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15 years agoHow to make DDS with NCO megacore function?
I try to make square wave with NCO Megacore Function as below. But, The square wave is not good for use like dds. How to make square wave like ad9850 dds ----- below is VHDL Code -------...
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15 years ago --- Quote Start --- But, The square wave is not good for use like dds. --- Quote End --- In which regard it's "not good"? Waste of resource can be avoided, if you design a simple fractional frequency divider, following the DDS phase accumulator principle. But it's output will be time discrete, only switching at the input clock edge. In other words, it has a jitter. If you intend an analog timing interpolation, as provided by the comparator output of the said DDS chips, you can't avoid the complete DDS effort, the sine DAC, analog filter and cocmparator.