Improved High-Speed Data Recorder for Superconducting Digital-RF Receivers

Author

Lehmann, Alf E. ; Kirichenko, Dmitri E. ; Gupta, Deepika

Author_Institution

HYPRES, Inc., Elmsford, NY, USA

Volume

24

Issue

4

fYear

2014

fDate

Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A superconducting digital-RF receiver with high-ingest-rate data recording capability has been developed. The data recorder unit uses standard PC components with state-of-the-art solid-state drives (SSDs) and interfaces with the superconductor analog-to-digital converter (ADC) through a commercial FPGA board. High-speed data ingest rates exceeding 3.2 Gbps have been demonstrated successfully with single-bit ADCs clocked up to 27.52 GHz. A continuous recording of 2.5 TB has been achieved using a bank of 12 SSDs. A new graphical user interface featuring single button operation and automatic file naming, as well as convenient configuration setting, has been developed.

Keywords

data recording; field programmable gate arrays; microwave receivers; radio receivers; superconducting microwave devices; FPGA board; automatic file naming; high speed data recorder; single button operation; solid state drives; superconducting digital-RF receivers; superconductor analog-to-digital converter; Clocks; Computers; Data acquisition; Field programmable gate arrays; Random access memory; Receivers; Superconducting integrated circuits; Analog-to-digital converter (ADC); digital radio; digital receiver; digital recording; direct digitization; field programmable gate arrays;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2014.2326928

Filename

6822514