Looking for a FPGA board

I'm looking for a FPGA OEM module for analog signal processing
which contains the following:

- medium size spartan 3 or spartan 6 FPGA
- 2 ADCs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, at least 14 (better 16) bit resolution
- 2 DACs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, 16 bit resolution
- plus quite some digital I/O lines
- on-board memory would be a plus, but it is not required

Does such a board exist in the price range up to 500 USD?

Thanks,
Thomas

>I'm looking for a FPGA OEM module for analog signal processing
..

Analog(ue) signal process normally involves a lot of Op Amps from which
filters, multipliers, differentiators, integrators and similar can be
constructed. No ADCs or DACs.

If you want to do digital signal processing, an FPGA with a lot of MAC
blocks (such as the DSP48 in Xilinx FPGAs) is what you will need.
	   
					
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Am 13.07.2011 08:50, schrieb Thomas Heller:
> I'm looking for a FPGA OEM module for analog signal processing
> which contains the following:
>
> - medium size spartan 3 or spartan 6 FPGA
> - 2 ADCs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, at least 14 (better 16) bit resolution
> - 2 DACs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, 16 bit resolution
> - plus quite some digital I/O lines
> - on-board memory would be a plus, but it is not required
>
> Does such a board exist in the price range up to 500 USD?

> Am 13.07.2011 11:44, schrieb RCIngham:
>> Analog(ue) signal process normally involves a lot of Op Amps from which
>> filters, multipliers, differentiators, integrators and similar can be
>> constructed. No ADCs or DACs.
>>
>> If you want to do digital signal processing, an FPGA with a lot of MAC
>> blocks (such as the DSP48 in Xilinx FPGAs) is what you will need.

Of course I meant digital signal processing ;-).
That is the point of the ADCs and DACs connected to the FPGA.

If it's a one off then probably not. But of it is anything more e.g.
for an OEM manufacturing cycle we might be able to do something. We
are working on a few things like this.

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd.

On Jul 13, 7:50=A0am, Thomas Heller <thel...@ctypes.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for a FPGA OEM module for analog signal processing
> which contains the following:
>
> - medium size spartan 3 or spartan 6 FPGA
> - 2 ADCs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, at least 14 (better 16) bit resolution
> - 2 DACs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, 16 bit resolution
> - plus quite some digital I/O lines
> - on-board memory would be a plus, but it is not required
>
> Does such a board exist in the price range up to 500 USD?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas

On 07/12/2011 11:50 PM, Thomas Heller wrote:
> I'm looking for a FPGA OEM module for analog signal processing
> which contains the following:
>
> - medium size spartan 3 or spartan 6 FPGA
> - 2 ADCs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, at least 14 (better 16) bit resolution
> - 2 DACs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, 16 bit resolution
> - plus quite some digital I/O lines
> - on-board memory would be a plus, but it is not required
>
> Does such a board exist in the price range up to 500 USD?

_Dig_ through Xilinx's and Avnet's web pages.  The last time I did real 
FPGA design Xilinx pointed you to Avnet for a Spartan 6 board, and that 
board had a dock for a daughter card, and Avnet had a _bazillion_ 
daughter cards.

A daughter card with ADC and DAC would be a no-brainer.  At the speeds 
you're looking for, you should probably stick the keyword "video" into 
your search terms, look carefully at the data conversion hardware to 
make sure it isn't specific to some video mode, and make sure you're 
sitting down when you look at the price.

Here: this only misses your target price by a factor of 8: 
http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/AES-V6DSP-LX240T-G.htm.

This one is well within your price range, but I didn't look to see how 
fast the data conversion is:
http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/HW-SPAR3A-SK-UNI-G.htm

You get the idea.  Good luck.

-- 

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

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"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" was written for you.
See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html

On 13 Jul., 11:44, "RCIngham"
<robert.ingham@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.gmail.com> wrote:

> Analog(ue) signal process normally involves a lot of Op Amps from which
> filters, multipliers, differentiators, integrators and similar can be
> constructed. No ADCs or DACs.

This is an ambiguity in english language. Analog signal processing
could be:
a) analog processing of a signal
b) processing of an analog signal

b) can be performed by digitization followed by digital processing

The standard example of this language construct is the "german
prisoner of war camp",
where you can't tell whether the prisoners or the guards are german.

Kolja

You would probably be best just to buy a card with an FMC connector and
develop your own daughter board.

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> - medium size spartan 3 or spartan 6 FPGA
> - 2 ADCs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, at least 14 (better 16) bit resolution
> - 2 DACs, sampling rate > 50 MHz, 16 bit resolution
> - plus quite some digital I/O lines
> - on-board memory would be a plus, but it is not required

Check terasic:
http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=73&No=278&PartNo=1
or
http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=73&No=360&PartNo=1

then any development kit which You like and can afford from Altera, which 
has HSMC connector. 

Kolja Sulimma <ksulimma@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On 13 Jul., 11:44, "RCIngham"
><robert.ingham@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Analog(ue) signal process normally involves a lot of Op Amps from which
>> filters, multipliers, differentiators, integrators and similar can be
>> constructed. No ADCs or DACs.
>
>This is an ambiguity in english language. Analog signal processing
>could be:
>a) analog processing of a signal
>b) processing of an analog signal
>
>b) can be performed by digitization followed by digital processing
>
>The standard example of this language construct is the "german
>prisoner of war camp",
>where you can't tell whether the prisoners or the guards are german.

Which is why they invented context.

-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
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Am 13.07.2011 20:44, schrieb maxascent:
> You would probably be best just to buy a card with an FMC connector and
> develop your own daughter board.

FMC, PMC, XMC, HSMC - a lot of 'standards'.  However, this is one 
possibility.

Thanks,
Thomas