The Electronics & Instrumentation Division develops front-end electronics for plasma diagnostics, indigenous data acquisition systems, timing systems, and automated control solutions to support a wide range of physics experiments at the Institute.
The electronics systems are engineered to achieve accuracy, low power consumption, compact form factors and robust immunity to the high electric and magnetic fields present in Tokamak environments. Depending on experimental requirements, specialized analog integrated circuits, data converters, memory devices, microcontrollers, digital signal controllers, FPGAs, and System on a Chip (SoC) solutions are employed for signal conditioning, processing, acquisition, and control applications.
Aditya-U Tokamak: The electronics, data acquisition and control systems required for plasma diagnostics, machine operation and plasma control have been developed entirely in-house. A distributed architecture has been implemented positioning these systems close to the sensors, as illustrated in figure below
