The 32 bit timing unit of a real-time event-based control system for a nuclear fusion experiment

This paper describes the innovative timing unit of a distributed, expandable, real-time, event-based control system for a nuclear fusion experiment. This system is being designed in a tree-type topology, based in VME and CAMAC format modules that produce the timing signals required for the safe operation of the experiment diagnostics and digitizers. It also performs the broadcasting, processing an...