VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Ray, Joe, Jason, Melinda, Mark, John, Richard, Paul, Dan, (Steve) Agenda: 1. Bank F / H issue 1. progress on ADC calibration...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Richard, John, Jason, Mark, Paul, Joe Masters, Joe Brandt, Dan, Ray, Anish, Marty Agenda: 1. Status of ADC calibration 1. ...
VEGAS Pulsar Mode Integration Planning Page Actions: * John Ford: Set up a telecon with Dave McMahon * All: Check for missing tasks; complete effort and ...
VEGAS Pulsar Modes Real time displays Current GUPPI displays GUPPI has a number of programs/methods for monitoring the instrument and/or looking at data in rea...
New GBT Backend Released for Shared Risk Observing NRAO Green Bank is pleased to announce the release of Versatile GBT Astronomical Spectrometer (VEGAS) for share...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Richard, Marty, Dan, Mark W., John, Amanda, Jason, Randy Agenda: 1. channel separations for modes 1 and 2. 1. Mode 3 bandwid...
Support Staff VEGAS Training Schedule * We have maintenance on Thursday (2/20/2014) and Friday (2/21/2014) to do staff VEGAS training Date Time Trainer...
VEGAS Team Meeting 1:00pm EST/10:00am PST in Conference Room 137. For this week only the call in coordinates will be: * Video Hub: 192.33.117.12##7144 * Tel...
VEGAS Testing 11 Feb 2014 Goals: * Make sure that all seven beams of the KFPA work with VEGAS DONE. * Try different combinations of beams and frequencies D...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Richard, Marty, Dan, Mark W., Joe, Ray, Jason, Randy Agenda: 1. Review of open issues: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/CI...
DIBAS testing Goal On sky testing with X band and L band to check and make sure that we get signal. Details * TGBT14A_902_03 # Scan Time Mode Notes # 1 ...
TGBT14A_902_2 DIBAS tests Goals * test M C / DIBAS observing scripts in advance of night time observing Details * start at 10:00am. Everyone gets logged i...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Richard, Marty, Dan, Mark W., Joe, Ray, Jason, Randy Agenda: 1. Status update on IFNUM testing 1. Status update on DIBAS s...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Richard, Marty, Dan, Mark W., Joe, Ray, Jason, Randy Agenda: 1. Status of DIBAS software 1. review of schedule 1. plans...
17 January 2014 Testing Goals * see how the ripples change in X band in mode 1 or 2 with different attenuation levels * running archivist to record meas...
VEGAS tests 15 January 2014 Goals * Main goal: test mode 20 29 with KFPA and all eight banks * If have time, try to take the two polarization of the X band...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Richard, Marty, John, Dan, Mark W., Glenn, Joe, Ray, Jason, Randy Agenda: 1. Status of DIBAS software 1. review of schedul...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Richard, Joe, Ray, Mark W., Dan, Glenn, Marty Agenda: General update Meeting notes: 1. The VEGAS hardware has been removed f...
VEGAS Tests 2014 Jan 02 Goals * Test modes 1 29 with stationary telescope and LO1B test tones, astronomical test observations for AAS and for modes 20 29 Obs...
VEGAS tests 20 December 2013 Goals * test modes 20 29 during maintenance time (no telescope movement). Plan * run position and frequency switched script...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Dan, Joe, Ray, Marty, John, Glenn, Agenda: Progress and status of FPGA personalities Mode 1 (h1k) 25 Nov. OK, except for 1/...
VEGAS Tests 05 December 2013 Goals * Science testing of modes 1, 2, and 3 prior to potential on sky testing during the weekend. Plan * Test mode 1 positio...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Agenda: Anish, Dan, John, Mark, Richard, Joe, Ray, Jason, Randy Progress and status of FPGA personalities Mode 1 (h1k) 25 Nov...
VEGAS Team Meeting Attendees: Anish, Amanda, Glenn, Dan, Mark Whitehead, Randy, Joe, John. Agenda: Progress and status of FPGA personalities Mode 1 (h1k) OK,...
VEGAS Team Meeting November 04, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Glenn, Dan, Mark NRAO: Marty, Mark, Joe, Ray, Jason, Randy, Anish, Richard Agenda: ...
