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SC5312A Operating & Programming Manual 

Rev 1.0.2 

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Constants Definitions 

// Parameters for storing data in the onboard EEPROM

 

#define

 MAXDEVICES 

50 

// bytes

 

#define

 MAXDESCRIPTORSIZE 

25 

// bytes

 

#define

 CALEEPROMSIZE 

32768 

// bytes

 

#define

 USEREEPROMSIZE 

32768 

// bytes

 

 

// Define labels

 

#define

 CH_I 

0x00 

#define

 CH_Q 

0x01 

#define

 RF_ATTEN1 

0x00 

#define

 RF_ATTEN2 

0x01 

#define

 RF_ATTEN3 

0x02 

#define

 RF_AMP1 

0x00 

#define

 RF_AMP2 

0x01 

 

// Define error codes

 

#define

 RESERVEDERROR 

-1 

#define

 NOTCORRECTDEVICE 

-2 

#define

 INPUTNULL 

-3 

#define

 COMMERROR 

-4 

#define

 INPUTNOTALLOC 

-5 

#define

 EEPROMOUTBOUNDS 

-6 

#define

 INVALIDARGUMENT 

-7 

#define

 INPUTOUTRANGE 

-8 

#define

 NOREFWHENLOCK 

-9 

#define

 NORESOURCEFOUND 

-10 

#define

 INVALIDCOMMAND  

-11 

 

// Define device registers

 

#define

 INITIALIZE 

0x01 

// initialize the device

 

#define

 SET_SYSTEM_ACTIVE 

0x02 

// set the 

device “a

ctive

 LED

 

#define

 RF_FREQUENCY 

0x10 

// set the frequency 

#define

 RF_AMPLIFIER 

0x12 

// enable amplifiers 

#define

 RF_ATTENUATION 

0x13 

// set attenuation for digital step attenuators

 

#define

 RF_PATH 

0x14 

// select the RF path

 

#define

 RF_FILTER_SELECT 

0x15 

// manually select the RF filter 

#define

 LO_FILTER_SELECT 

0x16 

// manually select the LO filter

 

#define

 LO_OUT_ENABLE 

0x17 

// enable LO output

 

#define

 IF_GAIN_DAC 

0x18 

// set the I and Q chain IF gain 

#define

 VCOM_OUT_DAC 

0x19 

// sets common output voltage 

#define

 DC_OFFSET_DAC 

0x1A 

// sets the DC offset 

#define

 LINEARITY_DAC 

0x1B 

// sets the linearity DAC (0 to 0xFFF)

 

#define

 STORE_STARTUP_STATE 

0x1D 

// store the current state as default

 

#define

 USER_EEPROM_WRITE 

0x1F 

// write a byte to the user EEPROM

 

#define

 GET_DEVICE_STATUS 

0x20 

// read the device status 

#define

 GET_TEMPERATURE 

0x21 

// get the internal temperature of the device 

#define

 USER_EEPROM_READ 

0x23 

// read a byte from the USER EEPROM 

#define

 CAL_EEPROM_READ 

0x24 

// read a byte from the calibration EEPROM 

 

 

 

Содержание SC5312A

Страница 1: ...SC5312A 400 MHz to 6 GHz IQ Demodulator PXI Express Interface Operating and Programming Manual 2013 2020 SignalCore Inc support signalcore com...

Страница 2: ...guring the SC5312A 4 RF Signal Connections 6 Baseband Connections 7 Indicator LED 7 SC5312A Theory of Operation 8 Overview 8 RF Input Section 8 LO Input Section 10 IF Output Section 11 SC5312A Program...

Страница 3: ...put Linearity of the IQ Demodulator 15 Storing the Startup State 15 Writing to the User EEPROM 16 Querying the SC5312A Writing to Request Registers 17 Reading the Device Temperature 17 Reading the Dev...

Страница 4: ...RT OF SIGNALCORE INCORPORATED SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT THERETOFORE PAID BY THE CUSTOMER SIGNALCORE INCORPORATED WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOSS OF DATA PROFITS USE OF PRODUCTS...

Страница 5: ...materials and the categorical amount present in our products are shown below Model Name Lead Pb Mercury Hg Cadmium Cd Hexavalent Chromium Cr VI Polybrominated biphenyls PBB Polybrominated diphenyl eth...

Страница 6: ...SOFTWARE UNANTICIPATED USES OR MISUSES OR ERRORS ON THE PART OF THE USER OR APPLICATIONS DESIGNER ADVERSE FACTORS SUCH AS THESE ARE HEREAFTER COLLECTIVELY TERMED SYSTEM FAILURES ANY APPLICATION WHERE...

Страница 7: ...e specifications The SC5312A is designed to be sufficiently cooled in either all PXIe chassis or PXIe hybrid chassis PXI Express chassis with traditional PXI slots However certain environmental factor...

Страница 8: ...v 1 0 2 5 The SC5312A is a PXIe based IQ demodulator with all I O connections and indicators located on the front face of the module as shown below Each location is discussed in further detail below F...

Страница 9: ...trapped inside the connector may take several days to fully evaporate and may degrade measurement performance until fully evaporated Tighten all SMA connections to 5 in lb max 56 N cm max RF Signal C...

