To better control the beam position, tune, and chromaticity in the Fermilab Booster synchrotron, a new package of six corrector elements has been designed, incorporating both normal and skew orientations of dipole, quadrupole, and sextupole magnets. The devices are under construction and will be installed in 48 locations in the Booster accelerator. Each of these 288 corrector magnets will be individually powered. Each of the magnets will be individually controlled using operator programmed current ramps designed specifically for each type of Booster acceleration cycle. This paper provides an overview of the corrector magnet installation in the accelerator enclosure, power and sensor interconnections, specifications for the switch-mode power supplies, rack and equipment layouts, controls and interlock electronics, and the features of the operator interface for programming the current ramps and adjusting the timing of the system triggers

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A feedback microprocessor has been built for the TEVATRON. It has been constructed to be a.pplicable t.o hadron colliders in general. Its inputs are real time accelerator measurements, data describing the state of the TEVATRON, and ramp tables. The microprocessor software includes a finite state machine. Each state corresponds to a specific TEVATRON operati011 and has a state-specific TEVATRON model. Transitions between states are initiated by the global TEVATRON clock. Each state includes a cyclic routine which is called periodically and where all calculations a.re performed. The output corrections are inserted onto a. fast TEVATRON-wide link from which the power supplies will rea.d the rea.ltime corrections. We also store all of the input da.ta. and ontput corrections in a. set of buffers which can easily be retrieved for diagnostic analysis. In this pa.per we will describe this device and its use to control the TEVATRON tunes as well a.s other possible applications.