Vegas Meeting notes for November 12, 2013 Present: J. Ford, R. McCullough, A. Kepley, J. Ray, M. Whitehead, R. Prestage, A. Roshi, D. Werthimer, M. Wagner, G. Jon...
VEGAS Tests 2013 November 05 Goals Re test modes 1, 2, and 3 on VEGAS to make sure that they are will working with the next bof files that include the DIBAS fixe...
VEGAS Team Meeting November 04, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Glenn, Dan, Mark NRAO: Marty, Mark, Joe, Ray, Jason, Randy, Anish, Amanda Agenda: ...
VEGAS Team Meeting October 28, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Glenn, Mark, Andrew NRAO: Marty, , Richard, . Jason, , Joe, Paul, Amanda, Randy ...
VEGAS Team Meeting October 21, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan NRAO: Marty, Anish, Richard, Mark. Jason, John, Joe, Paul, Amanda, Randy Agenda:...
VEGAS Team Meeting September 30, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Glenn NRAO: Marty, Anish, Richard, Mark. Jason, John Agenda: * Testing ...
VEGAS Team Meeting September 23, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Glenn NRAO: Marty, Anish, Richard, Mark. Jason, John Agenda: * Testing ...
VEGAS Team Meeting September 16, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Glenn NRAO: Marty, Anish, Richard, Randy, Mark. Jason Agenda: * Testing ...
VEGAS Tests 11 September 2013 Goals * Tests of VEGAS Modes 4 and 5 Details * 2:45pm get logged in * Melinda copies some python scripts over * Scan 1...
VEGAS Team Meeting September 09, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Glenn NRAO: Marty, Anish, John, Richard, Paul, Amanda, Mark. Jason Agenda: ...
VEGAS Shielded Rack Cable Drawings * Roach2 DC Power Wiring * Roach2 Switch LEDS Wiring * Switching Signal Cables between SSDS and Roach2 Mounting Br...
VEGAS Tests 28/29 August 2013 Goals * Initial tests of VEGAS Modes 4 through 9 Details August 28 * 1pm get logged in * Melinda copies some python scri...
VEGAS Team Meeting August 26, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Mark NRAO: Marty, Anish, John, Richard, Paul, Amanda, Mark Agenda: * Testing * ...
VEGAS Tests 23 August 2013 Goals * Test latest version of VEGAS executable and config scripts Details * 2pm Melinda copies in some config scripts, Ray cop...
VEGAS Tests 2013 August 21 Goals * Check converter rack and IF module levels with Galen Details * Start at 2pm. Put L band receiver in focus and retract p...
VEGAS Team Meeting August 19, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Glenn, Mark, Andrew NRAO: Marty, Anish, John, Richard, Randy, Paul, Amanda, Ray Agend...
VEGAS Tests 2013 August 19a Goals * Checking configuration of Mode 4 to 19 using config tool * Check sub_frequency, filter_bw parameters for mode 1 to 19 a...
VEGAS Tests 2013 August 19 Goals * astronomical tests of VEGAS Modes 2 and 3 Observing Details X band Radio Recombination Lines * weather is calm, overca...
VEGAS Testing 2013 August 14b Goals * diagnose where the ripple seen in the S band data from last Saturday's tests is coming from. Session id * TGBT13B_50...
VEGAS Testing 2013 August 14 Goals * To check the freq axis of the data obtained in mode 2 and 3 in GBTIDL appears to be successful. * To check the cal s...
VEGAS Testing 2013 August 13 Goals * Continued software testing fix mode 2 and 3 appears to be successful. Observing Details * Use project code TGBT13...
VEGAS Testing 2013 August 12 Goals * Debug software errors seen on 10th August Observing Details * Projectid TGBT13A_504_26 (Session 26) * run Lbandmod...
VEGAS Team Meeting August 12, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Glenn, Mark, NRAO: Marty, Anish, John, Richard, Mark, Randy Agenda: * Testin...
VEGAS Tests 2013 Aug 10 Goals * Run VEGAS with the L band receiver, and demonstrate to Galen that the converter rack settings need to be 0dB / 35 dB * Run ...