Страница 10: ...ration it is recommended to terminate the other half of the differential pair using a 50 terminator All baseband connectors are MCX female Indicator LED The SC5312A provides visual indication of impor...

Страница 11: ...d high signal amplitude or too soft low signal amplitude When the device is driven hard nonlinear effects dominate the system When driven too softly signal to noise dynamic range suffers A general rul...

Страница 12: ...ocm Variable Diff Amp Vocm Vocm Out Diff Amp IQ Demodulator Linearity Dac 90 0 i i 50W 50W RF Amp 1 RF Amp 3 RF Amp 2 9 Selectable RF Filters 9 Selectable LO Filters LO Amp 2 LO Amp 1 Gain Selectable...

Страница 13: ...situ equalization to remove IQ errors such as phase imbalance and quadrature gain offsets that are inherent to the device Providing this auxiliary path makes the task of characterizing the system with...

Страница 14: ...of the device This is not a hard requirement and the user will need to adjust the voltage levels to suit their specific requirements As an example setting to some other voltage may be required to opt...

Страница 15: ...t computer should identify the device and load the appropriate driver For more information please see the SC5312A_Readme txt file also located under the Win directory A LabVIEW API is provided and it...

Страница 16: ...Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 INITIALIZE 0x01 7 0 Mode SET_SYSTEM_ACTIVE 0x02 7 0 Enable SYS LED RF_FREQUENCY 0x10 7 0 MHz Frequency Word 7 0 15 8 MHz Frequency Word 15 8 23 16 MHz Frequen...

Страница 17: ...ta is sent as a 40 bit word with the LSB in Hz Setting RF Input RF Amplifiers RF_AMPLIFIER 0x12 This register enables or disables the RF amplifiers Setting bit 0 low 0 disables the RF amplifier Settin...

Страница 18: ...Offset in Differential Amplifiers DC_OFFSET_DAC 0x1A The DC offset between the and terminals of the differential amplifier output can be minimized by writing this DAC Varying the DAC value from 0 to 1...

Страница 19: ...EEPROM for the user to store data User data is sent one byte at a time and is contained in the last least significant byte of the three bytes of data written to the register The other two bytes contai...

Страница 20: ...st 14 bits 13 0 Bit 13 is the polarity bit indicating whether it is positive 0x0 or negative 0x1 For an ENDPOINT_IN transfer data is returned in 2 bytes with the MSB first The temperature value repres...

Страница 21: ...0x8000 will return data stored in address location 0x0000 The calibration EEPROM map is shown in Table 5 All calibration data whether floats unsigned 8 bit unsigned 16 bit or unsigned 32 bit integers...

Страница 22: ...M map EEPROM ADDRESS HEX NUMBER OF DATA POINTS TYPE DESCRIPTION 0 1 U32 Manufacturing Information 4 1 U32 Product serial number 8 1 U32 RF module number C 1 U32 Product manufacture date 24 1 F32 Firmw...

Страница 23: ...ce sc5312a_SetFrequency sc5312a_SetRfGain sc5312a_SetRfAmplifier sc5312a_SetRfPath sc5312a_SetLoOut sc5312a_SetRfAttenuation sc5312a_SetRfFilter sc5312a_SetLoFilter sc5312a_SetIfGainDac sc5312a_SetVco...

Страница 24: ...set the device active LED define RF_FREQUENCY 0x10 set the frequency define RF_AMPLIFIER 0x12 enable amplifiers define RF_ATTENUATION 0x13 set attenuation for digital step attenuators define RF_PATH...

Страница 25: ...rl H to assist with understanding the input and output parameters Function sc5312a_ListResources Definition int sc5312a_ListResources char visaResource unsigned int size Output char visaResource point...

Страница 26: ...r specified by the commandByte See the register map on Table 2 for more information Example To set the frequency to 2 GHz Declaring char visaResource char malloc sizeof char 10 10 devices unsigned int...

Страница 27: ...l mode set the mode of initialization Description sc5312a_InitDevice initializes resets the device Mode 0 resets the device to the default power up state Mode 1 resets the device but leaves it in its...

Страница 28: ...char attenuator unsigned char atten Input unsigned int deviceHandle handle to the opened device unsigned char attenuator selects the attenuator to program unsigned char atten attenuation value 0 31 d...

Страница 29: ...the differential amplifiers The default factory setting is 2008 Function sc5312a_SetDcOffsetDac Definition int sc5312a_SetDcOffsetDac unsigned int deviceHandle unsigned char channel unsigned short dac...

Страница 30: ...sc5312a_GetDeviceInfo unsigned int deviceHandle deviceInfo_t devInfo Input unsigned int deviceHandle handle to the opened device Output deviceInfo_t devInfo device info struct Description sc5312a_Get...

Страница 31: ...gned char byteData Input unsigned int deviceHandle handle to the opened device unsigned int memAdd EEPROM memory address Output unsigned char byteData the read back byte data Description sc5312a_ReadU...

Страница 32: ...receive a factory calibration The SC5312A is sold as a component and users will need to perform amplitude and IQ correction as part of their system which may minimally include a digitizer LO source an...

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