1 INTRODUCTION  
2 SURVEY STRATEGY  
3 INSTRUMENTATION  
3.1 The 21-cm Effelsberg multi-beam receiver  
3.2 The PFFTS backend  
4 SENSITIVITY  
4.1 Analytic sensitivity  
4.2 Pulsar detections  
5 SIMULATIONS  
6 DATA ANALYSIS  
6.1 Pre-processing  
6.2 RFI excision  
6.3 Processing pipeline  
6.4 Quick-look pipeline  
7 NEW PULSAR DISCOVERIES  
7.1 Orion-spur observations  
7.2 PSR 1946+3417  
7.3 PSR J2004+3429  
8 CONCLUSION