FPGA-based digital back-ends for the Sardinia Radio Telescope
Date Issued
2017
Abstract
The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT), located in San Basilio, about 35 km north of Cagliari, is the largest (64-m diameter) radio telescope in Italy. It is a general-purpose, fully-steerable radio telescope designed to operate in the 300 MHz - 116 GHz frequency range, which allows it to perform a wide variety of scientific studies. The advanced electronic digital platforms that are installed at SRT play a key role, in particular those based on FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array), both because of their processing capability and their reconfigurability. In this paper, we present an overview of the digital back-ends available at SRT, as well as the ones under development; it is important to underline that, for all of them, FPGAs are the beating heart.
Volume
88
Start page
195
Issn Identifier
0037-8720
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2017MmSAI..88..195M
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open.access
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