MITICA is one of the two ongoing experiments at the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF) located in Padova (Italy). MITICA aims to develop the full-size neutral beam injector of ITER and, as such, its Control and Data Acquisition System will adhere to ITER CODAC directives. In particular, its timing system will be based on the IEEE1588 PTPv2 protocol and will use the ITER Time Communication...
We have designed and implemented a reconfigurable ASIC data encoder for low-power, low-latency hardware acceleration of an unsupervised machine learning data encoder. The implementation of a complex neural network algorithm demonstrates the effectiveness of a high-level synthesis-based design automation flow for building design IP for ASICs. The ECON-T ASIC, which includes the AI algorithm,...
