Title
Design of a LabVIEW-based polyphase filter bank spectrometer for radio astronomy using FlexRIO FPGA technology and CUDA-enabled GPU
Date Issued
10 November 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The spectrometer is the most important back-end in single antenna radio astronomy observations. The state-of-the-art designs for this type of instruments propose to reduce the effects of spectral leakage by using the Polyphase Filter Bank (PFB) technique and to achieve wideband and high resolution by using digital, reconfigurable, and high-performance computing hardware, such as commercial-available FPGA and GPU. We herein describe the development of a prototype PFB spectrometer using an integrated hardware and software development environment from National Instruments (Nl), along with FlexRIO FPGA technology for acquisition and CUDA-enabled GPU card for intensive processing. The results show that the proposed design, configured as a 4-tap PFB with 222 channels and 200MHz instantaneous bandwidth, is 95 times faster than a CPU implementation. It can be concluded that the hardware and software design approach used to prototype the spectrometer in this paper must be further studied within radio astronomy applications.
Start page
1
End page
4
Volume
2017-January
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de plasmas y fluídos
Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85046278356
ISBN of the container
9789082598704
Conference
2017 32nd General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science, URSI GASS 2017
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank the funding from FINCyT (Fondo para la Innovación, la Ciencia y la Tecnología) of the Peruvian government used in the acquisition of the hardware and software aforementioned. We also wish to thank to NVIDIA Inc. for the donation of the GPU card used in this paper, Southern Peru Copper Corporation for its donation for the 20-meter radio telescope to be built and Aceros Arequipa S.A. for the donation of 45 tons of structural steel. LabVIEW and FlexRIO are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of National Instruments.
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