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Modern accelerator facilities require deterministic timing distribution, sub-nanosecond synchronization, and ultra-fast protection mechanisms to guarantee safe and coordinated operation across RF systems, diagnostics, and beam transport. White Rabbit (WR) technology has demonstrated exceptional performance in timing accuracy, but its integration into a complete timing and protection infrastructure suitable for industrial-grade operation remains an open challenge.
This contribution presents a new architecture that unifies WR-based timing, trigger generation, event distribution, and machine protection into a single, coherent system. The proposed design introduces synchronous trigger/gate engines, deterministic event sequencing, WR-referenced RF timing, and a low-latency interlock propagation mechanism capable of reacting within a few microseconds.
We describe the hardware and firmware concepts, integration with standard control frameworks (EPICS), signal distribution strategies, and expected performance in multi-node networks. Results from initial prototyping and system-level integration show how WR can serve simultaneously as the global timing backbone and as the transport layer for distributed machine protection. This work demonstrates a scalable approach suitable for future fusion, accelerator-driven, and high-intensity proton facilities.
| Paper status | No proceeding expected for this contribution. |
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