VME based data acquisition and control system for Gyrotron based ECRH system on SST-1

Author

Patel, Jatin ; Patel, Harshida ; Rajanbabu, N. ; Dhorajiya, P. ; Shukla, Braj Kishore ; Jha, R. ; Bora, Dhiraj

Author_Institution

Inst. for Plasma Res., Gandhinagar, India

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A Gyrotron capable of delivering 200kW power at 82.6 GHz has been installed for pre-ionization and heating experiments on SST1 tokamak. Gyrotron based Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ECRH) system involves systematic operation of different auxiliary power supplies, crowbar unit and water cooling system. Versa Module Europe (VME) based Data Acquisition and Control (DAC) system has been designed and implemented for the gyrotron operation. Softwares have been developed using VxWorks RTOS and open source Tcl-Tk tool-kit, GNU C/C++ compiler on Linux.

Keywords

Linux; Tokamak devices; control engineering computing; data acquisition; fusion reactor instrumentation; gyrotrons; physical instrumentation control; plasma radiofrequency heating; plasma toroidal confinement; power supplies to apparatus; program compilers; public domain software; GNU C/C++ compiler; Linux; SST1 tokamak; VME based data acquisition and control system; Versa Module Europe based data acquisition and control system; VxWorks RTOS; auxiliary power supplies; crowbar unit; frequency 82.6 GHz; gyrotron based ECRH system; gyrotron based electron cyclotron resonance heating system; gyrotron operation; heating experiments; open source Tcl-Tk tool-kit; power 200 kW; preionization experiments; systematic operation; water cooling system; Cooling; Electron tubes; Gyrotrons; Monitoring; Power supplies; Software; Tokamaks; Central Control System(CCS); Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ECRH); Real Time Operating System (RTOS); Regulated High Voltage Power Supply (RHVPS); Steady State Superconducting (SST); Versa Module Europe (VME);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 2013 IEEE 25th Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0169-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOFE.2013.6635295

Filename

6635295