Independent Beams Test

Purpose

This test is intended to test if the independent start/stop of beams is functioning as expected. The station beamformer should be able to independently start/stop beams at any time. The test is repeated the specified number of iterations, specifically steps 3 to 6. Default iteration count is 4 iterations.

In one iteration, the beams would look like the following figure:

../../_images/independent_beams.png

Methodology

  1. Station initialisation.

  2. Configuration of 8-beam region_array.

  3. Configuration and starting of DAQ.

  4. Turning on all 8 beams one by one. Received metrics are compared to expected values (data rate, beam_id, and frequency_id).

  5. Turning off all 8 beams one by one. Received metrics are compared to expected values (data rate, beam_id, and frequency_id).

  6. Stopping beamformer and DAQ.

  7. Beamformer region is reverted to its initial value before the test began.