DSPSR: Digital Signal Processing Software for Pulsar Astronomy
Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia
arXiv:1008.3973 [astro-ph.IM] (24 Aug 2010)
@article{van2010dspsr,
title={DSPSR: Digital Signal Processing Software for Pulsar Astronomy},
author={van Straten, W. and Bailes, M.},
journal={Arxiv preprint arXiv:1008.3973},
year={2010}
}
DSPSR is a high-performance, open-source, object-oriented, digital signal processing software library and application suite for use in radio pulsar astronomy. Written primarily in C++, the library implements an extensive range of modular algorithms that can optionally exploit both multiple-core processors and general-purpose graphics processing units. After over a decade of research and development, DSPSR is now stable and in widespread use in the community. This paper presents a detailed description of its functionality, justification of major design decisions, analysis of phase-coherent dispersion removal algorithms, and demonstration of performance on some contemporary microprocessor architectures.
December 21, 2010 by hgpu