Design Documents

Overall Simulator Concept Design

• Overall Design Diagram
  The overall design diagram and accompanying description provide an overview of the main components of the simulator, showing the relationship between functions, data and user inputs. The design is broken into five sections (sky, antennas, weight generation, beamforming and metrics/visualisation), joined by plug-and-play interfaces using data checkpoints.
• Coordinate System
  The coordinate system specification defines how source, beams and antennas are positioned. The celestial system (used for sources and beams), local horizontal system (used for the local sky) and antenna coordiate systems are considered.
• Modes of Operation
  Describes how the simulator is run by the user. Full beamforming simulation mode and diagnostic modes are explained in the context of the simulator.
• Data Flow & Interface Specification
  Describes in detail the data transfer and interfaces between each major component of the simulator.

Parallel Design

• Simulator parallelism diagram
  Schematic showing the approach taken in parallelising the simulator.
• Simulator Operations
  Spreadsheet giving an indication of the number of operations and amount of communication for each module of the simulator given a set of station and engineering parameters.
• Simulator ordering of operations
  Chart showing the odering of operations and communications in the simulator.