<div dir="ltr">5.8 GHz<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 10:02 PM Martin <<a href="mailto:dcmk1mr2@gmail.com">dcmk1mr2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think it would be fun to turn a <a href="https://github.com/plutoplus/plutoplus" target="_blank">Pluto Plus</a> 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 <br><br>The Red Pitaya uses a Zynq 7010 and can do <a href="http://pavel-demin.github.io/red-pitaya-notes/" target="_blank">this</a>. 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. <br><br>I will explore Reddit RPAN streams .<div><br></div><div>--Martin </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 2:22 PM Samudra Haque <<a href="mailto:samudra.haque@gmail.com" target="_blank">samudra.haque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 17:11 n4tlf <<a href="mailto:n4tlf@wb4jfi.com" target="_blank">n4tlf@wb4jfi.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.<br>
</p>
In addition to the old Spartan-series FPGAs, I have:<br>
Avnet Spartan 6 LX9 FPGA board<br>
Mimas V2 Spartan 6 FPGA board<br>
two Red Pitaya boards with Zynq<br>
Avnet MiniZed with Zynq<br>
Digilent ZYBO development board with Zynq
<p>I also have a Line SDR and Lime SDR Mini (uses Altera FPGAs)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>There is a nice book on the Zynq FPGAs, maybe available from
Xilinx, called "The ZYNQ Book" ISBN 978-0-9929787-0-9.
<a href="http://www.zynqbook.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.zynqbook.com</a><br>
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<p>So, is Vivado available to hobbyests like me?</p>
<p>Terry, N4TLF<br>
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<div dir="auto">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 ?
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<div dir="auto">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 .</div>
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<div dir="auto">Zoom also works and I have a few cameras that
can be switched (selected) on demand. <br>
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<div dir="auto">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. </div>
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<div dir="auto">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. </div>
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<div dir="auto">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. </div>
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<div dir="auto">So should we not try to learn about this stuff
all together?<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 00:42
Martin <<a href="mailto:dcmk1mr2@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">dcmk1mr2@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi All & Happy New Year!<br>
<br>
<div>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.<br>
<br>
@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. <br>
<br>
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<div>73 Martin W6MRR</div>
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9:10 PM Samudra Haque <<a href="mailto:samudra.haque@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">samudra.haque@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="auto">So it may be possible to post this project
to Avnet Minized which is also zynq 7010s based </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 9, 2022,
00:04 Terry Fox <<a href="mailto:tfox@knology.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">tfox@knology.net</a>>
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<p>Regarding today's discussion on tacos about
FPGAs, this (Blackboard) looks rather
interesting. It's not costly, and has some neat
peripherals.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.hackster.io/adam-taylor/real-digital-signal-processing-0bea44?mc_cid=b16a7a12ba&mc_eid=65c2c46a0c" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Real Digital Signal
Processing - Hackster.io</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.realdigital.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Welcome to Real Digital</a></p>
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