[sdiy] FPGA Madness? (Was: NCO Jitter)

[Tim Ressel]

DPW?


On 8/6/2018 6:20 PM, Andrew Simper wrote:
> And don't forget DPW as an easy to implement method to reduce 
> aliasing. You can use an interpolated inverse table and the error only 
> appears as slight differences in amplitude, it doesn't reduce the 
> efficacy of the anti-aliasing (which is the case with BLEP if you 
> don't have a good division). As long as you can easily generate the 
> intergrated waveshape equation and compute that efficiently you can do 
> DPW efficiently and it will tilt the spectrum by -6 dB/Oct, which will 
> reduce the oversampling overhead considerably.
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 08:49, <rsdio at audiobanshee.com 
> <mailto:rsdio at audiobanshee.com>> wrote:
>
>     If you’re willing to consider building everything on an FPGA, then
>     I suggest that you should definitely consider a DSP. You’ll get
>     more bang for your buck with a DSP - unless you literally pay for
>     an FPGA that has full DSP slices in it - and it will be easier to
>     work in an instruction set that has been optimized for decades for
>     exactly the kind of thing you’re doing.
>
>     Top contenders would be the TMS320, especially the C5000 or C6000
>     series, and the SHARC.
>
>     I addition to the math support and large accumulators, you’ll also
>     get timer peripherals and serial ports that support digital audio
>     connections to multi-channel DACs.
>
>     I’ve done some complex designs, and using a DSP is basically as
>     flexible as an FPGA without the overhead of creating or finding
>     and adapting the various IP blocks. You’ll also have the benefit
>     that there won’t be as much wasted power.
>
>     Brian
>
>
>     On Aug 3, 2018, at 8:50 PM, Tim Ressel <timr at circuitabbey.com
>     <mailto:timr at circuitabbey.com>> wrote:
>     > I have a design for a complex VCO that will include 9 NCOs.
>     While the polyBlep stuff looks interesting, I am wondering if I
>     can pull it off with an FPGA. So the 9 NCOs would run at a high
>     rate, say 2MHz. Then they get mixed, filtered, and downsampled to
>     about 50KHz. The filter is the part I am not sure of, but its been
>     done before so it is just a matter of working it out.
>     >
>     > I figure by the time I get a processor powerful enough to do
>     this, and FPGA is cheaper maybe?
>     >
>     > Am I more out of my mind than usual?
>     >
>     > --
>     > --Tim Ressel
>
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