command or code for detecting zero crossing points in a signal

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please suggest any command or code for detecting zero crossing points in a signal

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David Young
David Young on 29 Dec 2015
You can use logical tests to find the indices between which the signal changes sign. Then you need to interpolate if you want to estimate the cross point more accurately. If linear interpolation is sufficient and your samples are equally spaced in time, you can do this:
% test signal
x = [-1 -1 2 2 3 -4 -1 1];
% upward zero-crossings to nearest time step
upcross = find(x(1:end-1) <= 0 & x(2:end) > 0);
% interpolate
upcross = upcross - x(upcross) ./ (x(upcross+1)-x(upcross));
% downward zero-crossings
downcross = find(x(1:end-1) >= 0 & x(2:end) < 0);
downcross = downcross - x(downcross) ./ (x(downcross+1)-x(downcross));

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