FPGAs for flexible interfacing and distributed computational tasks
Actual implementations of RTCs require connecting to several sensors and actuators with different interfaces, for which low latency data flow is demanded by the real-time pipeline. We developed dedicated FPGA-based solutions allowing abstraction of the HW interface layer and assuring deterministic data transfer with GPUs and CPUs. FPGAs can also offload part of the RTC tasks by implementing efficient distributed parallel computational schemes, as it happens for specific computations required by some current generation large deformable mirrors.
Roberto Biasi, Microgate