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A Study on the Digital Filter Design using Software for Analysis of Observation Data in Radio Astronomy  

Yeom, Jae-Hwan (한국천문연구원)
Oh, Se-Jin (한국천문연구원)
Roh, Duk-Gyoo (한국천문연구원)
Oh, Chung-Sik (한국천문연구원)
Jung, Dong-Kyu (한국천문연구원)
Shin, Jae-Sik (한국천문연구원)
Kim, Hyo-Ryoung (한국천문연구원)
Hwang, Ju-Yeon (한국천문연구원)
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Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing / v.16, no.4, 2015 , pp. 175-181 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a design method for a digital filter using software in order to analyze the radio astronomy observation data. Recently the analysis method for radio astronomy observing system is transferring from hardware to software by developing of state-of-the-art of computer system. The existing hardware system is not able to easily change the specification because it is implemented to meet special requirements and it takes a high cost and time. In case of software, however, it has an advantage to implement with small cost if open software is used, and flexibly changes to satisfy the desired specification. But, in order to analyze the massive data like radio astronomy with software, the good performance system is needed for computer. Therefore, this paper proposes a digital filter design method using software with the same performance as that of digital filter implemented with hardware in observation system which is operated by the KVN(Korean VLBI Network). To design a digital filter, the proposed method is performed with standard C language and the simulation is conducted with GNU(GNU's Not Unix) Octave and investigated to show its effectiveness. In addition, for the high speed operation of the designed digital filter, the SSE(Streaming SIMD Extensions) library is adopted for available parallel operation. By the proposed digital filter, the digital filtering is performed for the wide band observation data in the KVN observation mode, the filtering result of narrow band observation has no ripple inside of stop band, and confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Keywords
Optimum coding method; fftw; SSE; Shared memory; OpenMP; Software correlator;
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