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Polyphase DSP is some fun stuff. I helped a coworker implement a polyphase lowpass filter in Verilog a few years ago. Would like to get back to learning about it one of these days. (Hopefully an impending layoff doesn't give me the time I need to do that!)

Why'd you choose 50MHz for push/pull capability? What does application does that high of a drive frequency unlock?



Re: the 50MHz, it lets me drive a number of LED panels directly with fairly long ribbon cable runs. The goal is to run displays at 161 Hz refresh rate (23 * 7 which are both prime factors that aren't in 60 or 50 so the refresh rate won't "beat" with local illumination).

This frequency determines how many panels I can run from a single "port" which ultimately determines the maximum resolution I can use for a display.


Single port as in a single GPIO port?


Single port as in single 16 pin connector that all of these LED panels use as a defacto standard.




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