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ADC12D1800: ADC Test Pattern

Part Number: ADC12D1800

Hi,

In our design ADC12D1800 part is interfaced with Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA.

ADC is configured for DES mode operation in Demux mode interface.

I, Id, Q & Qd signals of ADC are connected to IBUFDS primitives followed by IDDR primitives in FPGA. ADC sampling clock is 1.35Ghz. When tried to capture test pattern few samples are randomly getting corrupted.

Then tried with reducing ADC sampling frequency to 400MHz and changing Data-to-DCLK phase relationship between 0 and 90. Still test pattern is getting corrupted.

Please suggest how to capture ADC test pattern properly.

  • Hi Sarath
    If the captured pattern is bad even with reduced clock frequency there may be a problem with the signal integrity in your circuit board design.
    Can you probe the differential pair signals in question near the RX pins of the FPGA to check the waveform quality?
    Best regards,
    Jim B