Title :
A modular fault-tolerant approach to design a front-end microsystem for calorimetry at LHC
Author :
Breveglieri, Luca ; Piuri, Vincenzo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. and Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Abstract :
The FERMI system has been designed to perform acquisition and DSP of calorimeter data in high energy collision experiments, planned at the LHC collider (CERN, Geneva, CH). The system relies mainly upon the FERMI chip, a dedicated VLSI multi-chip device: it requires rad-hard features due to the critical application, to the difficulties in maintenance. And to the operating environment. In this paper, a modular approach to support policies for self diagnosis and fault tolerance is discussed
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; computerised instrumentation; fault tolerant computing; high energy physics instrumentation computing; multichip modules; nuclear electronics; nuclear instrumentation; physics computing; silicon-on-insulator; CERN; CH; DSP; FERMI system; Geneva; LHC collider; calorimetry; critical application; dedicated VLSI multi-chip device; fault tolerance; front-end microsystem; high energy collision experiments; modular fault-tolerant approach; self diagnosis; Calorimetry; Circuit faults; Complexity theory; Electrical fault detection; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Large Hadron Collider; Radiation hardening;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1994. IMTC/94. Conference Proceedings. 10th Anniversary. Advanced Technologies in I & M., 1994 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Hamamatsu
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1880-3
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.1994.351855
