7th RadioNet Engineering Forum Meeting:
Digital Backend Implementation: Software vs. Hardware
- Workshop Programme:
- 8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00-9.10 ReinhardKeller Welcome and Introduction
9.10-9.30 BerndKlein - "The Next Generation of Fast Fourier Transform Spectrometers (FFTS)"
9.35-9.55 SergeiPogrebenko - "Software spectrometer developments at Metsahovi Radio Observatory and JIVE"
10.00-10.20 AndreGunst08 - "Quinten: bringing LOFAR digital processing to the next level"
10.25-10.45 Coffee Break
10.50-11.10 JohnBunton - “ASKAP beamformers – NTD to Parkes”
11.15-11.35 GinoTuccari - "A Soft-Hardware balanced multiprocessor environment for flexible high data rate handling"
11.40-12.00 PascalCamino - "An Optimal Decimation Filter for a Very Large band Signal in Radioastronomy. Application to the ALMA Digital Filtering System: the Tunable Filter Bank (TFB)"
12:05 - 12:25 SteveDurand - "Digital Back End for the NRAO VLBA"
12.30-14.00 Lunch in the MPIfR Casino
14.00-14.10 AntonZensus - Directors Welcome
14.10-14.30 KoyelDas - "Polarization Conversion from Linear to Circular for VLBI and to Stokes Parameters in the DBBC "
14:35-14.55 MaikWolleben - "A Wide-Band FFT Polarimeter for Radio Astronomy Based on Commercial Hardware"
15.00-15.20 BenjaminWinkel - "RFI detection by automated feature extraction and statistical analysis"
15.25-15.45 WalterAlef - "Software vs. hardware Correlators for VLBI"
15.50-16.10 Coffee Break
16.10-16.40 KazuhiroTakefuji - "Developments of Digital Backend & Software Correlator Systems at NICT Kashima"
16.50-17.10 ArpadSzomoru - "The Uni_Board, a multi-purpose scalable computing platform for Radio Astronomy"
17.15- 17.45 DanWerthimer - "Open Source Hardware and Gateware for Radio Astronomy Backends"
17.55- 18.15 RodolpheWeber - "Overview of the backends in use or under development at the Nançay Observatory"
18.20-18.30 Concluding remarks
20.00 - ??? Social Dinner
9:00 - 18:00 Poster Session:
GinoTuccari - Fixed Multi-band Configuration for DBBC
Rym Feliachi, RodolpheWeber & Cédric Dumez-Viou - R&D on RFI mitigation at Nançay Observatory: Cyclostationary Criterions
Cédric Dumez-Viou, Laurent Denis & Philippe Zarka - R&D on RFI mitigation at Nançay Observatory: Power detectors
BenjaminWinkel, Jürgen Kerp & Stephan Stanko - RFI detection by automated feature extraction and statistical analysis
Griffin Foster, Andrew Siemion, Dan Backer et al. - Modular and Platform Independent Libraries and Toolflow for High Performance FPGA Based Signal Processing
Terry Filiba, Don Baker, Henry Chen, et al. - CASPER Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronic Research
Jason Manly, Aaron Parsons, DanWerthimer et al. - Scalable Reconfigurable FX Correlator for Radio Astronomy