Re: [psas-avionics] 2 minute hate on the MAX2769

2015-02-09 Thread Andrew Greenberg
Hey! Didn't seem *too* bad? 4 x 16 bit serial streams with all the I0's, I1's, Q0's, and finally Q1's? A few timing signals too? We're just angry because we thought (rather naively, I think) we could turn this into something we could clock in via SPI or a USART. After struggling with Maxim's

[psas-avionics] 2 minute hate on the MAX2769

2015-02-06 Thread Andrew Greenberg
While laying out the third version of the jGPS board, it suddenly occurred to me: we chose the MAX2769 because we were goaded into thinking that the serial output was actually... well, serial. And not some weird strange bizarre useless thing, as it really is. Since it's not usefully serial, we're

Re: [psas-avionics] 2 minute hate on the MAX2769

2015-02-06 Thread Ted Havelka
Hi Andrew, Not an expert, buy my intuition says use the SE4150L part. My questions then are, * will this part meet anticipated needs longer term or long enough? * will our work to use this part be transferable to a next generation design? My thought it that it is better to have higher