Hardware

• Pulsar multibeam backand overview
• Downconverter arrangements for 256x250kHz filterbank
• Multibeam frequency relations
• Data Acquisition system requirements
• Multibeam signal conditioning
• Multibeam band splitters
• Multibeam filterbank assignments
• Multibeam digitiser configuration

Observing

• Obtaining Parkes filterbank data
• Book keeping and catalogs
• Flow of book keeping information

Processing survey data

• Birdie information
• pmauto documentation
• pmauto instructions
• pmproc documentation
• PMtapes Debirding @ Parkes: PMDEBIRD
• PHtapes Debirding @ Parkes: PHDEBIRD
• Processing @ Epping
• Birdie hunting @ Parkes

Processing timing data

• Reduce filterbank data to archive format