VEGAS Tests 2013 Aug 09 Goals * Run VEGAS with the L band receiver, and demonstrate to Galen that the converter rack settings need to be 0dB / 35 dB * Run ...
VEGAS / DIBAS Weekly Review Meeting 2013 August 07 Present Lory Wingate, Mike Shannon, Karen O'Neil, Richard Prestage, Paul Demorest DIBAS Status The IF modul...
VEGAS Team Meeting July 15, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Glenn, Mark, NRAO: Marty, Anish. John, Jason, Mark Agenda: * Testing Test resu...
VEGAS Team Meeting July 08, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Glenn, Mark, NRAO: Marty, Anish. John, Jason, Mark Agenda: * Testing Test resu...
VEGAS Team Meeting June 24, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark, Andrew NRAO: Marty, Randy, Jason, Ray Agenda: * Testing ...
VEGAS Team Meeting June 03, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Marty, Mark, Randy, John, Ray Agenda: The changes have ...
VEGAS Team Meeting May 20, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, Andrew NRAO: Jason, Marty, Mark, Randy, John, Richard Agenda: 1) Wh...
VEGAS Team Meeting May 13, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Mark, Joe Brandt Agenda: 1) When should B...
VEGAS Team Meeting May 06, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, John, Anish, Paul, Joe Brandt Agenda:...
VEGAS Team Meeting April 22, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, John, Anish, Paul, Joe Brandt Agend...
VEGAS Team Meeting April 22, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, John, Anish, Paul, Joe Brandt Agend...
VEGAS Team Meeting April 08, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Andrew, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, John, Anish, Paul, Joe Brandt Ag...
VEGAS Team Meeting April 01, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Andrew, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, John, Anish, Paul, Joe Brandt Ag...
VEGAS Team Meeting March 25, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Andrew, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, John, Anish, Paul, Mark, Joe...
VEGAS Team Meeting March 18, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Anish, Paul, Mark, Joe Brandt Agend...
VEGAS Team Meeting March 11, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Anish, Paul, Mark Agenda: * Update on ...
VEGAS 1PPS Measurements 03/05/13 Measured the output from the RAL 1PPS distributor. * THE ENTIRE PULSE: * ZOOM IN ON RISING EDGE: * ZOOM IN ON FALLIN...
VEGAS Team Meeting March 04, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Anish, Paul, Mark Meeting Notes: Ne...
VEGAS Team Meeting February 25, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Glenn, Mark NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Anish, Paul Meeting Notes: Next ...
VEGAS Team Meeting February 11, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Mark, Andrew, Glenn NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Anish, Randy, Paul, John ...
VEGAS Team Meeting February 04, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Mark, Andrew, Glenn NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Anish, Randy, Paul Meeti...
VEGAS Team Meeting January 28, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Mark, Andrew, Glenn NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Anish, Mark, Paul Meeting...
VEGAS Team Meeting January 22, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Mark, Andrew NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Anish, Mark Meeting Notes: Next ...
Do It Yourself Guppi A how to guide to building an advanced pulsar processing machine Introduction The promise of a CASPER based project is that others can buil...
VEGAS Team Meeting January 14, 2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan, Jayanth, Mark, Andrew NRAO: Jason, Ray, Marty, Anish, John, Paul, Scott, Randy, ...
VEGAS Team Meeting January 07,2013 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan W, Jayanth, Mark, Glenn, Andrew NRAO: Jason,Ray, Marty, Anish Meeting Notes: Next...
VEGAS Team Meeting December 10, 2012 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan W, Mark, Glenn NRAO: Ray Creager, Randy McCullough, Jason Ray, John Ford, Marty ...
VEGAS Team Meeting December 03, 2012 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan W, Mark, Glenn NRAO: Anish, Ray Creager, Mark Whitehead, Jason, Randy Meeting No...
VEGAS Team Meeting November 19, 2012 Attendees CALTECH, UC B, Columbia Dan W, Mark, Glenn NRAO: Anish, John Ford, Ray Creager, Mark Whitehead Meeting Notes...
