(Received 29 September 2016; accepted 24 December 2016; published online 11 January 2017)\nA highly integrated, high performance, and re-configurable device, which is designed for the\nNitrogen-Vacancy (N-V) center based quantum applications, is reported. The digital compartment of\nthe device is fully implemented in a Field-Programmable-Gate-Array (FPGA). The digital compartment\nis designed to manage the multi-function digital waveform generation and the time-to-digital\nconvertors. The device provides two arbitrary-waveform-generator channels which operate at a\n1 Gsps sampling rate with a maximum bandwidth of 500 MHz. There are twelve pulse channels\nintegrated in the device with a 50 ps time resolution in both duration and delay. The pulse channels\noperate with the 3.3 V transistor-transistor logic. The FPGA-based time-to-digital convertor provides\na 23-ps time measurement precision. A data accumulation module, which can record the input count\nrate and the distributions of the time measurement, is also available. A digital-to-analog convertor\nboard is implemented as the analog compartment, which converts the digital waveforms to analog\nsignals with 500 MHz lowpass filters. All the input and output channels of the device are equipped\nwith 50 �© SubMiniature version A termination. The hardware design is modularized thus it can be\neasily upgraded with compatible components. The device is suitable to be applied in the quantum\ntechnologies based on the N-V centers, as well as in other quantum solid state systems, such as\nquantum dots, phosphorus doped in silicon, and defect spins in silicon carbide.
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