Direct Digital Synthesizers (DDS) are frequency synthesizers creating variable frequency arbitrary waveforms from a single, fixed-frequency reference clock. Many kinds of designs are used.
A good tutorial about the designs of DDS is here : A Technical Tutorial on Digital Signal Synthesis
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The “ Direct Digital Synthesizers” (DDS ) are synthesizers that can generate arbitrary waveforms at various frequencies from a fixed reference frequency.