Intro

TODO: talk more about the project

Project Codenames

Boards, subsystems, etc are all named after famous electrical engineers.

STARSHIPRAIDER: umbrella term for the entire project
CLARKE (Edith Clarke, first female EE professor in USA): the original STARSHIPRAIDER project

Individual instrument projects are named after famous electrical engineers who made major contributions to the field of test equipment design.

All are 8 channels.

BLONDEL (Andre-Eugene Blondel, inventor of electromechanical oscillograph)
8 bit: 100 MHz / 250 - 500 - 1000 Msps
12 bit: 50 MHz / 125 - 250 - 500 Msps
4 AFE : 1 HMCAD1520
Two acquisition cards, 4 channels each
One XC7A100T-2FGG676 on main board
One DDR3 800 SODIMM on main board
DUDDELL (William Duddell, inventor of moving-coil mirror oscillograph)
250 MHz / 1 Gsps, 1 AFE : 1 HMCAD1520
ZENNECK (Jonathan Zenneck, inventor of electrically scanned CRT oscilloscope)
500 MHz / 4 Gsps, 1 AFE : 4 HMCAD1520
VOLLUM (Howard Vollum, co-inventor of triggered-sweep oscilloscope)
1-2 GHz / 10 Gsps, 1 AFE : 1 AD9213
MURDOCK (Melvin Jack Murdock, co-inventor of triggered-sweep oscilloscope)
6 GHz / 40 Gsps, 1 AFE : 4 AD9213

CONWAY (VLSI pioneer, co-author of Mead & Conway)
8-bit comparator-to-LVDS logic analyzer pod with SFF-8087 interface and high-impedance inputs
MEAD (other half of Mead & Conway)
8-bit comparator-to-LVDS logic analyzer pod with SFF-8087 interface and 50 ohm inputs
MAXWELL (James Clerk Maxwell, discovered Maxwell's Equations)
Kintex-7 ISERDESE2 based LA
TODO: Artix-7 GTP based LA??
DENNARD (Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM)
Kintex-7 GTX based LA
BRAUN (Karl Ferdinand Braun, inventor of optically scanned CRT oscilloscope and phased array) Low-bandwidth active probe ADA4817-1ACPZ-R7
HALL (discovered Hall effect) AKL-PT1 passive probe

FLEMING (John Ambrose Fleming, inventor of vacuum tube) 4 channel 16 bit 1 Gsps arbitrary waveform generator, AD9154 + Kintex-7 + DDR3 SODIMM based. 4GB DDR3 SODIMM, 1 GB per channel = 512 Mpoints of waveform data Probably some digital outputs (mix of LVDS and LVCMOS, and maybe some slow pin headers?)