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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