Arcetri Technical Report 2/2018

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SKA Project Series
LFAA tile processing module programming manual

G. Comoretto, C.Belli

INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

Abstract

The Tile Processing Module is a board performing the data acquisition, channelisation and beamforming for 16 antennas in the SKA LoW Frequency Aperture Array instrument. 16 TPMs are connected using a 40 Gb Ethernet network, to compose a LFAA station with 256 antennas. The LFAA signal processing firmware is composed of modular elements, which are programmed using a standard memory mapped interface. Each module is managed by a software element (plugin), written in Python, which allows a higher level software to manage the board using a standardized set of functions. Here the interface for each module, and the associated plugin, is described for all modules used in the TPM signal processing chain.

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