Prototype development of P-NBI data acquisition system for the JT-60SA

Shinozaki, Shinichi ; Honda, Atsushi; Oshima, Katsumi; Shimizu, Tatsuo; Numazawa, Susumu*; Ikeda, Yoshitaka

The modification of the JT-60U to a fully superconducting coil tokamak, JT-60SA, has been programmed as the satellite devise for the ITER and as the national centralized tokamak. The present positive-ion-based NBI system, which has employed the expensive CAMAC and has been operated for 20 years, is required to extend its pulse duration from 30 s to 100 s for JT-60SA. Recently, the frequency of troubles on the data acquisition system has increased due to its age-induced deterioration. To realize the long pulse operation and to maintain the high reliability on JT-60SA, we set to develop a new acquisition system. As a first step, we have designed and constructed a prototype acquisition system, which is combined with instruments highly available on the market, to confirm the basic performance. The result indicates that the new system allows us to construct a highly flexible and user-friendly acquisition system at low cost without highly technical software developing.