A novel low-latency, high-speed DDFS architecture

A recent trend in the research of ROM-less DDFS architecture, which is endowed with high speed, low power and high SFDR features and will generate the sine or cosine waveforms within a broad frequency range. In this work one high-speed, low-power, and low-latency (requires 11 clock cycles) pipelined ROM-less DDFS has been proposed and implemented in Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA. The proposed ROM-less DDFS design has 32 bit phase input and 16 bit amplitude resolution with maximum amplitude error of 1.5×10^-4. The FPGA implementation of the proposed design has an SFDR of -94.3 dBc and maximum operation frequency of 276 MHz by consuming only 22 K gate and 1.05 mW/MHz power. The high speed of operation and low power makes the propose design suitable for the use in communication transceiver for the up and down conversion.