CASPER Workshop Aug 2012 To do list to have the hardware in place prior to the workshop 08/01/12 Status updates embedded below in red (JMR) Hardware * Mo...
Green Bank Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument ( GUPPI) Introduction NRAO is exploring the development of new backends using reconfigurable off the shelf hard...
GUPPI2 Testing Instructions This page describes how to run a GBT test observation with GUPPI2 (coherent dedispersion modes of guppi). Preliminary setup * To s...
Tests for March 2012 Objective * System to conduct pulsar observations * Test data delivery into the NRAO servers * Test switching signals with Mode #1 ...
VEGAS: VErsatile GBT Astronomical Spectrometer Analog IF Interface (Scroll down for older information) Gain Slope Modifications, June 2012 It is desired to m...
December, 2011 Test Session Introduction The VEGAS team has been working on the first two firmware modes and the supporting software. Hardware development and d...
Guppi Upgrades Modification Request #2 Q3 2011 1. Introduction GUPPI is getting lots of use, and there are a couple of commonly used modes that could be better...
Roach Lab Spectrometer The old lab spectrometer is dead. Or at least it's pining for the Fjjords. We need something for the receiver guys to use. Specs This sp...
Preliminary Design Review Plan Final Report * Memo from the Review Panel General This is an outline of the PDR scheduled for 10:30 AM January 31st, 2010. All...
West Virginia University Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument (WUPPI) Introduction The WUPPI is a clone of GUPPI. It is a hardware which was developed from reco...
Log of Wuppi Pulsar Configurations and Example Data The WUPPI pulsar backend is used with the 43m in a variety of observing configurations. This document is a chr...
Prologix GPIB Ethernet Adapter This topic details how to configure the Prologix GPIB Ethernet controller. Configure IP Address The IP address of the adapter can ...
SC10 General Information The show was held in New Orleans. The convention center is downtown by the river, about 3/4 mile from the French Quarter. Very convenien...
GUPPI Project Closeout The GUPPI project is winding down, with most objectives completed. This page is an attempt to organize and catch all the little things tha...
CICADA Green Bank Spectrometer Project Design Phase Project Kickoff Meeting, September 2, 2010 Attendees * Randy McCullough * Jason Ray * Roger Norrod ...
CICADA Names and Contact Information General The following U.C. Berkeley personnel are developing hardware, firmware and software for the IBOB/ADC/BEE2 equipmen...
Some Design Notes, published for comment, praise, and ridicule: * Randy's Architecture sketch: cicadaArchitectureDoc.pdf: cicadaArchitectureDoc.pdf * Netwo...
Green Bank Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument (GUPPI) Introduction The GBT Spectrometer, which took approximately 10 years to design, build, and deploy, is no...
How to Record Data using ROACH Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument Below listed are the instructions to record data using RUPPI with teh spectrometr deisgn load...
How to Record Data using RUPPI Below listed are the instructions to record data using RUPPI with teh spectrometr deisgn loaded. All commands presented here should...
How to Record Data using WUPPI Below listed are the instructions to record pulsar data using WUPPI. All commands presented here should be run on the tofu command ...
Roach Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument (RUPPI) Introduction The RUPPI is developed to upgrade from IBOB's and BEE2 in the WUPPI system to the ROACH. It is a...
GUPPI User's Guide NOTE: As of 9/21/2009 the procedures on this page should not be used for standard GBT GUPPI observations. Up to date observing instructions can...
Array Spectrometer Money has become available to build a 7 pixel FPA for the GBT, expandable to 61 pixels. Our GBT Spectrometer is an 800 MHz, 8 sampler, 2048 ch...
GUPPI Software Parameters This is a quick list of the software parameters discussed during the GUPPI brainstorming session. Control Parameters Definitions: ...
ROACH user's guide The below are the instructions to get things up and running a design in the ROACH. 1 Boot the ROACH Open a putty/xterm window and connect to...
List of GUPPI BOF Files This page has a list of all .bof files present on beef and any notable features about them General notes The bof file naming convention h...
SC 09 in Portland, OR Summary By John Ford(JF), Pam Ford (PF), and Patrick Prandt(PB) Unattributed sections by random combinations of the authors. General Infor...
