Title :
Digital spectra of nonuniformly sampled signals. II. Digital look-up tunable sinusoidal oscillators
Author_Institution :
Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, OR, USA
fDate :
9/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
For Part I see ibid., vol.37, no.2, June 1988. The author presents theories and applications of a digital spectrum analysis technique for a class of nonuniformly sampled signals. The structure of the harmonic components present in a digitally synthesized sine wave is analyzed using a table look-up method. The digital table look-up method offers several desirable features, such as high-frequency stability and precision control of both the frequency and the phase of the generated sine wave. However, undesirable spurious harmonic components are generated when one tries to tune to different frequencies by manipulating the memory-addressing mechanism rather than loading a new waveform sample into the waveform memory, which is generally time-consuming and sometimes infeasible. The frequencies, amplitudes, and phrases of all the spurious harmonic components are derived in closed form
Keywords :
circuit analysis computing; computerised signal processing; oscillators; spectral analysis; table lookup; computerised signal processing; digital spectrum analysis; digitally synthesized sine wave; memory-addressing mechanism; nonuniformly sampled signals; spurious harmonic components; table look-up method; tunable sinusoidal oscillators; Clocks; Frequency synthesizers; Harmonic analysis; Harmonic distortion; Oscillators; Signal analysis; Signal synthesis; Signal to noise ratio; Silicon compounds; Upper bound;
Journal_Title :
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on