Particle Accelerators have always been a driving force in the development of novel approaches in power converter regulation. The combination of high demands regarding precision and dynamics enforce the deployment of various power converters families, while the resulting complexity in the overlying accelerator control system has to be kept at a minimum. Therefore, we propose a novel regulation system that is flexible enough to cover all DC, waveform driven and pulsed power converters of the MedAustron Ion-Beam accelerator, while offering a transparent interface to the accelerator control system.

This paper presents the hardware implementation of a stereo vision core algorithm, that runs in real-time and is targeted at automotive applications. The algorithm is based on the sum of absolute differences (SAD) and computes the disparity map using 320 times 240 input images with a maximum disparity of 100 pixels. The hardware operates at a frequency of 65 MHz and achieves a frame rate of 425 fps by calculating the data highly parallel and pipelined. Thus an implemented and basically optimized software solution, running on an Intel Pentium 4 with 3 GHz clock frequency is 166 times outperformed.