Using FPGA to implement a n-channel arbitrary waveform generator with various add-on functions

Author

Hsieh, Jen-Wei ; Tsai, Guo-Ruey ; Lin, Min-Chum

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Kun-Shan Univ. of Technol., Yun-Kan, Taiwan

fYear

2003

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

296

Lastpage

298

Abstract

This paper is a prototype design example to demonstrate the method to implement a PC/FPGA_based n-channel arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) with add-on functions. Any arbitrary waveforms described by mathematical equations or piecewise-linear functions from the PC platform can be generated by FPGA/DDS technique. With USB interface, we can provide flexible n-channel waveform outputs. Add-on functions can be added by implementing specified control codes. Adopting 50 MHz clock frequency and 32-b phase accumulator word length, we have a 0.01164 Hz frequency resolution.

Keywords

direct digital synthesis; field programmable gate arrays; function generators; microcomputers; piecewise linear techniques; 0.01164 Hz; 32 bit; 50 MHz; AWG; FPGA/DDS technique; PC platform; PC/FPGA; USB interface; add-on functions; control codes; direct digital synthesis; direct digital synthesizer; field programmable gate arrays; frequency resolution; n-channel arbitrary waveform generator; n-channel waveform outputs; personal computers; phase accumulator word length; piecewise linear functions; prototype design; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Frequency; Instruments; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Signal generators; Signal resolution; Synthesizers; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8320-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPT.2003.1275761

Filename

1275761