A Technical Tutorial on Digital Signal Synthesis, Ken Gentile and Rick Cushing, Analog Devices, 1999.

This tutorial provides an excellent treatment of the theoretical and practical aspects of direct digital synthesis (DDS) and is written for the practicing engineer. A number of applications are described including frequency/phase hopping, clock generation, and digital modulation.

The Technical Tutorial on Digital Signal Synthesis is available for download:

• Outline (pdf)
• Section 1: Fundamentals of DDS Technology (pdf)
• Section 2: Understanding the Sampled Output of a DDS Output (pdf)
• Section 3: Frequency/phase-hopping Capability of DDS (pdf)
• Section 4: The DDS Output Spectrum (pdf)
• Section 5: High-speed Reference Clock Considerations (pdf)
• Section 6: Interfacing to the DDS Output (pdf)
• Section 7: DDS as a Clock Generator (pdf)
• Section 8: Replacing/Integrating a PLL with a DDS Solution (pdf)
• Section 9: Digital Modulator Application of DDS (pdf)
• Section 10: Using Aliased Images to Generate Nyquist Frequencies from a DDS (pdf)
• Section 11: Ancillary DDS Techniques, Features, and Functions (pdf)
• Section 12: Techniques for Bench Evaluation of a DDS Solution (pdf)
• Section 13: Integrating DDS-based Hardware into a System Environment (pdf)
• Section 14: DDS Product Selection Guide (pdf)
• Appendices: Glossary, Acronyms, Pseudo Random Generator, Jitter Reduction (pdf)
• A Technical Tutorial on Digital Signal Synthesis – pdf file of entire tutorial