Getting an AD 9850BRS Working

An AD 9850BRS is an IC that lets you create radio frequency waveforms. The output frequency is controlled by a serial connection. Phil bought a board that includes one and some control circuitry. It's labeled HC-SR08. We were eventually able to get it working.

Here's what it looks like:

We used an Arduino Due, which runs at 3.3V, but from looking at the data sheet for the chip, I think it should work on 5V Arduinos as well. We ended up using this Arduino library. We connected the following pins on the daughter board to the Arduino:

• W_CLK   ->   7
• FQ_UD   ->   8
• DATA   ->   9
• RESET   ->   10
• VCC   ->   3.3V
• GND   ->   GND

We found the example code in that Github to be silly. This worked for us:

  #include <AD9850.h>

  const int W_CLK_PIN = 7;
  const int FQ_UD_PIN = 8;
  const int DATA_PIN = 9;
  const int RESET_PIN = 10;

  double freq = 4000000;
  double trimFreq = 124999500;

  int phase = 0;

  void setup(){
    DDS.begin(W_CLK_PIN, FQ_UD_PIN, DATA_PIN, RESET_PIN);
    DDS.calibrate(trimFreq);
    DDS.up();
    DDS.setfreq(freq, phase);
  }

  void loop(){
  }

Check it out: