Re: [casper] adc5g block run at 2500MHz

2014-01-24 Thread Marco Bartolini
Hi everyone, from what I understand the adc5g can easily sample 2.2GHz bandwidth at 8 bit without a great effort in the design phase. I'd like to understand how portable would it be a design using roach1+iADC with 400MHz bandwidth to a roach1+adc5g setup sampling 2.2GHz bandwidth, just by

Re: [casper] adc5g block run at 2500MHz

2014-01-24 Thread Dan Werthimer
i suggest you contact mo ohady at digicom electronics for pricing and availability of adc's and roach boards. m...@digicom.org casper collaborators might already have a design similar to what you need. are you building a correlator? or a spectrometer? how many frequency channels? how many adc

Re: [casper] Invalid simulink object name error

2014-01-24 Thread Andrew Martens
Hi Richard Sorry about that, updates to the mask of the reorder block did not cater for defaults expected in other scripts. The reorder block mask parameter defaults should now play properly. The latest ska-sa repo should work better for you. Regards Andrew On 21/01/2014 19:46, Richard

Re: [casper] adc5g block run at 2500MHz

2014-01-24 Thread Ross Williamson
The roach 1 will only work at the speeds you are interested at with the dmux 2:1 option at 4 bits. I think the max speed at 8 bits is about 3.2GSPS and that is due to the ZDOK interface. I'm sure with significant effort in planahead you could achieve 5GSPS on a low resolution correlator in a

Re: [casper] adc5g block run at 2500MHz

2014-01-24 Thread Dan Werthimer
you can probably to sample faster than 3.2Gsps 8 bit on a roach1 if you use the -2 speed grade fpga. you can look at the fpga data sheets to find their max lvds bit rate for the -1 and -2 speed grades. note that if you want to use the 5Gsps 4 bit ADC, that that's a different adc board - you can

Re: [casper] adc5g block run at 2500MHz

2014-01-24 Thread Gary, Dale E.
Hi All, Could someone summarize this discussion for me re: the case I am interested in, which is as follows? I have a need for a dual-pol spectrometer covering an RF of at least 1-18 GHz (0.5-18 GHz is better). From the discussion, it sounds like one option is to use the 1x5GSPs board at 1:1

Re: [casper] adc5g block run at 2500MHz

2014-01-24 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi dale, your plan sounds good to me. the adc08-5000 yellow block for roach2 demuxes by 16, so a 5Gsps sample rates means a 312.5 MHz FPGA rate. 312 MHz fpga rate is not easy to acheive - you need to learn how to use the plan ahead software, and you can't pack the fpga full. how many spectral

Re: [casper] adc5g block run at 2500MHz

2014-01-24 Thread Gary, Dale E.
Thanks Dan. I think I should get a couple of these ADCs and maybe John's design and give it a try! John, how many channels does your design use over 2.5 GHz? We would want of order 20,000, if that is possible. Regards, Dale On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Dan Werthimer

[casper] Error while trying to interface DAC

2014-01-24 Thread Nishanth Shivashankaran
Hi All I am trying to interface a MKID dac with the roach to generate tones by using a bram as look up table for DAC but when I try to compile the design i get an error as below Error in 'trydac/dac_mkid_4x/Subsystem/parallel_to_serial_convertermatlab:open_and_hilite_system