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 > > ============================ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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