[evla-sw-discuss] OSRO OPT - Integration Time

[Michael Rupen]

> In Tuesday's SSS meeting i promised i would ask some questions of a wider audience.  This
> is the 2nd of 3 emails.
> 
> On the OSRO page the following is said about integration times:
>       "These capabilities will be provided with integration times no shorter than 1
>       second..."
> 
> In the OPT for the VLA correlator integration times were presented to the user as a
> dropdown list of only a handful of valid values.  Some questions for the OSRO user
> interface of the OPT:
>  1. Will we display a discrete set of valid values or allow users to type in values?

Probably easiest to allow users to type it in.  I think we should restrict 
this to multiples of one second however (i.e., make this an integer).


>  2. One second is given above as a minimum time.  Should we nonetheless allow input of
>     values < 1s and issue a warning, or truly prohibit it?

Truly prohibit it.  We do NOT want to deal with short integration times for 
OSRO -- it stresses the CBE, and ups the data rate.

                 Michael