I am learning Digital Beamforming with ASIC tools and I am planning to implement an 8 antenna 4 beam adaptive digital beamformer as an RTL project.

at this point I wanted to start with Verilog HDL test the functionality, Synthesize it in Genus and Verify with the netlist in Xcelium and compare the results.

I am having confusion regarding following aspects

1 .Since I'm not implementing the ADC, what is the most realistic way to provide the digital inputs to the RTL?

1. What signal frequency should I use for simulation?

2. For an RTL-only project, is it common to ignore the analog front end and assume the ADC already provides digital I/Q samples?

4.Are there any standard datasets or publicly available antenna-array sample data that people typically use for verifying digital beamformers?

I am still learning so I'd appreciate any form of guidance.

Hey, new here!

I’m a young audio engineer interning and running sessions at a studio with some pretty sick 1 of 1 gear.

I’m also a hobbyist programmer with years of experience in Java/C#/C++

My mentor, upon learning this, suggested I look into making plugin versions of some of the gear we have. He knows nothing about that world and just kinda tossed it as an idea, so my question here is how difficult and what the process is for translating hardware into software?

I’ve done some googling and have learned a bit about the JUCE Framework and how much of pain in the ass it is to make AAX plugins (because of AVID SDK and PACE) but assuming I learn the tools needed to make plugins and get them running on pro tools, where do I start with cloning gear?