Special issue on design and implementation of real-time systems for magnetic confined fusion devices

摘要

Real-time systems in magnetic confined fusion devices have followed the tremendous advances over the last two decades of new hardware technologies, software platforms and design methodologies. On the hardware side, the availability of relatively low cost hardware with multi-core processors, together with the development of fast data acquisition boards capable of efficient and reliable on-board embedded computations have pushed the design of efficient and flexible solutions for both real-time diagnostics and control systems (see some recent examples in) . As a matter of fact, the last decade is witnessing the affirmation of non-proprietary solutions, which allow to implement real-time systems that loosely integrate off-the-shelf components with bespoke custom electronic solutions.