Digital control system for the TCV Tokamak

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2179-2186

  Duval, B P ^a   Moret, J M ^a   Rodrigues, A P ^b   Pereira, L A ^b   Varandas, C A F ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Digital signal processor (DSP); Multi channel; Non expert user interface; Non linear; Real time digital tokamak control; RT block programming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA TRANSFER; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; LINEAR SYSTEMS;

MULTI-CHANNEL; NON-EXPERT USER INTERFACE; REAL TIME DIGITAL TOKAMAK CONTROL; RT BLOCK PROGRAMMING;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 33748366797     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.876048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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