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New CASPER Website
August 7, 2024
The new CASPER website
We are moving the CASPER website to Github.
CASPER Workshop 2018
February 9, 2018
The 2018 CASPER collaboration workshop: 25-30 September 2018, Guiyang City, China
We are pleased to announce that the 2018 CASPER Workshop will be held at Hanglong Astronomy Town, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China, 25th - 30th September, 2018.
Presentation, poster and tutorial sessions will run from the 25th to the 29th September, with a one-day trip to the Five-hundred-meter Aperturn Spherical Telescop (FAST) on the 30th September.
Registration is open! The registration deadline is 31st August.
See the conference website for programme, visa, accommodation, and registration information.
For more info, click here.
CASPER Workshop 2017
February 14, 2017
The 2017 CASPER collaboration workshop at the California Institute of Technology will take place from August 14 - 18 2017
The CASPER collaboration workshop at the California Institute of Technology will take place from August 14 - 18 2017 in the Beckman Institute main auditorium. More information will be posted on the CASPER wiki as it becomes available.
For more info, click here.
CASPER Workshop 2016
September 15, 2015
The CASPER collaboration workshop in Cape Town will take place from January 25 - 29 2016 at the Univeristy of Cape Town.
The CASPER collaboration workshop in Cape Town will take place from January 25-29, 2016 in the Menzies Building at the Univeristy of Cape Town. Please consider booking your accommodation as soon as possible to get the best possible deal.
For more info, click here.
CASPER Workshop 2014
June 18, 2014
The CASPER Workshop 2014 is over!
Thank you all who attended and made this a wonderful week.
Please note that pdf/powerpoint versions of many of the presentations are available via the Agenda in our Conference wiki page.
CASPER Workshop 2014
April 1, 2014
The Workship will be held at the University of California, Berkeley - in the Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall - from June 9th to June 13th
The CASPER collaboration workshop in Berkeley will take place from June 9th-13th 2014 at the Univeristy of
California Berkeley. Please consider
booking your accommodation as soon as possible to get the best possible deal.
Where: University of California, Berkeley - in the Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
Meeting dates: June 9th (9am) through June 13th, 2014 (1pm)
Cost: $125 for students, $250 for everyone else
There will be talks in the morning, and the afternoon will contain labs, tutorials, working groups and free
discussion. Labs with CASPER hardware and software will be in the Radio Astronomy Lab, Evans Hall.
Working groups will likely include: correlators and beamformers, spectrometers, pulsar machines, MKID detectors,
next gen tools and libraries, next gen hardware and architectures.
For more info, click here.
CASPER Workshop 2013
March 5, 2013
The Workshop will be held at Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Discovery Centre, Cheshire in the United Kingdom September 2-6
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to inform you that registration is now open for the
CASPER collaboration workshop in Manchester which will take place from
September 2nd-6th 2013 at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
To register for the meeting please follow the links at
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/meetings/casper2013
Registration is open until the 7th July 2013, so please register early.
We have also updated information on the website about accommodation,
transport, the registration fee and funds for travel assistance.
Please also consider booking your accommodation as soon as possible to
get the best possible deal.
We will be emailing soon with details of how to submit abstracts for
presentations and posters.
Registration Open: April 26th 2013
Deadline for Travel Assistance Requests: June 26th 2013
Registration Closes: July 7th 2013
Meeting dates: September 2nd - 6th 2013
LEDA first light
September 25, 2012
Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation
January 26, 2012
New opportunities for publication in Astronomical instrumentation
CASPER Workshop 2011
August 1, 2011
CASPER 2011 Workshop website is now up and ready for registration
CASPER Workshop 2011
May 25, 2011
First announcement of the CASPER 2011 Workshop
New Memo
November 23, 2010
Optimize CASPER Development by "Black Boxing" Designs
This memo describes how to use System Generator's Black Box to develop System Generator models more efficiently.
Workshop program now available.
July 22, 2010
Casper Workshop 2010 Announced!
March 16, 2010
Online registration is now open.
New Paper
December 5, 2009
A Digital Broadband Beamforming Architecture for 2-PAD
We describe an hierarchical, frequency-domain beamforming architecture for synthesising a sky beam from the wideband antenna feeds of digital aperture arrays.
New Memo
October 12, 2009
On XAUI Synchronization
Synchronizing XAUI streams coming in from multiple boards is non-trivial. This memo describes the problem and proposes a few solutions.
New Tutorial
July 29, 2009
ROACH 10GbE tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates the use of ROACH's 10GbE ports, KATCP and the Python wrappers.
New Test Report
July 29, 2009
MKID ADC Test Report
A preliminary report on the ADC2x550-12.
New Presentation
June 11, 2009
CASPER Case Study: Pulsar and Transient Instrumentation (JPL Workshop 2009)
Workshop Announcement
May 28, 2009
CASPER workshop 2009 signup sheet now online
New Memo
April 22, 2009
IBOB PROM burning procedure in iMPACT 10.1
Workshop 2009 announced!
April 08, 2009
The 2009 CASPER workshop will take place from 28 Sept to 2 Oct in Cape Town, South Africa.
New Presentation
March 20, 2009
The CASPER Instrument System - MCCT/SKADS - Oxford, UK 2009
New Presentation
March 18, 2009
Using the CASPER Tool Flow - MCCT/SKADS - Oxford, UK 2009
New Presentation
December 15, 2008
Searching for Dispersed Radio Pulses - LANL/Berkeley Meeting