Numerically Controlled Oscillator


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LatticeCoreNumerically Controlled Oscillators (NCO), also called Direct Digital Synthesizers (DDS), offer several advantages over other types of oscillators in terms of accuracy, stability and reliability. NCOs provide a flexible architecture that enables easy programmability such as on-the-fly frequency/phase. NCOs are used in many communications systems including digital up/down converters used in 3G wireless and software radio systems, digital PLLs, radar systems, drivers for optical or acoustic transmissions, and multilevel FSK/PSK modulators/demodulators.

Lattice provides a parameterizable NCO IP core that supports multiple channels and a Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) mode, in addition to other usual configurations. The resource utilization and performance trade-off can be tuned by configuring different parameters of the IP core to obtain the optimal Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) result. The Lattice NCO core offers a variety of memory reduction schemes and mechanisms for SFDR improvement.

Features

  • Supports single or multi channel operation up to 16 channels
  • Run time variable phase increment input Δθ and phase offset input φ
  • Up to 32-bit user-configurable phase resolution
  • Up to 20-bit user-configurable quantizer resolution
  • Up to 32-bit user-configurable amplitude resolution
  • User-configurable memory saving architectures – 1/2 wave, 1/4 wave or full wave
  • User-selectable sum of angles (SOA) optimization for memory saving
  • Up to 4-bit user-selectable phase dithering correction
  • User-selectable trigonometric correction for SFDR improvement
  • Option for truncating or rounding the quantizer output when neither dithering nor trigonometric correction is used.
  • User-selectable QAM mode support
  • Provides high-SFDR up to 115 dB
  • Provides sine, cosine or quadrature outputs.
  • User configurable output polarity

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Numerically Controlled Oscillator

Performance and Size

LatticeECP31
IPexpress User-Configurable Mode SLICEs LUTs Registers I/O Multipliers 18x18 sysMEM EBRs fMAX (MHz)
Config 1 25 6 44 39 4 3 340
Config 2 163 220 262 104 0 1 340
Config 3 302 310 494 217 8 3 320

1. Performance and utilization data are generated targeting an LFE3-95E-7FN672CES device using Lattice Diamond 1.0 and Synplify Pro D-2009.12L-1 software. Performance may vary when using a different software version or targeting a different device density or speed grade within the LatticeECP3 family.

LatticeECP2M1
IPexpress User-Configurable Mode SLICEs LUTs Registers I/O Multipliers2 18x18 sysMEM EBRs fMAX (MHz)
Config 1 24 5 44 39 4 3 347
Config 2 200 222 262 104 0 1 361
Config 3 287 282 494 217 8 3 256

1. Performance and utilization data are generated targeting an LFE2M-35E-7F484C device using Lattice Diamond 1.0 and Synplify Pro D-2009.12L-1 software. Performance may vary when using a different software version or targeting a different device density or speed grade within the LatticeECP2M family.
2. One DSP block provides two MULT18X18ADDSUBs.

LatticeECP21
IPexpress User-Configurable Mode SLICEs LUTs Registers I/O Multipliers2 18x18 sysMEM EBRs fMAX (MHz)
Config 1 24 5 44 39 4 3 368
Config 2 200 222 262 104 0 1 370
Config 3 287 282 494 217 8 3 325

1. Performance and utilization data are generated targeting an LFE2-50E-7F672C device using Lattice Diamond 1.0 and Synplify Pro D-2009.12L-1 software. Performance may vary when using a different software version or targeting a different device density or speed grade within the LatticeECP2 family.
2. One DSP block provides two MULT18X18ADDSUBs.

LatticeECP1
IPexpress User-Configurable Mode SLICEs LUTs Registers I/O Multipliers2 18x18 sysMEM EBRs fMAX (MHz)
Config 1 27 7 44 39 4 3 215
Config 2 194 211 262 104 0 2 215
Config 3 305 316 494 217 8 5 226

1. Performance and utilization data are generated targeting an LFECP20E-5F672C device using Lattice Diamond 1.0 and Synplify Pro D-2009.12L-1 software. Performance may vary when using a different software version or targeting a different device density or speed grade within the LatticeECP family.
2. One DSP block provides two MULT18X18ADDSUBs.

LatticeEC1
IPexpress User-Configurable Mode SLICEs LUTs Registers I/O sysMEM EBRs fMAX (MHz)
Config 1 1000 1710 715 39 3 116
Config 2 194 211 262 104 2 230
Config 3 2235 3730 1833 217 5 123

1. Performance and utilization data are generated targeting an LFEC20E-5F672C device using Lattice Diamond 1.0 and Synplify Pro D-2009.12L-1 software. Performance may vary when using a different software version or targeting a different device density or speed grade within the LatticeEC family.

LatticeSC1
IPexpress User-Configurable Mode SLICEs LUTs Registers I/O sysMEM EBRs fMAX (MHz)
Config 1 1472 2194 1071 39 3 242
Config 2 152 210 262 104 1 375
Config 3 3583 5153 2549 217 3 239

1. Performance and utilization data are generated targeting an LFSC3GA25E-7F900C device using Lattice Diamond 1.0 and Synplify Pro D-2009.12L-1 software. Performance may vary when using a different software version or targeting a different device density or speed grade within the LatticeSC family.

LatticeXP21
IPexpress User-Configurable Mode SLICEs LUTs Registers I/O Multipliers2 18x18 sysMEM EBRs fMAX (MHz)
Config 1 24 5 44 39 4 3 314
Config 2 200 222 262 104 0 1 314
Config 3 287 282 494 217 8 3 314

1. Performance and utilization data are generated targeting an LFXP2-17E-7F484C device using Lattice Diamond 1.0 and Synplify Pro D-2009.12L-1 software. Performance may vary when using a different software version or targeting a different device density or speed grade within the LatticeXP2 family.
2. One DSP block provides two MULT18X18ADDSUBs.

LatticeXP1
IPexpress User-Configurable Mode SLICEs LUTs Registers I/O sysMEM EBRs fMAX (MHz)
Config 1 1000 1710 715 39 3 112
Config 2 194 211 262 104 2 219
Config 3 2235 3730 1833 217 5 115

1. Performance and utilization data are generated targeting an LFXP20E-5F484C device using Lattice Diamond 1.0 and Synplify Pro D-2009.12L-1 software. Performance may vary when using a different software version or targeting a different device density or speed grade within the LatticeXP family.

Ordering Information

Family Part Numbers
LatticeECP3 NCO-DDS-E3-U2
LatticeECP2M NCO-DDS-PM-U2
LatticeECP2 NCO-DDS-P2-U2
LatticeECP NCO-DDS-E2-U2
LatticeEC NCO-DDS-E2-U2
LatticeSC NCO-DDS-SC-U2
LatticeXP2 NCO-DDS-X2-U2
LatticeXP NCO-DDS-XM-U2

IP Version: 2.6

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Evaluation Package for Numerically Controlled Oscillator for LatticeECP - Config 3
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Evaluation Package for Numerically Controlled Oscillator for LatticeEC - Config 1
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Evaluation Package for Numerically Controlled Oscillator for LatticeEC - Config 3
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