Incluye bibliografía e indices

Introduction
What is an FPGA?
Digital and analog signal processing
FPGA costs
FPGA versus ASIC

Understanding FPGA Resources
General-purpose resources
Special-purpose resources
The company- or family-specific resources

Several Principles and Methods of Resource Usage Control
Reusing silicon resources by process sequencing
Finding algorithms with less computation
Using dedicated resources
Minimizing supporting resources
Remaining in control of the compilers
Guideline on pipeline staging
Using good libraries

Examples of an FPGA in Daily Design Jobs
LED illumination
Simple sequence control with counters
Histogram booking
Temperature digitization of TMP03/04 devices
Silicon serial number (DS2401) readout

The ADC + FPGA Structure
Preparing signals for the ADC
Topics on averages
Simple digital filters
Simple data compression schemes

Examples of FPGA in Front-End Electronics
TDC in an FPGA based on multiple-phase clocks
TDC in an FPGA based on delay chains
Common timing reference distribution
ADC implemented with an FPGA
DAC implemented with an FPGA
Zero-suppression and time stamp assignment
Pipeline versus FIFO
Clock-command combined carrier coding (C5)
Parasitic event building
Digital phase follower
Multichannel deserialization

Examples of an FPGA in Advanced Trigger Systems
Trigger primitive creation
Unrolling nested-loops, doublet finding
Unrolling nested-loops, triplet finding
Track fitter

Examples of an FPGA Computation
Pedestal and RMS
Centre of gravity method of pulse time calculation
Lookup table usage
The enclosed loop microsequencer (ELMS)

Radiation Issues
Radiation effects
FPGA applications with radiation issues
SEE rates
Special advantages and vulnerability of FPGAs in space
Mitigation of SEU

Time-over-Threshold: The Embedded Particle-Tracking Silicon Microscope (EPTSM)
EPTSM system
Time-over-threshold (TOT): analog ASIC PMFE
Parallel-to-serial conversion
FPGA function

Appendix

Index

Haciendo hincapié en conceptos y ejemplos prácticos, este libro presenta una introducción a las aplicaciones de arreglos de compuertas programables en campo (FPGAs) en diversos campos de la investigación. Examinando el principio de FPGAs y su funcionalidad, el libro explora cómo FPGAs trabajo y la forma en que están programados para áreas específicas de aplicaciones en la física. Muchas figuras y práctico ejemplos se incluyen para demostrar por qué FPGAs son tan populares. El libro también contiene varios capítulos sobre temas especiales aportados por expertos en el área, con información sobre las aplicaciones de la radiobiología, la gestión de datos a gran escala, HEP, la física nuclear, y la ciencia de fotones