The Anderson Group's Scalable Signal Processor board (SSP) completed it's maiden voyage aboard NASA's WB-57 research aircraft during the recent NOVICE mission. The SSP is a high-speed analog to digital converter with onboard signal processing based on the Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA. It records up to three channels at raw sample rates up to 100 MHz, then performs onboard averaging and coadding to reduce ...