A SCALABLE HYBRID FPGA/GPU FX CORRELATOR

Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation

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J. KOCZ¹  L. J. GREENHILL¹  B. R. BARSDELL¹  G. BERNARDI¹  A. JAMESON⁴  M. A. CLARK¹  J. CRAIG⁶  D. PRICE¹  G. B. TAYLOR⁶  F. SCHINZEL⁶  D. WERTHIMER⁷ 

[1] Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics;SKA SA;Department of Physics and Electronics, Rhodes University;Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology;NVIDIA Corporation;Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico;Space Sciences Lab, University of California

关键词: Techniques: interferometric;    instrumentation: interferometers;    instrumentation: miscellaneous;   

DOI  :  10.1142/S2251171714500020

学科分类：天文学(综合)

来源: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

Radio astronomical imaging arrays comprising large numbers of antennas, O(102–103), have posed a signal processing challenge because of the required O(N2) cross correlation of signals from each antenna and requisite signal routing. This motivated the implementation of a Packetized Correlator architecture that applies Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to the O(N) "F-stage" transforming time domain to frequency domain data, and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to the O(N2) "X-stage" performing an outer product among spectra for each antenna. The design is readily scalable to at least O(103) antennas. Fringes, visibility amplitudes and sky image results obtained during field testing are presented.

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