[SI-LIST] Re: HANDLING HIGH-SPEED BURSTs

  • From: Vinu Arumugham <vinu@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kowal@xxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:04:04 -0700

How about using serial to parallel converters like MC100EP445 before the FPGA?

Thanks,
Vinu


"Kowal, Keith" wrote:

> 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
>
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