Reply by October 24, 20122012-10-24
On Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:14:05 AM UTC-5, Thomas Heller wrote:
> I have to connect a dual 12-bit ADC with serial LVDS outputs (2-lanes per=
converter) to a spartan 6 FPGA. It would be ideal if I can use a single HD= MI connector for this. The converters I'd like to use are the ADS6224 or AD= C12S105, running at 100 MHz sample rate. They have 6 data LVDS data outputs= : 4 data lines, 1 frame clock and 1 bit clock. Since the HDMI connection on= ly has 5 differential pairs (including the HEC data lines) I had the idea t= o not connect the bit clock, but instead use the FPGA's DCM to reconstruct = the bit clock from the frame clock. Any comments on this idea? Could that w= ork? Thanks, Thomas For that to work, the frame clock from the ADC must be continuous with no g= aps or phase changes between output words. Otherwise, the PLL will not be a= ble to lock on instantly to each word. You will also not be able to read th= e first several (tens/hundreds/thousands of?) words from the ADC while the = PLL locks onto the frame clock. Andy
Reply by lang...@fonz.dk October 18, 20122012-10-18
On Oct 18, 5:14=A0pm, Thomas Heller <thel...@ctypes.org> wrote:
> I have to connect a dual 12-bit ADC with serial LVDS outputs (2-lanes > per converter) to a spartan 6 FPGA. =A0It would be ideal if I can use > a single HDMI connector for this. > > The converters I'd like to use are the ADS6224 or ADC12S105, running at > 100 MHz sample rate. =A0They have 6 data LVDS data outputs: 4 data lines, > 1 frame clock and 1 bit clock. > > Since the HDMI connection only has 5 differential pairs (including the > HEC data lines) I had the idea to not connect the bit clock, but instead > use the FPGA's DCM to reconstruct the bit clock from the frame clock. > > Any comments on this idea? =A0Could that work? > > Thanks, > Thomas
I think it could work, it would be similar to camera-link -Lasse
Reply by Thomas Heller October 18, 20122012-10-18
I have to connect a dual 12-bit ADC with serial LVDS outputs (2-lanes
per converter) to a spartan 6 FPGA.  It would be ideal if I can use
a single HDMI connector for this.

The converters I'd like to use are the ADS6224 or ADC12S105, running at
100 MHz sample rate.  They have 6 data LVDS data outputs: 4 data lines,
1 frame clock and 1 bit clock.

Since the HDMI connection only has 5 differential pairs (including the
HEC data lines) I had the idea to not connect the bit clock, but instead
use the FPGA's DCM to reconstruct the bit clock from the frame clock.

Any comments on this idea?  Could that work?

Thanks,
Thomas