2013 / 08 / 09
The description of low-noise, high-dynamic-range digital receiver/spectrometer for radio astronomy applications has been added.
Two-channel digital receiver which is used for observing both stationary and sporadic radio sources in the decameter wave band. The ADC module is manufactured as a separate block in order to avoid interferences from the DSP board and the PC electric circuits. Due to this and other solutions, both a high SFDR value and a low level of the noise floor have been achieved.
ADC module | DSP board |
Receiver characteristics are listed below:
- Sampling frequency is of 66 MHz.
- Regimes: waveform capture, spectrogram analysis, coherence analysis (cross covariance between the two inputs).
- The ADC module is manufactured as a separate block to avoid interferences from the DSP board and the PC.
- Connection via a 2x2.5Gbit/sec serial data link.
- PCI-X64/66 standard interface for the communication with the PC.
- High SFDR value (115dBc) and a low noise floor (-120dBFS)
- Real-time RFI mitigation option.
- Client-Server architecture of the interactive software controls the receiver (modes of operation, processing parameters) remotely via Internet in real time.