Design of a Stable Integrator for Aditya Tokamak

A stable integrator of long duration up to 5s has been designed for Aditya tokamak. In tokamaks, the accurate knowledge about the plasma position has been required for maintaining the distance between plasma and in vessel component. Hence, the value of plasma current, magnetic field and magnetic flux are to be calculated by integrating signals from the magnetic pick up loops. High accuracy integrators are required for the accurate magnetic measurements for long duration signals. The proposed integrator design composed of microcontroller, DAC, integrator and ADC. This design provides a stable output for noisy and drift input signal level up to 5s. The microcontroller has been used to maintain the stability of the output signal and also eliminate the offset induced noise components.