基于FPGA的模拟信号源的设计与实现(中英文翻译).docVIP

Choosing a signal generator for frequency-agile apps (为频率捷变应用选择信号发生器) Student ID：0703010110 Name:董林 Date:5/18/2010 Choosing a signal generator for frequency-agile apps Depending on a signal generators primary use, or a companys budget, one of the various types of traditional signal generator designs may YIG-tuned or banded-synthesizer as typically been preferred over the others. However, the recent emergence of signal generators based on a synthetic-instrument architecture promises to change the selection process. In testing frequency-agile radios, finding a signal generator able to keep up with the desired frequency-hopping pattern on instrument with a very fast hopping rate and settling time limits the users options. If the test system were only required to produce simple frequency modulation, or only used as a fast hopping local oscillator, a fast-tuning signal generator would be fine. Unfortunately, this same signal generator is unlikely to produce the complex modulation required by the latest commercial wireless or military communication standards. As a result, designers have typically purchased two or more signal generators to perform unique tasks within the application, adding considerable expense. The introduction of synthetic-instrument (SI) signal generators consisting of an arbitrary-waveform generator (AWG) and a vector up-converter takes it possible to reduce the number of signal generators needed, and thereby reduce costs. What’s a synthetic instrument? As defined by the Synthetic Instrument Working Group (SIWG), a synthetic instrument is a combination of hardware and software modules concatenated together so they can emulate traditional instrumentation (see Fig. 1) while allowing flexibility in instrumentation configuration. Fig. 1. Synthetic-instrument architectures divide functions between hardware and software to increase flexibility. The SIWG is chartered with developing the standards for the interfaces between module