Frequency Swept Source using Xilinx DDS Compiler

Frequency Swept Source using Xilinx DDS compiling programAbstract This paper presents a module which basically is a relative frequency brush source (chirp signal), which sweeps from 1MHz to 10 MHz in 10 microseconds. The module was designed by using the DDS IP core in Xilinx. It is designed to be run on the ZedBoard Zynq Evaluation and Development Kit (xc7z020clg484-1).Keywords-frequency swept source chirp signal DDS CompilerThis module was designed as a crack up of the coursework assignment of ECE 580B4 FPGA Signal Proc/Software Defined Radio. The purpose of this assignment was to design a frequency swept source which will be extensively employ in testing the Digital FIR filters that are to be designed and implemented as a part of the future coursework.A. DDS IP Core CompilerThe Xilinx DDS core compiler implements high performance microscope stage generation and phase to sinusoid circuits with AXI-4 stream compliant features. The core sources sinusoidal waveforms for use in man y applications. This module comes with an inbuilt sine and cosine Look up table and a phase generator. For the purposes of this assignment, the DDS compiler was configured to receive a streaming phase input and the phase width resolution is set to 8 bits to make the design more space efficient and to make the simulations run faster.B. Frequency swept Source DesignThe Frequency Swept source is coded as a synthesizable Verilog module. In this Verilog Module, The DDS Compiler was instantiated and appropriate phase info is streamed by feeding the data into the s_axis_phase_tdata. s_axis_phase_tvalid is always set to 1 for the purposes of this assignment.The frequency swept source is expected to sweep from 1 megacycle per second to 10 Mhz in 10 micro-seconds. This basically translates to an emergence of 1Mhz in every microsecond. So, initially the addition has been calculated to generate a 1Mhz signal and then the growth is ramped up linearly to generate the coveted chirp signal. Th e next expression has been used to derive the phase increment value.Fout = fclk* (dt)/ (2(B))Here, fout is the output frequency, fclk is the clock frequency, dt is the phase increment and B refers to the phase width. The above equation, for an 8bit phase width, 100 Mhz source to generate a 1Mhz output signal basically expects a phase increment of 2.56. But in this design this has been rounded off to 3. So, a phase increment of 3 refers to an output of 1Mz signal and a phase increment of 6 refers to an output of 2Mhz signal etc. The value of phase increment should realistically increment upto 25.6, so this number will be rounded off to 25. Now, is basically comes down to generating 22 different values for phase increment in a matter of 10 microseconds. In out design, the timescale has been set to 1ns. Now to figure out the delay to increase the value of phase increment in steps of 1, we need to impart a suitable amount of delay. This delay is calculated as shown belowDelay = 10u/(22 ) * 103 nano seconds. Assuming a delay of one unit refers to one nano second.The value of delay comes out to be 454.54 cycles. So, basically, we increase the value of phase-increment in steps of 1 from a startle value of 3 after every 455 clock cycles. This makes sure we are getting appropriate ramping up of the phase increment value to generate the desired sweep. module freq_sweep( input clk, output reg 70 sin, output reg 70 cos ) reg70 phase_data wire phase_valid wire 150 nco_data wire nco_valid integer i assign phase_valid =1 initial begin phase_data = 3 end dds_compiler_0 DUT( .aclk(clk), .m_axis_data_tdata(nco_data), .m_axis_phase_tvalid(nco_valid), .s_axis_phase_tvalid (phase_valid), .s_axis_phase_tdata (phase_data) ) always (posedge clk) begin if (phase_valid == 1) begin sin = nco_data 158 cos = nco_data 70 end end always begin for (i=3 i