[time-nuts] spur prediction DDS software

Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Sun Jan 30 19:36:25 UTC 2011


Bruce Griffiths wrote:
> Bruce Griffiths wrote:
>> Magnus Danielson wrote:
>>> On 27/01/11 14:33, jimlux wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> A problem with using a 2^(n-1) < N < 2^n is that the phase-sequence 
>>> will run short compared to the usual binary bits taken from the top 
>>> of the DDS, so this will needs to be handled. It takes some extra 
>>> tricks to avoid the phase-jump and hence sawtooth phase modulation.
>>
>> The AD9913 (when operating in the variable modulus mode) merely adds 
>> an extra 1 (lsb) to the main accumulator whenever the auxiliary 
>> (variable modulus) accumulator overflows.
>> Thus to avoid phase modulation of the output the combined result of 
>> the 2 accumulators has to result in the main accumulator always 
>> having zeros in the lower b-p bits where p is the width of the 
>> truncated phase word and b is the width of the main accumulator.
>>
> More precisely the phase truncation error must be constant (ie the 
> phase truncation error, the least significant b-p bits of the main 
> accumulator should always have the same value).
> This requires that the auxiliary accumulator overflow every cycle and 
> the ls p-b bits of the main frequency tuning word have the value 
> 2^(p-b) -1.
And the auxiliary accumulator needs to overflow on every cycle (if thats 
possible).
> ie using the auxiliary accumulator doesnt add any extra phase 
> truncation spur free frequencies compared to those available when only 
> the main accumulator is used.
> Thus although using the auxiliary accumulator may allow frequencies 
> like 10MHz - 10Hz to be generated from a 100MHz DDS clock they will 
> not be phase truncation spur free.
>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Magnus
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>> Bruce
>>
Bruce




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