Abstract: The present invention refers to a hybrid integrated silicon drift detector (HiSDD) for X-ray detection, particularly to a HiSDD combining a silicon drift detector (SDD) with a low-noise preamplifier on a SDD sensor chip to improve the electrical and structural properties of the detector assembly. The invention further refers to a corresponding method for the fabrication of a HiSDD. A HiSDD according to the invention hybridly integrates a silicon drift detector, SDD, sensor chip and a preamplifier module; wherein electrically conductive paths are formed on a surface of the SDD sensor chip, having first ends configured for flip chip bonding and second ends configured for wire bonding; wherein the preamplifier module having contacts disposed on a surface of the preamplifier module, and wherein the first ends of the electrically conductive paths are flip chip bonded to the contacts of the preamplifier module.

Abstract: Described herein is an apparatus and method for allocating hardware-based processing units for a wave modeling computation. The method generates a computational domain representing a physical region in which wave amplitudes for physical waves are determined. The domain is divided into a plurality of sub-domains, whereafter the method determines which sub-domains of the plurality of sub-domains are active. Further, the method, for each computational step of a plurality of computational steps and in each active sub-domain, executes a first portion of the wave modeling computation corresponding to the active sub-domain by at least one available hardware-based processing unit and determines whether the active sub-domain will remain active in a next computational step of the plurality of computational steps. When the active sub-domain is determined to become inactive in the next computational step, the method allocates the at least one available hardware-based processing unit to other computational tasks.

Abstract: Described herein is an apparatus and method for allocating hardware-based processing units for a wave modeling computation. The method generates a computational domain representing a physical region in which wave amplitudes for physical waves are determined. The domain is divided into a plurality of sub-domains, whereafter the method determines which sub-domains of the plurality of sub-domains are active. Further, the method, for each computational step of a plurality of computational steps and in each active sub-domain, executes a first portion of the wave modeling computation corresponding to the active sub-domain by at least one available hardware-based processing unit and determines whether the active sub-domain will remain active in a next computational step of the plurality of computational steps. When the active sub-domain is determined to become inactive in the next computational step, the method allocates the at least one available hardware-based processing unit to other computational tasks.