[evla-sw-discuss] pulsar data

[Brent Carlson]

Michael,

Michael Rupen wrote:

> Hi Brent,
>   a couple WIDAR pulsar details that I wanted to check...
>
> 1- Can one have a different number of time bins in each baseband?  

Yes.

> sub-band?

In principle, as long at the time bins are integer factors of each 
other.  Although, you may drive the s/w programmer who has to write the 
code to do this (write the hardware executable script building s/w) to 
the looney bin.

>
> 2- Can one use fast switching in "pulsar mode"? that is, can one
>   set up in advance two correlator modes, one of which produces gobs of
>   time bins, and the other of which is "standard" unbinned data, and
>   switch between those on timescales of seconds?

Don't see why not.  Phase binning is just another way of dumping the 
data, and is controlled by software.

Brent

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