THEMIS-C: Probe Electric Field Instrument and Search Coil Magnetometer Instrument, Digital Fields Board - digitally computed Filter Bank spectra and E12 peak and average in HF band (FBK).

The process runs through 12 cascades for input at 8,192 samples/s and 13 for input at 16,384 samples/sec (EAC input only), reducing the signal and computing power by a factor 2 at each cascade. At each cascade a set of data is produced at a sampling frequency of 2^n from 2 Hz to the initial sampling frequency (frequency characteristics for each step are shown below in Table 1). The average from the Filter Bank is compressed to 8 bits with a pseudo-logarithmic encoder.

The data is stored in sets of six frequency bins at 2.689 kHz, 572 Hz, 144.2 Hz, 36.2 Hz, 9.05 Hz, and 2.26 Hz. The average of the coupled E12HF signal and it's peak value are recorded over 62.5 ms windows (i.e. a 16 Hz sampling rate). Accumulation of values from signal 31.25 ms windows is performed externally.

The analog signals fed into the FBK are E12DC and SCM1. Sensor and electronics design provided by UCB (J. W. Bonnell, F. S. Mozer), Digital Fields Board provided by LASP (R. Ergun), Search coil data provided by CETP (A. Roux). Table 1: Frequency Properties.

Cascade Frequency content of Input Signal Low-pass Filter Cutoff Frequency Freuency Content of Low-pass Output Signal Filter Bank Frequency Band 0* 0 - 8 kHz 4 kHz 0 - 4 kHz 4 - 8 kHz 1 0 - 4 kHz 2 kHz 0 - 2 kHz 2 - 4 kHz 2 0 - 2 kHz 1 kHz 0 - 1 kHz 1 - 2 kHz 3 0 - 1 kHz 512 Hz 0 - 512 Hz 512 Hz - 1 kHz 4 0 - 512 Hz 256 Hz 0 - 256 Hz 256 - 512 Hz 5 0 - 256 Hz 128 Hz 0 - 128 Hz 128 - 256 Hz 6 0 - 128 Hz 64 Hz 0 - 64 Hz 64 - 128 Hz 7 0 - 64 Hz 32 Hz 0 - 32 Hz 32 - 64 Hz 8 0 - 32 Hz 16 Hz 0 - 16 Hz 16 - 32 Hz 9 0 - 16 Hz 8 Hz 0 - 8 Hz 8 - 16 Hz 10 0 - 8 Hz 4 Hz 0 - 4 Hz 4 - 8 Hz 11 0 - 4 Hz 2 Hz 0 - 2 Hz 2 - 4 Hz 12 0 - 2 Hz 1 Hz 0 - 1 Hz 1 - 2 Hz *Only available for 16,384 Hz sampling.