Research Article

A New High-Performance Digital FM Modulator and Demodulator for Software-Defined Radio and Its FPGA Implementation

Table 5

Comparison result for DDFS.

ReferenceOurs (pipelined)Xilinx core [35]CORDIC [36]Nicholas [37][38][39]

Output SFDR−64.3 dBcN/A−90.3 dBc−90.3 dBcN/a−95.2 dBc
18, 10, 830, 10, 1432, 15, 1432, 15, 1416, N/A, N/A32, 15, 14
Area75 Slices212 Slices440 Slices101 Slices248 CLBs101 Slices
Frequency334.5 MHz72 MHz113 MHz121 MHz62.1 MHz121 MHz
BRAMs000202
DeviceXC2VP 30-7N/AXCV 300-4XCV 300-4XC 4020xlXCV 300-4

*where is the accumulator length, is the word length of truncated phase, and is the word length of DDFS output.