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Sheetal
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Hello..I'm a university student familiar with the only the basics of
VHDL and FPGA implementation..For my project, I'm trying a make a sine
wave, ramp, triangular and square wave generator which outputs
required wave of required amplitude and required frequency
The FPGA is connected with DAC thru I2C bus..
The development board (nanoboard) has on- board freq of 20 mhz...now the
dac being connected to the I2c bus can work upto max 400 Mhz..so a
suitable clock
divisor has to be implemented ..thus a low frequency can be used as
SCL input to DAC..
a)Now, for the sine and square wave, I'm assuming that we can use the
same look-up table(values ranging from 0 to 256)for the output values
of DAC.for obtaining different frequencies, only the SCL needs to be
changed . i.e.if SCl rate is high, the DAC would output from 0 to 256,
then to 0 at a faster rate, if SCL is low, it would output the same
values, but with some delay. THus, variable frequency can be obtained
by changing SCL rate..am I correct in assuming so?
b)If this is correct, can anyone please tell me the relationship
between SCL and output wave frequency..if such a formula/well defined
relationship does exist
c) Also, can anyone tell me about a good link for a simple tutorial on
implementing look-up table?I did find some on the web, but they all
seemed to be complicated..either because they ARE..or because my mind
has gone all-blank right now, with the submission date coming so
near..
Any help at this time would be hugely appreciated
Kind Regards,
Sheetal
VHDL and FPGA implementation..For my project, I'm trying a make a sine
wave, ramp, triangular and square wave generator which outputs
required wave of required amplitude and required frequency
The FPGA is connected with DAC thru I2C bus..
The development board (nanoboard) has on- board freq of 20 mhz...now the
dac being connected to the I2c bus can work upto max 400 Mhz..so a
suitable clock
divisor has to be implemented ..thus a low frequency can be used as
SCL input to DAC..
a)Now, for the sine and square wave, I'm assuming that we can use the
same look-up table(values ranging from 0 to 256)for the output values
of DAC.for obtaining different frequencies, only the SCL needs to be
changed . i.e.if SCl rate is high, the DAC would output from 0 to 256,
then to 0 at a faster rate, if SCL is low, it would output the same
values, but with some delay. THus, variable frequency can be obtained
by changing SCL rate..am I correct in assuming so?
b)If this is correct, can anyone please tell me the relationship
between SCL and output wave frequency..if such a formula/well defined
relationship does exist
c) Also, can anyone tell me about a good link for a simple tutorial on
implementing look-up table?I did find some on the web, but they all
seemed to be complicated..either because they ARE..or because my mind
has gone all-blank right now, with the submission date coming so
near..
Any help at this time would be hugely appreciated
Kind Regards,
Sheetal