4.4GHz RF Synthesizer Board - ADF4351 - Theory, Setup, Reverse Engineering, Experiments

Summary

Mar 13, 2017
The ADF4351 is an RF frequency synthesizer capable of producing tones from 37MHz to 4.4GHz. But how well does it perform? and can it work with open source software?
  • 0:00:00 - Introduction
  • 0:01:38 - Board Overview
  • 0:09:28 - Software, Hardware and VirtualBox Setup
  • 0:23:15 - SPI Decoding with sigrok
  • 0:32:23 - USB Packet Capture with usbmon
  • 0:46:24 - Synthesizer Theory of Operation
  • 0:57:14 - pyadf435x Open Source Software Suite, Decompiling .Net Code
  • 1:07:29 - Testing RF output with an RTL-SDR and gqrx
  • 1:17:38 - Python Scripting Experiments and Inspectrum

ADF4351

Hardware

Software

Sigrok

ADF4351 Decoder

usbmon

circuitjs Simulations

pyadf435x

Microcontroller Tool-Chain

Cypress FX2

Credits

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