kai scientific is pleased to highlight the publication of research
performed by RIKEN into on-the-fly data compression using FPGAs in the
CITIUS detector system. The research group achieved a compression
ratio of approximately 1/8,600 on average by immediately performing
pixel-by-pixel preprocessing after data generation, thus enabling
users to check the analysis results during experiments and optimise
measurement conditions.
The research is published in the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
(https://lnkd.in/exRXgSNR) and shows the reduction of
the 27 GB per second data stream from a CITIUS 840k detector to 3.6 MB
per second. Feedback to the users with results of the intermediate
scattering function in the reported experiment, occurred in a matter
of minutes. This technology has already been licensed to Kai Scientific and can be implemented in our products.
RIKEN group notes that future work will involve creation of the next version of the firmware to provide the capability to perform event detection and spectral reconstruction directly in the FPGAs. This technology will also be licensed to kai scientific in the near future.
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