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Modern experiments with fundamental quantum systems - like ultracold atoms, trapped ions, single photons - are managed by a control system formed by a number of input/output electronic channels governed by a computer. In hybrid quantum…

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We propose a scalable neuromorphic architecture based on spiking dynamics emerging from the autonomous time-continuous evolution of clockless (asynchronous) digital circuits. Implemented on commercially available field-programmable gate…

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To satisfy the growing throughput demand of data-intensive applications, the performance of optical communication systems increased dramatically in recent years. With higher throughput, more advanced equalizers are crucial, to compensate…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jonas Ney , Christoph Füllner , Vincent Lauinger , Laurent Schmalen , Sebastian Randel , Norbert Wehn

This decade, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will perform its first observations. Preparations for building dishes, antennas, correlators and infrastructure are well underway. Concurrently, software for the processing of SKA observations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-02 H. Spreeuw , S. Yatawatta , B. Van Werkhoven , F. Diblen

Digital Signal Processing functions are widely used in real time high speed applications. Those functions are generally implemented either on ASICs with inflexibility, or on FPGAs with bottlenecks of relatively smaller utilization factor or…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Amitabha Sinha , Soumojit Acharyya , Suranjan Chakraborty , Mitrava Sarkar

FPGAs are increasingly gaining traction in cloud and edge computing environments due to their hardware flexibility, low latency, and low energy consumption. However, the existing hardware stack of FPGA and the host-FPGA connectivity does…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Masudul Hassan Quraishi , Michael Riera , Fengbo Ren , Aman Arora , Aviral Shrivastava

Massively parallel architectures offer the potential to significantly accelerate an application relative to their serial counterparts. However, not all applications exhibit an adequate level of data and/or task parallelism to exploit such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Salvatore Cardamone , Jonathan R. Kimmitt , Hugh G. A. Burton , Alex J. W. Thom

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos

Modern radio telescopes are favouring densely packed array layouts with large numbers of antennas ($N_\textrm{A}\gtrsim 1000$). Since the complexity of traditional correlators scales as $\mathcal{O}(N_\textrm{A}^2)$, there will be a steep…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-20 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Adam P. Beardsley , Judd D. Bowman , Miguel F. Morales

We present a foundational, scalable algorithm architecture for processing data from aperture synthesis radio telescopes. The analysis leading to the architecture is rooted in the theory of aperture synthesis, signal processing and numerical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 S. Bhatnagar , U. Rau , M. Hsieh , J. Kern , R. Xue

We present a highly parallel implementation of the cross-correlation of time-series data using graphics processing units (GPUs), which is scalable to hundreds of independent inputs and suitable for the processing of signals from "Large-N"…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-02 M. A. Clark , P. C. La Plante , L. J. Greenhill

We established a new algorithm for correlation process in radio astronomy. This scheme consists of the 1st-stage Fourier Transform as a filter and the 2nd-stage Fourier Transform for spectroscopy. The "FFX" correlator stands for Filter and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Satoru Iguchi , Takeshi Okuda

Transformers and vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as dominant architectures in computer vision and multimodal AI, offering state-of-the-art performance in tasks such as image classification, object detection, visual question…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safa Mohammed Sali , Mahmoud Meribout , Ashiyana Abdul Majeed

The objective of our research is to demonstrate the practical usage and orders of magnitude speedup of real-world applications by using alternative technologies to support high performance computing. Currently, the main barrier to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-22 Robert J. Brunner , Volodymyr V. Kindratenko , Adam D. Myers

We show that the class of antenna layouts for telescope arrays allowing cheap analysis hardware (with correlator cost scaling as N log N rather than N^2 with the number of antennas N) is encouragingly large, including not only previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Max Tegmark , Matias Zaldarriaga

This paper presents the High-Performance computing efforts with FPGA for the accelerated pulsar/transient search for the SKA. Case studies are presented from within SKA and pathfinder telescopes highlighting future opportunities. It reviews…

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have recently been increasingly used for highly-parallel processing of compute intensive tasks. This paper introduces an FPGA hardware platform architecture that is PC-based, allows for fast…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andreas Weisensee , Darran Nathan

A novel technique is presented for realising programmable silicon photonic circuits. Once the proposed photonic circuit is programmed, its routing is retained without the need for additional power consumption. This technology enables a…

A "large-N" correlator that makes use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Graphics Processing Units has been deployed as the digital signal processing system for the Long Wavelength Array station at Owens Valley Radio Observatory…

The new era of software signal processing has a large impact on radio astronomy instrumentation. Our design and implementation of a 32 antennae, 33 MHz, dual polarization, fully real-time software backend for the GMRT, using only…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Jayanta Roy , Yashwant Gupta , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Sanjay Kudale , Jitendra Kodilkar