The LOFAR beam former: Implementation and performance analysis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6853 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 328-339

  Mol, Jan David ^a   Romein, John W ^a  

^a ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; BLUE GENE; DATA RATES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INPUT DATAS; NOVEL DESIGN; OPTIMISATIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE STUDY; RADIO SOURCES; REAL TIME; TRANSIENT EVENTS;

ANTENNAS; DATA HANDLING; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIPELINES; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052318944     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23397-5_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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