Acquisition capture design

How much data do we need to capture worst case?

80_000 samples, or 160_000 bytes (if we assume >8 bit samples)

LFE5U-45 has 108 18kbit sysMEM blocks.

18kbit is roughly equal to 2kB, so 80 EBR blocks per channel

shit

DDR2 provides up to 800Mbit/s data rates

800 / 40MHz = 20 bits, not enough to stream data out either...

huh

This may be problematic

if we chop to 20MHz and 1 byte per sample, we get 40_000 bytes per channel

This puts us at 20 EBR blocks per channel, which is feasible, 28 EBR to use for other resources

Huh, this is very marginal. Maybe should have gone with something else.

Oh well

Likely the best thing to do here, is to add icache and dcache, and put system memory behind DRAM.

And also pull code in to DRAM

Interfaces to support:

DAC for setting gain. (DAC needs to be added in hardware)

I2C to set Variable Oscillator for setting filter frequencies

Peak detector does not have an ADC on board. Given this, we should just do peak detection in gateware.

Will need to have a timer implemented as well