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As you can see from the DDS block diagram, which you posted, the structure of DDS block is quite simple. I therefore would model it as a single TDF module containing the accumulator register as a state variable. As input, you will have your frequency control and phase offset control signals. The frequency control signal basically is the value, which you continuously add to the value in your accumulator register to generate a periodic sawtooth signal (due to the overflow of the accumulator). The phase offset control signal gets added to the accumulator register to enable shifting the phase of the sawtooth signal. This sawtooth signal is interpreted as the angle operand of a sine function. The period of the sawtooth signal represents a full revolution on the phase circle, i.e., the 2^L possible sawtooth signal values are evenly mapped to phase angles in the range of 0 rad to 2 pi rad (0° to 360°). To avoid repeated calculations of the sine function, the sine amplitudes for all possible angles are pre-calculated and stored in a look-up table (LUT). The current value of the sawtooth signal is then used as the index into that look-up table to find the corresponding output amplitude.

To implement this in a generic DDS TDF module, I would choose M, L, and K (bit widths) as generic parameters, which can be passed upon DDS module instantiation to the DDS module's constructor. From M and L, you can calculate the value for the modulo operation, which models in software your overflowing of a M-bits-wide and L-bits-wide addition operation. The difference of M and L gives you the shift distance needed to implement your accumulator output quantisation. The sine LUT needs to have 2^L entries. The sine function should be scaled by 2^(k-1)-1 to use the full range of a k bit wide signed output. All these preparatory calculations, you can do in your DDS module's constructor. The processing function then only needs to only implement the two additions and the amplitude look-up based on the current values of the frequency and phase control inputs and the current value stored in the accumulator register.

If you plan to use this kind of module in a model of communication system, you might consider having a look to the Vienna SystemC AMS Building Block Library, which is available for download from systems-ams.org. The latter web site contains also other useful SystemC AMS resources.

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Hi.... one of the acronyms you may hear thrown around is DDS which stands for Direct Digital Synthesis. DDS can be as simple as taking a digital value — a collection of ones and zeroes — and processing it through a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) circuit. For example, if the digital source is the output of a counter that counts up to a maximum value and resets then the output of the DAC would be a ramp (analog signal) that increases in voltage until it resets back to its starting voltage.

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