Just wanted to make sure of some things..

Thanks Scott!

Though, the ADC that I would be running would be going at a rate of about 100 mega samples per second (and faster once we get out of the evaluation boards and into somthing faster).

Normaly on an FPGA that would have a 100MHz clock, this would be perfect, but with linux running as well, would the timing be lagging? Or is it simply just that I could write the program for linux, and would run at this clock speed. Basicly asking if its a real-time operation like how a FPGA would be programmed.

And just to clarify, when I meant ADC, I mean the ADC chip itself incase you were thinking of another board with a differnt type of protocol. Im not sure if you took it as that or not, but just wanted it out there to be sure.

Im suprised that linux and another FPGA program cant be running at the time, since FPGAs can run parallel tasks, and I doubt it takes up 100% of the gates running, tho.. im sure there might be more technical details that im unaware of.

Thanks again!

-Mark