Types
Three types of synthesizer can be distinguished. The first and second type are routinely found as stand-alone architecture: Direct Analog Synthesis (also called a mix-filter-divide architecture as found in the 1960s HP 5100A) and by comparison the more modern Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS) (Table-Look-Up). The third type are routinely used as communication system IC building-blocks: indirect digital (PLL) synthesizers including integer-N and fractional-N.
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