Evaluating Digital Sine wave Generator Using Analog Metrics

This work aims to relate comparison metrics for both Direct Digital Synthesizers (DDS) and their analog counterparts. The proposed metrics are Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and maximum absolute error. Error is theoretically formulated into closed forms for known systematic parameters of DDS, sample rate, and bit counts. By the use of Matlab scripting, the system model is simulated for a wide range of parameters sweep.