Designing Efficient Wireless Digital Up and Down Converters Leveraging CORE Generator and System Generator

www.xilinx.com 1 © 2007 Xilinx, Inc. All rights reserved. XILINX, the Xilinx logo, and other designated brands included herein are trademarks of Xilinx, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Summary This application note demonstrates how efficient implementations of Digital Up Converters (DUC) and Digital Down Converters (DDC) can be done by leveraging the Xilinx DSP IP portfolio for increased productivity and reduced time to development. Step-by-step instruction is given on how to perform system-level trade off analysis and develop the most efficient FPGA implementation, thus allowing engineers a flexible, low-cost and low-power alternative to ASSP technologies.