Agenda

Oral Presentations (Phillips Auditorium)

All talks will be given from a shared computer to ensure a smooth and rapid transition between talks. Please send your talks to the LOC on the night before. If your talk includes specialized content that requires you to use your own laptop, please email the LOC in advance of your talk to allow us arrange testing of your system in advance of your talk. Powerpoint, Keynote, and PDF presentations will be supported.

Your allocated time slot for a talk includes 15 minutes for the presentation, and 5 minutes for questions. Please plan accordingly.

Poster Presentations (Rotunda)

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.

Program

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Monday
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