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HPSDR Progress Report - 02-21-2006

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 <= 250 kSPS. The 250kSPS then can be processed in the same way that we process the data from the soundcard. PowerSDR can then be modi

Linear Technology LTC2208

I have settled on the Linear Technology LTC2208 16 bit, 130 MSPS ADC for the HPSDR project. The LTC2208 has some unique features that put it ahead of offerings from Analog Devices. Here is the datasheet: http://www.linear.com/pc/downloadDocument.do?navId=H0,C1,C1155,C1001,C1150,P13693,D9659 of particular interest is the PGA, randomizer and dithering features. We completed our move into our new home last weekend. We are getting settled in and soon I will start on the Mercury board - which is based on the LTC2208.