Re: [casper] Bidirectional IO?

2012-05-24 Thread Henno Kriel
Hi John For ROACH1 you will still need to instantiate a Xilinx tri-state buffer per pin and tie the output enable with the external buffer direction (for all the GPIO pins used). Henno On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:11 AM, John Ford wrote: > > Hi all > > > > ROACH2 is more flexible and each pin can

Re: [casper] Bidirectional IO?

2012-05-24 Thread Henno Kriel
Hi John Since the ROACH2 does not have an external buffer and only uses the FPGA pin, the yellow block can essentially be a wrapper for the Xilinx tri-state buffer. Thus your yellow block will have an input & output + output enable to the fabric. Henno On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:11 AM, John F

Re: [casper] Bidirectional IO?

2012-05-24 Thread John Ford
> Hi all > > ROACH2 is more flexible and each pin can be individually configured to > be input or output. We can implement Dave's suggestion on ROACH but the > granularity is coarser, we have to configure an entire bank as input or > output (each bank has a separate external buffer controlled by a

[casper] 1-2 GHz sampler

2012-05-24 Thread Bill Petrachenko
I'm designing a digital data acquisition system using a ROACH1 board. I need to sample two Nyquist zones at 1024-2048 MHz. It appears that in the Casper group of products, a pair of ASIAA, ADC1x3000-8, or KatADC boards would work well and nicely interfaced to a single ROACH1 board (although the