A fault tolerant VLSI implementation of a nuclear control rod controller

摘要

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- mu m process design rules.