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15 years agoAdvice on High Speed DIO
I am working on a PCB that is using an Cyclone III FPGA that is connecting to many ADCs and DACs in parallel. The ADC/DAC peripherals are all SPI devices and I want to interface with them at 150MHz ...
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15 years agoYou say you have SPI devices and you "want to interface with them at 150MHz to 200MHz". However, its not up to you, it's up to the devices :)
I have never heard of the SPI bus operating at this clock speed. Do you happen to have part numbers you can reference? If you need to have a single FPGA that interfaces to multiple high-speed ADCs and DACs, I would recommend considering using an FPGA with SERDES interfaces, and using those to interface to ADCs/DACs that use the JEDEC JESD204A standard, i.e., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jesd204 NXP has parts, as do other vendors. http://www.nxp.com/campaigns/fasttrackyourdesign/index.php?sub=cgv What sampling frequency were you expecting to operate these devices at? Cheers, Dave