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After resolving some DMA issues I now have a working testbed running on the STM32F413 mcu. It is using the signals from the timing board to drive an AD724. It is generating a good test pattern but connections are very finicky, since I have the AD724 on a breadboard. Noise is visible and jiggling the wires is sometimes necessary to get it to work. But it will do for the time being.

In theory the output from this should be in phase with the video from my Runcam. To see if that is the case or not I need to have a working pixel switch. When I attempted to use the MAX4313 I didn’t see a picture, and when i checked the output with the scope I saw that the sync tips are being clipped off. It is attenuating the waveform when it drops below 0 volts. I will try clamping the sync tips to 1 volt to see whether it will pass the entire waveform through.

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