Re: [beagleboard] Help designing-in fast ADC (e.g. Analog Devices AD7761) for sonar.

2016-12-06 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Graham, thanks for your thoughts, sorry for delayed reply. I am hoping that the Arm chip can cope with the data ratre involved, certainly it will be a challenge. The tdm audio out thing was only that I do want HDMI video out, and didn't want its possible audio use to interfere with tdm input.

Re: [beagleboard] Help designing-in fast ADC (e.g. Analog Devices AD7761) for sonar.

2016-11-27 Thread Graham Haddock
The ADC can be set up to run audio format TDM. You have two MCASP, which are high speed multi-channel TDM engines to play with. (Although I think they only did a real good job of pinning out MCASP0, need to investigate, but one might be enough.) Each are relatively independent bi-directional.

Re: [beagleboard] Help designing-in fast ADC (e.g. Analog Devices AD7761) for sonar.

2016-11-27 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Hi William: Unfortunately the TI chips I found on the launchpads page have multichannel interfaces, but not simultaneous: that is there is only one actual ADC and multiple Sample/Hold units. In the application I'm interested in, sampling truly simultaneously is one of the requirements.

Re: [beagleboard] Help designing-in fast ADC (e.g. Analog Devices AD7761) for sonar.

2016-11-27 Thread Graham
Ruth I would suggest that you look at the MCASP peripheral feature on the Beaglebone Sitara processor. See "AM335x Technical Reference Manual", Chapter 22 There are two of them, and each is a multi-channel audio interface. It looks like your AD7761 can be configured to run serial wire per

Re: [beagleboard] Help designing-in fast ADC (e.g. Analog Devices AD7761) for sonar.

2016-11-27 Thread William Hermans
Perhaps you should be thinking of using an external dedicated processor for your application ? Something that has decent on die ADCs. Something like the TI C2000 line ? There are many dev kits here which include but are not limited to just the C2000 products:

[beagleboard] Help designing-in fast ADC (e.g. Analog Devices AD7761) for sonar.

2016-11-27 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Hi I'm new to BB but not new to hardware/software engineering. My reason for posting is that I am struggling to connect it to the Beaglebone in a way that permits fast data capture, and I am hoping that someone might be able to offer suggestions. My (hobby) idea is to create a device that can