Data processing system for ETL TPE-2

The data processing system for ETL TPE-2 consists of 2 CPU systems and it is composing a duplex system. One system is used as a data acquisition system, which is abbreviated as DAS and functions controlling various data input devices, data acquisition, communication with the main controller of TPE-2 confirming safety system operation. Another one is used as data processing system, which is abbreviated as DPS and functions the processing of the data after the acquisition, the interconnections with the mainframe and the development of software. A transient memory system, which has 64 channels of 8 bits ADC with maximum sampling frequency of 20 MHz and 4 KB buffer memory in each channel, is used to record the time sequential experimental data. Two CAMAC crates are used for the acquisition of the informations of the experiment condition and Thomson scattering data. They are composing a serial high way system through fiber optics. The CAMAC crate for Thomson scattering data is controlled by a personal computer, HP-85, and is available stand-alone use, and the communication between the CAMAC system and DAS is easily performed by using a CAMAC memory module as an intermediator without complicated procedure in the connection of different type computers. Two magnetic disk pack units, which have the formatted storage capacity of 158 KB in each one and can record the data over 2,000 shots, are used in parallel with a magnetic tape handler for the data file. Thus we realized the high speed data processing over the wide range of experimental shots and confirmed the preservation of the data. (author)