Digital synthesizer

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1997-08-04

1999-11-02

Le, Dinh T.

Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and

Signal converting, shaping, or generating

Synthesizer

327105, 327106, 364718, H03B 1900

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059778040

ABSTRACT:
The invention concerns a method and apparatus to synthesize a frequency employing digital phase words to represent successive phase values. A digital dither signal generator is used to generate a succession of dither words which are summed with the phase words to form address words. The address words are used to address a store to convert the address words to waveform values. The periodic quantisation noise introduced by the digital process is made more random by means of the dither words thereby reducing the quantisation noise components while accepting an increased total noise power. The synthesizer is of particular advantage when used to generate the reference frequency for a frequency multiplier implemented as a phase lock loop. By making the dither sequence repetition frequency outside the phase lock loop bandwidth, the spurious components are removed from the frequency range of interest.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4901265 (1990-02-01), Kerr et al.

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