Title
Wideband Digital Downconverters For Synthetic Instrumentation
Keywords
Digital downconverter (DDC); Farrow structure; Polynomial-based filter; Sample rate conversion (SRC); Vector signal analyzer (VSA)
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a new wideband digital downconverter (WDDC) for synthetic instruments (SIs). DDCs first tune to a signal's center frequency using a numerically controlled oscillator and mixer and then zoom-in to the bandwidth of interest using sample rate conversion (SRC). The SRC is required to produce continuously variable output sample rates from a fixed input sample rate over a large range. Current implementations accomplish this using a prefilter, an arbitrary factor resampler, and integer decimation filters. In this paper, we simplify the SRC of the WDDC, yielding a reduction in computational cost by a factor of 3 or more. © 2009 IEEE.
Publication Date
1-1-2009
Publication Title
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Volume
58
Issue
2
Number of Pages
263-269
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2008.2005968
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
60149088791 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/60149088791
STARS Citation
Hunter, Matthew T.; Mikhael, Wasfy B.; and Kourtellis, Achilleas G., "Wideband Digital Downconverters For Synthetic Instrumentation" (2009). Scopus Export 2000s. 12468.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/12468