GUPPI Controller Semantics Overview Introduction In summer 2008, the GUPPI controller shifted into a formalized "agent based" design, where all objects in the c...
Frequently Asked Questions about things CASPER Libraries PFB/FFT blocks (Casper library, i.e. "green blocks" versions) How can I build a spectrometer using the...
CICADA Notes The CICADA notes describe design studies, engineering tests, software analysis and interface specifications for the collaboration. These notes are ...
CICADA Planning Documents This page is a repository for the planning documents generated in setting up and managing the program. Feel free to add your $0.02 wort...
Flash two Ibob Lights * This very simple IBob design is based on the Berkeley "testbouph.mdl" file. The design uses the Tiney shell to start and stop the flash...
Guppi Event Capture Design The NRAO Guppi Pulsar data Acquisition system uses two U.C. Berkeley IBOBs to sample two input polarizations and transfers these data s...
Parkes Spectrometer, Full Stokes Version Peter McMahon created a very capable pulsar data acquision based on the U.C. Berkeley blocks. His design was amoung the ...
What I read on my Christmas vacation or A summary of "Reconfigurable Computing" At 875 pages, not including the index, this is a formidable volume. It was writte...
Revised Parkes Spec Design This design is an revision to the ParkesSpec Stokes design. This design was proved to be working with the two servers Tofu and Cicada2...
SC 08 in Austin, TX Tutorials Went to the Ohio State 10 GBE and Infiniband tutorials. Learned some, but not as much as I hoped. The "advanced" session repeated...
CICADA Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the CICADA web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in . and , and...
WVU / NRAO / U. C. Berkeley Giant Pulse Statistics Project WVU, NRAO and U.C. Berkeley are developing a pulsar search and full sky mapping data acquisition syste...
How to Record Data using GUPPI NOTE: As of 9/21/2009 the procedures on this page should not be used for standard GBT GUPPI observations. Up to date observing ins...
Guppi Developer's Guide Command Line "Primitives" The GUPPI command line has 4 basic operations: get, set, unload, and load. get The get command has two functio...
GUPPI Controller Design Overview GUPPI software is to have a layered architecture, with an external client at the top level and the IBOB/BEE2/CASPER hardware con...
Instructions for Controlling GUPPI Controller Software About supervisord GUPPI uses supervisord to manage the guppi controller processes on beef and on the bee2....
43M Spectral Line calibration and Data monitor The NRAO is developing a wideband data monitor system for the 43m, to improved the frequency coverage of the system...
Setting up the GUPPI Host Software Several steps are necessary to make the GUPPI functional with the rest of the hardware: Install Python and other standard soft...
Setting up the GUPPI BEE2 Several steps are necessary to make the GUPPI BEE functional: Set up a file system and runtime environment for the Borph on the control...
Artificial Pulsar User's Guide The NRAO in Green Bank has developed a hardware test fixture for validating pulsar data acquisition systems. This system is called ...
Software: CICADA vs GUPPI The efforts of Main.PatrickBrandt and Main.RonDuPlain have led to an extensible parameter passing framework for communicating with the (...
IBOB Notes This topic highlights Q A regarding the IBOB. For open questions about general CASPER related topics, see CasperFAQ. TinySH Here is a collection of c...
GUPPI Design Documents These documents are the working versions of the design. Once design is complete, these will be turned into static documents. GUPPI System...
GUPPI Design Workshop Purpose A 2 day workshop to get the entire development team together for uninterrupted concerted effort. Deliverables At the end of the me...
Pulsar Machine Status and Meeting Agenda * Meeting participants: * Randy McCullough, Jason Ray, Glen Langston, Amy Shelton, Rich Lacasse, Paul Demorest, ...
Pulsar Machine Status and Meeting Agenda * Meeting participants: * Glen Langston, Amy Shelton, Rich Lacasse, Paul Demorest, Ron DuPlain, Scott Ransom, Jo...
Pulsar Machine Status and Meeting Agenda * Meeting participants: * Randy McCullough, Jason Ray, Glen Langston, Amy Shelton, Rich Lacasse, Paul Demorest, ...