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15 years ago

The Highest Carrier Frequency for Stratix III

Dears All, Greetings, I was just wondering about how high I can get as an output from the the Stratix III Development Kit as a carrier frequency. I know I can use two ways to generate that...
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15 years ago

to get 1GHz carrier then you need sampling freq of 2GHz at least i.e. just output +1/-1 (no need for LUT or NCO).

Can you get Fs of 2GHz. Certainly not in the logic fabric but may be in the serdes sections. However what do you want to do with carrier. You need to carry some signal on it(modulate). Can you do that in serdes? I doubt it.

For such high sinusoid you need to find solutions from RF people.