Study of a Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) readout system based on FPGAs and SoCs

Hernández Fernández, Alberto; Díaz Martín, David; Hernández Expósito, David; Díaz García, José Javier; Hoyland, Roger John; Rodríguez Ramos, Luis Fernando; Tubío Araújo, Óscar Manuel; Rodríguez Pérez, Silvestre
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Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series

Fecha de publicación:
8
2024
Número de autores
8
Número de autores del IAC
7
Número de citas
0
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0
Descripción
The IAC Electronics Department has developed a high-performance embedded Data Acquisition System (eDAS) to perform the readout of an array of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) and to carry out hardware-based digital signal processing in real time. The eDAS has been developed using the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC ZCU111 Evaluation Kit and PYNQ software framework. The ultimate goal is to be able to detect changes in the amplitude and phase of the MKID's signal when a photon arrives at the detector, in order to observe a single photon signature. We have been able to identify the resonant frequency of individual pixels in total darkness.