Best Approach on How To Sample and Process I'm looking for some advice, I am hoping one of the many forum experts could help me with some advice on the sampling and processing of signals. I am using an STM32F4 processor with 12 bit ADC and DSP core. Presently, I can use either CMSIS DSP or Siglib libraries. Here's a point description of the problem space:

I can sample at whatever rate is required: in front of the ADC is a 10th order analog amplifier and LPF, Fc = 55Hz. Amplifier can be set to provide ideal ADC range of 3Vpp

Sinusoidal incoming signals are in the range of 10Hz to 40Hz that can be set for any duration in time. Ideally, in the range of 200ms to 300ms (can be changed)

In between these tones, there is dead space of (ideally) 50ms to 100ms (can be changed)

There would be a series of these tones with a total time of about 4, or possibly 5 seconds (can be processed after last signal arrives, ideally real-time)

I need the best amplitude and frequency accuracy possible, ideally about 2dB and 0.5Hz. The environment is noisy, but incoming signals can be kept 20dB over noise.

I am not looking for a code handout. Just a best approach algorithm and ideally some specifics such as sampling rate (is decimation required), buffer size, to use overlap-add/sliding window, signal processing chain - FIR required (how many taps), FFT method/size?

It may not be complex to many of you, but I haven't finished all the theory I need to try an implementation without spending a long time,(I have all the books but there's a lot of reading yet!) and the problem requires me to try for a solution now.

Thank you for your help!
Roger
As I understand, you want to sample a noisy tone signal at 20dB SNR and in 10Hz-40Hz range with best possible amplitude and frequency accuracy using 12 bit ADC of STM32F4 ARM+DSP chip. 

To get the most frequency accuracy you need more samples to be buffered and large FFt sizes for a given samplig rate Fs. This is for frequencies on a given range.

Using high sampling rate (oversampling) may be advantageous for increased SNRQ. See Sigma-Delta converters and Noise shapers for details.

Size of FIR filters: As again it is a direct compromise between computing power and processing quality. STM32F4 is quite powerful chip at 168 Mhz operating frequency and 32 bit FPU.

For FFT, you can write your own code if you have time. I can provide you a butterfly implementation. Or you better use it from some free library.

You should select long fft sizes for better frequency resolution.

please have a look at this document: http://support.ircam.fr/docs/AudioSculpt/3.0/co/Window%20Size.html