Re: [casper] Xilinx RF SoC

2018-04-05 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi colm, thanks for telling us about this interesting board. do you know what the rough cost is? i don't see any high speed ethernet ports, but perhaps the board could talk to a NIC over PCIe3, or we could make a backplane that connected the PCIe serdes lanes to a QSFP+ connector... RFsoc data

[casper] Xilinx RF SoC

2018-04-05 Thread Colm Bracken
Hi Casperites, Just an FYI related to the new Xilinx RF SoC that has been discussed on CASPER recently. While we eagerly await the release of the new board hosting the RF SoC by Xilinx (slated for July), a company called Abaco Systems has already released their own board hosting the new Xilinx