We describe the technological concept and the first-light results of a 1024-channel spectrometer based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware. This spectrometer is the prototype for the seven beam L-band receiver to be installed at the Effelsberg 100-m telescope in autumn 2005. Using "of-the-shelf" hardware and software products, we designed and constructed an extremely flexible Fast-Fourier-Transform (FFT) spectrometer with unprecedented sensitivity and dynamic range, which can be considered prototypical for spectrometer development in future radio astronomy.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0503067,
title = {A Field Programmable Gate Array Spectrometer for Radio Astronomy},
author = {S. Stanko and B. Klein and J. Kerp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0503067},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
5 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A