How do I Fix DDS Generated Sine Wave That Produces a Periodic Square Wave?

Hello,
I'm an undergraduate researcher with almost no experience dealing with FPGA semantics and other National Instruments hardware in general. Part of my project revolves around creating a sine wave signal via the FPGA on an sbRIO-9632 that is output via the board's analog I/O pins, and I found it convenient to adapt the code provided by the National Instruments tutorials (http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/6066) to have it run on an sbRIO FPGA. The problem I'm encountering right now is that the actual output I'm seeing is a square wave as opposed to the smooth sine wave that was expected, and I've exhausted all my ideas on possible ways to debug this issue. Can anyone please give me feedback if they've seen this problem before or offer other suggestions on fixing this?
I'm currently running LabVIEW 2009 with the appropriate real-time and FPGA modules on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine. Again, the hardware is an sbRIO-9632 complete with analog I/O. I appreciate it everyone!

I am also having this issue and have not been able to find a solution in the forums. I am somewhat of a rookie so pardon me if I seem ignorant in any way. I am working on a graduate project where I need to produce some sine waves and I am getting more of a square wave when I output it and measure on the scope. The program I am running is quite simple at the moment to attempt to discover any errors by process of elimination. I have the sine wave generator in a while loop outputting to an AO port. I am using the cRIO 9022 with the 9269 AO module. I will attach screen shots of my code and my oscope image
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