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Experiments in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) physics require precise and accurate control of digital, analog, and radio frequency (RF) signals. We present a control hardware based on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) core which…

We have implemented a control system for experiments in atomic, molecular and optical physics based on a commercial low-cost board, featuring a field-programmable gate array as part of a system-on-a-chip on which a Linux operating system is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Andreas Trenkwalder , Matteo Zaccanti , Nicola Poli

We have developed the TiCkS board (Time and Clock Stamping) based on the White Rabbit (WR) SPEC node (Simple PCIe FMC carrier), to provide ns-precision time-stamps (TSs) of input signals (e.g., triggers from a connected device) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 C. Champion , M. Punch , R. Oger , S. Colonges , Y. Moudden

In recent years the computational capacity of single Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) devices as well as their versatility has increased significantly. Adding to that the High Level Synthesis frameworks allowing to program such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-22 G. Korcyl , P. Korcyl

Microfluidic fuel cells (MFCs) are microfluidic electrochemical conversion devices that are used to power small pieces of electrical equipment. Their performance relies on the improvement of the mass transfer of the reactants at the…

Common approaches for direct model predictive control (MPC) for current reference tracking in power electronics suffer from the high computational complexity encountered when solving integer optimal control problems over long prediction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Bartolomeo Stellato , Tobias Geyer , Paul J. Goulart

The global trend toward renewable power generation has drawn great attention to hydrogen Fuel Cells (FCs), which have a wide variety of applications, from utility power stations to laptops. The Multi-stack Fuel Cell System (MFCS), which is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Yiqiao Xu , Xiaoyu Guo , Zhen Dong , Zhengtao Ding , Alessandra Parisio

The aim of this study is to design and evaluate a simple free running Analog-Digital Converter (ADC) based on the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device to accomplish the energy and position readout of the silicon photomultiplier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-19 Cong Ma , Xue Dong , Li Yu , Wubin Wang , Xiaokun Zhao , Xing Li , Zhenqing Huang , Guocheng Wu , Lei Lu , Hansheng Chen

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…

In next generation wireless communication system, wireless transceivers should be able to handle wideband input signals compromising of multiple communication standards.Such multi-standard wireless communication receivers (MWCRs) need…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Sasha Garg , S. J. Darak

An increasing integration of photovoltaic units, electric vehicle chargers, heat pumps, and energy storage systems challenges low-voltage power grids and can cause voltage range violation, loss of stability, (local) overload of lines, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Davood Keshavarzi , Alexander Koehler , Stefan M. Goetz

Frequency control in power systems is implemented in a hierarchical structure traditionally known as primary frequency control (PFC), secondary frequency control (SFC) and tertiary control reserve (TCR) and, some jurisdictions, include time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Taulant Kerci , Angel Vaca , Andrew Groom , Julia Matevosyan , Federico Milano

We explore the Micron Automata Processor (AP) as a suitable commodity technology that can address the growing computational needs of pattern recognition in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. A toy detector model is developed for which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-30 Michael H. L. S. Wang , Gustavo Cancelo , Christopher Green , Deyuan Guo , Ke Wang , Ted Zmuda

Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are used in various fields, including high-energy physics. One advantage of implementing TDCs in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is the flexibility on the modification of the logics, which is useful…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-29 Yuta Sano , Yasuyuki Horii , Masahiro Ikeno , Osamu Sasaki , Makoto Tomoto , Tomohisa Uchida

We present the design of a new $\mu$TCA-based waveform digitizer, which will be deployed in the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab and will allow our pileup identification requirement to be met. This digitizer features five independent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 David A. Sweigart

Time-digital Converter (TDC) aims to measure the arrival time of the leading edge of the pulse signal. Our recent work presented a high resolution multi-phase TDC based on the Kintex-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. A simple…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Xue Dong , Cong Ma , Xiaokun Zhao , Xing Li , Zhenqiang Huang

We present a new efficient OpenCL-based Accelerator for large scale Convolutional Neural Networks called Fast Inference on FPGAs for Convolution Neural Network (FFCNN). FFCNN is based on a deeply pipelined OpenCL kernels architecture. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 F. Keddous , H-N. Nguyen , A. Nakib

For space-based astronomical observations, it is important to have a mechanism to capture the digital output from the standard detector for further on-board analysis and storage. We have developed a generic (application- wise)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Mayuresh Sarpotdar , Joice Mathew , Margarita Safonova , Jayant Murthy

A rapid deployment of renewable generation has led to significant reduction in the rotational system inertia and damping, thus making frequency control in power systems more challenging. This paper proposes a novel control scheme based on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Ognjen Stanojev , Uros Markovic , Petros Aristidou , Gabriela Hug , Duncan Callaway , Evangelos Vrettos

New data acquisition technologies allow one to gather huge amounts of data that are best represented as functional data. In this setting, profile monitoring assesses the stability over time of both univariate and multivariate functional…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-15 Fabio Centofanti , Antonio Lepore , Biagio Palumbo