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18 years ago

Dev kit for LVDS and memory intesive operation

Hi,

I am currently working on a new DAQ system for our project (64 channels, 500kHz sampling rate, or 1Msample), and I will use the AFE5805 from TI as analog frontend.

The output of this chip are 10LVDs pairs. I am looking for a dev kit which has 10 LVDS inputs, an ethernet port and about 256MB ram (or a bit more) and some more general purpose IO? Any suggestions are very welcome!

Kind regards

Jan

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    Altera_Forum
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    18 years ago

    The Altera Cyclone III 3C120 board seems to meet your requirements.

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    18 years ago

    the board looks nice, but I was thinking of a more powerfull fpga as we want to use the fpga's also for array processing the incomming data. So lots of fast multipliers are welcome... But the 280 in the cyclone III are already a good start... :)

    As I need 4 of the boards (every board will handle 16 channels) the price should not be to high

    more suggestions?
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    18 years ago

    The Altera Stratix III Dev Kit uses a Stratix III 3SL150F1152 device. It has plenty of LVDS I/O using its HSMC ports.