Resources assignment

The assignment of Capabilities to a subarray (subarray composition) is performed in advance of a scan configuration. Assignable Capabilities for CSP Subarrays are:

• receptors (MID) or stations (LOW)

• tied-array beams: Search Beams, Timing Beams and Vlbi Beams.

In general resource assignment to a subarray is exclusive, but in some cases the same Capability instance may be used in shared manner by more then one subarray.

Inherent Capabilities

Each CSP subarray has also a set of permanently assigned inherent Capabilities: the number and type is different for LOW and MID instance.

Only the Inherent Capabilities related to the Processing Mode are common to both instances.

These are:

• Correlation

• PSS

• PST

• VLBI

An inherent Capability can be enabled or disabled, but cannot assigned or removed to/from a subarray.