Collaborative Digital Instrumentation for the Radio Astronomy Community

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这项研究的目的是开发通用的低成本天文仪器，可供感兴趣的社区成员使用。传统的射电天文仪器是高度专业化的一次性硬件。该研究将基于现场可编程门阵列技术开发和优化模块化、可连接和可升级的硬件组件，以及独立于平台的开放架构软件来驱动硬件。这些组件将可用于单碟和干涉射电天文数据捕获和分析，并将为全世界的射电天文社区提供相对低成本、通用、可扩展的射电天文仪器。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The intent of this research is to develop general-purpose low-cost astronomical instrumentation that can be used by interested members of the community. Traditional radio astronomy instrumentation is highly specialized one-off type of hardware. This research will develop and optimize modular, connectible, and upgradable hardware components based upon Field-Programmable Gate Array technology, and platform-independent open-architecture software to drive the hardware. The components will be usable for single dish and interferometric radio astronomy data capture and analysis, and will offer relatively low-cost, common, scalable radio astronomy instrumentation to the worldwide radio astronomy community at large.