A workshop covering advanced topics related to ROACH2 based digital system design was organized by Arjuna Madanayake in collaboration with John Ford, Arindam Sengupta and Jason Ray at the Greenbank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia.
This two-day workshop was attended by University of Akron graduate students Nilan Udayanga, Vishwa Seneviratne, Suranga Handagala, Sravan Pulipati, Reza Oliveira (visiting from UFPE, Brazil), and Gihan Mendis. The students learned advanced topics such as ROACH2 clock nets, 10 MHz reference oscillators, compiling for 16-input RF ADC, and designing communications using 10 Gbps Ethernet IP cores.
The highlight of the trip was the climb to the focal plane of the Robert C. Byrd telescope!
The dish antenna is 485 feet tall and is the largest moveable structure on land ever built.
