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Schedule

The correlator continues to be on schedule, with working test fixtures and FIR filter card in December 2000, working station card, control card and long term accumulator in May 2001. The prototype correlator chip will be delivered in July 2001, followed by the critical design review on July 31, 2001. The minimally populated correlator will be complete by April 2002, with a commitment to a production run of correlator chips in the summer of 2002. A single baseline correlator for the test array, which will replace the test correlator (GBT spectrometer clone) completed in 2000, will be working in the laboratory by the end of 2002 and will be delivered to the VLA site in May 2003. The first quadrant correlator, fully capable of handling 32 antennas will be delivered to Chajnantor on June 16, 2004.



Al Wootten
2000-10-10