[casper] SNAP2 with ADC16 board

2018-12-26 Thread Nitish Ragoomundun
Hello everyone, We have a tile of 24 antennas from which we need to acquire data. The central frequency is 327.4 MHz and our working bandwidth is 250 kHz. We need to convert the 24 analogue channels to digital. For this we were thinking about 2x SNAP2 boards operating 12 channels each at 250

Re: [casper] CASPER design question

2018-12-26 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi dale and neal, do you know how many frequency channels are needed? or is this a continuum correlator ? i think the lowest cost system would be a conventional casper packetized FX correlator architecture using snap1 boards, a 40Gbit ethernet switch (for the corner turn), possibly adding an

RE: [casper] CASPER design question

2018-12-26 Thread Neil Salmon
Dear Gary and Neal, I have similar requirements for non-radioastronomy passive mm-wave imaging applications, which may lie close to those of Lockheed Martin. I did find it difficult to adapt CASPER hardware as it has requirements not entirely aligned with these non-classic radioastronomy