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Fully Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)based digitizer for high-resolution time and energy measurement is an attractive low cost solution for the readout electronics in positron emission computed tomography (PET)detector. In recent…

Many application domains face the challenges of high-power consumption and high computational demands, especially with the advancement in embedded machine learning and edge computing. Designing application-specific circuits is crucial to…

Time to Digital Converters (TDCs) are very common devices in particles physics experiments. A lot of "off-the-shelf" TDCs can be employed but the necessity of a custom DAta acQuisition (DAQ) system makes the TDCs implemented on the…

In recent years, high speed and high resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is widely employed in many physical experiments, especially in high precision time and charge measurement. The rapid increasing amount of digitized data…

Problem Statement: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuits play a significant role in major recent embedded process control designs. However, exploiting these platforms requires deep hardware conception skills and remains an important…

AI acceleration has been dominated by GPUs, but the growing need for lower latency, energy efficiency, and fine-grained hardware control exposes the limits of fixed architectures. In this context, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)…

Development of modern integrated circuit technologies makes it feasible to develop cheaper, faster and smaller special purpose signal processing function circuits. Digital Signal processing functions are generally implemented either on…

Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are major components for the measurements of time intervals. Recent developments in Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) have enabled the opportunity to implement high-performance TDCs, which were only…

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…

Deep learning (DL) is becoming the cornerstone of numerous applications both in datacenters and at the edge. Specialized hardware is often necessary to meet the performance requirements of state-of-the-art DL models, but the rapid pace of…

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have recently been increasingly used for highly-parallel processing of compute intensive tasks. This paper introduces an FPGA hardware platform architecture that is PC-based, allows for fast…

This paper focuses on the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design and implementation of intelligent control system applications on a chip, specifically fuzzy logic and genetic algorithm processing units. Initially, an overview of the…

Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are a crucial tool in a wide array of fields, in particular for quantum communication, where time taggers performance can severely affect the quality of the entire application. Nowadays, FPGA-based TDCs…

The growing complexity of computational workloads has amplified the need for efficient and specialized hardware accelerators. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as prominent solutions,…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly deployed in real-time and energy-constrained environments, driving demand for hardware platforms that can deliver high performance and power efficiency. While central processing units (CPUs) and…

Massively parallel architectures offer the potential to significantly accelerate an application relative to their serial counterparts. However, not all applications exhibit an adequate level of data and/or task parallelism to exploit such…

In this paper we present a novel high-resolution multi-channel FPGA-based time-to-digital converter (TDC). We designed and implemented a complex electronic circuit on the FPGA, whose overall accuracy is several orders of magnitude greater…

We describe an FPGA-based, 96-channel, time-to-digital converter (TDC) intended for use with the Central Outer Tracker (COT) in the CDF Experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. The COT system is digitized and read out by 315 TDC cards, each…

This paper introduces a computer architecture, where part of the instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented on small highly-integrated field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Small FPGAs inside a general-purpose processor (CPU) can…

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…