Hi Laura, 

Weird.  This is from a real sin wave in a running design?  Does i2/i4 stay
stuck at 32 when you change the amplitude/frequency of the input?

- Andrew


On 12/7/08 3:49 PM, "Laura Spitler" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm seeing some strange behavior in the ADC block in 10.1 that's part of a DDC
> design I'm working on. The board is the "classic" iADC (ADC2x1000-8). The
> input clock 400 MHz, the iBOB is running at 100 MHz and interleave mode is
> turned off. I put a SNAP block directly on the output of the ADC by
> concatenating the four 8-bit samples.
> The output traces a sine wave except that samples i2 and i4 are a constant,
> namely 32 for the I input and about 66 for the Q input when I changed my model
> to get data second input. I've done several captures, and it's always the same
> value and always i2 and i4. I don't think it's an issue with the snapshot
> because looking at the output of the mixer also shows that the second and
> fourth data streams are constant.
> Could this be an issue with demultiplexing in the ADC?
> 
> Glenn, several months ago you mentioned that you were having trouble with the
> DDC in 10.1 and captured data ADC from the ADC directly. Did you see this
> problem with i2 and i4? (And btw, I'm also getting the strange mirrored
> output, but that'll probably be another email.)
> 
> Here are a couple lines of my data (first column is sample number; ignore the
> columns with zeros; column 4 is the signed version of column 2):
> 
> 0 47 0 47 0
> 1 32 0 32 0
> 2 45 0 45 0
> 3 32 0 32 0
> 4 43 0 43 0
> 5 32 0 32 0
> 6 38 0 38 0
> 7 32 0 32 0
> 8 32 0 32 0
> 9 32 0 32 0
> 10 26 0 26 0
> 11 32 0 32 0
> 12 18 0 18 0
> 13 32 0 32 0
> 14 9 0 9 0
> 15 32 0 32 0
> 16 0 0 0 0
> 17 32 0 32 0
> 18 247 0 -9 0
> 19 32 0 32 0
> 20 239 0 -17 0
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> Laura
> 

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