I did have the unfair advantage of sharing a lab with him :) On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 18:56, 'Hawkins, David W (334B)' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu <casper@lists.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > Jack - you rock - Adam was the name I was recalling, but I could not think of > his last name. Thanks! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:55 AM > To: casper <casper@lists.berkeley.edu> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [casper] 1-bit quantization using Xilinx transceivers > > Hi Dave, > > A million years ago (circa 2010) Adam Coates (then grad student of Prof Mike > Jones at Oxford -- > https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/jonesmi) was looking at this > using ROACH1 (virtex5) transceivers to sample at ~3GHz. IIRC Adam went into > industry after his PhD, and I'm not sure where this work got to or whether or > not Mike continued to pursue this line of research. > > It would appear you can get his PhD here -- > https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8ace9e68-d8e7-4f1d-b6c9-13853eecbd47 > > Decending even deeper into my memory, I believe Curtis Mead did a similar > thing to create samplers for a detector on an optical telescope (and gave a > great talk at the 2010 CfA CASPER workshop). > Edit: now I've found his thesis at > http://seti.harvard.edu/grad/cpdf/mead_thesis.pdf I see he used standard LVDS > inputs, not the MGTs. > > Cheers > Jack > > > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 18:37, 'Hawkins, David W (334B)' via > casper@lists.berkeley.edu <casper@lists.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Has anyone on the CASPER list investigated using the Xilinx transceivers as > > 1-bit ADCs? > > > > > > > > Transceiver receivers can be kept coherent to a reference clock by > > configuring the receiver clock-and-data-recovery unit not to recover the > > clock from the incoming data stream. > > > > > > > > There are some people in the GPS section here at JPL that are interested in > > using the transceivers for 1-bit sampling of GPS signals. They were > > interested if there was any published literature on this. I have a vague > > recollection of a CASPER-related grad student investigating this … but do > > not recall his name … making it a little hard to use Google as a backup for > > my memory. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Regards, > > > > Dave Hawkins. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > > To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.
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