Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ADC and DAC of USRP

[Ian Buckley]

Current Ettus RF daughter cards work entirely with analog signals, DAC and ADC are on the "Motherboard".

You can look at the published schematics for the model(s) you are interested to extract the part numbers.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ettus+n210+schematic

As a general rule RF broadband converters working with sampling frequencies in the hundreds of MHz consume power on the order of single digit Watts.

On Apr 5, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Nazmul Islam <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

I am investigating the ADC/DAC power consumption vs. sampling rate in different software defined radio's. Where can I get the specific ADC and DAC models that an USRP RF daughterboard (e.g. SBX) uses? If I know the model, I assume that I can go to the manufacturer's website and find the power consumption model.

In general, is the ADC/DAC power consumption of the present-day SDR's comparable to the maximum transmit power (e.g. 100 mW in SBX)? If anyone has looked at it before, please let me know.

Thanks for reading the email!

Nazmul

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Muhammad Nazmul Islam

Graduate Student
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Wireless Information & Networking Laboratory
Rutgers, USA.

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