Real-time beamforming using high-speed FPGAs at the Allen Telescope Array

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Feb 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011rasc...46.1016b&link_type=abstract

Radio Science, Volume 46, Issue 1, CiteID RS1016

Physics

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Electromagnetics: Antenna Arrays, Electromagnetics: Signal Processing And Adaptive Antennas (6974), Electromagnetics: Instruments And Techniques

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The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO) is a wide-field panchromatic radio telescope currently consisting of 42 offset-Gregorian antennas each with a 6 m aperture, with plans to expand the array to 350 antennas. Through unique back-end hardware, the ATA performs real-time wideband beamforming with independent subarray capabilities and customizable beam shaping. The beamformers enable science observations requiring the full gain of the array, time domain (nonintegrated) output, and interference excision or orthogonal beamsets. In this paper we report on the design of this beamformer, including architecture and experimental results. Furthermore, we address some practical considerations in large-N wideband beamformers implemented on field programmable gate array platforms, including device utilization, methods of calibration and control, and interchip synchronization.

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