[casper] FS and safe maximum drives for 1 GHz dual ADC board V1.1

2010-03-24 Thread dana whitlow
Hello, Can someone please tell me the following: FS input drive referred to the RF input connector, at perhaps about 500 MHz Burnout threshold, same location and similar frequency. Thanks much, Dana Whitlow Microwave Receiver Specialist Arecibo Observatory (787) 878-2612 ext 328

Re: [casper] FS and safe maximum drives for 1 GHz dual ADC board V1.1

2010-03-25 Thread dana whitlow
. the data sheet says the max input at the ADC is 2Vpp differential, which is 12 dB above full scale, or +10 dBm at the SMA input, assuming a sine wave input. best wishes, dan On 3/24/2010 12:34 PM, dana whitlow wrote: Hello, Can someone please tell me the following: FS input drive referred

Re: [casper] iADC scaling

2010-06-25 Thread dana whitlow
cheap RG-58 cables I once bought which do pretty well up to roughly 1 GHz, above which the loss rather abruptly becomes much higher in a spectacular fashion. Dana Whitlow (Arecibo Observatory) Dan Werthimer wrote: hi jon, there are a couple of possibilities that might explain

Re: [casper] casper Digest, Vol 39, Issue 2

2011-02-02 Thread dana whitlow
!). Regarding interleaving spurs, what happens if one adjusts the interleaving for minimal spurs at HF? Do they then get worse at LF? Dana Whitlow Arecibo Observatory On 2/2/2011 1:32 PM, Robert F. Jarnot wrote: Hong, Paul, Francois, We (at JPL) have spent a fair amount of time in the past

Re: [casper] Valon 5007 on ROACH ATX power

2011-05-06 Thread dana whitlow
Hi Danny, I'd want to take a close look at output jitter (phase noise)- you may be playing with fire if you bypass the voltage regulator and run the unit off a supply that is not squeaky-clean. Dana Whitlow Arecibo Observatory On 5/6/2011 7:43 AM, Jason Manley wrote: Hi Danny

Re: [casper] Test for Damaged ADC Board

2013-02-16 Thread dana whitlow
, in real time, most questions about whether or not the A/D was OK. Dana Whitlow Arecibo Observatory On 2/15/2013 7:01 PM, r...@physics.ucsb.edu wrote: I have been having alarming trouble with our 83000 ADC board that corresponds to the adc83000x2 block in the CASPER library. The ADC board seems

Re: [casper] Mysterious Drift in FFT Spectrum

2013-03-24 Thread dana whitlow
, and that kind of thing. Or perhaps there's a failure in your signal generator itself. Ordinary component drift is of the character of one (or a few) percent change in value occurring slowly and fairly smoothly over a span of several years. Dana Whitlow Arecibo Observatory On 3/22/2013 6:00 PM, r

Re: [casper] Roach Conduction Cooling

2013-04-16 Thread dana whitlow
at, but he didn't say how his heatsink was going to dispose of the heat. Dana Whitlow Arecibo Observatory. On 4/16/2013 7:03 AM, Francois Kapp wrote: Hi Brad, Given it's a balloon payload, what are your mass constraints? Conductive cooling is going to involve throwing metal at the problem

Re: [casper] Roach Conduction Cooling

2013-04-16 Thread dana whitlow
I didn't know about Xilinx vent holes either. My comment was based entirely on my sincere faith in Whitlow's 3rd law: Everything leaks. Although I'm no vacuum guru, I've brushed against the art enough to have learned that lesson very well. Dana On 4/16/2013 7:47 AM, Steve Maher wrote:

Re: [casper] ADC16x250-8 coax rev 2 noise

2016-09-20 Thread dana whitlow
west order bits of the ADCs. Dana Whitlow Arecibo Observatory Hi, Adam, I haven't looked at the spectral content of a terminated input before so I don’t have any comparative results, but I think the spikes you are seeing are caused by mismatched gains and/or offsets of the ADC’s interleave