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Your allocated time slot for a talk includes 15 minutes for the presentation, and 5 minutes for questions. Please plan accordingly.
The poster boards can accommodate posters with the maximum dimensions of 46 inches tall by 37 inches wide. Posters will be exhibited for the duration of the Workshop.
Look here for the most up to date workshop schedule. It is condensed, so that you can capture what you need at a glance. The compendium of abstracts covers material from all lectures and research talks. Lecture outlines are brought together here. The HTML version of the schedule below is deprecated pending updates. Regardless, it provides convenient links to many abstracts.
Monday | ||||||
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Start | Finish | Agenda Item | Presenter | |||
08:30 | 09:00 | COFFEE | ||||
09:00 | 09:20 | Welcome and Logistics | ||||
09:20 | 09:40 | Radio Astronomy Principles | Marrone | |||
09:40 | 10:00 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
10:00 | 10:20 | Fourier Transforms I | Gorthi | |||
10:20 | 10:40 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
10:40 | 11:00 | COFFEE | ||||
11:00 | 11:20 | Interferometry Principles | Marrone | |||
11:20 | 11:40 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
11:40 | 12:00 | Fourier Transforms II | Gorthi | |||
12:00 | 12:20 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
12:20 | 12:40 | Distilled Essence of the Polyphase Filter Bank | Moran | |||
12:40 | 13:40 | LUNCH | ||||
13:40 | 14:00 | Radio Astronomy Signal Processing Instrumentation and CASPER | Werthimer | |||
14:00 | 14:20 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
14:20 | 14:40 | CASPER Hardware | Hickish | |||
14:40 | 15:00 | FPGA Basics | Haworth | |||
15:00 | 15:20 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
15:20 | 15:40 | COFFEE | ||||
15:40 | 16:00 | LINUX Introduction | van Tonder | |||
16:00 | 16:20 | DSP on FPGAs | Martens | |||
16:20 | 16:40 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
16:40 | 17:00 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
Tuesday | ||||||
Start | Finish | Agenda Item | Presenter | |||
08:30 | 09:00 | COFFEE | >||||
09:00 | 09:20 | After the FPGA: Building DSP Processing Pipelines on a Non-real-time Platform | Dowell | |||
09:20 | 09:50 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
09:50 | 10:20 | Building a high performance DSP framework for GPUs and x86 hardware: A look at the design of the CHIME X-engine and beamformer | Renard | |||
10:20 | 10:40 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
10:40 | 11:00 | COFFEE | >||||
11:00 | 11:20 | Packetized Instruments, Networks | Manley | |||
11:20 | 11:40 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
11:40 | 12:00 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
12:00 | 12:20 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
12:20 | 13:40 | LUNCH | >||||
13:40 | 14:00 | Xilinx Industry Event: RFSoC Introduction and Deep Dive | Lysaght | |||
14:00 | 14:20 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
14:20 | 14:40 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
14:40 | 15:00 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
15:00 | 15:20 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
15:20 | 15:40 | COFFEE | >||||
15:40 | 16:00 | Introduction to Red Pitaya and support in the CASPER toolflow | New | |||
16:00 | 16:20 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
16:20 | 16:40 | Control Software for the Red Pitaya Zynq ARM Processor | van Tonder | |||
16:40 | 17:00 | A Gentle Introduction to casperfpga | van Balla | |||
17:00 | 17:20 | ↓ | ↓ | |||
Wednesday | ||||||
Start | Finish | Session | Agenda Item | Presenter | ||
08:30 | 09:00 | COFFEE | ||||
09:00 | 09:20 | RFSoc | Multibeam Digital Beamforming on 4-Element Array at 28 GHz using Xilinx RF SoC ZCU1275 | Ariyarathna | ||
09:20 | 09:40 | ↓ | Porting of a CASPER wideband full-stokes parameterized spectrometer to the ZCU111 | Bradford | ||
