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ALMA MEMO #476

Enhancing the Baseline ALMA Correlator Performances with the Second Generation Correlator Digital Filter System

B. Quertier¹, G. Comoretto², A. Baudry¹, A. Gunst³, A. Bos³

¹Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers, UMR 584, BP89, 33270 Floirace, France
²Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
³ASTRON, P.O. Box 2, 7990AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

2003-09-16



Characteristics of the digital filter bank initially proposed for the Second Generation Correlator (2GC) are summarized and we show that this filterbank can be adapted to the Baseline ALMA Correlator design to enhance the number of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) resources, power consumption and cost are given and we discuss implementation of the digital filters in HardCopy devices to further improve performances and cost.


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