FFT megacore

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I'm confused about the Real and Imag. inputs to the fft megacore.  

For a streaming FFT architecture accepting its input from an ADC:  -should I set the Imaginary input to zero and connect the ADC to the real input? -should I write a program to separate the real and imaginary components of the input? Thanks for any help! -Sam

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Hello, 

 If your ADC provides you two signals (I and Q component), put the I to the real input and the Q to the imag input of the FFT. If your ADC provides you only one signal, put it on the real input of the FFT and set the imag input to zero (remember that a real signal is in fact a complex signal with the imaginary part equal to zero !).  Jérôme

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Thank you!