Work
Most of our work is done in collaboration with McGill University's experimental cosmology lab, building readout and signal-processing systems for telescopes.
Experiments
We have contributed design material to the following experiments:
- The South Pole Telescope, including three generations of readout designs.
- The CHIME experiment, a revolutionary new interferometer aimed at tracing the 21cm Hydrogen line back in time to probe the growth of the universe.
- The E and B Experiment, a stratospheric balloon that flew 35 km over Antarctica in Dec. 2012-Jan. 2013.
- The POLARBEAR, POLARBEAR2, and Simons Observatory experiments.
- The LiteBIRD experiment, a satellite-based CMB telescope planned to launch into the Earth-Moon-Sun L2 point sometime in the mid-2020s.
Hardware
- ICEboard
- A custom FPGA / ARM motherboard with two FMC mezzanine slots, designed with McGill. ICEboards are the basis for readout and signal-processing systems on the South Pole Telescope, the Simons Array, CHIME, and HIRAX.
Open Source
- pyxsi
- Python bindings for the Xilinx Simulator Interface, so testbenches can mix Python, C/C++, and RTL. (Notes)
- vivado-hooks
- A remote-build and regression-test framework for Vivado projects, made of git hooks, worktrees, and tmux. (Notes)
- awaitless
- An IPython extension that runs coroutines at the prompt without an explicit "await". (Notes)
- tworoutine
- Python functions that can be called synchronously or asynchronously from a single implementation. Deprecated in favour of awaitless. (Notes)
- ciccomp
- CIC compensation filter design using open-source tools. (Notes)
- goes-proton-python
- Fetching and plotting GOES satellite proton-detector data. (Notes)