Gigabit Digital Filter Bank: Digital Backend Subsystem in the VERA Data-Acquisition System

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Feb 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005pasj...57..259i&link_type=abstract

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Vol.57, No.1, pp. 259-271

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

28

Instrumentation: Interferometers, Radio Continuum: General, Radio Lines: General, Reference Systems, Techniques: High Resolution

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The VERA terminal is a new data-acquisition system developed for the VERA project, which is a project to construct a new Japanese VLBI array dedicated to make a 3-D map of our Milky Way Galaxy in terms of high-precision astrometry. New technology, a gigabit digital filter, was introduced in the development. The importance and advantages of a digital filter for radio astronomy have been studied as follows: (1) the digital filter can realize a variety of observation modes and maintain compatibility with different data-acquisition systems (Kiuchi et al. 1997 and Iguchi et al. 2000a), (2) the folding noise occurring in the sampling process can be reduced by combination with a higher-order sampling technique (Iguchi, Kawaguchi 2002), (3) and an ideal sharp cut-off bandedge and a flat amplitude/phase responses are approached by using a large number of taps available to use LSI of a large number of logic cells (Iguchi et al. 2000a). We developed the custom Finite Impulse Response filter chips and manufactured the Gigabit Digital Filter Banks (GDFBs) as a digital backend subsystem in the VERA terminal. In this paper, the design and development of the GDFB are presented in detail, and the performances and demonstrations of the developed GDFB are shown.

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