... Astrophysics Group . ... VSA . ... CAT . ... The Very Small Array is a custom-built radio telescope (operating between 26-36 GHz), designed expressly to make high resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation on angular scales around and below one degree. ... The VSA has been operated in ?compact array? and ?extended array? configurations (see the technical description below) and data collected to achieve high sensitivity in both regimes have been analysed. ... 1.75 GHz)...

... The design employs a differential structure. ... The input is adapted to 100 differential, and the outputs use standard Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS). ... T/H SINGLE T/H Single Input T/H Single Output 1.35 0.15 0.2 T/H DIFFERENTIAL Input T/H Output T/H 0.1 1.3 0.05 volts volts Figure 5: Digital part and digital gate 0 1.25 -0.05 -0.1 1.2 Integrated Test System A test system is integrated on chip to evaluate the transmission to the data acquisition card (fig: 7). ...