
3 Direct Digital Synthesis
This series of articles appeared in
Electronics World
+
Wireless World
in the
August to November 1992 issues inclusive. It deals both with the theory
of operation of DDS and with various items of related hardware,
available from a variety of manufacturers.
Direct Digital Synthesis (Part 1)
There has been a steadily increasing degree of interest, especially in recent
years,
in Direct Digital Synthesis. The technique first came to my attention
in the early 1980s and was probably known in principle for several years
before that. In those early days, the highest output frequency attainable
was no more than a few MHz,