[005] 4.4GHz 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 4.4GHz. But how well does it perform? and can it work with open source software?

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