VEGAS Specifications

Spectra can be measured from 8 dual polarized beams.
8-bit Analog to Digital Converters will be used.
Digitized bandwidth : 1.5 GHz (usable bandwidth 1.25 GHz).
Number of digitally tuned sub-bands within 1.5 GHz bandwidth : 8.
Number of sub-bands per beam when processing signals from 8 dual polarized beams: 8
Total bandwidth that can be processed from a dual polarized beam : 10 GHz.
Number of sub-bands per beam when processing signals from a dual polarized beam : 64
Maximum number of spectral channels: 32768.
Reconfigurable hardware will be used to support up to 17 observing modes which provide spectral resolutions from 1.5 MHz to 30 Hz and sub-band bandwidths from 30 MHz to 1 MHz.
Maximum spectral dump rate : every 0.5 msec.
Provides a maximum of 6 switching states for versatile reference measurement for calibration.
Maximum data rate to disk 100 MB/sec per spectrometer (total 100 x 8 = 800 MB/sec).