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The Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS) is under construction and is planned for launch in 2027 and will be attached at the SOX location on the Columbus module on the ISS. TIGERISS will make…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 John F. Krizmanic , Scott Nutter

The TRB hardware module is a multi-purpose Trigger and Readout Board with on-board DAQ functionality developed for the upgrade of the HADES experiment. It contains a single computer chip (Etrax) running Linux as a well as a 100 Mbit/s…

The small-strip Thin Gap Chamber (sTGC) will be used for both triggering and precision tracking purposes in the upgrade of the ATLAS forward muon spectrometer. Both sTGC pad and strip detectors are readout by a Trigger Data Serializer (TDS)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-14 Jinhong Wang , Liang Guan , J. W. Chapman , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu

Dedicated R&D efforts are currently underway to couple a thin Cherenkov radiator to Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays for precise charged particle Time-of-Flight (ToF) measurements. The prompt nature of Cherenkov radiation makes it an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-22 M. N. Mazziotta , A. Di Mauro , M. Giliberti , A. Liguori , L. Lorusso , E. Nappi , N. Nicassio , G. Panzarini , R. Pillera , G. Volpe

The ATLAS Fast TracKer (FTK) was designed to provide full tracking for the ATLAS high-level trigger by using pattern recognition based on Associative Memory (AM) chips and fitting in high-speed field programmable gate arrays. The tracks…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-07 ATLAS Collaboration

This paper describes the data acquisition and trigger system of the Thin Time-of-flight PET (TT-PET) scanner. The system is designed to read out in the order of 1000 pixel sensors used in the scanner and to provide a reference timing signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-11 Y. Bandi , Y. Favre , D. Ferrere , D. Forshaw , R. Hanni , D. Hayakawa , G. Iacobucci , P. Lutz , A. Miucci , L. Paolozzi , E. Ripiccini , C. Tognina , P. Valerio , M. Weber

PICOSEC Micromegas (MM) is a precise timing gaseous detector based on a Cherenkov radiator coupled with a semi-transparent photocathode and an MM amplifying structure. The detector conceprt was successfully demonstrated through a…

We propose a novel random triggering based modulated wideband compressive sampling (RT-MWCS) method to facilitate efficient realization of sub-Nyquist rate compressive sampling systems for sparse wideband signals. Under the assumption that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Yijiu Zhao , Yu Hen Hu , Jingjing Liu

Wireless communications in the THz frequency band is an envisioned revolutionary technology for sixth Generation (6G) networks. However, such frequencies impose certain coverage and device design challenges that need to be efficiently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-14 George C. Alexandropoulos , Antonio Clemente , Sérgio Matos , Ryan Husbands , Sean Ahearne , Qi Luo , Verónica Lain-Rubio , Thomas Kürner , Luís M. Pessoa

3D depth sensors using single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are becoming increasingly common in applications such as autonomous navigation and object detection. Recent designs implement on-chip histogramming time-to-digital converters…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Jack MacLean , Brian Stewart , Istvan Gyongy

Accurate wireless timing synchronization has been an extremely important topic in wireless sensor networks, required in applications ranging from distributed beam forming to precision localization and navigation. However, it is very…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Marcelo Segura , S. Niranjayan , Hossein Hashemi , Andreas F. Molisch

Spatio-temporal pattern recognition is a fundamental ability of the brain which is required for numerous real-world activities. Recent deep learning approaches have reached outstanding accuracies in such tasks, but their implementation on…

To mitigate spoofing attacks targeting global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers, one promising method is to rely on alternative time sources, such as network-based synchronization, in order to detect clock offset discrepancies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-23 M. Spanghero , P. Papadimitratos

We have developed particle detectors based on fused silica (quartz) Cherenkov radiators read out with micro-channel plate photomultipliers (MCP-PMTs) or silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) for high precision timing (Sigma(t) about 10-15 ps).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 M. G. Albrow , Heejong Kim , S. Los , E. Ramberg , A. Ronzhin , V. Samoylenko , H. Wenzel , A. Zatserklyaniy

A Time to Digital Converter (TDC) based system, to be used for most sub-detectors in the high-flux rare-decay experiment NA62 at CERN SPS, was built as part of the NA62 fully digital Trigger and Data AcQuisition system (TDAQ), in which the…

A 3.8ps root mean square (RMS) time synchronization implemented in a 20nm fabrication process ultrascale kintex Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is presented. The multichannel high-speed serial transceivers (e.g. GTH) play a key role in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-12 Hong-Bo Xie , Yang Li , Qi Shen , Sheng-Kai Liao , Cheng-Zhi Peng

For TOF positron emission tomography (TOF PET) detectors, time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are essential to resolve the coincidence time of the photon pairs. Recently, an efficient TDC structure called ring-oscillator-based (RO-based)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-12 Ke Cui , Xiangyu Li , Zongkai Liu , Rihong Zhu

Strain Gauge Status (SGS) time series recognition is crucial in the field of intelligent manufacturing based on the Internet of Things, as accurate identification helps timely detection of failed mechanical components, avoiding accidents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xu Zhang , Peng Wang , Chen Wang , Zhe Xu , Xiaohua Nie , Wei Wang

VERITAS is an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range between 85 GeV and 30 TeV. The instrument underwent an upgrade of the camera triggers in November 2011. The new systems use 400 MHz…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Benjamin Zitzer