[time-nuts] DDS - higher frequecies
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Nov 26 00:30:52 UTC 2012
Suppose I have an A/D running at 1 MHz. The standard simple minded approach
is that it will work for any input signal with a bandwidth up to 1/2 MHz. We
usually think of that in the baseband, but it also works for, say 1.25 to
1.5 MHz. The input signal gets aliased down into the baseband. (and if you
are unlucky, which is easy, some of the aliasing reflects back and overlaps
so you can't tell X-y from X+y)
There is similar math for D/A, the reverse direction. I think this applies
for a DDS making higher frequencies than simple arithmetic would allow it to
generate.
Does anybody have a good web page for how that works? My simple expectations
are that it would have to generate lots of harmonics and then go through a
filter to get rid of all the wrong stuff. I'm missing the step where all the
harmonics come from.
Are they just really tiny and I have to do a lot of good filtering and
amplification?
Do I need something other than a traditional DDS for this sort of stuff?
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