On 6/20/11 12:17 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Just a FYI, you don't have to use sine lookup tables. You can generate sine and 
cosine on the fly with a coordic. Perhaps not easy at RF speed, but very common 
in audio DSP.


It's a tradeoff.. To do CORDIC you need four multiplies and 2 adds, which might be a lot of gates, if you have a fair number of bits, compared to an adder and some lookup tables.

If you have a fast multiply instruction on a processor, then CORDIC gets very attractive.

The other problem with CORDIC is that roundoff errors accumulate, the longer you run the generator for, because it's basically a difference equation/numerical integration sort of scheme.

That said, some of AD's latest DDSes use a monolithic CORDIC generator.


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