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DC Component: I/Solutions To Get Rid of DC Component

There are several methods proposed to remove the DC component from a signal: 1. Take the mean of the signal and subtract it from the signal to center it around zero. 2. Use a Fourier transform to analyze the signal amplitude at zero frequency and remove any offset. 3. For an analog signal, a simple capacitor can be used to block the DC component, or a high pass filter can remove frequencies below the cut-off.

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DC Component: I/Solutions To Get Rid of DC Component

There are several methods proposed to remove the DC component from a signal: 1. Take the mean of the signal and subtract it from the signal to center it around zero. 2. Use a Fourier transform to analyze the signal amplitude at zero frequency and remove any offset. 3. For an analog signal, a simple capacitor can be used to block the DC component, or a high pass filter can remove frequencies below the cut-off.

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DC component

I/Solutions to get rid of DC component:


1-Hard solution:

Block a DC Component : A Simple Capacitor and a DC Servo Circuit?

https://www.eeweb.com/forum/block-a-dc-component-a-simple-capacitor-and-a-dc-servo-circuit

2-Hard solution:

High pass filter (HPF) removing the DC component of the voltage

3-Soft solution:

Removal of DC component means Mean removal from the signal. By doing this we can eliminate the
dc, i.e., 0Hz noise. Here DC component means, the signal positive half cycles average and the
negative half cycle is not zero. if x is the signal then xm=x-mean(x).

->if you data is in form of a matrix, then make sure to remove the entire first row and not just the
first element.

Method 1: Data_without_dc = Data_with_dc - mean (Data_with_dc)

Method 2: Data_fft = fft(Data_with_dc); Data_fft(1) = 0; Data_without_dc = ifft (Data_fft);

4-other proposed solutions:

Capacitive coupling is probably the simplest method.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_coupling#Use_in_analog_circuits 
https://www.elprocus.com/coupling-capacitor-working-and-applications/

Another approach is to use an IA to reject the CM voltage.


http://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/dh-designers-guide-to-instrumentation-amps.htm

II/Details about DC component:


https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/dc-component

https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/what-is-the-dc-component.7210/
* You can use a Fourier Transform to do that. 

Basically, if you already have voltage as a function of time then

where v(t) is the voltage as function of time, and you get your output as V(s), voltage as a function of
's', frequency.
Just analyse the amplitude of this function at s=0, and you'll get your value.

If you don't want to go the analytical way, just get an oscilloscope

Plug your AC source into channel A or B, tweak the horizontal and vertical scales till you get
something legible, or simply press "Autoset". 
Now, press the "Math" button, and using the F1-F5 buttons, choose the "FFT" from available
functions such as add, subtract, multiple, divide etc. (which perform these operations with the two
signals on channel A and B).

You'll just need one channel to run an FFT on.


A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is just a computational algorithm to find out a signal's fourier
transform to an acceptable accuracy.

*In transmission, after line coding, the signal may have zero frequency component in the spectrum of
the signal, which is known as the direct-current (DC) component. DC component in a signal is not
desirable because the DC component does not pass through some components of a communication
system such as a transformer. This leads to distortion of the signal and may create error at the
output. The DC component also results in unwanted energy loss on the line.

-> DC component just means the average of positive and negative half cycles is not zero. There is an
offset. 

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