Real-time multi-DSP based VME system for feedback control on the TCV tokamak

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 845-848

  Rodrigues, A P ^a   Pereira, L ^a   Madeira, T I ^a   Amorim, P ^a,b   Varandas, C A F ^a   Duval, B ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nuclear fusion; Real time data acquisition control; Real time digital signal processing; Real time feedback control; Real time parallel processing

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FUSION; REAL TIME DATA ACQUISITION CONTROL; REAL TIME DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; REAL TIME FEEDBACK CONTROL; REAL TIME PARALLEL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33746331046     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.874498     Document Type: Article

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