sinara-hw / FMC_Shuttler

16-channel 125MS/s 16bit DAC in FMC form factor.
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Shuttler DAC parallel LTC2000 connection #9

Closed tprzywoz closed 5 years ago

tprzywoz commented 6 years ago

I'm leaving results for future discussion.

As @gkasprow mentioned in #253 I made simulations for different FPGA output standards to check if it is possible to connect parallel LTC2000 (with internal LVDS termination) working with 150 MHz clock.

First configuration was 4 DAC to 1 IO bank of Artix-7. Only BLVDS standard meets the requirement of input voltage range (min +/- 200 mV). With 3 DAC we can use also SSTL18.

schemat3 Example of schematic with 3 DAC

blvds BLVDS simulation. Bit rate 600 Mbps.

sstl18_ii_s SSTL18 simulation. Bit rate 450 Mbps

hartytp commented 6 years ago

This is very cool work, but it's covered by #253