09:40 | 10:00 | ↓ | RFSoC Firmware Development of a Frequency Multiplexed readout for Superconducting Arrays | Sinclair | ||
10:00 | 10:20 | Hardware | The SKARAB Design: Issues Encountered and Lessons Learnt | Isaacson | ||
10:20 | 10:40 | ↓ | Direct Sampling: Real world, real time, wide band ADC and DSP design for radio astronomy applications | Kriel | ||
10:40 | 11:00 | COFFEE | ||||
11:00 | 11:10 | Hardware | Enabling 100 gigabit Ethernet on the VCU118/VCU1525 for Casper | Hlophe | ||
11:10 | 11:20 | ↓ | Design and Implementation of 100Gb/s Ethernet on VCU118 Evaluation Board | Roshanineshat | ||
11:20 | 11:40 | ↓ | Development of A LOW COST 4-bit, 16 Giga-Samples per Second Analog-to-Digital Converter Printed Circuit Board Assembly for Radio Astronomy | Jiang | ||
11:40 | 12:00 | ↓ | Timing and Frequency Distribution over Ethernet using White Rabbit | Wei Liu | ||
12:00 | 12:20 | ↓ | MeerKAT GPU X-Engine | Callanan | ||
12:20 | 12:40 | ↓ | FPGA platforms and the toolflow | Shu | ||
12:40 | 14:00 | LUNCH | ||||
14:00 | 14:20 | poster | Lightning round | |||
14:20 | 15:20 | Tutorials & practicals / working groups | ||||
15:20 | 15:40 | COFFEE | ||||
15:40 | 17:20 | Tutorials & practicals / working groups | ||||
Thursday | ||||||
Start | Finish | Session | Agenda Item | Presenter | ||
08:30 | 09:00 | COFFEE | ||||
09:00 | 09:20 | Algorithms | Adaptive Filter for RFI Mitigation Implemented in ROACH2 | Curotto | ||
09:20 | 09:40 | ↓ | Finite Precision Arithmetic in Polyphase Filterbank Implementations | Myburgh | ||
09:40 | 10:00 | ↓ | An Analog-digital Hybrid Wave Equation Solver using a 180 nm Analog CMOS Chip and ROACH-2 Digital FPGA | Udayanga | ||
10:00 | 10:20 | Facility Instr. | The Applications of SNAP2 | Zhao | ||
10:20 | 10:40 | ↓ | Single-dish backend for African VLBI Network using CASPER hardware | James Smith | ||
10:40 | 11:00 | COFFEE | ||||
11:00 | 11:20 | Facility Instr. | Haystack VLBI Geodetic Observing System (VGOS) ROACH2 Backend | Ruszczyk | ||
11:20 | 11:40 | ↓ | The Arizona Radio Observatory Wideband Spectrometer | Forbes | ||
11:40 | 12:00 | ↓ | Software Defined Radio Developments in the Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy for Pulsar and Timing Measurements | Gancio | ||
12:00 | 12:20 | ↓ | Pulsar signal processors enabled by CASPER | Karuppusamy | ||
12:20 | 12:40 | ↓ | ALPACA Beamformer Digital Back End Development | Burnett | ||
12:40 | 13:40 | LUNCH | ||||
13:40 | 15:20 | Tutorials & practicals sessions / working groups / board meeting | ||||
15:20 | 15:40 | COFFEE | ||||
15:40 | 17:20 | Tutorials & practicals sessions / working groups | ||||
18:00 | 19:00 | evening | Student-built radio horn spectroscopy demonstration | Langston, Patel | ||
19:00 | 20:00 | Pivotal Discoveries in Radio Astronomy, at Bell Labs [INVITED] | Wilson | |||
Friday | ||||||
Start | Finish | Session | Agenda Item | Presenter | ||
08:30 | 09:00 | COFFEE | ||||
09:00 | 09:20 | Facility Instr. | African lessons for Astronomy | Kapp | ||
09:20 | 09:40 | ↓ | Taking a narrow View: Diving deeper into the design of a narrowband correlator | van der Byl | ||
09:40 | 10:00 | ↓ | Incorporating Partial Reconfiguration into the CASPER Toolflow | Patel | ||
10:00 | 10:20 | ↓ | Ethernet Multicast Networking for Radio Astronomy: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Manley | ||
10:20 | 10:40 | ↓ | User support and debugging tools for the MeerKAT correlator/beamformer | Rust | ||
10:40 | 11:00 | COFFEE | ||||
11:00 | 11:20 | Experiments | Cosmic Ray detection firmware for the upgraded OVRO-LWA | Plant | ||
11:20 | 11:40 | ↓ | Radio interferometer observations of fast processes in thunderstorms | Tilles | ||
11:40 | 12:00 | ↓ | Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector Readout using RFSoC | Jenny Smith | ||
12:00 | 12:20 | ↓ | Develop Digital Receiver for Redshift Receiver using RFSoC | Chao Liu | ||
12:20 | 12:40 | Working-group reports | ||||
12:40 | 13:40 | LUNCH | ||||
13:40 | 15:20 | Tutorials & practicals sessions / working groups | ||||
15:20 | 15:40 | COFFEE | ||||
15:40 | 17:20 | Tutorials & practicals sessions / working groups | ||||