FC130 – Digital Down Converter

This highly optimized core is designed for an OEM customer targeting Sundance DSP’s DSP464 , a 4 channel ADC PMC/XMC module with an SX95T FPGA. The digitized data for all 4 channels go through four DDC cores and after certain other operation are passed to a device in real-time. The whole capture and processing is continuous and without loss of any data frames.

The DDC core can be supplied as VHDL or as a Diamond FPGA task, which could be used in conjunction with other cores from Sundance DSP or third parties.

Features

  1. input resolution: 16 b
  2. Input sample rate: 81.92MHz or as specified by the application
  3. DDS frequency resolution: 0.3Hz, runtime-selectable
  4. SFDR: >=84dB
  5. Decimation: 16x fixed, performed with cascaded CIC and Polyphase FIR filters
  6. Passband Ripple < 0.2dBpp
  7. Passband width: TBD, >= 0.4 x output sample rate
  8. Stopband attenuation, >75dB
  9. Stopband frequency: as specified by application
  10. Gain: 8 power-of-2 steps, runtime-adjustable, between CIC and p-FIR
  11. Rounding: bias-free convergent
  12. Output resolution: 16b complex samples (16b I + 16b Q)

FC130-DDC is a complete module that includes:

  • Netlist file, or VHDL source code available for additional charge
  • 3L Diamond/FPGA integration support (.fcd, _pkg.vhd files) and example implementations
  • VHDL testbench (requires Active-HDL or equivalent simulation environment)
  • User’s Guide
  • C Simulation Model (available on request)
  • MATLAB Simulation Model and PARS model under Simulink (available on request)