Mr. Adam Isaacson Profile

Adam Isaacson

at South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

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FPGA , Signal Processing (Radar) , Firmware , Software , Hardware , Integration

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Adam Isaacson received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town. Since 2000, he has been involved in various roles for a radar company and he joined SARAO from Feb 2016. He has been involved as an FPGA Design engineer for the SKARAB hardware, which is part of the Digital Backend for the MeerKAT radio astronomy project and now serves as the hardware manager for the Electronics Group.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7904-4924

Publications (1)

SPIE Journal Paper | 22 November 2021 Open Access

MeerKAT correlator-beamformer: a real-time processing back-end for astronomical observations

Andrew van der Byl, James Smith, Andrew Martens, Jason Manley, Tyrone van Balla, Alec Rust, Amish Patel, Gareth Callanan, Adam Isaacson, Wesley New, Robin van Wyk, François Kapp, Henno Kriel, Omer Mahgoub

JATIS, Vol. 8, Issue 01, 011006, (November 2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.011006

KEYWORDS: Antennas, Field programmable gate arrays, Astronomy, Optical correlators, Data processing, Logic, Digital signal processing, Polarization, Data storage, Switches

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