--- Nikolai Golovchenko <golovchenko@MAIL.RU> wrote:

> I may be inventing the wheel... Anyway, there was an
> interesting idea in
> Scenix application notes on how to generate sine
> waveform not using table or
> multiply, just addition. Basically, they generate

It's fun to reinvent the wheel (except when it's on
your nickel).

> triangle waveform, then
> integrate it and, vou la, something very similar to
> sine is produced.

Are you sure this is not the Goertzel algorithm? Scott
has a page that discusses this algorithm.

Also, here's a dtmf generator that uses Goertzel
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/psheets/abstract/apps/spra066.htm

http://www.interstice.com/~sdattalo/technical/theory/sinewave.html

But again, I think Eric Smith's solution is the best.

> Is this the same as phase accumulators?

No. Phase accumulators are really, really cool. I just
don't know how to adequately explain them. A quick
alta vista search produced:

http://www.g4dvj.demon.co.uk/dds.htm

> P.S.
> Tracy, may I ask you what "dot lo" means?
>
> :-)

I let that cat out of the bag when I'm ready. :)

.lo

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