Re: [time-nuts] Really fast ADC needed

2014-10-30 Thread Neil Schroeder
Agilent and Hitite make the only monsters that I am aware of being commercially available. I have heard tell of implementing time interleaved ADCs and magical wonderous but barely stable fpga ideas. Could ask around. hol...@hotmail.com wrote: A friend of mine is looking for an ADC that can

Re: [time-nuts] Really fast ADC needed

2014-10-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 30 Oct 2014 04:48, Mark Sims hol...@hotmail.com wrote: A friend of mine is looking for an ADC that can do 5 bits at 20-40 gigasamples/second... there is a timing related component to the project. Any ideas of who makes a decent beastie? It needs to supply continuous data so things like a

Re: [time-nuts] Really fast ADC needed

2014-10-30 Thread Alexander Pummer
pipeline converter, but it needs as many clock period as the required bits, does he has the fast logic to deal with that amount of data? 73 KJ6UHN Alex On 10/29/2014 9:46 PM, Mark Sims wrote: A friend of mine is looking for an ADC that can do 5 bits at 20-40 gigasamples/second... there is a

Re: [time-nuts] Really fast ADC needed

2014-10-30 Thread Sebastian Diaz
Fujitsu used to sell ultra-fast charge mode interleaved sampler (CHAIS) ICs. These have analog bandwidths of ~20GHz and sampling rates of 65 GS/s, 8-bit resolution, with ENOB 5-6. They pipe data out at a max 128 bit* 500MHz (8 GB/s). How are you planning to digest this data stream? Regards,

Re: [time-nuts] Really fast ADC needed

2014-10-30 Thread Graham / KE9H
A startup in Massachusetts named Hypres has/had exactly what you want. It is a cryogenic delta-sigma converter using some kind of quantum logic. As I remember it did about four bits per sample at up to 40 Giga-samples per second. You have to run it submerged in liquid Helium. But they would sell

Re: [time-nuts] Really fast ADC needed

2014-10-30 Thread S. Jackson via time-nuts
He will use a beagleboard via bluetooth to absorb the data rate hahaha. Pipedream. In a message dated 10/30/2014 10:32:58 Pacific Daylight Time, ke9h.gra...@gmail.com writes: A startup in Massachusetts named Hypres has/had exactly what you want. It is a cryogenic delta-sigma

[time-nuts] Really fast ADC needed

2014-10-30 Thread Mark Sims
Oh, it gets much more fun than that... try doing it with 32 channels. I haven't a clue what this system will use... and frankly am rather glad I don't have to do it. I have built some rather large systems that were a bit ahead of their time. Early 80's did a 256,000 custom processor

[time-nuts] Really fast ADC needed

2014-10-29 Thread Mark Sims
A friend of mine is looking for an ADC that can do 5 bits at 20-40 gigasamples/second... there is a timing related component to the project. Any ideas of who makes a decent beastie? It needs to supply continuous data so things like a fancy scope won't do...