Stm32f103 chip TIM3 and TIM8 of the ordinary PWM output conflict? - pwm

I am designing a device that outputs 25 PWM at the same time. The chip model is stm32f103rf. However, when I find the information, see the Internet was said TIM3 and TIM8 PWM output conflict, can only choose one of them. I went to the ST company to find this chip information did not see this problem, so I would like to know, in practical applications, TIM3 and TIM8 PWM output will not be a conflict. Thank you!

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Any FPGA ability to analyze on-board?

I am working with the Digilent Basys3 board, and have a project where the simulation's timing diagram doesn't reflect what actually happens on the board. This discrepancy makes it difficult to troubleshoot, because I can't get an accurate timing diagram on the hardware.
From the Basys3 reference manual, it says that "the system edition includes an on-chip logic analyzer" -- does this mean that I can get a timing analysis from the board, without using a digital analyzer? Also, do digital analyzers show all the signals from a board, or only those output via PMODs? Because my project uses all of the available PMOD ports, so if it requires free PMOD ports, it would be useless even if I had one.
They're probably implying that you can use the Vivado ILA (formerly Chipscope) to debug the internals of your FPGA design. Take a peek on YouTube for Xilinx Vivado ILA and you should be able to find some videos that give a good overview of this process.

Is it possible to extract antenna's radio signal (analog) input samples with RFID FX7500?

I need to do some NON-STANDARD signal processing operations with an RFID-reader, so I'd like to know if it is possible to extract antenna's individual analog (actually digital samples right after ADC) input signal samples with Motorola FX7500 (if you know how this works on FX7400 or FX9500, please do tell, could be helpful). Samples would be processed in a JAVA-based host computer program.
What I've already tried:
Investigating Motorola's own RFID3 API's possibilities, it doesn't go deep enough to actually get in touch with input analog signal samples.
Using LLRP to its full extent, it doesn't allow analog signal sample access either. RFsurvey-functionality would have been helpful to some extent, but FX7500 doesn't support it either.
Accessing RFID-reader's linux terminal, trying to find the driver function(s), that could listen the input sample stream. If current input sample(s) could be extracted from the input stream, I could (in theory) make a script, that would save a few of those sample values in a txt-file in the host computer during a tag inventory round. My linux skills are kinda bad, hence I ask this question.
The only realistic way to solution seems to be via linux terminal, so if you folks have any ideas about that (where to look and what to do), please advise!
Contents of reader:
rfidadm#FX7500abcdef:/$ ls -1
apps
bin
dev
etc
home
include
lib
linuxrc
media
mnt
platform
proc
readerconfig
run
sbin
sys
tmp
usr
var
I cannot completely rule that out, but it's highly unlikely you can get the raw signal digitized; the devices you're looking at aren't really software defined radio devices, typically.
"speaking" RFID physically is a bit different from "usual" wireless communication: The reader doesn't only observe the energy transmitted from the tag, but more importantly the fluctuations of energy extracted from the near field of the reader's antenna coil. Hence, you don't actually have a baseband of RF bandpass signal, but hardware-specific modulations of transmitted (and inversely, antenna-reflected) energy. Demodulation is hence usually done in specialized hardware.
However, do not fret: It's totally possible to build a software defined RFID reader. There have been several approaches to that, but personally, I trust these based on Ettus USRPs and/or GNU Radio best. Look through the results IEEExplore gives you, eg. this search.
Most probably this is not possible with the Motorola readers. What you can do, is use one of the RFID chipsets available on the market: either the AMS RFID IC's, or the Impinj RFID IC's. As far as I know, both IC's support retrieving the digital samples that are received. They also have a development kit to test-drive the IC's.

How to vary the supply voltage for Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA ML501, ML506, and ML510 boards?

I'm trying to do an experiment to see how different supply voltages affect the frequency of ring oscillator and the reliability of SRAM cells. I have access to a couple of Xilinx Virtex-5 boards, namely, ML501, ML506, and ML510. I have tried to search the web, but so far I haven't found anything useful. I have some experiences with FPGA design, but I have never tried to change the supply voltage before. So I'm really clueless on how to start. Can someone (who have done similar projects) please tell me how to vary the supply voltage of those FPGA boards?
I don't think you can easily change the power on those boards. They are using small power bricks with pre-defined power, so it will not be an easy task to change them, unless if you remove them and replace them with external power.
But, you have to be careful, you must make sure that all the power is stable and correct before the FPGA is loaded, otherwise you may damage your (expensive) FPGAs.

How would i program analog to digital conversion using a microconroller in c

Im doing a dsp project and i want to take an anolog file and convert it to a digital output using a microconroller attached to a ADC on a dsp board. How would i program this in c?
Pretty much its as simple as that, atleast i think.
This is what i need.
Input --------- Output
Angolog --> Digital
Digital --> Anolog
You really need to clarify your question. Like what do you mean by analog file? File systems are binary from a programming perspective, sure the media is magnetic or other technologies and there is analog involved. An ADC goes from Analog to Digital, so it is an an analog input not a digital output.
ADC analog to digital converter, takes analog inputs to the device and converts them to digital so you can use them inside the chip, program, save to files, etc.
DAC digital to analog converter, takes digital values and converts them to analog outputs.
In both cases you need to look at the specific details for the chips and the board. From a programming perspective if nothing else you need to look into the details for the ADC and or DAC. Microcontrollers having an ADC is not uncommon, but you need to read up on how to get the ADC on that microcontroller to initiate a sample, how to know when the sample has completed and how to read the digital data once the sample has been taken. DACs are often external, sometimes serial, so you may have to bit bang spi or i2c or look into what hardware the microcontroller might have for speaking spi or i2c or if there is a dac in the microcontroller, how to use it (what registers to write, etc).
If you have a specific publicly available microcontroller board, for example an eval board, then that makes it much easier for folks here or elsewhere to show you where to look for the schematics, data sheets, etc. Otherwise, even knowing exactly which microcontroller and what I/O pins are used, would be helpful when asking such a question. There are probably lots of example programs out there that could be borrowed from. And it could be as simple as a few lines of C to an existing library, or as complicated as many lines of C with interrupt service routines, and possibly some assembler.
This is extremely dependent on your hardware and there's no information in the question that would enable a real answer.
In general, you should see the documentation for your system, especially the AD/DA parts. There should be good examples. If there's a particular problem, post a more specific question.

DWT in Verilog(FPGA Implementation)

Can anyone tell me how to write a verilog code for DWT of an image and download in to fpga.
Actually my project is to write a verilog code to perform discrete wavelet transform of a medical image, can anyone frame the logic or if have the code can you send me, please
I am using xilinx virtex 2 pro..
This one is in VHDL instead of Verilog, but might still provide at least some inspiration.
Generally FPGA's come with software for programming them. Depending on manufacturer those packages are different. But most of FPGA manufacturers(Xilinx, Altera, etc) ship tools to program their chips.
Besides that there are few 3rd party tools:
http://www.synopsys.com/Solutions/EndSolutions/FPGASolution/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.aldec.com/Products/default.aspx

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