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• Early August: we are currently aiming to have a half-day to one-day virtual workshop to discuss potential contributions and share ideas. Please stay tuned for further details!

Trigger and Data Acquisition (TDAQ) systems are responsible for collecting data at the very front-end of detectors, reducing the volume of data through use of selection algorithms and summarizing data into high-level quantities, and storing the data for later transfer and processing. The next generation of physics detectors will encounter many new challenges, including requirements to handle enormous throughput of data, have high reliability and uptime in extreme environments, and fast timing and precise synchronization.

We invite Letters Of Interest to outline developments in the area of TDAQ across the science frontiers of high-energy particle physics. In particular, we welcome contributions that touch on the following areas:

• High-speed data links and transfers, including radiation-hard and low-power links
• Real-time processing hardware, like low-power hardware capable of working in extreme environments like high radiation or cryogenic temperatures, and real-time hardware capable of real-time feature extraction, including fast inference for machine-learning algorithms
• Online processing and high-level trigger and reconstruction algorithms, including use of heterogeneous computing in commodity hardware for both triggered and 'streaming' DAQ systems
• Autonomous operation, control, and calibration of detector systems, including fast anomaly detection and fault recovery
• Precise timing synchronization, for both improved triggering and event reconstruction and for distribution across large areas