Video Lectures

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CASPER Workshop II (August 2-5, 2008) lectures

CASPER Promo Video '08

Saturday, August 2:

1. Dan Werthimer: Rapid Development of Radio Astronomy Instrumentation using general purpose open source FPGA boards, tools & libraries (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF - ATA Video
   
2. Andrew Siemion and Mark Wagner: An Introduction to Simulink and CASPER Instrument Design (Alternate Format) - BIT File
   
3. Hayden Kwok-Hay So: Introduction to BORPH (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
4. Billy Mallard: Interacting with CASPER Instruments (Alternate Format)
   
5. Mike Memmott: Fujitsu 10 Gigabit ethernet switches (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   

Sunday, August 3:

1. Henry Chen: CASPER Tools FAQ - The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
2. Dan Werthimer: CASPER Hardware - Old, New and Future (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
3. Francois Kapp: An Introduction to ROACH (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
4. Terry Filiba: Version 10.1 Xilinx Tools Update (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
5. Glenn Jones: CASPER Development for GAVRT at Caltech (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
6. Laura Spitler: SETI Spectrometer Development for ALFA (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
7. Alan Langman: Road to MeerKAT KAT-7 DBE (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF - MeerKAT Video
   

Monday, August 4:

1. Bob Conn: BabyBEE - Defining the Silicon Circuit Board (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
2. Jason Manley: Scalable Packetized Correlators (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
3. Mel Wright: Correlation Imaging (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
4. Joeri van Leeuwen: CASPER Pulsar Instruments (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
5. Griffin Foster: The Fly's Eye - A Search for HERPES using the ATA (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
6. Tim Bastian and Zhiwei Liu: Frequency Agile Solar Radio Telescope (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
7. Oren Milgrome: ATA Beamformer (Alternate Format)
   

Tuesday, August 5:

1. Tom Kuiper: Signal Processing Ambitions for DSN Radio Astronomy (Alternate Format) - Presentation PPT
   
2. Bernd Klein: Broadband FFT Spectrometer (Alternate Format) - Presentation PPT
   
3. John Ford: CICADA Project (Alternate Format) - Presentation PPT
   
4. Peter McMahon: Pulsar Instrumentation using CASPER Technology (Alternate Format) - Presentation PDF
   
5. Yashwant Gupta: The GMRT - Current Status and Upgrade Plans (Alternate Format) - Presentation PPT
   
6. Ed Wishnow: Infrared Spatial Interferometer (Alternate Format) - Presentation PPT
   
7. Dan Werthimer: Is Anbody Out There? Searching for ET and Transients with SETI@home (Alternate Format) - Presentation PPT
   

CASPER Workshop I (July 2007) lectures

July '07 Workshop, Monday:

1. Dan Werthimer: Introduction and Overview - Alternate Format
   
2. Aaron Parsons: Simulink Overview - Alternate Format
   
3. Henry Chen: Infrastructure Libraries - Alternate Format
   
4. Vinayak Nagpal: BORPH - Alternate Format
   
5. Daniel Chapman and Andrew Siemion: TinySH - Alternate Format
   

July '07 Workshop, Tuesday:

1. Dan Werthimer: Monday Summary - Alternate Format
   
2. Henry Chen: VLBI Digital Backend - Alternate Format
   
3. Daniel Chapman and Andrew Siemion: Pocket Spectrometer - Alternate Format
   
4. Chen Chang: BEE3 - Alternate Format
   
5. Aaron Parsons - FX correlator Architecture (audio only) (Board picture1) (Board picture2)
   Aaron Parsons - Packetised Correlator Design - Alternate Format
   
6. Joeri van Leeuwen - Pulsars - Alternate Format
   
7. Dan Werthimer - Available and Upcoming Hardware - Alternate Format
   
8. John Ford: NRAO - Alternate Format
   
9. Yashwant Gupta: GMRT - Alternate Format
   
10. Glen Jones: GAVRT (Caltech) - Alternate Format
    
11. Alan Langman: meerKAT - Alternate Format
    
12. Tamara Hall: Arecibo - Alternate Format
    
13. Melvyn Wright: Real Time Imaging - Alternate Format
    
14. Don Backer: RFI, Quantization and Linearization - Alternate Format
    

Samples

Daniel Chapman: Mini Spectrometer Demo - download the model file and the power pc code.