Design, development and installation of programmable timing control system for LEHIPA

All accelerators require timing system for coherent and synchronous operation. Programmable Timing Control (PTC) system has been developed at Electronics Division, BARC to ensure synchronous operation of different sub-systems of LEHIPA such as ECR Ion source, DLLRF, Klystron, BPM etc. PTC is a 6U Compact PCI (CPCI) based system for generation of timing signals for pulse and continuous wave operation of LEHIPA. The system provides synchronous pulses with programmable On/Off time (1usec to 20sec) and phase delay (5nsec to 1sec). The outputs pulses are synchronized with RF reference frequency of 352 MHz. The system generates six outputs for providing TTL timing signals to different beam-line systems. The system has been installed and tested with Ion Source at LEHIPA. The driver for the system has been developed in QNX. This paper discusses the design philosophy and test results of PTC system. (author)