Hi Martin,
I am concerned that these devices, E3xx, cannot handle 2 channels at 56
MS/s (or 61MS/s).  My understanding (but I am not 100% sure) is that these
devices can handle 1 channel at those rates, but that the max rate for 2
channels is 30.72 MS/s.
Rob

On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:41 AM Martin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Do you have experience with high bandwidth capture on E310 or E320?
>
> We want to use an E310 or E320 for 56 MSPS (or 61.44 MSPS) dual channel
> RX captures.
> We want to capture into a circular buffer and after a certain signal
> signal level is observed set a time to stop capturing after 0.3 seconds.
> So we only use the last 0.3 second of captured data.
>
> We are thinking of using a E320. This has a high speed SFP+ 10 gbit port.
> Can it stream 2 channel 56 MSPS data to a host-PC continuously to a
> host-PC? Or is the ARM processor a bottleneck, like on the E310, which
> seems to be limited to max 16MSPS due to the limited arm processor speed.
> And can it stream that fast with its default FPGA firmware image, so
> there would be no need for RFNoc work and expensive Vivado license.
>
> And if we do need the Xilinx vivado license. Which version do we need?
>
> Alternatively we could try to use the E310 which has a smaller FPGA that
> is supported by the free webpack of vivado.
> Because it does not have a 10 gbit ethernet we would have to capture to
> memory.
> I have read that the E310 arm processing is not able to keep up with
> more then 16 MSPS captures. So just streaming to the ARM memory in the
> E310 would not work.
> But if we could someway capture to the 512 MB DDR ram on the FPGA side
> (use it as a circular buffer) and afterwards slowly move it to the arm
> and from there to the host-PC then that would be fine.
>
> Alternatively I heard that high datarate (56 MSPS) capture on E310 is
> possible in some way using RFNoc. Is that true? How would that work.
>
> It would help me a lot if you give me some hints or tell me about your
> experience of high bandwidth capturing on E3XX devices.. Even if you do
> not know all the answers.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Martin Dudok van Heel
>
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