An all-in-one Software Defined Radio platform

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Do Altera's cyclone FPGA kits have the capability to use this FMC adapter board?

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This Arria V kit has an FMC connector

http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-arria-v-gx.html

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I do not have an FPGA kit yet. It may be best to select the FPGA board I need to develop the software. Then create an adapter board to interface the ADC to the particular Altera FPGA kit as you said.

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You need to be very careful to select a board that matches your data bandwidth requirements.

However, if you are trying to implement "software defined radio" why even bother with an FPGA. That would be a "hardware defined radio", albeit reprogrammable :)

Also selecting an ADC with a clock rate of 40MHz is not exactly going to get you much. Were you planning on interfacing it to a digital downconverter?

Here's a more reasonable looking SDR platform ...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform

Cheers,

Dave