New developments of the TORE SUPRA acquisition system

In order to support the heat-load of a continuous high power plasma, the upgrade of the first wall of the TORE SUPRA tokamak is now in progress and the first pulses are expected by July 2001. The TORE SUPRA acquisition system, originally conceived for long pulse data acquisition and processing, needs some improvements to meet new requirements such as fast and continuous data access, real time data processing where possible, more efficient post-pulse data processing.