Start date: March 31
End date: April 5
Lab: 4
Status: Complete
Lab 4 CutsheetCSCE_436_Lab4_Cutsheet.pdf

Lab 4 - Function generation

The goal of this lab is to generate an audio waveform with a high degree of accuracy in both its period and frequency.

Lab Overview

You are to use Direct Digital Synthesis to reproduce your audio waveform. You may choose any waveform so long as its not Piecewise Linear. A few interesting examples would be sinusoids, the sinc function, exponentially damped sinusoids, or a waveform from a musical instrument (guitar, piano, or clarinet). It is your responsibility to get the samples for this waveform. I would suggest either deriving the waveform using a program like Python, using a spreadsheet, or digitizing the samples using Lab 3. Once you have your data, hardwired it into BRAM using "init" statements. Consult the handout associated with lesson 26 for more details on how to accomplish this.

Requirements

While you have the flexibility to design the waveform generator as you see fit, your system must meet the following requirements:
  1. Use an update rate of 48kHz
  2. At 440Hz, the LUT should be incremented by about 1 index.
  3. Be able to make between a 1Hz and 0.25Hz change in frequency.
  4. Be able to generate a full amplitude waveform.

Hardware

You will have to generate the block diagram for this assignment and present it at the beginning of the second lab session for review by your professor. Your design must be segregated into a datapath and control unit. Your design must show the blocks in the datapath, the states in the FSM, the control word, and the status word joining the datapath and control unit.

Required Functionality

Use the slide switches and push buttons to manipulate the phase angle and the amplitude of the waveform as follows: The waveform should be played back through the Audio Codec interface. Remember to wait for the ready signal.

B-level Functionality

A-level Functionality

Use the microBlaze to capture a keyboard input to manipulate the amplitude and frequency. The user will enter in an integer frequency and you are to produce a waveform with that frequency.

Bonus Functionality

Connect your A-level Function Generator hardware to your Lab 3 functionality to enable the display of your generated signals on your Lab 3 O'scope display.

Since you won't have access to a second board to connect your function generator I will offer a different Bonus Functionality. Since Required functionality doesn't specifically require interpolation based on the two values in the LUT. If you modify your state machine to interpolate the values using the following equation developed DDS Lecture 26.
    Linearly_Interpolated_Value = Base + Offset*Delta

Gate Check 1

At the end of the first lab session, you should have a completed hardware diagram drawn in paint or another image editing software that is readable and can be printed onto an 8.5x11 sheet of paper. Provide me with a digital copy of your schematic via Canvas at the end of class. This diagram must contain the following:

Gate Check 2

At the end of the second lab period, you should have a working testbench. When simulating your design, have the testbench supply a mock ready signal in place of the ready signal generated the Audio_Codec_Wrapper (when put in a testbench, the Audio_Codec_Wrapper is not able to generate a ready signal without a lot of extra work).

When complete, I expect your timing diagram to look like the image below and contain at least: Your simulation needs to simulate a button press (and release) to change the phase increment. After that is done, you need to show that the BRAM address is being incremented by your new phase increment value.


Grading

Item Grade Points Out of Date Due
Gate Check #1 On-Time ------------------------------------------------------------------ Late: 1Day ---- 2Days ---- 3Days ---- 4+Days 5 End of Lesson L29
Gate Check #2 On-Time ------------------------------------------------------------------ Late: 1Day ---- 2Days ---- 3Days ---- 4+Days 5 End of Lesson L30
Required Functionality On-Time ------------------------------------------------------------------ Late: 1Day ---- 2Days ---- 3Days ---- 4+Days 30 COB L31
B Functionality On-Time ------------------------------------------------------------------ Late: 1Day ---- 2Days ---- 3Days ---- 4+Days 10 COB L31
A Functionality On-Time ------------------------------------------------------------------ Late: 1Day ---- 2Days ---- 3Days ---- 4+Days 10 COB L31
Bonus Functionality On-Time ------------------------------------------------------------------ Late: 1Day ---- 2Days ---- 3Days ---- 4+Days 10 COB L31
Use of Git / Bitbucket On-Time: 0 ---- Check Minus ---- Check ---- Check Plus ---- Late: 1Day ---- 2Days ---- 3Days ---- 4+Days 5 COB L32
Code Style On-Time: 0 ---- Check Minus ---- Check ---- Check Plus ---- Late: 1Day ---- 2Days ---- 3Days ---- 4+Days 10 COB L32
README On-Time: 0 ---- Check Minus ---- Check ---- Check Plus ---- Late: 1Day ---- 2Days ---- 3Days ---- 4+Days 25 COB L32
Total 110