Re: [casper] inverse PFB

2014-12-08 Thread Paul Demorest
hi Aaron, I think this depends on what you use for the filter coefficients. In theory there are pairs of analysis and synthesis filters that let you exactly reconstruct the original input signal. In practice I think errors caused by quantization, overflow, etc are probably the main source

Re: [casper] 1-2 GHz sampler

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Demorest
Hi Ryan, We'd be interested in learning more about your interleave-fixing technique as well. If JPL will let you tell us about it that would be great. If you can't release detailed code/etc, even a high-level description of the approach would be nice. Cheers, Paul On Mon, 28 May 2012,

Re: [casper] CUDA 4.0

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Demorest
Hi Jayanth, We just (as in, today) installed CUDA 4.0 on several machines here. So we haven't done anything serious with it yet. But the install went very smooth and it compiles/runs some of our existing code developed for CUDA 2.x just fine. So far, I haven't seen any big problems, but

Re: [casper] new memo - external adjustment for Atmel/e2v interleaved ADC's

2011-01-29 Thread Paul Demorest
Hi Hong and Mark, Thanks for writing this memo! This topic is important for our pulsar instruments. I was wondering if you know what the limiting factor is in how good the adjustment can be. For example, given the available resolution of the gain/phase adjustments there should be a

Re: [casper] 10gbe to PC

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Demorest
Hi Sean, I've used python code almost identical to yours pretty successfully, mainly for simple tests/debugging. Whether or not this is the right way to build a bigger application depends on things like the data rate you need to support, any additional data processing/formatting that needs

Re: [casper] 10gbe to PC

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Demorest
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Nevada Sanchez wrote: You will not get very high data rates through Python (it's too slow). I would suggest using similar code, but in C. I'm not so sure this is always true. Depends on what number very high corresponds to, what else needs to be done with the data, and

Re: [casper] Correlating iADC SYNC Outputs to Individual Samples...

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Demorest
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David MacMahon wrote: On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:52 , Paul Demorest wrote: I have to ask.. if all four syncs are the same, why are there four of them? ;) Just to clarify, they represent the same signal sampled at (i.e. registered using) four different phases (0/90/180/270

Re: [casper] Correlating iADC SYNC Outputs to Individual Samples...

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Demorest
, Paul Demorest wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David MacMahon wrote: On Mar 4, 2010, at 11:52 , Paul Demorest wrote: I have to ask.. if all four syncs are the same, why are there four of them? ;) Just to clarify, they represent the same signal sampled at (i.e. registered using) four different

Re: [casper] ROACH-based pulsar machine?

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Demorest
cluster to do pulsar/transient search. john ford, paul demorest, scott ransom et al are the experts at using ibob/bee2 to packetize data (800 MHz dual pol) for GPU based pulsar cluster (see their fantastic GUPPI instrument). We could have up to 1400 MHz at once, 8200-8600 and 31,500-32,500 MHz but I

Re: [casper] 10 GBe Switch weirdness

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Demorest
Hey guys, Jumbo frames are already enabled on the switch. The packet loss we're seeing is about 0.1%, so most of the data is making it through. The weird thing is that this number seems independent of the data rate. Even at 1 MB/s we still lose 0.1% of the data. As John already said,

Re: [casper] Interleaved ADCs

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Demorest
Hi Dave, I'm interested in hearing about any experience with these features also. Looking into this stuff has been on the pulsar machine to-do list for a while, but we haven't quite got to it yet. We do see some image pulses when looking at bright sources that I think are due to non-optimal