This paper presents a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital down
converter (DDC) that can reduce the bandwidth from about 70 MHz to 182.292
kHz. The proposed DDC consists of a polyphase COordinate Rotation DIgital
Computer (CORDIC) processor and a multirate filter. The advantage of
polyphase CORDIC processor is to process with high sample rate input data
and produces computational efficient noiseless baseband spectrum. The
pipeline multirate filter works at a high clock speed. Moreover, the
multirate filter generates a fractional sample rate factor using a cubic
B-spline Farrow filter. The proposed DDC is coded with optimal hardware
description language (HDL) and tested on Kintex-7 Xilinx FPGA as the target
device. Experimental results indicate that the proposed design saves chip
area, power consumption and operates at high speed without loss of any
functionality. Additionally, the proposed design offers sufficient
spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) and produces less than 1 Hz frequency
resolution at the output.