UPTILT MAIN GOAL IS THE DESIGN, PRODUCTION AND OPERATION OF THE PRE-PROCESSOR (PPR) MODULES FOR THE PHASE-II UPGRADE OF THE ATLAS TILE CALORIMETER._x000D_ THE ATLAS TRIGGER AND READ-OUT ARCHITECTURE WILL BE REDESIGNED FOR THE PHASE-II UPGRADE IN ORDER TO COPE WITH THE HL-LHC LUMINOSITIES. IN PARTICULAR, TILECAL WILL COMPLETELY REPLACE THE ON- AND OFF-DETECTOR ELECTRONICS. IN THIS SYSTEM, THE DETECTOR DATA WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW PPRS FOR EVERY BUNCH CROSSING BEFORE ANY EVENT SELECTION IS APPLIED. THE PPRS WILL PROVIDE PREPROCESSED TRIGGER INFORMATION TO THE ATLAS FIRST LEVEL TRIGGER. THE PPR WILL IMPLEMENT PIPELINE MEMORIES TO COPE WITH THE LATENCIES AND RATES SPECIFIED IN THE NEW TRIGGER SCHEME. THIS SYSTEM WILL ACQUIRE AND PROCESS THE DETECTOR SIGNALS WITH AN OVERALL DATA BANDWIDTH OF 40 TB/S. ALL IN ALL, THE PPRS ARE THE CENTRAL COMPONENT OF THE OFF-DETECTOR ELECTRONICS, BEING THE PROCESSING UNITS OF THE CALORIMETER SIGNAL AND THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THE DATA ACQUISITION, TRIGGER AND CONTROL SYSTEMS AND THE ON-DETECTOR ELECTRONICS. _x000D_ UPTILT IS RESPONSIBLE OF THE DESIGN OF THE PPR SYSTEM. IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS THE GROUP WILL DESIGN AND PRODUCE ONE PROTOTYPE OF THE FINAL PPR, TWO MODULE-0 PPR, TWO PRE-PRODUCTION PPR AND THE SEVEN PPRS WITH THE FINAL VERSION OF THE CARRIER BOARD AND CPM. TILECAL PLANS INCLUDE THE INSTALLATION OF A DEMONSTRATOR MODULE IN THE ATLAS DETECTOR DURING THE LONG SHUTDOWN 2 (2019-2020) BEFORE PHASE-I UPGRADE. THE GROUP WILL HAVE A KEY ROLE IN THE OPERATION OF THE DEMONSTRATOR MODULE IN ATLAS, BECAUSE THE MODULE-0 PPRS WILL BE THE MAIN READ-OUT MODULES, WITHOUT WHICH THE REST OF THE DEMONSTRATOR ELECTRONICS CANNOT WORK CORRECTLY._x000D_ _x000D_ UPTILT WILL LEAD THE STUDIES OF THE TILECAL SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE UNDER UNPRECEDENTED PILE-UP CONDITION. THE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS CURRENTLY USED FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LHC DATA REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TO WORK UNDER HL-LHC CONDITIONS. OUR GROUP HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE OF THE SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS RUNNING IN THE PRESENT MODULES AND WE'LL EXPLOIT OUR EXPERIENCE TO STUDY THE BEST POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE HL-LHC._x000D_ UPTILT WILL STUDY THE POTENTIAL OF THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT PHYSICS PROGRAM AT THE HL-LHC._x000D_ THE MEASUREMENTS OF HIGGS BOSON FIDUCIAL AND DIFFERENTIAL CROSS-SECTIONS ARE AN IMPORTANT INGREDIENT OF THE HL-LHC PHYSICS PROGRAM, SENSITIVE TO KEY SM PARAMETERS AND BSM EFFECTS. UPTILT WILL EVALUATE IN PARTICULAR THE EXPECTED PERFORMANCE OF THE MEASUREMENTS IN LEPTONIC FINAL STATES. HIGGS DECAYS TO LEPTONS ARE DESCRIBED IN THE SM BY THE YUKAWA COUPLING. THIS IS A NEW KIND OF INTERACTION BETWEEN FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES AND UNLIKELY ANYTHING ELSE OBSERVED BEFORE. FOR THIS REASON IT IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO PROBE THE SM PREDICTION OF THE HIGGS BOSON COUPLINGS TO SECOND AND THIRD GENERATION LEPTONS. _x000D_ UPTILT HAS A STRATEGIC INTEREST IN THE SEARCH FOR NEW HEAVY PARTICLES DECAYING TO HIGGS BOSON PAIRS, EXPLOITING THE HIGGS SECTOR AS A PORTAL FOR BSM PHYSICS. THIS PROCESS IS CRUCIAL FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ELECTROWEAK SYMMETRY BREAKING AND ITS MEASUREMENT IS PARTICULAR DIFFICULT DUE TO ITS SMALL PRODUCTION RATE. THE DI-HIGGS PRODUCTION RATE MEASUREMENT IS ONE OF THE MAIN PHYSICS OBJECTIVE OF THE HL-LHC. DEVIATIONS FROM THE SM EITHER CAUSED BY MODIFIED COUPLINGS BY NEW BSM INTERACTIONS OR BY THE DECAY OF NEW HEAVY RESONANCES TO TWO HIGGS BOSONS.