[sdiy] Novation peak NCOs
Olivier Gillet
ol.gillet at gmail.com
Sat Apr 22 21:09:30 CEST 2017
> They probably do as I do on the Cyclebox, which is run everything at 24MHz
> then decimate (subsample) to 96KHz (or whatever the DAC SR is) to feed into
> the oversampled DAC.
I don't think there's a need for a DAC at all. They just run the
sigma-delta loop(s) in the FPGA, taking the already oversampled signal
as input, and directly produce a 1-bit stream at 24 MHz straight from
a FPGA pin - that is externally low-pass filtered.
It would be inefficient (and would introduce some unnecessary latency
due to filter length) to downsample to 96kHz in the FPGA, then
re-upsample to MHz in the DAC.
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