A scalable, upgradable, FPGA-based computing platform and software design methodology will be developed that can be used to implement a wide variety of radio astronomy applications. The project relies on a small number of modular, connectible, upgradable, hardware components and platform-idependent software libraries that can be reused and scaled as hardware capabilities expand. The instrumentation technology that results from this work will be widely available to the radio astronomy community.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST)
Application #
0619596
Program Officer
Gary Schmidt
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2006-08-01
Budget End
2011-07-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$1,347,938
Indirect Cost
Name
Universities Space Research Association
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Columbia
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
21044