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© ASTRON, 2014.
As reported
before, the APERTIF focal-plane array project is preparing a demonstrator involving three WSRT dishes (ALPHA-3). After an EU public procurement process, the hardware production for this system is now progressing at full speed and lots of hardware is arriving from local manufacturers:
Variass in Veendam delivered the APERTIF ADU boards, which digitize the analog signals from the APERTIF receiver. Their output is sent over a backplane to the UniBoards.
Major Electronics in Hoogeveen delivered 25 APERTIF DCU boards. These receiver boards select a 300 MHz instantaneous band from the APERTIF frequency range and convert it to lower frequencies.
The images show the proud designers of these boards, presenting their babies. Congratulations to them and everyone else who contributed. Feel free to visit the ASTRON Analog and Digital Labs in the coming weeks. There is lots of hardware currently on display.
More information may be gleaned by clicking on "Archive" at the top of this webpage, and searching with the keyword "apertif". Or, alternatively, by means of the following link.
© ASTRON, 2014.