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Yes, I have got the ADC evaluation board for the AD9629-40 as well as the High Speed Data Capture Kit (the exact set up from the link you sent). Do you know if it's possilbe to code the Virtex 4 on the High Speed Data Capture Kit for radio applications?
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Its your board, you can do anything you like. Since the board has a Virtex device on it, this is the wrong group to ask questions. You'll need to have a subscription edition of Xilinx's ISE tool to be able to create configurations for the FPGA.
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I am building the analog front end and the ADC onto a PCB as a prototype for product manufacturing. Initailly, my plan is to build the PCB and replace the ADC evaluation board, so it can connect to the High Speed Data Capture Kit for further evaluation using SPI controller and VisualAnalog. Then replace the High Speed Data Capture Kit with an FPGA board to develop my code in software. Does Altera have FPGA boards that can connect to the AD9629-40 ADC evaluation board ?
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Analog Devices have various adapter kits for their boards, start by looking on their site, or filing a service request there.
I'd recommend designing your board to use a standard interface, eg., HSMC if you want to use it only with Altera devices, or FMC if you want to be more general. Although given that the ADC data rate is only 40MHz, you could also just design it to work with the 100-mil expansion headers found on various Altera kits.
If you're designing the board for your own use, or for interfacing to your own various interface boards, then just select a connector that allows you to plug your boards together.
Once you've decided on what your final connector style will be, you can create an adapter board to interface to the Analog Devices evaluation board.
You could easily create an adapter board to interface that ADC kit to any of the Altera FPGA kits too.
Cheers,
Dave
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