Sunday, January 17, 2010

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Minimum external clock for FPGA?

On 01/17/2010 07:01 PM, John Orlando wrote:
>
> It is my understanding that the current FPGA image used for OpenBTS
> will fail on the transmit side if the FPGA clock is slower than the
> USB clock. The USB clock is 48 MHz.
>
> If you (or anyone else involved) can provide the details of what the
> issue is here, I may have some time to dive in and potentially come up
> with a fix. Let me know if interested.
>
>
> Also, the GSM symbol clock is derived from 13 MHz, so if you use a
> multiple-of-13 clock, you can simplify a lot of the decimation.
>
> These two facts together led us to choose 52 MHz for the current
> OpenBTS USRP clock.
>
> Gotcha. Thanks for the quick response David.
>
> Anyone else know of any other issues that would prevent the FPGA from
> being clocked at lower speeds?


The 9862 is only spec'ed down to 10 MHz.

Matt


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