Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to acknowledge to my tutors Claudio Calosso, Jean-Michel Friedt, Enrico Rubiola and Massimo Ortolano for all their teachings, patience, support and time along  ...  The model and the method for the ADC noise characterization were improved and validated on the Red Pitaya platform. The analysis, implementation and results are reported in [110] .  ...  This platform is an open source embedded system whose resolution and speed (14 bit, 125 MSps) are reasonably close to the state of the art of ADCs and DACs (16 bit, 350 MSps or 14 bit, 1 GSps/3GSps  ... 

First collisions have been tested at low currents. In this paper we describe the experimental results and compare them with expectations and numerical simulations.  ...  Damping Rings (DR) designs to achieve ultra-low emittance beams in Linear Colliders (ILC and CLIC) will be reviewed pointing out the major issues both from the beam dynamics and the technological point  ...  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author would like to thank all the colleagues that have promptly provided material and information during the preparation of this work. A particular thanks is addressed to F.  ...