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We have developed and produced several successful projects using the KiCad Suite of tools for schematic design and circuit board layout.

Drafts of the ASSA Version 1 FEE for Phase 2 were drawn with the schematic tool

Duncan created the 200MHz Local Oscillator for the Phase 2.5 Spectrometer with both schematic & PCB tools

Peter did the ASSA LWA PHI development drafts with the schematic tool

Duncan created the MWA line driver with both schematic & PCB tools

Duncan created the LWA Noise Source with both schematic & PCB tools.  

This image illustrates some of the features available with Lady Heather, minus the whip and leather.  Lady Heather is available from various online sources in various forms for Windows, LINUX, macOS and freeBSD.  We generally use V6.xx for Linux on Raspberry Pi SBC platforms, so we can't recommend or bag stuff we don't use.

TSoft was created by Paul Vauterin, is a software package for the analysis of time series and Earth Tide series, developed at the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

The original Callisto software application was written for Windows XP with upgrades ever since.  The introduction of more recent Windoze versions that include regular & uncontrollable system upgrades have helped nudge us away from this O/S & software choice.  Callisto_for Unix was developed by Juha Aatrokoski at the Metsahovi Radio Observatory in Finland.  There are several software sources available for downloading this package.

This is a daemon program that records data from the Callisto hardware.  It supports continuous uncalibrated recording (mode 3) and spectral overviews (mode 8).  To use the software, a Callisto configuration file (callisto.cfg) and frequency file (frqXXXXX.cfg) are also needed.