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| author | Peaks, Mitchell G. Kaarls, Mia M. Noel, Crystal |
| author_facet | Peaks, Mitchell G. Kaarls, Mia M. Noel, Crystal |
| contents | A new design for an open-hardware Digital-to-Analog Converter System-on-Module is presented for low-noise ion-trap electrode control. The design specifications were established to fill the technical needs of a modular, scalable DC electrode control platform with sufficient bandwidth, noise characteristics and control flexibility. Critically, a priority was placed on supply-chain management considerations and cost effectiveness for scaling. The system is based upon the Texas Instruments DAC81416 and AMD Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA for the analog signal and compute architecture respectively. Performance characterization of a prototype device suggests the design is suitable for a variety of ion-trap physics experiments and quantum computing applications. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Low-cost Ultra-low Noise DAC System-on-Module for Scalable Ion-Trap Electrode Control Peaks, Mitchell G. Kaarls, Mia M. Noel, Crystal Quantum Physics Instrumentation and Detectors A new design for an open-hardware Digital-to-Analog Converter System-on-Module is presented for low-noise ion-trap electrode control. The design specifications were established to fill the technical needs of a modular, scalable DC electrode control platform with sufficient bandwidth, noise characteristics and control flexibility. Critically, a priority was placed on supply-chain management considerations and cost effectiveness for scaling. The system is based upon the Texas Instruments DAC81416 and AMD Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA for the analog signal and compute architecture respectively. Performance characterization of a prototype device suggests the design is suitable for a variety of ion-trap physics experiments and quantum computing applications. |
| title | Low-cost Ultra-low Noise DAC System-on-Module for Scalable Ion-Trap Electrode Control |
| topic | Quantum Physics Instrumentation and Detectors |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01132 |