Indeed the E310 RFFE chip has clocking restrictions so that two channels are 
limited to less than 32MHz. 

I’m not certain about the E320. 

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> On May 7, 2021, at 10:45 AM, Rob Kossler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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