12 Bit Accumulator for Direct Digital Synthesizer

Direct Digital Synthesizers(DDSs) are widely used in applications such as radios, instrumentation and radar systems.They are known for their highly accurate digital tuning,low noise figure, and phase-continuous frequency-hopping capabilities. The basic components in the layout consists of a 12 Bit Pipelined Accumulator,a ROM Pointer , a 256 Bit ROM and a 10 Bit DAC.The 12 Bit Accumulator which I have designed is made up of three pipelined 4 bit Accumulators.The accumulator is designed to operate at a clock frequency of 50 Mz with inputs varying from 000h to FFFh.The output of the DDS chip is a sinusoidal wave having a frequency of 25Mz and a peak to peak voltage of 1.7V.

(Fig.1) The Layout of 12 Bit Pipelined Accumulator

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