Upgrade of the Distributed Time-Keeping and Synchronization System for EAST

The distributed time-keeping and synchronization system (DTSS) underwent an upgrade for EAST during the last shutdown. The upgraded DTSS, designed based on PXI bus and reconfigurable I/O devices, synchronizes all other sub-systems by using a reference clock and trigger. It can produce a uniform clock up to 80 MHz, provide a delayed trigger from 1 ms to 6872 s in 1 ms steps with 10 ns accuracy, and acquire the outputs of itself for self-inspection. The new DTSS was successfully applied in the 2012 spring EAST campaign, and has proven to be stable and reliable, giving an effective performance. The system structure and software development will be illustrated in detail in this paper.