Oct 13 – 15, 2026
Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Europe/Rome timezone

Optimizing an RFSoC LLRF Controller for a Low-PRF, Short Pulse System: Measurements, Calibration, and Performance Prediction

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2h
Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Poster Control Hardware Platforms Poster Session & Coffee Break

Speaker

Victoria Moore (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Description

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) LINAC operates with 3 GHz RF pulses at 0.7 Hz pulse repetition frequency (PRF) and 1.2 µs duration, imposing severe limitations on traditional PID and adaptive feedforward control schemes. An RFSoC-based controller prototype was developed and presented in prior work to upgrade the legacy LLRF systems for the LINAC and Subharmonic Buncher.
This paper presents sampling scheme optimizations and interleaving calibration techniques for RFSoC based control of pulsed RF systems.
We detail bench characterization methodologies to isolate component-level phase noise across individual ADC, DAC, and clock components in the Xilinx ZCU208 hardware ecosystem.
Finally, we introduce an analytical framework to evaluate a single frequency, with mixed linear and approximated non-linear models, to translate open-loop controller bench measurements into controller-added closed-loop LLRF performance predictions.

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Author

Victoria Moore (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Co-authors

Qiang Du (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Shreeharshini Dharanesh Murthy (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Michael Chin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Benjamin Flugstad (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

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