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SultanSh
SultanSh

Reputation: 103

Generating a pure sine wave as output form FPGA using VHDL code

We know that the output of an FPGA is digital but can we genrate a pure analog sine wave using a vhdl code. also can I specify the frequency of the sine wav.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 15184

Answers (5)

Priya Ambekr
Priya Ambekr

Reputation: 1

library IEEE;

use IEEE.STD_LOGIC_1164.ALL;

use IEEE.NUMERIC_STD.ALL;  
-- use this library as much as possible.

entity sinewave is

port (clk :in  std_logic;

      dataout : out real range -1.0 to 1.0);

end sinewave;

architecture Behavioral of sinewave is

signal i : integer range 0 to 77:=0;

type memory_type is array (0 to 71) of real range  -1.0000 to 1.0000 ;

--ROM for storing the sine values generated.

signal temp : memory_type :=(0.0,0.0872, 0.1736, 0.2588, 0.3420, 0.4226, 0.5000, 0.5736, 0.6428, 0.7071, 0.7660, 
                             0.8191, 0.8660, 0.9063, 0.9397, 0.9659, 0.9848, 0.9962, 1.0000,0.9962,0.9848,0.9659,
                             0.9397, 0.9063, 0.8660, 0.8191, 0.7660, 0.7071, 0.6428, 0.5000, 0.4226, 0.3420, 0.2588, 
                             0.1736, 0.0872,0.0, 0.0,-0.0872,-0.1736, -0.2588, -0.3420,-0.4226, -0.5000, -0.5736, 
                            -0.6428, -0.7071, -0.7660, -0.8191, -0.8660, -0.9063, -0.9397, -0.9659, -0.9848, -0.9962, 
                            -1.0000,-0.9962,-0.9848,-0.9659,-0.9397, -0.9063, -0.8660, -0.8191, 
                            -0.766, -0.7071, -0.6428, -0.5000, -0.4226, -0.3420, -0.2588, -0.1736, -0.0872,0.0);


begin

process(clk)

begin

  --to check the rising edge of the clock signal

if(rising_edge(clk)) then    

dataout <= temp(i);

i <= i+ 1;

if(i = 71) then

i <= 0;

end if;

end if;

end process;

end Behavioral;

Solve this implementation It shows error than constant value expected for expression 1.000

Upvotes: 0

Aditya
Aditya

Reputation: 53

The Method of generating Pure Sine waves from a previously stored samples in memory & reading the memory at varying rate / memory locations to change the frequency and or the spectral purity of the sine wave is called Direct Digital Synthesis.

This allows you to generate wide range of sine freq's with the required spectral purity. Useful in Mobiles & Software Defined Radio's & any other similar application. DDS ASIC's are also available but are usually expensive.

FPGA's are cheaper alternative. FPGA can only generate the required Digital output , but the analog singal cant be generated without a filter or a DAC & some basic filtering.

Most FPGA vendors have a free DDS IP Core with their IDE (Integrated Dev Environment). Checkout Actel/ Xilinx / Altera IP's. They're free. If you cannot manage to get an IP, you can pull a DDS function block in Matlab & utilize a 3rd party tool .. (available with all three above vendors) to synthesize a DDS via Matlab Interface . DDS is sometimes also known as DDFS : Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis.

Upvotes: 1

user450766
user450766

Reputation: 133

You can look into Direct Digital Synthesis. It basically uses a ROM to store the sine samples and uses a phase accumulator to index into the ROM to generate the output signal with the desired frequency. Resolution and maximum frequency is bound by the fpga clock and the ROM size.

You still need an anlog reconstruction filter, though.

Upvotes: 1

Ben Voigt
Ben Voigt

Reputation: 283733

Except for a very few mixed-signal models (e.g. some Actel products), FPGAs do not have the components for the required analog reconstruction filter. They would have to be added on the outside.

Upvotes: 0

Martin Thompson
Martin Thompson

Reputation: 16822

Define "pure" - how many "bits" of quantisation can you live with... and what frequency?

For lowish frequencies at lowish bits you could build a simple PWM or delta-sigma DAC in the FPGA and put a low-pass filter on the "outside" (sorry, that'll have to be real analogue hardware :) . This example may be informative

Not going to get there without some external componentry though.

Upvotes: 2

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