[casper] kit surplus to requirement?

2020-12-27 Thread Neil Salmon
.uk> (corrected from previous email). For suitable items I'd be happy to pay postage, or if in the UK collect. Many thanks for any help. Neil Salmon "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on

[casper] kit surplus to requirement?

2020-12-27 Thread Neil Salmon
.uk>. For suitable items I'd be happy to pay postage, or if in the UK collect. Many thanks for any help. Neil Salmon "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its website http://ww

RE: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments

2020-08-16 Thread Neil Salmon
cross-correlator technology developments On Sun, 16 Aug 2020, 11:59 am Neil Salmon, mailto:n.sal...@mmu.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi Dan, I really appreciate the good points you make. Certainly, NLogN versus N^2 in processing power for the two approaches can make a big difference. Some of the

RE: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments

2020-08-16 Thread Neil Salmon
while it is true that FPGAs still have an edge in performing arbitrary precision operations with high efficiency, GPUs are fighting in that space too. Cheers Jack On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 05:37, Neil Salmon mailto:n.sal...@mmu.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi Danny, GPU’s may be starting to rival

RE: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments

2020-08-16 Thread Neil Salmon
), but then compute the correlation in floating point. Best Wishes, Dan On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 9:37 PM Neil Salmon mailto:n.sal...@mmu.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi Danny, GPU’s may be starting to rival FPGA’s in processing power for correlators. However, are GPU’s restricted to long word correlatio

RE: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments

2020-08-16 Thread Neil Salmon
ion. Best wishes, Neil From: Hariharan Krishnan Sent: 15 August 2020 15:51 To: casper@lists.berkeley.edu Cc: Neil Salmon ; dan...@berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments Hi Neil, We have a GPU-based direct imaging correlator (EPIC

RE: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments

2020-08-14 Thread Neil Salmon
include a section on correlators in the document on security screening imaging https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9154708 and some of your selected publications in the references – thank you. Cheers, Neil From: Danny Price Sent: 20 July 2020 14:44 To: Neil Salmon ; casper@lists.berkeley.edu

RE: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments

2020-07-20 Thread Neil Salmon
correlator with 1/2 GHz bandwidth. We form beams in real time and interrogate them at better than ms cadence for transients (frb). The system is a bit big to picture hiding it in an airport. mark On 2020-07-20 07:12, Neil Salmon wrote: > Hi Danny, > > Yes I can appreciate the differ

RE: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments

2020-07-20 Thread Neil Salmon
scenarios where the FT relationship between physical space and spatial frequency space breaks down. Cheers, Neil From: Danny Price Sent: 20 July 2020 14:44 To: Neil Salmon ; casper@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: RE: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments Hi Neil

RE: [casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments

2020-07-20 Thread Neil Salmon
performance in J. Kocz et al 2014 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.8288); for O(100) inputs a GPU correlator will likely be memory bandwidth bound. Cheers, Danny On 18 July 2020 at 7:54:49 pm, Neil Salmon (n.sal...@mmu.ac.uk<mailto:n.sal...@mmu.ac.uk>) wrote: I need references on recent develo

[casper] references to recent cross-correlator technology developments

2020-07-18 Thread Neil Salmon
I need references on recent developments in cross-correlator technology for an IEEE paper on the subject of aperture synthesis imaging in the area of security screening of people for concealed weapons. Typical requirements for this application are cross-correlators that can process in real-time

[casper] radio astronomy receivers/digital correlators for quantum entanglement research

2020-02-08 Thread Neil Salmon
Dear All, Historically, experiments in quantum entanglement have been performed in the optical band and near IR/UV, unless you cool to cryogenic temperatures (milliKelvin), so the thermally generated photons don't swamp the entangled photon pairs. However, receiver concepts exploiting radio

[casper] RE: Matlab Toolbox Requirements

2020-01-08 Thread Neil Salmon
tion, Advanced Engineered Systems Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory From: Neil Salmon mailto:n.sal...@mmu.ac.uk>> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2020 9:51 AM To: casper@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:casper@lists.berkeley.edu> Subject: [casper] RE: Matlab Toolbox Requirements In

[casper] RE: Matlab Toolbox Requirements

2020-01-08 Thread Neil Salmon
In the longer term, move over to Python. N From: 'Christman, Nicholas P' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: 08 January 2020 17:38 To: casper@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [casper] Matlab Toolbox Requirements Good Morning CASPER Group, My name is Nick Christman and I’m currently working through

