1st RadioNet Engineering Forum Meeting: Workshop on Digital Backends.
Workshop Program:
9:00 - 9:10 Opening - Welcome (Reinhard Keller, Walter Alef)
9:10 - 9:30 "FPGAs -- A revolutionary technique for realizing high flexible FFT spectrometers at Bonn"
StephanStanko; University Bonn and Bernd Klein, MPIfR.
9:40 - 10:10 "FPGA spectrometers for GALFA and SETI at UC Berkeley"
JeffMock; Berkeley, CA.
10:20 - 10:50 "The ETH-Zurich FFT Radio spectrometer ARGOS"
ChristianMonstein; ETH Zuerich.
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:40 "Polyphase Digital Filterbanks in Theory and Practice"
DickFerris; CSIRO.
11:50 - 12:20 "The EVN DBBC Project "
GinoTuccari; IRA Noto (GinosAbstract)
12:30 - 13:00 "Wide-Band Down Conversion and Channelisation Techniques for FPGA"
EdwardFry; RF Engines LTD
13:10 - 14:10 Lunch
14:10 - 14:40 "Digital receiver for the ALMA correlator"
GianniComoretto, B. Quertier, A. Gunst; Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri.
14:50 - 15:20 "Consequences of Front-End versus A/D Non-Linearities"
HansHinteregger; MIT Haystack Observatory.
15:30 - 16:00 "Digital coherent summation of the Plateau de Bure antenna signals"
MarcTorres; IRAM.
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:50 "A modular approach to Digital Backends"
JuokoRitakari; Metsahovi Radio Observatory.
17:00 - 17:20 "Digital Base-Band Converters in the LBA"
DickFerris; CSIRO.
17:30 - 17:50 "Remote Station Architecture for LOFAR"
AndreGunst, G.W. Kant and C.M. de Vos; ASTRON, NL.
18:00 End of Session
19:30 Reception and Dinner at Gasthaus Nolden, Bonn-Endenich
Poster Session:
Posters will be displayed all day and there will be enough time during the breaks.
"BEE2: A Multi-Purpose Computing Platform for Radio Telescope Digital Signal Processing Applications"
- Chen Chang, Dan Werthimer, John Wawrzynek, Bob Broderson, Melvin Wright; UC Berkeley
"The SERENDIP V Spectrometer"
- Aaron Parsons, Dan Werthimer, Jeff Mock, M. Dexter; UC Berkeley.
"A Baseband Receiver Architecture for Medium-N SKA"
- Dick Ferris; CSIRO.
"A Wideband Upgrade for the Australia Telescope Compact Array"
- Dick Ferris; CSIRO.
"A 2GHz Digital Filterbank Correlator"
- Dick Ferris; CSIRO.
"High Speed Digitisers for Radio Astronomy using InP HBTs"
- Dick Ferris; CSIRO.
"Impulse Sampling and Photonic A/D Conversion in the SKA"
- Dick Ferris; CSIRO.
"An Italy-China collaboration for the "miniDBBC" development"
- G. Tuccari, W. Wenren, S. Buttaccio, G. Nicotra, Y. Xiang, R. Zhu; IRA Noto.
"Improved Systems for Beam-Park Experiments"
- Bernd Klein*, Guido Bartsch**, Reinhard Keller*, Ludger Leushacke**; *MPIfR Bonn, **FGAN Wachtberg Germany.