Skip to content

consolidated hardware Stabilizer+Pounder #112

@jordens

Description

@jordens

The genericism of Stabilizer is a limitation to the performance when using Pounder (input stage limited in slew rate, distortion noise to achieve flexibility, layout is tight and complex/high viscosity, component choice trade-offs, software/assembly/debugging complexity).

I'd like to consider a single board hardware variant of Stabilizer+Pounder with the following deliberations:

  • Single board (debugability, reduced complexity of mechanics, software etc)
  • Use CPU's ADC and DACs, no external ADCs, DACs
  • no PGIA, merged IF amp and ADC gain+shifting stages
  • no EEM/LVDS interface
  • design and layout revised for 70 dB RF isolation (input-output and between channels, i.e. at the level of the DDS)
  • potentially a variant with an FPGA as coprocessor: then it would be a consolidated version of FastServo+Pounder, i.e. Zynq again with external ADC

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type
    No fields configured for issues without a type.

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions