Hi, Take a look at Altera's FPGA family and their latest chips related to clock recovery, LVDS ,etc. good luck keith kowal Digital Networks, LLC -----Original Message----- From: Lyke James Civ AFRL/VSSE [mailto:lyke@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 9:32 AM To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] HANDLING HIGH-SPEED BURSTs In a high-speed data capture application, we are looking at data incoming rates as high as 2GSAMPS in a burst. Even though on average the data rates are low enough to process in a very high end FPGA (obviously desirable for flexibility), the burst rate (up to 65536 samples at a time) is impossibly fast. Of course, things like "FIFO" come to mind, but I have been unable to locate any component that operates at that rate? Does anyone know of an approach that does not involve spinning a custom GaAs ASIC to handle this "bursty" problem? jim ============================ Jim Lyke, AFRL/VSEE, 505-846-5812 / fax 853-3393 I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy, "Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?" He said, "I don't know." I said, "I don't want your job." -- Steven Wright ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu