Interesting FPGA board
n4tlf
n4tlf at wb4jfi.com
Tue Jan 11 16:10:12 EST 2022
The Pluto Plus looks interesting. At least it covers 2 Meters and 220,
an advantage over the Adalm-Pluto. Has anyone seen the Pluto Plus, or
any evaluation as to how good it is for SDR?
Terry
On 1/11/2022 1:02 AM, Martin wrote:
> I think it would be fun to turn a Pluto Plus
> <https://github.com/plutoplus/plutoplus> into a POE data radio. It
> would be great to use 1296 MHz or 10 GHz. It seems doable and would
> be fun to try. It would need a RF
>
> The Red Pitaya uses a Zynq 7010 and can do this
> <http://pavel-demin.github.io/red-pitaya-notes/>. I think a 7010
> would be up to the task. The Lime SDRs would be great but who knows
> when they are going to arrive.
>
> I will explore Reddit RPAN streams .
>
> --Martin
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 2:22 PM Samudra Haque
> <samudra.haque at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The zynq processor on the avnet is still supported freely in all
> the current Vivado builds. This is based upon several cycles of
> delete and installation on my poor laptop and also another Linux
> computer. What I am annoyed is that the minized support ducks so I
> wrote my own mini board definitions for a while where i figured
> put 7010s is great and I can write Vivado HDL/RTL directly to
> connect directly.
>
> But Terry what errors are you getting if you just install Vivado
> directly and then start a project selecting just the basic part
> number? It's listed as being free to license?
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 17:11 n4tlf <n4tlf at wb4jfi.com> wrote:
>
> I have several different FPGA boards and SDRs. While I have
> been partial to Xilinx (and Verilog) in the past, I have
> started playing with Altera as well - thanks to some S100 FPGA
> boards.
>
> My biggest issue with Xilinx is their tools availability. Can
> one run Vivado as a hobbyest for not a lot of money? That
> stopped me a few years ago, I could run the older tools
> associates with Spartan FPGAs, but newer FPGAs required
> Vivado, which was either hobbled so much it couldn't do much,
> or it was fairly costly.
>
> The Avnet MiniZED came with a Vivado one-use limited license,
> but it expired after one year, and won't help with a
> re-installation on a new computer.
>
> In addition to the old Spartan-series FPGAs, I have:
> Avnet Spartan 6 LX9 FPGA board
> Mimas V2 Spartan 6 FPGA board
> two Red Pitaya boards with Zynq
> Avnet MiniZed with Zynq
> Digilent ZYBO development board with Zynq
>
> I also have a Line SDR and Lime SDR Mini (uses Altera FPGAs)
>
> I almost purchased the Analog Devices Adalm-Pluto a few times
> (another Zynq device), but it's frequency coverage STARTS at
> 325MHz, a range that I'm less interested in.
>
> There is a nice book on the Zynq FPGAs, maybe available from
> Xilinx, called "The ZYNQ Book" ISBN 978-0-9929787-0-9.
> www.zynqbook.com <http://www.zynqbook.com>
>
> So, is Vivado available to hobbyests like me?
>
> Terry, N4TLF
>
> On 1/10/2022 11:59 AM, Samudra Haque wrote:
>> Thanks Martin, it would be nice to do that. I recently
>> accidentally discovered and broadcast a Reddit r/shortcircuit
>> video stream of the fpga testbed so, that system has great
>> capability like live comments and stuff. But it does take a
>> monitor and a dedicated setup. Have you the time to explore
>> Reddit RPAN streams ?
>>
>> Michael Chisena and I have talked a lot of about streaming
>> instructional electronics over thr new fangled systems... and
>> I also want to ask of anyone else is interested? Then it
>> could be a nice system to make if we used the OBS system ro
>> switch video streams of the presenters from time to time into
>> a zoom channel to support a group learning pathway .
>>
>> Zoom also works and I have a few cameras that can be switched
>> (selected) on demand.
>>
>> But if group teaching is not required. I can and want to
>> start collaboration in a technical education group towards
>> homebrew digital and analog systems.
>>
>> You may have noticed the booboo created at ORI, they just
>> find out that their matlab code can't be ported to HDL
>> without the extensive HDL converter license. Surprising they
>> didn't know this earlier and stay away from that pathway.
>> They just put out an email on this.
>>
>> It is absolutely possible to write communication modulation
>> and demodulation code as RTL and C/C++ (however ineffcient)
>> without matlab! Even BASIC could be used to do a BPSK chain
>> but of course the issues are with the matlab handy filters...
>> I think.
>>
>> So should we not try to learn about this stuff all together?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 00:42 Martin <dcmk1mr2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All & Happy New Year!
>>
>> Have you considered the ADALM-PLUTO? $229 from Digikey,
>> 7010 (vs 7007), ships today, has more interesting stuff
>> and can be reloaded with original software if SDR is
>> needed. I know it's not a dev board but people do tack
>> leads to spare GPIO pins.
>>
>> @Samudra, would you like to teach a little about FPGAs?
>> There is interest with the 50 MHz and Up club in
>> Sunnyvale. I'm too rusty to lead and it's not a
>> bad commute over Zoom.
>>
>> 73 Martin W6MRR
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 9:10 PM Samudra Haque
>> <samudra.haque at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So it may be possible to post this project to Avnet
>> Minized which is also zynq 7010s based
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 00:04 Terry Fox
>> <tfox at knology.net> wrote:
>>
>> Regarding today's discussion on tacos about
>> FPGAs, this (Blackboard) looks rather
>> interesting. It's not costly, and has some neat
>> peripherals.
>>
>> Real Digital Signal Processing - Hackster.io
>> <https://www.hackster.io/adam-taylor/real-digital-signal-processing-0bea44?mc_cid=b16a7a12ba&mc_eid=65c2c46a0c>
>>
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