[sdiy] Generating a large number of CV outputs

[Tom Wiltshire]

What about them?!?

No-one said this was *perfect*, only quick and cheap. Two out of three isn't bad!

;)

Slightly more seriously (1) averages out over time, (2) is only a problem when the frequency gets lower at the extremes. Stay away form the extremes and you avoid this problem.


> On 8 Dec 2023, at 16:15, Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org> wrote:
> 
> But what about potential problems and errors from
> 
> 1 - the non-constant number of transitions per time?
> 
> 2 - the non-constant frequency of the pulse wave?
> 
> /mr
> 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 17:02, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net <mailto:tom at electricdruid.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 8 Dec 2023, at 14:41, Matthew Skala via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org <mailto:synth-diy at synth-diy.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> If PDM means PWM with bit-reversal before the comparison (such as Richie
>> describes), then it does indeed lock you into a lower sampling rate, and
>> that's one reason I skipped describing *that* technique.  But PWM with
>> bit-reversal seems not to be what you mean when you say PDM.
> 
> 
> That's not what I meant when I said PDM, certainly.
> 
> The way I generated it is using an NCO. The NCO generates a single-shot output pulse everytime the phase accumulator wraps.
> 
> Now consider what happens with a simple 8-bit NCO. If our frequency increment is 2, for example, we get a single output pulse every 128 clocks, or 2 pulses per 256 clocks. Notice that they will be nicely spaced apart, not next to each other like PWM. The output frequency would be (clock frequency / 128) in this situation.
> If the increment is 8, we get a output pulse every 32 clocks, 8 pulses per 256 clocks, and again, they're nicely spaced out. The output frequency is now up to (clock /32) so there's been a big improvement, just by getting away from those extreme values a little bit.
> As the increment climbs, the accumulator wraps more and more often. At freq=128, every other clock is an output and we reach our maximum output frequency of (clock/2). As the increment goes above half, we start staying high for more than a single pulse, and the waveform effectively turns the other way up and we get a mirror image of the effect we've seen from 0-128.
> 
> HTH,
> Tom
> 
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