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16 years ago

Need advices on FPGA for telecom apps

Hi, I'm new to these forums so please let me know if this is the wrong place to post. I'm also quite new to the FPGA world (I've been using for 1 month a DE1 evaluation board with an Altera's ...
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16 years ago

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In the altera development kits (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/kit-dev_platforms.jsp), you can have a look at the different DSP Development kits. They all have over-100MSPS converters.

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Thanks for the hint. It turns out that I didn't look at the most obvious place, sorry. Indeed the DSP DevKits include suitable ADC/DACs!

I need to look into some other details however. For example the "DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition" board features a 100Mhz on-board oscillator (even if it mounts a 165-MSPS DAC) and the possibility to provide an external clock.

If I'd need to use the DAC at its maximum performances (say 150MSPS) should I use an external clock source?

Thanks again!

Francesco