SBIR Phase I: Automatic Setup and Control of a 10 GHz Bandwidth Transient Digitizer for Beam Diagnostics Using VXI-Standard Electronics

这个第一阶段的小企业创新研究项目旨在开发必要的自动设置和控制程序，以商业化其超宽带瞬态数字化仪产品。创新性地利用了ADC特性，并采用了新颖的纠错电路架构，使基于模数转换器（ADC）的数字转换器具有最高性能的潜力。HYPRES瞬态数字转换器已经提供了任何其他基于ADC的数字转换器无法超越的带宽性能。然而，也许商业化最重要的组件仍然需要实现：将数字化仪从实验室工具转变为商业仪器的设置和控制电子设备。在第一阶段，HYPRES将制造和测量数字化仪芯片。建立和优化芯片性能的必要程序和算法将被确定和编纂。将设计一个控制单元，在第二阶段使用VXI标准电子设备和LabViewTM接口实施。 瞬态数字化仪可用于测量相对论重离子对撞机（RHIC）等加速器束流的束团轮廓。该仪器也可用于国家点火装置（NIF）的激光和目标诊断工作。

This Phase I Small Business Innovation Research project aims to develop the automatic setup and control procedures necessary to commercialize its ultra-wide bandwidth transient digitizer product. The innovative use of superconductive properties, together with a novel error-correcting circuit architecture, results in the potential for the highest performance of any digitizer based on analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The HYPRES transient digitizer already provides bandwidth performance unsurpassed by any other ADC-based digitizer. However, perhaps the most important component for commercialization still needs to be implemented: the setup and control electronics that transform the digitizer from a laboratory tool to a commercial instrument. During Phase I, HYPRES will fabricate and measure digitizer chips. The necessary procedures and algorithms for setting up and optimizing chip performance will be determined and codified. A control unit will be designed, to be implemented in Phase II using VXI-standard electronics and a LabViewTM interface. The transient digitizer is useful for measuring the bunch profile of accelerator beams such as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). This instrument is also useful for both laser and target diagnostic work at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).