CBF-SDP Emulator

This is an emulator for the Correlator Beamformer and its data sending capabilities. It reads data from a data source (typically a Measurement Set, but other sources will be added in the future, like correlator data dumps) and sends it over a network transport to a number of receivers, thus mimicking the CBF-SDP interface.

The Low and Mid SKA telescopes have different ICDs specifying the data that should be sent from the CBF to SDP. This emulator implements both modes to the best extent possible, although differences with the real hardware might exist.

This is an extensible and configurable package that has been designed to support multiple communication protocols and provide a platform for testing consumers of CBF data payloads. It currently only implements the SPEAD transmission protocol, but other protocols can be added in the future.

• Installation
  • CAR
  • Poetry (Developer)
• Running
  • Programmatically
  • Command-line
  • Tango device wrapper
  • In SDP
• Configuration options
  • From nested dictionaries
• API documentation
  • ska_sdp_cbf_emulator.packetiser module
  • ska_sdp_cbf_emulator.emulator module
  • ska_sdp_cbf_emulator.transmitters module
  • ska_sdp_cbf_emulator.transmitters.spead2_transmitters module