hi tim, there is a low power, low cost, roach like board under development, called SNAP. SNAP uses a kintex fpga, has two 10Gbit ports, some adc's and frequency synthesizer on board, and one zdoc for external adc's. info at:
https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/DAB-HERALD best wishes, dan On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Madden, Timothy J. <tmad...@aps.anl.gov>wrote: > > > Roach in a balloon.... > > Just an idea if some engineer wants alot of work to do. One could put a > whole ROACH into a tiny circuit board these days using the new Xilinx ZYNQ > chips. It is a multi-chip module w/ high end Xilinx and 2 ARM cores. It > would of course require recompiling all the ROACH IP for use w/ ARM. But > the resulting hardware would be small, and not use alot of power. It would > be a fun project. > > > Tim Madden > Argonne Lab > > ________________________________________ > From: casper-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [casper-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] > on behalf of casper-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu [ > casper-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 2:15 PM > To: casper@lists.berkeley.edu > Subject: casper Digest, Vol 75, Issue 8 > > Send casper mailing list submissions to > casper@lists.berkeley.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/casper@lists.berkeley.edu > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > casper-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > casper-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of casper digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. ROACH on a balloon? (Ben Mazin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 11:22:20 -0800 > From: Ben Mazin <bma...@physics.ucsb.edu> > Subject: [casper] ROACH on a balloon? > To: casper@lists.berkeley.edu > Message-ID: <1212337f-1cb2-43e6-9ed6-4e5988b90...@physics.ucsb.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Has anyone flown a ROACH board on a high altitude balloon? Did it work? > Did you make any engineering changes for this challenging environment? > > Thanks, > Ben > __________________________________________________________________ > Ben Mazin Phone/Fax: 805-893-3344 > Assistant Professor http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~bmazin/ > Department of Physics Skype: ucsb.physics.mazin_b > University of California Office: 2015A Broida Hall > Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA Lab: 3509 Broida Hall > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. > HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. > > End of casper Digest, Vol 75, Issue 8 > ************************************* > >
