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News Release from: Analog Devices | Subject: AD9910 DDS and AD9957 QDUC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 December 2006
DDS ICs integrate 14bit DACs
Targeting high-speed communications, instrumentation and military applications, GSPS DDS ICs with integrated 14bit DACs offer improved dynamic performance.
Targeting high-speed communications, instrumentation and military applications, GSPS DDS ICs with integrated 14bit DACs offer improved dynamic performance Analog Devices has more than doubled the clock speed of direct digital synthesiser (DDS) integrated circuits (ICs) with on-chip 14bit digital-to-analog convertors (DACs)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The industry leader in developing advanced DDS solutions, ADI's DDS ICs use digital technology to synthesise analogue waveforms, used in a wide range of frequency agile applications, such as wireless base stations, military and commercial radar, test equipment and secure communications systems.
The AD9910 and AD9957 are the first DDS devices to achieve speeds of 1Gsample/s, while lowering power consumption by more than 50 percent, ensuring the DDS ICs meet the requirements of a broad range of communications, instrumentation and defence applications.
The 1Gsample/s operating speed combined with the 14bit DAC resolution of the AD9910 DDS allows communications, defence and instrumentation system engineers to improve dynamic performance for output frequencies to 400MHz.
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For wireless and wired systems, the AD9957 DDS modulator or quadrature digital upconvertor (QDUC) simplifies data transmission by offering real outputs up to intermediate frequencies of 400MHz.
"Increasing clock speeds to 1Gsample/s on high-resolution DDS ICs allows our customers to generate higher output frequencies with improved dynamic performance," said Kevin Kattmann, product line director, High Speed Signal Processing Group, Analog Devices.
"The new DDS products represent a significant step forward, providing 8 to 12dB better spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) when compared to previous generations".
"By improving SFDR and reducing the DDS core power consumption, ADI continues to expand the number of markets that can take advantage of digital synthesis solutions".
The AD9910 and AD9957 are the first devices developed on a new, low-power DDS core that consumes only one-tenth the power of previous generation cores.
Patented technology licensed from Pentomics, a California-based company that specialises in circuit design and signal processing for digital communications, was instrumental in helping reduce core power consumption.
DDS circuit designers at ADI utilised Pentomics' Star DDS Designer software and Star DDS analyser software tools in the design and analysis of DDS cores to help ensure the most efficient DDS chip design for a given application.
In conjunction with these software tools, ADI has also licensed "A System for Analysis and Design of Direct Digital Frequency synthesisers" and "Method and Apparatus for Improved Direct Digital Frequency synthesiser" patents from Pentomics.
Featuring a 16bit parallel port with update rates to 250MHz, the AD9910 digital synthesiser allows designers to update a 32bit frequency tuning word every 8ns.
This fast programming capability benefits applications requiring extremely fast changes in frequency or phase, such as high-speed waveform generators, frequency hopping synthesisers, secure communications, and a variety of radar and scanning systems.
The AD9910's 14bit DAC resolution and 1Gsample/s clock rate translate into improved SFDR and phase noise performance across all these applications.
In addition, the AD9910 offers a 70 percent reduction in power dissipation when compared to existing solutions, consuming just 700mW at full operating speed.
The enhanced on-chip reference clock multiplier reduces system cost by generating the internal 1Gsample/s clock from a low frequency, low cost external source.
Additional features added to the DDS core include: a secondary accumulator for linear sweeping of frequency, phase or amplitude; RAM for user defined non-linear sweeping; and circuitry easing synchronisation if multiple devices are needed in a single system.
The newest member of ADI's portfolio of DDS devices, the AD9910 may be combined with the new ADCMP60x comparators or AD951x clock dividers, to generate programmable high-speed, low-jitter clock solutions.
ADI's ADIsimDDS online evaluation tool assists users in selecting, evaluating and troubleshooting ADI's DDS ICs.
Designed with flexibility in mind for a broad range of applications, the AD9910 is priced at $35 per unit in 1000-piece quantities.
The AD9957 QDUC integrates a high-speed DDS, a 14bit DAC, clock multiplier circuitry and digital filters on a single chip, enabling uncomplicated, cost-effective baseband up-conversion for data transmission in wired or wireless communications infrastructure systems, including WiMAX applications.
The QDUC achieves greater than 50 percent power reduction (1.3W at 1Gsample/s) over existing QDUCs and operates by receiving an interleaved I/Q data stream, interpolating it, and synthesising the desired signal for transmission when clocked at the same rate.
The 1Gsample/s numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) and DAC allow the AD9957 to provide direct outputs up to 400MHz, eliminating some up-conversion stages and enabling less stringent filter requirements.
The low-noise, on-chip reference clock multiplier allows for the use of low cost, low frequency sources for the system clock, while still delivering excellent dynamic performance.
The AD9957 also supports test vectors, and amplitude ramping capability.
The latest addition to ADI's family of DDS modulators, the AD9957 QDUC together with ADI's portfolio of TxDAC+ transmit digital-to-analog convertors, offers wireless infrastructure systems engineers a wide range of solutions for transmit path designs.
The user interface to the control functions of the AD9957 includes a serial port easily configured to work with ADI's Blackfin processors.
The AD9957, which is optimised for communications applications, is priced at $21 per unit in 1000-piece quantities.
The AD9910 DDS and AD9957 QDUC are sampling now with full-production quantities available in February 2007, and are packaged in 100-lead thin quad flat packs (TQFP).
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