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可供感兴趣的社区成员使用的通用、低成本的天文仪器。传统射电天文仪器是高度专业化的一次性硬件。本研究将开发和优化基于现场可编程门阵列技术的模块化、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。这些部件将可用于单盘和干涉射电天文数据采集和分析，并将向整个世界射电天文学界提供相对低成本、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.