Hi, I'm on a design that requires 2 fast ADC (14bit 100Ms/s) and an FPGA. So far all all plans were based on parallel data to the FPGA, but I must confess these new serial ADC's are tempting specially the ADS6244 that fits perfectly with my intentions. (2ch 14bit 125Ms/s in a single package and a few lvds lines only interfacing the FPGA) But I fear the interfacing to an ALtera CycloneIII. The required will be; serial data at 700Mb/s and serial clock at 350MHz (DDR) I would certainly be confident with one of the high end FPGA's but I can't use anything except the low cost ones ;-) I have no problem in doing a proper layout with all cares about line length and impedances but... Is that what it takes and the rest is easy enough ? I do fear input and inside the FPGA... too marginal for a CycloneIII to do ?.... is it too hard/difficult ? does a shift register and word transfer register design described in VHDL, suffice for the input deserializer or something fancier is needed ? Or in the end... Will I be better off with parallel bus ADC's ? I'm having trouble to decide myself... I'll be very happy to hear some comments please. Thanks. Luis C.
CycIII Intefacing these new serial ADC's
Started by ●January 16, 2009