Searching for ET with FPGA'S

Abstract

Summary form only given. Next generation radio telescopes, such as the Allen telescope array and the square kilometer array are composed of hundreds to thousands of smaller telescopes; these large arrays require peta-ops per second of real time processing to combine telescope signals, generate images, and search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. I will describe these telescopes, their instrumentation, and the motivation for peta-op/sec FPGA systems.