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Started by recoder June 10, 2009
Dear All,
 We have implemented a high speed qpsk demodulator in a FPGA
demodulator board.
Until now we fed the I and Q inputs from another board by wire.
Now we are looking for an IF board that can take a 70 Mhz RF signal
and output the I and Q signals to be fed to our FPGA board.
Can anybody recommend one?
Thanx in advance
On Jun 10, 11:44&#4294967295;am, recoder <kurtulmeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All, > &#4294967295;We have implemented a high speed qpsk demodulator in a FPGA > demodulator board. > Until now we fed the I and Q inputs from another board by wire. > Now we are looking for an IF board that can take a 70 Mhz RF signal > and output the I and Q signals to be fed to our FPGA board. > Can anybody recommend one? > Thanx in advance
Have you looked at Sundance boards? I did not try them yet but I found them when looking for the same thing. It will not be cheap but it's on the shelf (let's hope). Regards, Moti
"recoder" <kurtulmehtap@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> We have implemented a high speed qpsk demodulator in a FPGA > demodulator board. > Until now we fed the I and Q inputs from another board by wire. > Now we are looking for an IF board that can take a 70 Mhz RF signal > and output the I and Q signals to be fed to our FPGA board. > Can anybody recommend one? > Thanx in advance
There are several vendors of ADC+FPGA boards out there with a variety of form factors. They primarily target the military and other specialty signal processing markets, so they aren't generally cheap ($10k and up). Our company has had good results with boards from ICS, Ltd. (now part of GE Fanuc) and Pentek. I think Transtech has a family of FPGA boards with a variety of daughter cards for I/O and ADC. Depending on your host platform, a PCI, PMC, or PCI-Express board may be a good choice. Many of these support multiple channels of ~200 MHz ADC's (what you need for 70 MHz RF unless you want to deal with balancing quadrature sampling) feeding something like a V4 or V5 FPGA (significant part of the $$$). I wouldn't recommend rolling your own interface board as getting the signal timing on all those ADC bits is a bit tricky. That's why we tend to buy boards that have the ADC and FPGA integrated together. -Marty
Moti Litochevski <motilito@gmail.com> wrote in news:4498adf2-c6b8-4d8c-a54a-
946dc779e3c3@f16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com:

> On Jun 10, 11:44&#4294967295;am, recoder <kurtulmeh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear All, >> &#4294967295;We have implemented a high speed qpsk demodulator in a FPGA >> demodulator board. >> Until now we fed the I and Q inputs from another board by wire. >> Now we are looking for an IF board that can take a 70 Mhz RF signal >> and output the I and Q signals to be fed to our FPGA board. >> Can anybody recommend one? >> Thanx in advance > > Have you looked at Sundance boards? > I did not try them yet but I found them when looking for the same > thing. > It will not be cheap but it's on the shelf (let's hope). > > Regards, > Moti
You might take a look at our dspblo a9238 or a9248. These are I & Q boards that work with our dspblok 21369+fpga boards. Here is a link: http://www.danvillesignal.com/dspblok/dspblok-a9238-analog-devices-ad9238-hi- speed-adc-i/o-board.html (My newsreader won't let me have enough lines to remove the wrap) Al Clark Danville Signal
On Jun 10, 9:44&#4294967295;am, recoder <kurtulmeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All, > &#4294967295;We have implemented a high speed qpsk demodulator in a FPGA > demodulator board. > Until now we fed the I and Q inputs from another board by wire. > Now we are looking for an IF board that can take a 70 Mhz RF signal > and output the I and Q signals to be fed to our FPGA board. > Can anybody recommend one? > Thanx in advance
Have a look at the following hardware that would fit your specs: - DAQ I/Q data acquisition mezzanine card : http://www.sundance.com/web/files/productpage.asp?STRFilter=SMT350 - FPGA processing board : http://www.sundance.com/web/files/productpage.asp?STRFilter=SMT900 Note: Other form factors are available depending on your need. Thank you.
On 10 Jun., 10:44, recoder <kurtulmeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All, > &#4294967295;We have implemented a high speed qpsk demodulator in a FPGA > demodulator board. > Until now we fed the I and Q inputs from another board by wire. > Now we are looking for an IF board that can take a 70 Mhz RF signal > and output the I and Q signals to be fed to our FPGA board. > Can anybody recommend one? > Thanx in advance
We will have a Virtex-5 PCIe boards with a 4 channel 10 Bit ADC with up to 5 Gsps soon: http://cronologic.de/products/ Kolaj Sulimma
Kolja <ksulimma@googlemail.com> wrote in news:02857ee3-ab27-4bb9-835e-
01eb0518f323@j14g2000vbp.googlegroups.com:

> On 10 Jun., 10:44, recoder <kurtulmeh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear All, >> &#4294967295;We have implemented a high speed qpsk demodulator in a FPGA >> demodulator board. >> Until now we fed the I and Q inputs from another board by wire. >> Now we are looking for an IF board that can take a 70 Mhz RF signal >> and output the I and Q signals to be fed to our FPGA board. >> Can anybody recommend one? >> Thanx in advance > > > Kolaj Sulimma >
We have a board like this based on either ADI AD9238 or ad9248. It interfaces with a ADSP-21369 SHARC and Cyclone III combo http://www.danvillesignal.com/dspblok/dspblok-a9238-analog-devices-ad9238-hi- speed-adc-i/o-board.html Al Clark Danville Signal