A Decade of Developing Radio-Astronomy Instrumentation using CASPER Open-Source Technology
Abstract
The Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER) has been working for a decade to reduce the time and cost of designing, building and deploying new digital radio-astronomy instruments. Today, CASPER open-source technology powers over 45 scientific instruments worldwide, and is used by scientists and engineers at dozens of academic institutions. In this paper we catalog the current offerings of the CASPER collaboration, and instruments past and present built by CASPER users and developers. We describe the ongoing state of software development, as CASPER looks to support a broader range of programming environments and hardware and ensure compatibility with the latest vendor tools.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.01826,
title = {A Decade of Developing Radio-Astronomy Instrumentation using CASPER Open-Source Technology},
author = {Jack Hickish and Zuhra Abdurashidova and Zaki Ali and Kaushal D. Buch and Sandeep C. Chaudhari and Hong Chen and Matthew Dexter and Rachel Simone Domagalski and John Ford and Griffin Foster and David George and Joe Greenberg and Lincoln Greenhill and Adam Isaacson and Homin Jiang and Glenn Jones and Francois Kapp and Henno Kriel and Rich Lacasse and Andrew Lutomirski and David MacMahon and Jason Manley and Andrew Martens and Randy McCullough and Mekhala V. Muley and Wesley New and Aaron Parsons and Daniel C. Price and Rurik A. Primiani and Jason Ray and Andrew Siemion and Verees'e Van Tonder and Laura Vertatschitsch and Mark Wagner and Jonathan Weintroub and Dan Werthimer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01826},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
24 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Accepted to the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation 26 October 2016