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Transformer-based models have shown strong performance across diverse time-series tasks, but their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to high memory and computational demand. While prior work targeting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tianheng Ling , Chao Qian , Lukas Johannes Haßler , Gregor Schiele

An ultra-high-speed waveform digitizer prototype based on gigabit Ethernet has been developed. The prototype is designed to read out signals of detectors to realize the accurate measurement of various physical quantities for plasma…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-22 Weigang Yin , Lian Chen , Feng Li , Ge Jin

Timing systems based on Analog-to-Digital Converters are widely used in the design of previous high energy physics detectors. In this paper, we propose a new method based on deep learning to extract the time information from a finite set of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-04-02 Pengcheng Ai , Dong Wang , Guangming Huang , Ni Fang , Deli Xu , Fan Zhang

Terahertz (THz) technology is promising in several applications such as imaging, spectroscopy and communications. Among several methods in the generation and detection of THz waves, a THz time domain system (TDS) that is developed using…

A prototype Liquid-argon Trigger Digitizer Board (LTDB), called the LTDB Demonstrator, has been developed to demonstrate the functions of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-I trigger electronics upgrade. Forty Analog-to-Digital…

Clock synchronization procedures are mandatory in most physical experiments where event fragments are readout by spatially dislocated sensors and must be glued together to reconstruct key parameters (e.g. energy, interaction vertex etc.) of…

A front end ASIC has been designed to equip the {\mu}TPC prototype developed for the MIMAC project, which requires 3D reconstruction of low energy particle tracks in order to perform directional detection of galactic Dark Matter. Each ASIC…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 J. P. Richer , O. Bourrion , G. Bosson , O. Guillaudin , F. Mayet , D. Santos

Some applications require electronic systems to operate at extremely high temperature. Extending the operating temperature range of automotive-grade CMOS processes -- through the use of dedicated design techniques -- can provide an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Christian Sbrana , Alessandro Catania , Tommaso Toschi , Sebastiano Strangio , Giuseppe Iannaccone

Radio channels at mmWave and sub-THz frequencies for 5G and 6G communications offer large channel bandwidths (hundreds of MHz to several GHz) to achieve multi-Gbps data rates. Accurate modeling of the radio channel for these wide bandwidths…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Dipankar Shakya , Hitesh Poddar , Theodore S. Rappaport

Silicon carbide detectors exhibit good detection performance such as fast time resolution, high radiation tolerances, high breakdown voltage and low temperature sensitivity and have been studied for detection applications. Meanwhile,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 Suyu Xiao , Hui Liang , Congcong Wang , Zhenyu Jiang , Lin Zhu

The paper presents the design and measurement results of a transient waveform recording ASIC based on the Switched Capacitor Array (SCA) architecture. This 0.18 {\mu}m CMOS prototype device contains two channels and each channel employs a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-09 Jiajun Qin , Lei Zhao , Boyu Cheng , Han Chen , Yuxiang Guo , Shubin Liu , Qi An

Exponential growth in global data traffic demands ever-increasing transmission rates--a pursuit fundamentally constrained by the physical limitations of digital-to-analog converters (DACs). Existing strategies to overcome this bottleneck,…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-07 Wen-Jing Liu , Dong Zhao , Heng-Yi Wang , Jun He , Fang-Wen Sun , Ye Tian , Kun Huang

This paper presents a dynamic predictive sampling (DPS) based analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that provides a non-uniform sampling of input analog continuous-time signals. The processing unit generates a dynamic prediction of the input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Xiaochen Tang , Mario Renteria-Pinon , Wei Tang

Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are among the most sensitive sensors, offering high precision through their well-defined flux-voltage characteristics. Building on this sensitivity, we designed, fabricated, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-17 Beyza Zeynep Ucpinar , Sasan Razmkhah , Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Ali Bozbey

We demonstrate a point-to-point clock synchronization protocol based on bidirectionally exchanging photons produced in spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC). The technique exploits tight timing correlations between photon pairs to…

Switched capacitor arrays (SCA) ASICs are becoming more and more popular for the readout of detector signals, since the sampling frequency of typically several gigasamples per second allows excellent pile-up rejection and time measurements.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-24 D. Stricker-Shaver , S. Ritt , B. J. Pichler

One of the many limitations with the mixed-signal design is physically testing circuit ideas. While it is easier to test digital circuits with FPGAs, this can not be done usually with mixed-signal circuits. Although some FPGAs have built-in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Luis E. Rueda G. , Edward Silva , Andres Centeno , Elkim Roa

Time-domain ADCs are attractive for high-speed wireline receivers, as time resolution scales favorably with advanced CMOS technologies, enabling multi-GS/s single-channel sampling rates. However, conventional time-domain ADCs require…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Richard Zeng , Anthony Chan Carusone , Xilin Liu

A 16-channel digital TDC chip has been built for the DIRC Cherenkov counter of the BaBar experiment at the SLAC B-factory (Stanford, USA). The binning is 0.5 ns, the conversion time 32 ns and the full-scale 32 mus. The data driven…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Bailly , J. Chauveau , J. F. Genat , J. F. Huppert , H. Lebbolo , L. Roos , B. Zhang

XRPIX is the monolithic X-ray SOI (silicon-on-insulator) pixel detector, which has a time resolution better than 10 $\rm{\mu}$s as well as a high detection efficiency for X-rays above 10 keV. XRPIX is planned to be installed on future X-ray…