005 RF Synthesizer Board - ADF4351 - Theory, Setup, Reverse Engineering, Experiments

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 The ADF4351 is an RF frequency synthesizer capable of producing tones from 37MHz to . But how well does it perform? and can it work with open source software? Show Notes: :005:notes Twitter: @OpenTechLabChan Mastadon: @opentechlab@ SubscribeStar: PayPal: Bitcoin: 18CU9LxwRuiLHy9HsuMj2vzobbW4J3QVC2