[hpsdr] Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ Includes RFSoC

[John Melton]

Hi Laurence,

After your presentation I had a look at these and the evaluation boards
start at about £9000.

— John

On Fri, 3 Jul 2020, 09:34 Laurence Barker, <laurence at nicklebyhouse.co.uk>
wrote:

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> They don't fall over themselves to say how much those RFSoC devices cost.
> As
> far as I know, it's quite a lot. My experiment published at SDRA2020 has a
> ZU3EG ultrascale+ Zynq, and that's on a board that sells for $250 (and some
> say as a loss leader). and the smallest RFSoC is 4 times bigger in gate
> count, and very possibly 4 times the die area so much more expensive. They
> seem to be pitched as high-end devices.
>
> The clock rate is about 32x the 122.88MHz we use for HF SDR. Increased
> averaging would have added about 2.5 bits resolution (you gain one bit per
> 4x sample rate change) so the 12 bit ADC devices would be up to around 14.5
> bits equivalent performance. I've no idea what the noise levels are like.
>
> So I have been very interested in these devices, but not managed to get my
> fingers on one yet!
>
>
>
>
>
> Laurence Barker G8NJJ
>
> laurence at nicklebyhouse.co.uk
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