ReLoDAQ: Resource-Efficient, Low-Overhead 200 Gbits−1 Data Acquisition System for 6G Prototyping

Existing Data Acquisition (DAQ) systems are not suitable for increased data rates of currently proposed 6G systems. They support only unidirectional communication, cannot store large amounts of data, require resource-intensive FPGA implementations due to use of complex transmission protocols or focus only on FPGA-to-FPGA connections. In our work, we therefore introduce a DAQ system based on RFSoC FPGAs and commodity server hardware, using plain Ethernet as communication protocol to reduce complexity and overhead.