A fault tolerant VLSI implementation of a nuclear control rod controller

Author

Sharma, Harsh ; Makki, Rafic ; Palaneswami, Krishnan

Author_Institution

North Carolina Univ., Charlotte, NC, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

9-12 Apr 1989

Firstpage

782

Abstract

The authors present a VLSI implementation of a control system used for automatic control of control rods in a typical nuclear power station. Fast, efficient, and reliable control over the control rods is achieved. The design is divided into two VLSI chips that form the heart of a hybrid redundant scheme for fault tolerance. The layout was generated using the MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service) CMOS 1-2-μm process design rules

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; controllers; digital control; fission reactor core control and monitoring; fission reactor instrumentation; integrated logic circuits; nuclear power stations; position control; redundancy; reliability; velocity control; 1 to 2 micron; CMOSIC; MOSIS; automatic control; fault tolerant VLSI implementation; hybrid redundant scheme; nuclear control rod controller; nuclear power station; process design rules; reliable control; Automatic control; CMOS process; Control systems; Fault tolerance; Heart; Nuclear power generation; Power generation; Power system reliability; Process design; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '89. Proceedings. Energy and Information Technologies in the Southeast., IEEE

Conference_Location

Columbia, SC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1989.132506

Filename

132506