CASPER 2012 Presentation Videos
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Monday, August 13
Session 1, 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Jansky Auditorium |
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| 8:30 – 8:45 AM |
Introduction to the Workshop |
| 8:45 – 9:15 AM |
The CASPER Collaboration for Radio Astronomy Signal Processing State of the Union / Religion / Recruiting Session |
| 9:15 – 10:15 AM |
Introduction to the CASPER Tools |
| 10:35 – 11:35 AM |
Python for CASPER |
| 11:35 AM – 12:35 PM |
Tutorial Introductions |
Tuesday, August 14
Session 2, 8:30 – 10:50 AM, John Ford, Chair |
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8:30 – 9:00 AM |
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9:00 – 9:30 AM |
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9:30 – 9:50 AM |
The USRPA Flexible Mixed-Signal Platform for Scientific Instrumentation |
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9:50 – 10:10 AM |
Black Hole Science with CASPER the Event Horizon Telescope |
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10:10 – 10:30 AM |
Solar Burst Spectra with a CASPER-Based Correlator |
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10:30 – 10:50 AM |
Science Update from the GMRT |
Session 3, 11:10 AM – 1:00 PM, Dan Werthimer, ChairNote: Presentations for this session were not recorded |
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11:10 – 11:30 AM |
The C-Band All Sky Survey |
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11:30 – 11:50 AM |
Searching for Galactic Center Pulsars with VEGAS |
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11:50 AM – 12:10 PM |
Using CASPER Hardware in Surveys for Fast Transients and SETI |
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12:10 – 12:30 PM |
Pulsar Applications of CASPER Hardware, From Single Dishes to SKA-I |
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12:30 – 12:50 PM |
Next Generation FPGA Design Flows |
Wednesday, August 15
Session 4, 8:30 – 10:30 AM, Yashwant Gupta, Chair |
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8:30 – 8:50 AM |
MeerKAT Status Update |
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8:50 – 9:10 AM |
The LOFAR Station Correlator and Updates from CASPER at Oxford |
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9:10 – 9:30 AM |
VEGAS: the VErsatile GBT Astronomical Spectrometer |
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9:30 – 9:50 AM |
From MeerKAT to SKA-1s Dish Array: A Digital Perspective |
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9:50 – 10:10 AM |
High Level Issues for the Implementation of Scienti c Applications in High Performance Heterogeneous Systems |
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10:10 – 10:30 AM |
Scalable ROACH F-Engine for Correlators |
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Session 5, 10:50 AM – 1:00 PM, Jonathan Weintroub, Chair |
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10:50 – 11:10 AM |
FPGA/GPU Hybrid Correlator Design and Implementation |
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11:10 – 11:30 AM |
An FPGA/GPU Correlator Prototype: Toward LEDA First Light |
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11:30 – 11:50 AM |
Design, Development and Testing of a GPU Based Backend for the GMRT |
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11:50 AM – 12:10 PM |
Future Development Plans for the GMRT |
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12:10 – 12:30 PM |
CASPER Technology Use in the ALMA Phasing Project |
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12:30 – 12:50 PM |
The ROACH-1 DBE Implementation for VLBA: A success story |
Thursday, August 16
Session 6, 8:30 – 10:40 AM, Francois Kapp, Chair |
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8:30 – 9:05 AM |
Xilinx Technology Update |
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9:05 – 9:40 AM |
Arista Networks Technology |
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9:40 – 10:00 AM |
New Detection Techniques for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, an R&D Effort for Wide-field Microwave Transient Telescopes |
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10:00 – 10:20 AM |
Real-time UWB 2-D Analog Fan Filters for Steerable Highly Selective Analog Aperture Arrays |
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10:20 – 10:40 AM |
Digital Architectures for RF Real-time UWB Aperture-Array Beam Forming Using 2-D IIR Spatio-temporal Beam Filters |
Session 7, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Jason Manley, Chair |
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11:00 – 11:20 AM |
Three-Dimensional 3-D Wave-Digital Filter Beamformer Architectures for RF Dense Aperture Array Applications |
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11:20 – 11:40 AM |
Implementing Simulation Models for Multi-and Many-core Processors |
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11:40 AM– 12:00 PM |
Optimizing and Profiling the Processor-FPGA Interface Under Linux |
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12:00 – 12:20 PM |
Mapping of Heterogeneous Instruments for Radio Astronomy |
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12:20 – 12:40 PM |
Derivation of Low-Level ADC and Correlator Development Specifications From Telescope Level Specifications |
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12:40 – 1:00 PM |
A System Engineering Plan for ROACHx |
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1:00-1:20 PM |
Effective Testing in the CASPER Toolflow
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Science Talk, Posters, and refreshments, 7:00 PM at the Science Center |
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| Astronomical Commissioning of the UBB at the Effelsberg 100m Ramesh Karuppusamy |
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| Focal Plane Array for the Effelsberg 100m Radio Telescope Pablo Torne Torres, M. Kramer, R. Keller |
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| Characterizing the Performance of a 5Gsps ADC for the SMA Digital Back End Nimesh Patel, Robert W. Wilson, Rurik Primiani, Jonathan Weintroub |
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| A New Digital Back-End for the Submillimeter Array Rurik A. Primiani, Jonathan Weintroub, Bob Wilson, Ken Young, Nimesh Patel |
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| ROACH Radar Backend Luis Quintero |
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| CYBORG: A ROACH-based Spectrometer for Education G. Langston |
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| One Summer, Three Spectrometers Kristin Barclay |
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| A Lab Spectrometer for Receiver Testing Andrew Duncan |
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| An RFI-tight Valon Synthesizer Enclosure for VEGAS J.D. Nelson, Jason Ray |
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| A Switching Signal Distribution System for VEGAS Randy McCullough |
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Friday, August 17
Session 8, 8:30 – 10:40 AM, Lincoln Greenhill, Chair |
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8:30 – 8:50 AM |
Design and Development of an ROACH 2 Based Digital FX Correlator for the EOVSA |
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8:50 – 9:10 AM |
Direct Imaging with BEST-2 |
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9:10 – 9:30 AM |
Digitizing AmiBA for CO Intensity Mapping |
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9:30 – 9:50 AM |
Development of FPGA Based Wide-Band Digital Backends for the Upgraded GMRT |
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9:50 – 10:10 AM |
First Passive Radar Receiver Implementation with ROACH |
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10:10 – 10:30 AM |
A Low Cost Disciplined Sampling Clock Using the WWVB 60KHz Broadcast |
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10:30 – 10:50 AM |
A New Flexible Backend for the Parkes 21cm Multibeam Receiver |
Session 9, 11:00 AM– 12:30 PM, Glenn Jones, Chair |
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11:10 – 11:30 AM |
MeerKAT Digitiser |
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11:30 – 11:50 AM |
MeerKAT Digitizer Phase and Gain Stability |
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11:50 AM – 12:10 PM |
ASIAA 10 Gsps ADC Board Development |
