FFT_SERIAL is a MATLAB program which demonstrates the computation of a Fast Fourier Transform.
This implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform does not run efficiently with MATLAB. However, we can still compute some interesting statistics about the time, the computational rate, and so on.
On an Apple PowerPC G5 with two processors, the following results were observed:
| N | Iterations | Time | Time/Call | MegaFLOPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 10,000 | 1.132 | 5.6e-05 | 0.176 |
| 4 | 10,000 | 2.264 | 1.1e-04 | 0.353 |
| 8 | 10,000 | 3.458 | 1.7e-04 | 0.693 |
| 16 | 10,000 | 6.064 | 3.0e-04 | 1.055 |
| 32 | 1,000 | 1.066 | 5.3e-04 | 1.499 |
| 64 | 1,000 | 2.326 | 1.1e-03 | 1.650 |
| 128 | 1,000 | 5.122 | 2.5e-03 | 1.749 |
| 256 | 1,000 | 11.959 | 5.9e-03 | 1.712 |
| 512 | 100 | 2.932 | 1.4e-02 | 1.571 |
| 1024 | 100 | 19.697 | 9.8e-02 | 0.519 |
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.
FFT_SERIAL is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.
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