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Description
Designing, building, and upgrading real-time, in-situ, digital signal processing (DSP) instrumentation poses distinct challenges. These include the manipulation of data at several terabits per second (or higher) though a parallel computing environment. Such challenges can be solved by the development of specialized computing hardware, employing processing architectures that depart from those of traditional, general-purpose systems. Such specialization has traditionally meant that these systems have been developed independently for each project, with substantial investment and reinvestment of time and money. The Collaboration for Astronomical Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER) works toward providing solutions to the processing requirements of DSP instrumentation, and reducing both the development time, and cost, of such systems.