Paper 13102-84
Paper 13102-84
Study of a Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID) readout system based on FPGAs and SoCs
On demand | Presented live 20 June 2024 
Abstract
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.
Presenter
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
Alberto Hernández Fernández holds a BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering (major in Electrical Engineering) from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). He works as electronic engineer at the Electronics Department of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). He has been involved in several projects such as GRANTECAN Adaptive Optics (GTCAO) or LGS. He is currently a member of the FPGA group in the Electronics Department. He is presently developing a high performance embedded data acquisition system for frequency multiplexed MKIDs readout. His main interests include hardware design, digital design, FPGAs, SoCs and digital signal processing systems.