LTC2208 Mercury Board: The HPSDR project is now broken down into various sub-projects. The most important is the Mercury board which contains the LTC2208 130 MSPS ADC. The Mercury board will also contain a FPGA to do the DDC (Digital Down Conversion) function. There will probably be an option to install a Cypress FX2 USB2 microcontroller to make the board stand alone for certain applications. Otherwise the FPGA will connect to the Atlas bus. If you are not sure what Atlas is then see the Xylo list archives. I have a few LTC 2208 evaluation boards coming from Linear Technology. They should arrive this week. I want to compare the LVDS board to the CMOS board to see if there are any advantages of using the LVDS mode for the 1-70 MHz range. Initially I think I will program the on board FPGA so that the 130 MSPS from the LTC2208 are downsampled to DttSP#: After reviewing the roadmap that Flex Radio has published for the future version of PowerSDR I have decided that it does not appea...
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