So it's a hardware limitation of the AD9361 chip?
That is very unfortunate.

We were also looking at an option to build our own device based on a AD9361 + some Zync FPGA/ARM processor. But if it is a hardware limitation of the AD9361 then that would not work either.

Thanks for the info.

Best regards,
Martin


On 07-05-2021 17:23, Marcus D Leech wrote:
The E320 uses the same RFFE as the E310 so would have the same bandwidth restrictions.

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On May 7, 2021, at 10:50 AM, Marcus D Leech <[email protected]> wrote:

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] <mailto:[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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