the FFT output now it is much more clear having the actual implementation info. However, prior to this conversation I remember I used at the output of the FFT block a vector sink and, interestingly enough, I saw for a constant source a bin in the middle of the plot (at index fftSize/2) and when using a cosine with a certain frequency, the spectrum shifted right but nothing showed up in the “negative” frequencies. I’ll take a look at it again. Again, thank you for your time. Regards, Alejandro ---
**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Pascual\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Alejandro\_Pascual\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alejandro_Pascual_L)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/splitting-a-vector-at-the-output-of-the-fft/234630/4 "2015-03-21T16:34:21Z")
Hello again, I still couldn’t figure out how to find a way to split a vector in the flowgraph (instead of digging into the code). I am using the standalone block for the FFT and I want to split its output in halves, meaning at the output of a FFT sized fftSize I want a vector (size fftSize/2) with the upper half and a vector (size fftSize/2) with the lower half. Is there any block to do so or any kind of snippet of code to add in the fields of the parameters of the subsequent blocks? Thank you and best regards, Alejandro ---
**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Pascual\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Alejandro\_Pascual\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Alejandro_Pascual_L)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/splitting-a-vector-at-the-output-of-the-fft/234630/5 "2015-03-21T17:06:19Z")
Hi Alejandro, what about vector to stream, and a deinterleave with block size = fftlen/2 ? Greetings Marcus