RE: [casper] CASPER design question

2018-12-26 Thread Neil Salmon
Dear Gary and Neal, I have similar requirements for non-radioastronomy passive mm-wave imaging applications, which may lie close to those of Lockheed Martin. I did find it difficult to adapt CASPER hardware as it has requirements not entirely aligned with these non-classic radioastronomy

RE: [casper] digital beamformer needed in Mexico

2017-11-26 Thread Neil Salmon
Hi Stan, I needed hundreds of receiver channels beam-former, and with yours an order of magnitude higher, low front-end receiver channels costs are pretty key, plus the fact that the backend number crunch power needs to pretty large, a commercial solution might be the lowest cost option,

[casper] Non-uniform FFT (NUFFT) as alternative to convolution gridding

2017-11-23 Thread Neil Salmon
, offering codes in a range of languages, including Matlab with mex functions for C programs. Might any known how good/easy these codes might be to implement, to do the equivalent of convolution gridding? Or perhaps might there be better algorithms from elsewhere? Neil Salmon "Before a

[casper] PhD studentships in next generation micro/mm-wave technologies exploiting coherence theory using high-speed FPGA sampling & processing

2016-02-26 Thread Neil Salmon
Two studentship now available to develop novel technologies which exploit coherence theory using high-speed FPGA sampling and processing. These have separate applications but the main theme is using the crunch power of FPGAs linked to sensors to find novel algorithms to accumulate key

[casper] PhD studentship - High-speed, short-word FPGA digital signal processing for next generation aperture synthesis imagers

2016-01-24 Thread Neil Salmon
There's a PhD studentship to work with me in the Imaging and Sensing group at Manchester Metropolitan University. The main drive of the work I'm interested in is the use of digital type radio receivers which sample short words (single bit, 1.5bit 2 bits) and then digitally cross-correlating

Re: [casper] building 300-receiver channel cross-correlator

2015-12-22 Thread Neil Salmon
to design the digital receiver boards and FPGA boards at these frequencies? Many thanks, Neil From: Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 December 2015 17:26 To: Neil Salmon; James Smith Cc: casper@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [casper] building 300-receiver channel cross-correlator

Re: [casper] building 300-receiver channel cross-correlator

2015-12-22 Thread Neil Salmon
AM, Neil Salmon wrote: Thank you for your response. The system is part of a generic microwave/mm-wave aperture synthesis imaging system, so there’s an array of front-end heterodyne receivers with an IF earmarked at a centre frequency of 3 GHz (away from Wifi mobile comms), but the bandwidth

Re: [casper] building 300-receiver channel cross-correlator

2015-12-21 Thread Neil Salmon
use to design these boards? Thank you again for help. Neil From: dan.werthi...@gmail.com [mailto:dan.werthi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Dan Werthimer Sent: 18 December 2015 17:31 To: Neil Salmon Cc: James Smith; casper@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [casper] building 300-receiver channel cross

[casper] building 300-receiver channel cross-correlator

2015-12-18 Thread Neil Salmon
Anyone help? I'm working in academia and need to build a 300-receiver channel single-bit digitiser / cross-correlator with a single frequency channel having a bandwidth of 300 MHz, centre frequency ~3 GHz. The single bit digitisers sample I giving a total data rate of 180 Gbps and using XOR

Re: [casper] building 300-receiver channel cross-correlator

2015-12-18 Thread Neil Salmon
Jack, Thanks for help. Do you have any idea of the I/O capacity of a single Roach2 board – just trying to figure out how many I may need? Thank you, Neil From: Jack Hickish [mailto:jackhick...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 December 2015 15:08 To: James Smith; Neil Salmon Cc: casper@lists.berkeley.edu

Re: [casper] building 300-receiver channel cross-correlator

2015-12-18 Thread Neil Salmon
asic building blocks right first then fill in the gaps. I'll check out the pico computing. Thanks for help. Neil -Original Message- From: John Ford [mailto:jf...@nrao.edu] Sent: 18 December 2015 15:06 To: Neil Salmon Cc: casper@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [casper] building 300-rece

Re: [casper] building 300-receiver channel cross-correlator

2015-12-18 Thread Neil Salmon
our help. Neil From: James Smith [mailto:jsm...@ska.ac.za] Sent: 18 December 2015 14:25 To: Neil Salmon Cc: casper@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [casper] building 300-receiver channel cross-correlator Hello Neil, CASPER tools could probably do what you're looking for, but I found your descripti