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Last Modified: Monday, 19-Dec-05 1:05:31 PM EDT
This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant AST-0096854.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.
REDSHIFT SEARCH RECEIVER
Photo of a complete autocorrelator board.
Delay lines with 256 taps, detectors, AC amplifiers, A/D converters,
FPGA for digital signal processing all on one board. 31 MHz resolution.
Driver module
- Contains phase switches, anti-alias filter, splitters, and long delay lines to shift sampling points of different tapped lines
- Module has 8 outputs to drive the 4 tapped delay lines.
Schematic of driver module for analog autocorrelator
IN CONCLUSION...
The Redshift Search Receiver is well along its way to completion. Please check back for more information and performance results in the near future!
