System+Overview

__**System Overview**__

Background Goals and Requirements

The overview of the system hardware is shown below. The power requirements will be explained in the section dealing with power. The power supply is housed in an aluminum box along with the RF front end circuitry. The enclosed system will accept either a battery input (two plug red/black input) or a barrel jack input from a switching regulator. Its other input is a 50-Ohm BNC input. The enclosed system output a 6V line through a barrel plug designed to power the analog-digital converter board, as well as the RF system output through another 50-Ohm BNC jack. The second box houses the FPGA board as well as the analog-digital converter board. This enclosure has a barrel plug input for the power supply for the analog-digital converter. It also has a 50-Ohm BNC jack for the input signal to the converter. The enclosure has a single USB output. The overall system is diagramed in Figure 2.0.1.



 Figure 2.0.1 – System Overview