• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.697-708
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• 2012

The majority of instrumentation and control (I&C) systems in today's nuclear power plants (NPPs) are based on analog technology. Thus, most existing I&C systems now face obsolescence problems. Existing NPPs have difficulty in repairing and replacing devices and boards during maintenance because manufacturers no longer produce the analog devices and boards used in the implemented I&C systems. Therefore, existing NPPs are replacing the obsolete analog I&C systems with advanced digital systems. New NPPs are also adopting digital I&C systems because the economic efficiencies and usability of the systems are higher than the analog I&C systems. Digital I&C systems are based on two technologies: a microprocessor based system in which software programs manage the required functions and a programmable logic device (PLD) based system in which programmable logic devices, such as field programmable gate arrays, manage the required functions. PLD based systems provide higher levels of performance compared with microprocessor based systems because PLD systems can process the data in parallel while microprocessor based systems process the data sequentially. In this research, a bistable trip logic in a reactor protection system (RPS) was developed using very high speed integrated circuits hardware description language (VHDL), which is a hardware description language used in electronic design to describe the behavior of the digital system. Functional verifications were also performed in order to verify that the bistable trip logic was designed correctly and satisfied the required specifications. For the functional verification, a random testing technique was adopted to generate test inputs for the bistable trip logic.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.953-958
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• 2001

The antifuse is a semi-permanent memory device like a ROM which shows the open or short state, and a switch device connecting logic blocks selectively in FPGA. In addition, the antifuse has been used as a logic device to troubleshoot defective memory cells arising from SDRAM processing. In this study, we have fabricated ONO antifuses consisted of PIP structure. The antifuse shows a high resistance more than several G Ω in the normal state, and shows a low resistance less than 500 Ω after program. The program resistance variation according to temperature shows the very stable value of $\pm$20 Ω. At this time, its program voltage shows 6.7∼7.2 V and the program is performed within 1 second. Therefore this result shows that the PIP antifuse is a very stable and programmable logic device.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.314-321
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• 2020

LASAR (logic automated stimulus and response) 소프트웨어는 디지털 전자 회로 카드에 대한 로직 기능시험 및 고장검출을 위한 자동점검프로그램 개발도구이다. LASAR 소프트웨어는 소자의 논리회로 기능 및 입·출력 정의된 정보가 필요하다. 소자 정보가 없으면 정상적인 부품 모델링이 불가능하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 소자 정보가 없는 PLD (programmable logic device) 소자를 역설계 방법을 통하여 부품 모델링을 수행한다. 개발된 LASAR 프로그램은 고장 시뮬레이션 결과와 단일 고착 고장삽입 방법을 통해 고장 검출율을 확인하였다. 고장 검출율은 기존의 제한적인 모델링은 91%, 역설계를 통한 모델링은 94%로 3% 상승하였다. 또한, EP 310 PLD 소자에 대한 입·출력핀에 대한 22가지 고착결함의 경우 100% 검출하여 양호한 성능을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -3
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• pp.1547-1550
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• 2002

Reconfigurable computing is a new computing paradigm which has more potential in terms of performance and flexibility. Reconfigurable computing systems are opening a new era in digital signal processing such as multimedia, communication and consumer electronics because they can filter data rapidly and excel at pattern recognition, image process- ing and encryption. Although many reconfigurable computing systems use a conventional programmable device, they carry several serious problems to be solved. This paper proposes a logic block architecture of programmable device suit-able for the reconfigurable computing. Compared to conventional logic blocks, our logic block can improve implementation density, efficiency and speed.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1996년도 추계학술발표회논문집(1)
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• pp.191-196
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• 1996

The potential value of the Application Specific Integrated Circuits(ASIC's) in safety systems of Nuclear Power Plants(NPP's) is being increasingly recognized because they are essentially hardwired circuitry on a chip, the reliability of the system can be proved more easily than that of software based systems which is difficult in point of software V&V(Verification and Validation). There are two types of ASIC, one is a full customized type, the other is a half customized type. PLD(Programmable Logic Device) used in this paper is a half customized ASIC which is a device consisting of blocks of logic connected with programmable interconnections that are customized in the package by end users. This paper describes the RPS(Reactor Protection System) composed of ASICs which provides emergency shutdown of the reactor to protect the core and the pressure boundary of RCS(Reactor Coolant System) in NPP's. The RPS is largely composed of five logic blocks, each of them was implemented in one PLD, as the followings. A). Bistable Logic B). Matrix Logic C).Initiation Logic D). MMI(Man Machine Interface) Logic E). Test Logic.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.2327-2329
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• 1998

In this paper, an algorithm to make a configuration system for managing the I/O device of programmable logic controller(PLC) is proposed. Parallel processing architecture is used to deal with a number of I/O devices. From that architecture, a contention problem between processors can arise. To resolve this problem, the configuration system that contains informations about I/O devices is introduced. This configuration system is used to check the contention between processors in the I/O device and also used in program execution.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2004

일반적으로 반도체 소자의 집적도가 증가함에 따라 기능적 오류 검사 시간이 급격하게 증가하며, 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 제조공정에서 패턴 발생기의 사용은 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 반도체 소자의 기능적 오류를 검사 하기 위한 패턴 발생기의 PLD(Programmable Logic Device) 회로를 설계하였다. 이러한 모든 사항은 시뮬레이션을 통하여 회로의 동작과 기능을 검증하였으며, 만족할만한 결과를 얻었다.

• 융합신호처리학회 학술대회논문집
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• 한국신호처리시스템학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.209-212
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 AGV(Automatic Guided Vehicle)를 제어하기 위한 hard-wired 제어기를 설계하였고, CPLD(Complex Programmable Logic Device)를 이용하여 구현하였다. 제안된 제어기는 자율주행을 위한 유도장치 제어기, 모터 제어장치, 입출력 sequence 제어기 등을 포함하고 있다. 마이크로프로세서에 의해 구현된 기존방식에 비해 hard-wired 제어방식을 사용하므로 복잡한 프로그램 과정을 줄일 수 있다. 또한 메모리, 조합논리, 순서논리 회로를 쉽게 추가할 수 있어 제품의 개발시간 단축, 제품 크기 축소, 난이도 등에서 발생되는 총 제작비용 등을 감소시킬 수 있다. 제어기는 VHDL을 이용하여 동작적 기술 방법으로 설계되었으며, Altera사의 MAX＋Plus II를 사용하여 합성하였고, EPF10K10LC84-4 디바이스로 구현하여 AGY 모형(Line-tracer)에 적용시켜 동작을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.971-974
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• 2005

In this paper, we describe photonic sensor interface in SOPC(System on a programmable chip) platform. This platform uses device that has ARM922T processor and APEX FPGA area on a chip. We use two development kits. The one is embedded kit that using Intel's Xscale device, the another is SOPC kit that using Altera's Excalibur device. We implement some device logic that DMAC, ADCC, etc. and application.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권9A호
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• pp.1101-1107
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• 2004

본 논문은 통신 시스템에서 오류 검출을 위해 널려 사용되고 있는 Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) 회로의 병렬 구현을 위한 새로운 회로 축소 알고리즘 및 설계 기술을 소개한다. 논리 수준을 최소화하여 CRC 속도를 증진시키기 위해서 입력데이터와 CRC 내부 신호를 두 개 단위로 그룹화 하는 새로운 알고리즘을 개방하였다 성능 평가를 위해 16 비트와 32 비트 CRC 를 PLD (Programmable Logic Device) 및 표준 셀 라이브러리를 이용하여 합성하였으며, 기존에 제시되었던 방법보다 성능이 향상되었음을 보여준다.