Note that this data rate is the maximum correlator output data rate that
the SaDT links can support (given the maximum link occupancy SDP can
support) and is therefore a constraint on the correlator output data
rate and not the actual correlator data rate at any point in time. This
data rate takes into account all Layer 1 to 7 protocol (incl SPEAD)
overheads as well as all the metadata items (timestamp, IDs, counts,
etc) and is therefore the maximum rate at which the correlator is
allowed to produce correlator output data which includes visibilities (8
bytes per visibility), the TCI (1 byte) and the FD (1 byte) and
Transient Buffer Data11SKA1-Low CBF does not currently support
transfer of Transient Buffer Data. (described in section 5.4).
The total correlator output data rate is calculated as:
Nchannels x Nphase bins x
Nbaselines x Mbaseline /
Tcorr_int + Rtransient_buffer bytes/s.
Refer to section 5.4.1.6.1 for the calculation of the Transient Buffer
Data rate (Rtransient_buffer).
5.1.1.6.2. Correlator
Dump Time
6: Correlator Dump time