Title :
Intelligent Platform Management Controller for Nuclear Fusion Fast Plant System Controllers
Author :
Rodrigues, A.P. ; Correia, M. ; Batista, A. ; Sousa, J. ; Gonçalves, B. ; Correia, C.M.B. ; Varandas, C.A.F.
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Plasmas e Fusao Nucl.-Lab. Associado, Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
An Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC) is being developed by IPFN/IST. This controller will be integrated in the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) and Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMC) modules that are under development for application in nuclear fusion experiments such as the ITER Fast Plant System Controller (FPSC) prototype. This controller in addition with the Shelf Manager module is responsible for the management of hardware failure, redundancy procedures, and hot swapping of the modules in the ATCA crate. The verification of compatibility between modules that share ATCA resources, the power management of each module, temperature monitoring, and fan control are, as well, tasks that the IPMC has the responsibility to manage. Other important functions of the controller are the programming of ATCA and AMC modules firmware, application specific program selection, and firmware version control. In this paper, the hardware architecture of the IPMC implementation at IPFN ATCA modules will be described.
Keywords :
Tokamak devices; computer interfaces; computerised instrumentation; control engineering computing; controllers; data communication equipment; firmware; fusion reactor instrumentation; nuclear engineering computing; physics computing; plasma toroidal confinement; AMC module firmware programming; AMC modules; ATCA crate module hot swapping; ATCA module firmware programming; ATCA resources; IPFN ATCA modules; IPFN-IST; IPMC hardware architecture; ITER FPSC prototype; ITER fast plant system controller; advanced mezzanine cards; advanced telecommunications computing architecture; application specific program selection; fan control; firmware version control; hardware failure management; intelligent platform management controller; nuclear fusion experiments; nuclear fusion fast plant system controllers; power management; redundancy procedure management; shelf manager module; temperature monitoring; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Microcontrollers; Payloads; Temperature measurement; ATCA/xTCA platform management; hardware platform management; intelligent platform management controller; intelligent platform management interface;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.2011.2159016
