Interesting FPGA board

Tue Jan 11 01:02:17 EST 2022

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
>>
>> 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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