On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Slichter, Daniel H. (Fed) <daniel.slich...@nist.gov> wrote: >> > What are you thinking for number of daughter cards? I suppose that >> > more would give us more flexibility, but less would be more economical >> > in terms of cost and layout area. Perhaps two daughter cards would be >> reasonable: >> > one for all of the inputs and one for all of the outputs? >> >> Just one, the space on the AMC is rather limited. > > We should be able to do two side by side. I think it would be nice to be > able to select the input daughtercard separately from the output > daughtercard. This would require having two sets of pin headers for sending > power and digital signals, but I think the input daughtercards would likely > have much less in terms of digital control signal requirements; there would > be two basic designs, one for baseband digitization and one for > downconversion before digitization. Both designs would just have analog > components, no digital attenuators/switches/etc would be necessary or desired.
To be useful as a digital servo platform the analog inputs need to have quite a bit of configurability to them e.g. switchable gain. _______________________________________________ ARTIQ mailing list https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/artiq
