Hi David, Many thanks for your reply. Yes, we are working with the RF SoC boards for another project, so I have access to those. But for this new project, we were hoping to avoid FPGAs. We are aiming for a more simple system that will allow physics students (without FPGA experience) to perform characterisation of upmixed/down-mixed signals. Maybe using the RF SoC for just generating/re-sampling the baseband signal might be straight forward enough for this project... Regarding the available open-source PyNQ Notebooks; are these straight forward to edit, to do things like sweeping the DAC frequency?
For the analogue components, I have been looking at X-Microwave oscillators, mixers, and filters today (since posting my original message) - they look nice from what I can see. Thanks, Colm On Wed 16 Aug 2023, 11:24 AM Colm Bracken, <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Casper, > > I hope you are all well today! > > I am hoping some of you might have some advice/ideas for > easily-intefaceable RF components. > I want to purchase signal generators (~100 MHz), and a range of local > oscillators for a student project. > Ideally I am looking for components that easy to interface with via python > (or Matlab if necessary). The aim of the project is to develop a new > readout system employing both homodyne and heterodyne techniques, with RF > freq's between 4 and 8 GHz (baseband from DC to ~ 100 MHZ). > > Any useful ideas would be very much appreciated. Again, emphasis is on > ease-of interfacing. > > Kind regards, > Colm > > -- > > *Dr Colm Bracken* > Lecturer > Maynooth University Experimental Physics > > > Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. > > T: +353 1 708 3641 > E: [email protected] W: www.maynoothuniversity.ie > > Follow my work on https://nuim.academia.edu/ColmBracken > > > > And > > > Research Associate > > Astronomy & Astrophysics Section > School of Cosmic Physics > Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies > 31 Fitzwilliam Place > Dublin 2, D02 XF86 > > > > T: +353 1 440 6656 ext 352 > E: [email protected] W: www.dias.ie/2017/06/22/dr-colm-bracken > > Follow my work on https://nuim.academia.edu/ColmBracken > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CAEx9wh_RBwdZ3MWYg-rHVbxSwBczy6%3D1SFyrhG2smxDcxoyoZA%40mail.gmail.com.
