A radio astronomy correlator optimized for the Xilinx Virtex-4 SX FPGA

Proceedings - 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 62-67

  De Souza, Ludovico ^a   Bunton, John D ^a   Campbell Wilson, Duncan ^b   Cappallo, Roger J ^c   Kincaid, Bart ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CORRELATIONS; CLOCK RATES; COMPLEX CORRELATIONS; COMPLEX MULTIPLIERS; IP BLOCKS; SHORT TERMS; SIGNED MULTIPLIERS; TIME PROCESSING; XILINX VIRTEX;

ANTENNAS; APPLICATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; DIGITAL RADIO; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 48149113625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FPL.2007.4380626     Document Type: Conference Paper

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