Table of Contents

Introduction. Understanding FPGA Resources. Several Principles and Methods of Resource Usage Control. Examples of an FPGA in Daily Design Jobs. The ADC + FPGA Structure. Examples of FPGA in Front-End Electronics. Examples of an FPGA in Advanced Trigger Systems. Examples of an FPGA Computation. Radiation Issues. Time-over-Threshold: The Embedded Particle-Tracking Silicon Microscope (EPTSM). Appendix. Index.

About the Author

Hartmut F.-W. Sadrozinski is a research physicist and adjunct professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A senior fellow of the IEEE, Dr. Sadrozinski has been working on the application of silicon sensors and front-end electronics in elementary particle physics and astrophysics for over 30 years. He is currently involved in the use of silicon sensors to support hadron therapy. He earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jinyuan Wu is an electronics engineer in the Particle Physics Division of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Dr. Wu is a frequent lecturer at international workshops and IEEE conferences. He earned his Ph.D. in experimental high energy physics from Pennsylvania State University.