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Trouble generating 50MHz clock digital output with myRIO-1900, sbRIO-9602, and PXI-7811R

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Hi all,

I'm trying to drive a DS92LV16 16-bit Bus LVDS Serializer/Deserializer chip using any NI FPGA I have my hands on. The problem is that this chip needs as a minimum a 50 MHz clock. My FPGA boards all have 40 MHz built-in clock, and when I use a derived 100 MHz clock to generate a 50 MHz digital output, the signal comes out weak. What is mean is the oscilloscope is showing a peak-peak amplitude of less than 1 Volt when running at 50 MHz. When I drive a 4 MHz clock through a digital I/O pin I get nice peak-peak signals around the 3.3 V needed to drive CMOS logic.

 

Can I use the myRIO-1900, sbRIO-9602, or PXI-7811R to do this? Can newer hardware help? If so what models would work? Or can I use a buffer chip to precondition the signal for driving hardware?

 

Thanks!

 


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