The ITER project demanding operating conditions, as well as other enabling experiments in relevant fusion projects, present new challenges to the diagnostics, control and instrumentation. The most critical requirements relate to the high acquisition rates (up to some gigasample per second), high physical event rate (up to several megaevents per second), need to handle enormous quantities of data in long experimental pulses (up to 30 minutes) and highly complex control and diagnostic algorithms. Radiation hardness of all equipment involved must also be taken into account for high magnetic fields as well as neutron irradiation in the fusion devices port cells.

The implementation of state-of-the-art designs were tested both with in-house built prototypes and complete systems installed in the major international fusion experiments. The main technologies used include Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA), high speed electronic devices for signal digitization, complex real-time algorithms for physics analysis, control and data compression implemented in high-performance computing using field-programmable gate arrays and multicore processor architectures.

The control and data acquisition group at Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (Instituto Superior Técnico - Lisboa) has conducted several projects and studies for the development of reliable high-performance processing tools and instrumentation for the diagnostics and control of fusion devices capable of complying with the most demanding requirements.

国际热核实验堆项目要求苛刻的运行条件以及相关聚变项目中的其他使能实验，对诊断，控制和仪器提出了新的挑战。最关键的要求涉及高采集速率（每秒高达几个千兆采样），高物理事件速率（每秒高达几个兆事件），需要在较长的实验脉冲中（长达30分钟）处理大量数据，以及高度复杂的控制和诊断算法。对于高磁场以及聚变设备端口单元中的中子辐照，还必须考虑所有涉及到的设备的辐照硬度。

最新的设计实施方案已通过内部建造的原型以及安装在主要国际聚变实验中的完整系统进行了测试。使用的主要技术包括高级电信计算架构（ATCA），用于信号数字化的高速电子设备，用于物理分析，控制和数据压缩的复杂实时算法，这些算法使用现场可编程门阵列和多核处理器架构在高性能计算中实现。

等离子体大学和核研究所（里斯本高级技术学院-里斯本）的控制和数据采集小组已开展了多个项目和研究，以开发可靠的高性能处理工具和仪器，用于诊断和控制符合以下要求的聚变设备最苛刻的要求。