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 is currently focussing on porting our extant libraries and designs to the newest versions of our tools for eventual use with our newest processing board, the Reconfigurable Open Architecture Computing Hardware (ROACH).

Design and implementation of a fully parameterized, packetized correlator continues in earnest.

Additional training courses for scientists and researchers in the use of our instrumentation design toolflow will be offered.

Mailing List

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