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Old October 10th 14, 09:56 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Peter Able Peter Able is offline
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Default Frequency accuracy in older RXs

On 09/10/2014 20:21, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
rickman wrote in :

You posed a problem; I gave you an answer. BTW there cannot be an
easier item to lash to a microcontroller than a DDS


Thank you for your suggestion.


Assuming that DDS is Direct Digital Synthesis, I'm not sure anything needs to
be lashed to anything. Just use a phase accumulator in a single DWORD or
whatever native data size gives adequate resolution. Then just feed a DAC,
assuming the processor has one. I think very many of them do.


Fine, but first find a microcontroller with such a fast (minimum 60MHz)
DAC. Even if you do you'll spend many times the cost of a simple
microcontroller plus DDS chip system - and you won't rival the cheaper
system's performance until your DAC can work at several times 60MHz.

PA