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14 years ago

FPGA PCB desing considerations

Hi, I am currently working on a data acquisition system that includes an ADC, a SRAM memory chip and an FPGA. The main idea here is to sample the waveforms with the ADC, feed the data to ...
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14 years ago

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Why not using FPGA receive the ADC data directly?

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Absolutely. Interfacing the ADC with RAM chips requires a lot of special logic in any case. Using the FPGA for this purpose will be the obvious solution in most cases.