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The Liquid Argon Jet Trigger, installed in the H1 experiment at HERA, implements in 800 ns a real-time cluster algorithm by finding local energy maxima, summing their immediate neighbors, sorting the resulting "jets" by energy, and applying…
Significant new challenges are continuously confronting the High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, in particular the two detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where nominal conditions deliver proton-proton collisions to the…
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ATLAS detector at the LHC will undergo a major Phase-II upgrade for the High Luminosity LHC. The upgrade affects all major ATLAS systems, including the Trigger and Data Acquisition systems. As part of the Level-0 Trigger System, the Global…
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The operation of CMOS Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) at extremely cold environments as low as 4 K is demonstrated. Various FPGA and periphery hardware design techniques spanning from HDL design to improvements of peripheral…
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We develop and study FPGA implementations of algorithms for charged particle tracking based on graph neural networks. The two complementary FPGA designs are based on OpenCL, a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous…
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Intensive computation is entering data centers with multiple workloads of deep learning. To balance the compute efficiency, performance, and total cost of ownership (TCO), the use of a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with…
The increasing diversity and complexity of transformer workloads at the edge present significant challenges in balancing performance, energy efficiency, and architectural flexibility. This paper introduces NX-CGRA, a programmable hardware…
The RHIC interaction rate at sPHENIX will reach around 3 MHz in pp collisions and requires the detector readout to reject events by a factor of over 200 to fit the DAQ bandwidth of 15 kHz. Some critical measurements, such as heavy flavor…
A trigger system was designed for the external target experiment in the Cooling Storage Ring (CSR) of the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL). Considering that different detectors are scattered in a large area, the trigger system…
Since 2006, there have been unexpected trigger-failure events during the operation of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) timing system. However, among the many suspected modules, it has been difficult to find the one…
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