Compressive circulant matrix based analog to information conversion

Compressive Sampling is an attractive way implementing analog to information conversion (AIC), of which the most successful hardware architecture is modulated wideband converter (MWC). Unfortunately, the MWC has high hardware complexity owing to high degree of freedom of the random waveforms constructing the measurement matrix. To reduce the complexity, in this letter, we present a novel Compressive Circulant Matrix based AIC (CCM-AIC) generating random waveforms by cyclic shift of a special sequence with unit amplitude and random phase in frequency domain. Theoretical analysis shows this scheme is optimal for signals sparse in frequency. CCM-AIC outperforms MWC and is more robust. Simulations classify the above analysis.