Commensal, multi-user observations with an ethernet-based Jansky Very Large Array

J Hickish, T Beasley, G Bower, S Burke-Spolaor… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Over the last decade, the continuing decline in the cost of digital computing technology has
brought about a dramatic transformation in how digital instrumentation for radio astronomy is …

ASKAP Redback-3—An agile digital signal processing platform

GA Hampson, A Brown, JD Bunton… - 2014 XXXIth URSI …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The third generation of high end Digital Signal Processing (DSP) platforms for the Australian
Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is called Redback-3. It is a purely digital board …

The Australian SKA Pathfinder: project update and initial operations

AET Schinckel, DCJ Bock - Ground-Based and Airborne …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) will be the fastest dedicated cm-
wave survey telescope, and will consist of 36 12-meter 3-axis antennas, each with a large …

Introduction to the SKA low correlator and beamformer system

GA Hampson, JD Bunton, AW Gunst… - Ground-based and …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) organisation is building a low frequency (50-350 MHz)
aperture array to be located in remote Western Australia. The array consists of 512-stations …

Microwave phased array digital beamforming system design challenges for SKA

GA Hampson, PP Roberts, M Leach… - 2015 European …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There are many challenges in the design of broadband microwave phased array digital
beamformers for SKA-Phase 1. The list is not simply limited to funding or time, but rather …

A reconfigurable optically connected beamformer and correlator processing node for SKA

GA Hampson, J Tuthill, AJ Brown… - 2015 IEEE Signal …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For many decades Digital Signal Processing (DSP) nodes have been designed for
processing digital data received from arrays of radio telescopes. Common threads in all …