C3 DRK (Digital Radio Kit)

by Colorado Electronic Product Design

Product Details

• ASIN: B001KBPIOQ
• Item model number: Spartan 3 PCI
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 4, 2008

Product Description

The Digital Radio Kit (DRK) is intended to aid in the development and test of algorithms and signal processing applications including: · Digital radio, modulator/demodulator development · Software defined radio · High speed data acquisition and signal processing · Audio data acquisition and signal processing The system combines a PCI card, an FPGA signal processing card, and a down converting digital radio card. All three cards have connectors allowing them to stack, forming a digital radio system. The kit will operate in standalone mode or the PCI card can be attached to a computer. The standard configuration for the digital radio card is the 75MHz to 150MHz band. The digital radio card is capable of transmitting and receiving RF signals. Filters, Low Noise Amplifiers, and mixers are socket-ed to simplify frequency changes. The card includes a frequency synthesizer LO and mixers for up and down conversion for transmitting and receiving. The card utilizes a 13-bit, 210 million samples per second (MSPS) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a 14-bit, 400 MSPS digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an audio codec. The acquired signals are sampled and then digitally processed by the customizable Altera Cyclone III®, 180,000 gate FPGA card. Users may customize the FPGA to implement their own algorithms. The FPGA card comes with a JTAG programming connector and a configuration PROM to retain the FPGA settings. The PCI card provides interfaces for the FPGA card to a computer PCI bus, RS232, and user push buttons. A Digital Radio reference FPGA design example and full documentation are included.