High speed, highly flexible reconfigurable data acquisition system for astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6276, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pirger, Bruce E ^a   Schoenwald, Justin ^a   Herter, Terry L ^a   Gull, George E ^a   Adams, Joseph D ^a   Keller, Luke D ^b   Berthoud, Marc ^a   Henderson, Charles ^a   Stacy, Gordon J ^a   Nikola, Thomas ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocked impurity band detectors; Electronics; FPGA; Infrared cameras; Reconfigurable hardware

Indexed keywords

BLOCKED IMPURITY BAND DETECTORS; INFRARED CAMERAS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 33749643201     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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