Dual Link JESD setup for independent DAC cores

Hi Sourav,

Link 0 corresponds to DAC0 and link1 to DAC1. The physical lanes can be optionally remapped to different logical lanes, of which the first half will correspond to link0 and the second half to link1, as described in the screenshot below. 

Your JESD mode will be duplicated per link. If you use mode 4 each link uses 4 lanes and 2 complex channels per DAC. You can set the NCOs/gain/etc differently for each link datapath, but the I/Q data is the same for both. Is that what you are asking?

Can I work with disabling channel NCO,& just using the channel Interpolation (since the mode I want to go for(mode 4), I have to use both channel & main interpolation to get a desired lane rate that the device can operate with). Actually I wanted to use only main NCO.

Any suggestions please on the same.

1. Yes you can leave 0x308-30B as is, the default mapping is each physical lane corresponds to the same numbered logical lane.

2. Yes, you can use both channel and main interpolation and only the main NCO.

Yeah, looks proper! Got it.

I have a one more concern to discuss about.

Looking at table 13, for the modes 8 & 9, it says to have 2 channels/DAC core, according to which value for M should be 4 per link. But Table 15 claims to have M=2 for mode 8 & 9, which is technically not possible with complex dual channel/DAC. 

Needed some clarification on the same please.

Provided that I want to go for Default Modulator switch configuration(real inputs to each DAC core coming from their respective data path), I think that should be possible to achieve with modes 8 & 9.Correct?

Yes, modes 8 and 9 used in the default modulator switch configuration have M=2, 1 channel per core. The note in table 13 showing 2 channels per core is only valid in the below modulator switch setup: each main datapath has a single complex channel, but the two are summed after the main NCOs and sent to a single daccore, which is what is meant by 2 channels per core. If you do not use configuration 3 then the single channel-fed main datapaths go straight to each dac, and you have 1 channel per dac.

Another note is that the 2464 iBW listed for modes 8/9 in your screenshot is also only valid using the modulator switch config below, where two wideband channels are summed into one dac. In the default config you will have 1540*0.8=1232MHz iBW.

Yes, modes 8 and 9 used in the default modulator switch configuration have M=2, 1 channel per core. The note in table 13 showing 2 channels per core is only valid in the below modulator switch setup: each main datapath has a single complex channel, but the two are summed after the main NCOs and sent to a single daccore, which is what is meant by 2 channels per core. If you do not use configuration 3 then the single channel-fed main datapaths go straight to each dac, and you have 1 channel per dac.

Another note is that the 2464 iBW listed for modes 8/9 in your screenshot is also only valid using the modulator switch config below, where two wideband channels are summed into one dac. In the default config you will have 1540*0.8=1232MHz iBW.

Okay..so this was the point I was missing.

I would go with default configuration for mode switch for mode 8/9.

Could you please g through this one raised a few days back by me. You can just give some insight to it.  Dual link JESD mode in AD RTL FPGA 

Thanks