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Radioblocks publications

  • J. F. Radcliffe, R. J. Beswick, A. P. Thomson, A. Njeri, and T. W. B. Muxlow. Revisiting a flux recovery systematic error arising from common deconvolution methods used in aperture-synthesis imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 527, no. 1, pp. 942–949, 2023. Read the paper here. 

  • R. I. Amils et al. Estimating the Sensitivity of Ultra-Wideband Cryogenic IF-LNAs to Input Mismatch by Noise Wave Measurement. 33rd IEEE Int. Symp. on Space THz Technology (ISSTT2024), Charlottesville, VA, April 7–11, 2024. Proceedings pp. 70-73.  

  • D. Ren et al. Si metalens for quasi-optical THz HEB mixer arrays. 33nd IEEE International Symposium on Space THz Technology (ISSTT2024), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, April 7-11, 2024. Proceedings p. 53. 

  • P. Pütz et al. Production of ALMA Band 2 cryogenic 1st stage LNA. 33rd IEEE Int. Symp. on Space THz Technology (ISSTT2024), Charlottesville, VA, April 7–11, 2024. Proceedings p. 79.  

  • M. C. Diez-González et al. An 18-32.5 GHz, 8.3 K Average Noise Temperature Cryogenic Amplifier for the Front End of Radio Telescope Receivers. 4th URSI AT-RASC, Gran Canaria, Spain, May 19–24, 2024. Extended abstract available in the conference proceedings listings under DOI: 10.46620/URSIATRASC24/BNFK8673  

  • P. Pütz, F. Thome, A. Leuther and G. Wieching. InGaAs mHEMT MMIC Technology for Low Noise Amplifiers in Radio Astronomy. The Promises and Challenges of the ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade, June 24–28, 2024 (WSU2024), ESO Garching, Germany. Poster available on Zenodo.  

  • Victor Van Wijhe (University of Twente, The Netherlands). Signal Processing with AMD Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) for Applications in Radio Astronomy. Master’s thesis, 2024. Partially funded by Radioblocks. Supervised by Steven van der Vlugt (ASTRON). Read the full thesis.  

  • Victor Van Wijhe, Vincent Sprave, Daniele Passaretti, Nikolaos Alachiotis, Gerrit Grutzeck, Thilo Pionteck, and Steven v.d. Vlugt. Exploring the Versal AI Engines for Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy. 34th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2024), Turin, Italy, September 2–6, 2024, pp. 1–10. DOI: 10.1109/FPL64840.2024.00011 (subscription required). Technical results and firmware (open access): Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP)- Polyphase Filter Pipeline (PPF), ACAP, HTI-OVGU/ACAP-HTI (collaboration with HTI at OVGU) 

  • C. Boerkamp, Z. Al-Ars, S. van der Vlugt. Running Non-NN Algorithms on an FPGA Using FINN and TINA. FINN Tutorial at FPL 2024, Turin, Italy, September 2–6, 2024. Poster. 

  • Giuseppe Cimò et al. The Horizon Europe project Radioblocks and its impact for the EVN. In Proceedings of the 16th European VLBI Network Symposium, edited by Ros, E., Benke, P., Dzib, S., Rottmann, I., & Zensus, J.A., September 2nd-6th 2024, Bonn, Germany. Read proceedings paper here.     

  • Christiaan Boerkamp, Steven van der Vlugt, and Zaid Al-Ars. Tina: Acceleration of Non-NN Signal Processing Algorithms Using NN Accelerators. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), September 22–25, London, United Kingdom, 2024. Preprint available here.  

  • B. Mirzaei, J. R. G. Silva, W. -J. Vreeling, W. M. Laauwen, D. Ren and J. -R. Gao. Reduced Noise Temperatures of a THz NbN Hot Electron Bolometer Mixer. IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 91–99, Jan. 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2024.3475010 (subscription required).   

  • W. Ji, J. Chang, B. Mirzaei, M. Ridder, W. Jellema, T.-Y. Kao, A. Lee, J. R. Gao, H. P. Urbach, A. J. L. Adam. Compact Metasurface Terahertz Spectrometer. Laser & Photonics Reviews 2025, 19(3): 2401290. Read the paper here.  

  • Missoum, Treuttel. Embedded optimization of 90-degree hybrid couplers in power combined frequency doublers. 34th IEEE International Symposium on Space THz Technology (ISSTT2025), Berlin, Germany, April 6–10, 2025. Poster.  

  • Z. Zhao et al. Anti-Reflection Structure for a Silicon Meta-Lens at 1.6 THz. 34th IEEE International Symposium on Space THz Technology (ISSTT2025), Berlin, Germany, April 6–10, 2025. Poster.  

  • Steven van der Vlugt, Leon Oostrum, Gijs Schoonderbeek, Ben van Werkhoven, Bram Veenboer, Krijn Doekemeijer, and John Romein. PowerSensor3: A Fast and Accurate Open Source Power Measurement Tool. IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2025), Ghent, Belgium, May 11–13, 2025. Preprint available here.  

  • Leon Oostrum, Bram Veenboer, Ronald Rook, Pieter Kruizinga, Michael Brown and John W. Romein. The Tensor-Core Beam Former: a High-Speed Signal-Processing Library for Multidisciplinary Use. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2025), Milan, Italy, June 3–7, 2025.  Preprint available here.  

  • John W. Romein. Breaking the I/O Barrier: 1.2 Tb/s Ethernet Packet Processing on a GPU. Euro-Par 2025, Dresden, Germany, August 25–29, 2025. Read the paper here.  

 

 

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