The Development of Safety DCS Platform - NicSys®8000N Based on FPGA

摘要

This paper describes the safety Nuclear I&C System -NicSys®8000N designed by China Nuclear Control System Engineering Co., Ltd. NicSys®8000N is a general safety distributed control system (DCS) platform and is developed specifically for nuclear applications, the core processing part of the platform is based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. Moreover the modular structure, deterministic response time and testability can be applied to solve plant-wide needs for nuclear safety applications. NicSys®8000N platform complies with China nuclear design codes, guidelines and standards as well as the U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) guidelines, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards, the platform has been developed using a rigorous safety-related design process that ensures suitable FPGA logic, hardware and software quality and reliability for critical applications such as the reactor protection system or engineered safety features actuation system. The information provided in this paper covers the following topics to fully understand the NicSys®8000N platform: description and development process of NicSys®8000N, architecture and application development tools of NicSys®8000N, technical features of NicSys®8000N, and qualification test of NicSys®8000N.