Re: [casper] viability of VCU128 eval board as production CASPER instrument

Hi Jack, Jonathon, Mitch, Francois, Dan, and the ever-supportive CASPER community, Thank you all for the very thoughtful and helpful input. It’s all filed away for study, particularly a comparative look at alternative COTS solutions suggested. To provide some bulleted responses to specific

Re: [casper] viability of VCU128 eval board as production CASPER instrument

Hi Jonathan et al, To close an open question: At SARAO we do not intend to pursue a SKARAB2, for the same cost inconsistency you mentioned. Instead, we are CASPER-ising Xilinx Alveo boards, which are intended for production, albeit in a data centre environment. Our intention is to further

Re: [casper] viability of VCU128 eval board as production CASPER instrument

Hi Jonathan, To chime in under the “other” category… We have recently added six RFSoC platforms to CASPER. (Three Xilinx eval boards: ZCU111, ZCU216, ZCU208. The Xilinx education platform PYNQ RFSoC 2x2. Two boards from HiTech Global: HTG-ZRF16-29DR, and the 49DR version.) For ALPACA, we have

Re: [casper] viability of VCU128 eval board as production CASPER instrument

Hi Jonathan, A couple of follow up questions (sorry for getting into nitty gritty you wanted to avoid!): 1) Are you actually using the HBM? You can get much cheaper FPGAs with similar DSP/BRAM resources without HBM (if you are using HBM, are you doing this via CASPER?!) 2) I've been using the

Re: [casper] viability of VCU128 eval board as production CASPER instrument

Hi Jonathan, On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 17:26, 'Jonathan Weintroub' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: > Hi CASPERites, > > At SAO we’ve been developing high performance instruments based on the > Xilinx VCU128 evaluation board > and

[casper] viability of VCU128 eval board as production CASPER instrument

Hi CASPERites, At SAO we’ve been developing high performance instruments based on the Xilinx VCU128 evaluation board and the Adsantec ASNT7123A 16 GS/s 4-bit direct flash ADC.