Documentation

CASPER Library Reference Manual

View it on the web, or download the pdf.

Papers

This section contains links to papers written about CASPER projects and technologies.

• CASPER
• Filiba, T., Nagpal, V. "Beamforming for Antenna Arrays - BEE2 vs DSP Processors," November 2006.
• Parsons, A., et al., "PetaOp/Second FPGA Signal Processing for SETI and Radio Astronomy,"
  Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 2006.
• Parsons, A., et al., "A New Approach to Radio Astronomy Signal Processing,"
  General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, October 2005.
• Epoch of Reionization
  • overview in presentation format (pdf)
• SERENDIP5
• Durkin, T., "SETI Researchers Sift Interstellar Static for Signs of Life,"
  Xilinx XCell Journal Article, Spring 2004.
• Overview Poster
• BEE2
  • SKA 2004 presentation
  • Droz, P., "Physical Design and Implementation of BEE2: A High-End Reconfigurable Computer,"
    Master's Thesis, Advisor John Wawrzynek, May 2005.

Memos

1. Plans for an 8-Station Dual-Polarization Correlator on the BEE2 - July 2005 (Aaron Parsons)
2. Temperature vs. sample time ADC tests - April 2006 (Aaron Parsons, David MacMahon, Dan Werthimer)
3. Correlator Development Plans - April 2006 (Aaron Parsons)
4. DC offset in FFT Butterflies - April 2006 (Aaron Parsons)
5. Characterization of ADC frequency responses - May 2006 (Christina de Jesus)
6. IBOB PROM burning procedure - March 2006 (Henry Chen)
7. ADC mismatch - June 2006 (David MacMahon)
8. Board Schematics (moved to Hardware section)
9. Characterization of ADC impedance response - July 2006 (Christina de Jesus)
10. IBOB v1.1+ Block Diagram - October 2006
11. Xilinx System Generator for DSP in the CASPER Group - January 2007 (Aaron Parsons, Daniel Chapman, Henry Chen)
12. Consequences of One Bit Quantization on Signal to Noise Ratio - January 2007 (Daniel Chapman)
13. XAUI Transmission Error Rates on the BEE2 - February 2007 (Aaron Parsons, Henry Chen)
14. Xilinx XPS Software Compilation Optimization Settings - February 2007 (Daniel Chapman, Andrew Siemion)
15. Quantization with Four Bits - March 2007 (Don Backer)
16. Co-Simulation Setup Procedure - August 2007 (Ben Blackman)

Posters

• BWRC Summer retreat 2007

• CASPER poster

  Low Res - High Res

• Spectrometer poster

  Low Res - High Res

• Beamformer poster

  Low Res - High Res

Lessons

• Simulink Mask Scripting
• Tutorial - June 2007