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A Scalable Hybrid FPGA/GPU FX Correlator

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arxiv 1401.8288 v2 pith:76PLMP7N submitted 2014-01-31 astro-ph.IM

A Scalable Hybrid FPGA/GPU FX Correlator

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Radio astronomical imaging arrays comprising large numbers of antennas, O(10^2-10^3) have posed a signal processing challenge because of the required O(N^2) cross correlation of signals from each antenna and requisite signal routing. This motivated the implementation of a Packetized Correlator architecture that applies Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to the O(N) "F-stage" transforming time domain to frequency domain data, and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to the O(N^2) "X-stage" performing an outer product among spectra for each antenna. The design is readily scalable to at least O(10^3) antennas. Fringes, visibility amplitudes and sky image results obtained during field testing are presented.

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