Re: [casper] New Wideband Spectrometer Designs

2018-08-06 Thread Homin Jiang
Dear John: For the ADCs faster than 10Gsps, i think a bigger FPGA than ROACH2 is necessary. The speed of utrascale + FPGA is about 800/900MHz, that lead to 32 (10Gsps) or 64(16Gsps) parallel inputs to PFB/FFT. According to Rurik's equation, it needs 4 or 16 times resource of FPGA in comparison to

Re: [casper] New Wideband Spectrometer Designs

2018-08-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, John, I was speaking with Homin last week at the CASPER Hardware Porting Workshop hosted in Cape Town. He mentioned the Analog Devices 10 Gsps 12-bit ADC that I think is the same one Dan referenced. My recollection of our conversation was that the pricing was not so bad, but I could be con

[casper] New Wideband Spectrometer Designs

2018-08-06 Thread John Ford
Hi all. We're interested in wideband moderate performance spectrometers. Something that can digitize 2 (or 4) polarizations at at ~ 8 to 10 GS/s, and provide ~4K channels, full stokes, with a moderate dump rate (1 GB/sec or less). We could use 8 ROACH-2/ADC-5GS VEGAS-style spectrometer blades, 2