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The PIP-II accelerator is a proposed upgrade to the Fermilab accelerator complex that will replace the existing, 400 MeV room temperature LINAC with an 800 MeV superconducting LINAC. Part of this upgrade includes a new injection scheme into…
This paper compares the performance of conventional radix-2 program counters with program counters based on Feedback Shift Registers (FSRs), a class of cyclic sequence generator. FSR counters have constant time scaling with bit-width, $N$,…
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Deep phase modulation interferometry was proposed as a method to enhance homodyne interferometers to work over many fringes. In this scheme, a sinusoidal phase modulation is applied in one arm while the demodulation takes place as a…
Pulsed microwave stability in linear accelerators (LINACs) is critical for maintaining high-quality electron beams in synchrotron radiation and free-electron laser (FEL) facilities. This study establishes and validates a zero-crossing…
This study introduces a modified version of the Constant-in-Gain, Lead-in-Phase (CgLp) filter, which incorporates a feedthrough term in the First-Order Reset Element (FORE) to reduce the undesirable nonlinearities and achieve an almost…
In the realm of contemporary materials testing, the demand for scalability, adaptability, parallelism, and speed has surged due to the proliferation of diverse materials and testing standards. Traditional controller-based systems often fall…
Validating FPGA firmware logic used in particle physics is becoming increasingly difficult as the implementation logic scales and becomes more complex with the expansion of FPGA resources. In order to address this issue efficiently, we have…
TRIUMF ISAC 1 tuning controllers operate using minimum seeking sliding mode controller to minimize the reflected power in their cavities. As with all mini-mum seeking algorithms, chatter present in the control-ler can degrade its…
The LIGHT (Linac for Image-Guided Hadron Therapy) project was initiated to develop a modular proton accelerator delivering beam with energies up to 230 MeV for cancer therapy. The machine consists of three different kinds of accelerating…
Currently, the demand for a better alternative to linear PID controllers is increasing due to the rising expectations of the high-tech industry. In literature, it has been shown that Constant in gain Lead in phase (CgLp) compensators, which…
The J-PARC linac was consist of 324MHz low-{\beta} section and 972MHz high-{\beta} section. There is a total of 48 stations. And each station was equipped with an independent LLRF (Low-Level Radio Frequency) system to realize an…
A simplified analytical model of the resonant interaction of the beam of Larmor electrons drifting in the crossed constant fields of a magnetron with a synchronous wave providing a phase grouping of the drifting charge was developed to…
Rapid single-flux quantum (RSFQ), a leading cryogenic superconductive electronics (SCE) technology, offers extremely low power dissipation and high speed. However, implementing RSFQ systems at VLSI complexity faces challenges, such as…
The low-level RF (LLRF) systems for linear accelerating structures are typically based on heterodyne architectures. The linear accelerators normally have many RF stations and multiple RF inputs and outputs for each station, so the…
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Since 2014, the F\'ed\'eration Internationale de l'Automobile has prescribed a parallel hybrid powertrain for the Formula 1 race cars. The complex low-level interactions between the thermal and the electrical part represent a non-trivial…
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…
An experimentally-calibrated carbon nanotube compact transistor model has been used here to design two high-frequency (HF) circuits with two different functionalities each: a phase configurable amplifier (PCA) and a frequency configurable…
While FPGA accelerator boards and their respective high-level design tools are maturing, there is still a lack of multi-FPGA applications, libraries, and not least, benchmarks and reference implementations towards sustained HPC usage of…