Input terms | Digital data representing complex voltage samples from two orthogonal polarized ( both linearly or both circularly polarized ) antennas |
Input Representation | Sign-magnitude numbers, 1 bit sign, eight bit magnitude each for real and imaginary parts of the complex voltage samples |
Number of Input Frequency Channels ( Time-Multiplexed form ) | 256 per sub-band |
Number of Output Data Paths | 8 data paths, with the spectrum being split into sets of 32 consecutive frequency channels per data path. The Stokes parameters of respective group of 32 channels are sent in time-multiplexed form in each path |
Technology | FLEX EPLDs, PROM look-up tables |
Output Data Representation | Sign magnitude numbers, 1-bit sign, 15-bit magnitude for each Stokes parameter |
Output Linear Polarization angle error limit | ≤ 0.5 deg |
Output Data rate per Data path | 128 Mbytes per second after Stokes parameter calculation, 16 MWords per second per data path after channel splitting for 8 nodes |
Polarization Representation | In terms of Stokes parameters I, Q, U, V, ( unnormalized ) representing total power linearly polarized intensity and circularly polarized intensity |