
DAC5674
SLWS148A SEPTEMBER 2003 REVISED OCTOBER 2005
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High-Pass/High-Pass 4
y Interpolation Filter Operation
Figure 19 shows the high-pass/high-pass filter configuration. The transition bands of filter 1 and filter 2 allow
for the placement of the fundamental IF between 0.2
…0.4Fdata. In this configuration, the user can select the
images at Fdata + IF and 3Fdata – IF. For Fdata = 100 MSPS and a fundamental IF of 0.4 × Fdata = 40 MHz, this
would translate into images located at 140 MHz and 260 MHz. Note that this is the equivalent of mixing a 60-MHz
analog IF signal with a 200-MHz sine wave.
Input Spectrum
Output of DUC
1st 2x
interpolation
filter
Spectrum after
2x interpolation
2nd 2x
interpolation
filter
Spectrum after
4x interpolation
Fdata
=
Fdac
80 dB of
attenuation
Unwanted images
removed by HPF
80 dB of
attenuation
80 dB of
attenuation
Unwanted images
removed by HPF
Figure 19. High-Pass/High-Pass 4
y Interpolation Filter Operation
DAC Sinx/x Output Attenuation
The output frequency spectrum of the DACs shows some inherent attenuation due to their sample-and-hold
nature. The output of the DAC is normally seen as the signal sample held over the sampling time in a stair-step
manner. In the time domain, this step-like output can be thought of as an impulse sample of some value
convolved with a unit-square pulse with a duration of the sampling time. In the frequency domain, this translates
to the frequency response of the discretely sampled signal multiplied by the sinx/x frequency response function
of the square pulse. The sinx/x function has a null at every integer multiple of the sampling rate.
This is shown in Figure 20 for various data rates at 4
× interpolation.