From 6fa2dca4023afb41394e9fc4294f6d710ddb38b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastien Bourdeauducq Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:41:42 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] synchronize introduction.rst with README --- doc/manual/introduction.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manual/introduction.rst b/doc/manual/introduction.rst index fd086f352..70ab504c5 100644 --- a/doc/manual/introduction.rst +++ b/doc/manual/introduction.rst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Introduction and including in README.rst does not work on github therefore just keep this content synchronized with README.rst ARTIQ (Advanced Real-Time Infrastructure for Quantum physics) is the next-generation control system for quantum information experiments. -It is developed by `M-Labs `_ for and in partnership with the `Ion Storage Group at NIST `_ as free software. +It is developed by `M-Labs `_ for and in partnership with the `Ion Storage Group at NIST `_ as free software. It is offered to the entire research community as a solution equally applicable to other challenging control tasks outside the field of ion trapping. The system features a high-level programming language that helps describing complex experiments, which is compiled and executed on dedicated hardware with nanosecond timing resolution and sub-microsecond latency. It includes graphical user interfaces to parametrize and schedule experiments and to visualize and explore the results. @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ It is designed to be portable to hardware platforms from different vendors and F Currently, one configuration of a `low-cost open hardware FPGA board `_ and several different configurations of a `high-end FPGA evaluation kit `_ are used and supported. Any of these FPGA platforms can be combined with any number of additional peripherals, either already accessible from ARTIQ or made accessible with little effort. -Custom hardware components with widely extended capabilities and advanced support for scalable and fully distributed real-time control of experiments `are being designed `_. +Custom hardware components with widely extended capabilities and advanced support for scalable and fully distributed real-time control of experiments `are being designed `_. ARTIQ and its dependencies are available in the form of `conda packages `_ for both Linux and Windows. Packages containing pre-compiled binary images to be loaded onto the hardware platforms are supplied for each configuration.