Lunch Lecture: Technolution

Embedded control electronics for semicon, life-sciences and space instruments

The development of complex electronic systems is almost always a multidisciplinary process; understanding the various domains in the data processing chain, including analog electronics, digital electronics, onboard processing and external processing. For semicon, life-sciences and space instruments, we contributed to the system integration and realized technology for high-speed data acquisition and high-speed transport of data. A multidisciplinary approach results in effective solutions for high-tech embedded systems. We combine electronics, programmable logic and software with thorough knowledge of physics, and this enables us to meet even the biggest challenges for embedded systems. In embedded systems, we create close interplay between the electronics and the embedded software. In fact, we commonly use FPGAs as they offer the best of both worlds: the speed and reliability of a hardware solution, and the flexibility and upgradeability of software. FPGAs are very useful when you have to work really close to the hardware in high-performance systems, such as high-speed data acquisition & control systems. We will outline several examples of data acquistion & control electronics, e.g. in multi-beam electron microscopes and in compact instruments for space applications.

About the presenter

Dr.ir. Gerard Rauwerda is Business Developer at the leading technology integrator Technolution Advance for the metrology and data processing & analysis programme lines. He has a focus on (Big) Science and Technology, including space technology, FPGA and RISC-V. He co-founded the start-up Recore Systems in 2005, and was CTO until 2018. The fabless semiconductor company developed advanced digital signal processing platforms and licensed DSP semiconductor IP. Recore’s technology enabled ultra energy-efficient digital signal processing in streaming data analytics and fault-tolerant space applications. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science and a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering (both from University of Twente, The Netherlands) with over 20 years’ experience in multi-core semiconductor design and signal processing architectures.

Interested? Then come join us at RA 1501 during Tuesday's break. Free lunch is included!

Lunch Lecture: Technolution

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