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The primary goal of CASPER is to streamline and simplify the design flow of radio astronomy instrumentation by promoting design reuse through the development of platform-independent, open-source hardware and software.
Our aim is to couple the real-time streaming performance of application-specific hardware with the design simplicity of general-purpose software. By providing parameterized, platform-independent "gateware" libraries that run on reconfigurable, modular hardware building blocks, we abstract away low-level implementation details and allow astronomers to rapidly design and deploy new instruments.
CASPER is currently focusing on porting our existing libraries and designs to the newest version of our toolflow for eventual use with our newest processing board, the Reconfigurable Open Architecture Computing Hardware (ROACH) board.
At the same time, we are building demo instruments, both to validate our library blocks and to provide reference designs for end users. Most notably, we continue to improve our packetized correlator design.
We plan to offer training courses in the use of our toolflow to interested scientists and engineers.
If you are a CASPER collaborator, or you're just interested in what we're
up to, feel free to join our mailing list:
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casper+subscribe@lists.berkeley.edu .
New CASPER Website
August 7, 2024
The new CASPER website
We are moving the CASPER website to Github.
CASPER Workshop 2018
February 9, 2018
The 2018 CASPER collaboration workshop: 25-30 September 2018, Guiyang City, China
We are pleased to announce that the 2018 CASPER Workshop will be held at Hanglong Astronomy Town, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China, 25th - 30th September, 2018.
Presentation, poster and tutorial sessions will run from the 25th to the 29th September, with a one-day trip to the Five-hundred-meter Aperturn Spherical Telescop (FAST) on the 30th September.
Registration is open! The registration deadline is 31st August.
See the conference website for programme, visa, accommodation, and registration information.
For more info, click here.
CASPER Workshop 2017
February 14, 2017
The 2017 CASPER collaboration workshop at the California Institute of Technology will take place from August 14 - 18 2017
The CASPER collaboration workshop at the California Institute of Technology will take place from August 14 - 18 2017 in the Beckman Institute main auditorium. More information will be posted on the CASPER wiki as it becomes available.
For more info, click here.
CASPER Workshop 2016
September 15, 2015
The CASPER collaboration workshop in Cape Town will take place from January 25 - 29 2016 at the Univeristy of Cape Town.
The CASPER collaboration workshop in Cape Town will take place from January 25-29, 2016 in the Menzies Building at the Univeristy of Cape Town. Please consider booking your accommodation as soon as possible to get the best possible deal.
For more info, click here.
CASPER Workshop 2014
June 18, 2014
The CASPER Workshop 2014 is over!
Thank you all who attended and made this a wonderful week.
Please note that pdf/powerpoint versions of many of the presentations are available via the Agenda in our Conference wiki page.
CASPER Workshop 2014
April 1, 2014
The Workship will be held at the University of California, Berkeley - in the Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall - from June 9th to June 13th
The CASPER collaboration workshop in Berkeley will take place from June 9th-13th 2014 at the Univeristy of
California Berkeley. Please consider
booking your accommodation as soon as possible to get the best possible deal.
Where: University of California, Berkeley - in the Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
Meeting dates: June 9th (9am) through June 13th, 2014 (1pm)
Cost: $125 for students, $250 for everyone else
There will be talks in the morning, and the afternoon will contain labs, tutorials, working groups and free
discussion. Labs with CASPER hardware and software will be in the Radio Astronomy Lab, Evans Hall.
Working groups will likely include: correlators and beamformers, spectrometers, pulsar machines, MKID detectors,
next gen tools and libraries, next gen hardware and architectures.
For more info, click here.
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