Involved people at OAB: D'Amico, Innocenti, Sbarbati.
The Bologna Pulsar Group was involved in the last two years in the development of several hardware components in the context of new experiments carried out at the Northern Cross Radiotelescope (Medicina, Italy) and at the Parkes Radiotelescope (NSW, Australia). The experiment carried out at the Italian Cross consists of a large scale survey for millisecond pulsar, and required the assestement and testing of a new powerful online data processing equipment. In the context of the same experiment, a new filterbank and a new digitizer system was constructed and built, to be used for follow-up observations of the Cross discoveries with the 32mt dish available at the same site. In particular, the construction of the new digitiser unit was entirely carried out by Innocenti at the OAB electronic laboratories. The system was successfully commissioned early in 2000 and it it expected to be available as a standard facility by middle 2000.