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Old October 27th 06, 11:33 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
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Default Double AD99XX to make IQ local oscillator. Help needed.

Hi fellows!

I'm building a software defined radio that is mostly based on the
"Software Defined Radios For The Masses" -articles and are at the point
of designing the DDS board. I have two units of AD9954 DDS chips and
my idea was to use them parallel, other one with 90 degree phase shift
to generate the quadrature signal. This is my first time with DDS, so
understanding the control seem to be a little bit difficult for a first
timer.

Two questions to start with:

1. I suppose for proper control I need four pins connected from the DDS
to the computer (through buffers) I/O update, SDIO, SCLK and Reset, am
I correct?

2. Do I have to drive two SDIO serial signals separately for each DDS
chip from computer so, that I can define the phase shift for the other
DDS (while other one has no phase shift, obivously) ? This came to my
mind since the chips don't have any addresses to indentify them.

Thanks a lot!!!

73 de Janne, OH1GTF