A high speed networked signal processing platform for multi-element radio telescopes

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Prasad, Peeyush ^a   Subrahmanya, C R ^a  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Distributed real time processing; FPGA; High speed networks; Multibeam phased array; Radio interferometry; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79651471693     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-011-9216-7     Document Type: Article

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