Goals

The goal of CASPER is to streamline and reduce the current radio astronomy instrumentation design flow through the development of an open-source, platform-independent design approach.

This incorporates reconfigurable, modular, easily upgradable hardware with standard, parameterized design libraries that abstract away the underlying details of the system.

Design simplifies to creation of block diagrams of components from standard libraries and the designer.

Future Plans

CASPER has several upcoming projects, which include development of economical spectrometers for demonstration and astronomy education, revision of general-purpose signal processing libraries, and development of a new generation of the BEE2 family of boards.

Implementation of a fully parameterized, packetized correlator will begin after development of eight-antenna and thirty-two-antenna, 200MHz correlators. Training courses for scientists and researchers in the use of our instrumentation design toolflow will be offered.

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