IOTA: the array controller for a gigapixel OTCCD camera for Pan-STARRS

Peter Onaka; John Tonry; Gerard Luppino; Charles Lockhart; Aaron Lee; Gregory Ching; Sidik Isani; Robin Uyeshiro

doi:10.1117/12.550622

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29 September 2004 IOTA: the array controller for a gigapixel OTCCD camera for Pan-STARRS

Peter Onaka, John Tonry, Gerard Luppino, Charles Lockhart, Aaron Lee, Gregory Ching, Sidik Isani, Robin Uyeshiro

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Proceedings Volume 5499, Optical and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550622
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The PanSTARRS project has undertaken an ambitious effort to develop a completely new array controller architecture that is fundamentally driven by the large 1gigapixel, low noise, high speed OTCCD mosaic requirements as well as the size, power and weight restrictions of the PanSTARRS telescope. The result is a very small form factor next generation controller scalar building block with 1 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that will be assembled into a system that will readout 512 outputs at ~1 Megapixel sample rates on each output. The paper will also discuss critical technology and fabrication techniques such as greater than 1MHz analog to digital converters (ADCs), multiple fast sampling and digital calculation of multiple correlated samples (DMCS), ball grid array (BGA) packaged circuits, LINUX running on embedded field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with hard core microprocessors for the prototype currently being developed.

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Peter Onaka, John Tonry, Gerard Luppino, Charles Lockhart, Aaron Lee, Gregory Ching, Sidik Isani, and Robin Uyeshiro "IOTA: the array controller for a gigapixel OTCCD camera for Pan-STARRS", Proc. SPIE 5499, Optical and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy, (29 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550622

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