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20 GHZ Low Noise LLRF System

Instrumentation and Detectors 2019-10-29 v1

Abstract

A 20 GHz LLRF system is being built using a two-board(RF Front End + ADC/DAC/FPGA) architecture. The RF Front End provides 8 down-converting channels and 3 up-converting channels (5.5-20 GHz RF to 0.05-3 GHz IF). Separate, phase locked, low-noise input and output LO's are generated on-board with an independent programmable frequency range of 4-20 GHz. A user input is provided so that both LO's as well as all ADC, DAC, and FPGA clocks can be locked to a supplied reference source with a frequency range from 100 MHz to 20 GHz. The IF is processed with a commercial board (HiTech Global ZRF8) based on the Xilinx ZYNQ RFSoC FPGA. The RFSoC FPGA incorporates eight 4-GSPS 12-bit ADC's with a 4 GHz analog bandwidth and eight 6.4-GSPS 14-bit DAC's. The ZRF8 is a PCIe-standard board that provides low noise ADC/DAC/FPGA clocking, 16 GB of memory, a FMC+ socket, and a 1 Gbps Ethernet port. The complete system will be housed in a standard 2U 19" rack.

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@article{arxiv.1910.11936,
  title  = {20 GHZ Low Noise LLRF System},
  author = {A. Rohlev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11936},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Invited talk at LLRF 2019 Conference, Chicago. 3 pages, 1 figure

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