• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2024

Station blackout (SBO) risk is one of the most significant contributors to nuclear power plant risk. In this paper, the sequence probability formulas derived by the convolution approach are compared with those derived by the conventional event tree/fault tree (ET/FT) approach for the SBO situation in which emergency diesel generators fail to start. The comparison identifies what makes the ET/FT approach more conservative and raises the issue regarding the mission time of a turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater pump (TDP), which suggests a possible modeling improvement in the ET/FT approach. Monte Carlo simulations with up-to-date component reliability data validate the convolution approach. The sequence probability of an alternative alternating current diesel generator (AAC DG) failing to start and the TDP failing to operate owing to battery depletion contributes most to the SBO risk. The probability overestimation of the scenario in which the AAC DG fails to run and the TDP fails to operate owing to battery depletion contributes most to the SBO risk overestimation determined by the ET/FT approach. The modification of the TDP mission time renders the sequence probabilities determined by the ET/FT approach more consistent with those determined by the convolution approach.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.312-320
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 110nm eFlash 셀을 사용한 512Kb eFlash IP를 설계하였다. eFlash 셀의 프로그램, 지우기와 읽기 동작을 만족시키는 row 구동회로(CG/SL 구동회로), write BL 구동회로( write BL 스위치 회로와 PBL 스위치 선택 회로), read BL 스위치 회로와 read BL S/A 회로와 같은 eFlash 코어회로(Core circuit)를 제안하였다. 그리고 프로그램 모드에서 9.5V와 erase 모드에서 11.5V의 VPP(Boosted Voltage) 전압을 공급하는 VPP 전압 발생기회로는 기존의 단위 전하펌프 회로로 cross-coupled NMOS 트랜지스터를 사용하는 대신 body 전압을 ground에 연결된 12V NMOS 소자인 NMOS 프리차징 트랜지스터의 게이트 노드 전압을 부스팅하는 회로를 새롭게 제안하여 VPP 단위 전하펌프의 프리차징 노드를 정상적으로 VIN(Input Voltage) 전압으로 프리차징 시켜서 VPP 전하펌프 회로의 펌핑 전류를 증가시켰다. 펌핑 커패시터로는 PMOS 펌핑 커패시터에 비해 펌핑전류가 크고 레이아웃 면적이 작은 12V native NMOS 펌핑 커패시터를 사용하였다. 한편 110nm eFlash 공정을 기반으로 설계된 512Kb eFlash 메모리 IP의 레이아웃 면적은 $933.22{\mu}m{\times}925{\mu}m(=0.8632mm^2)$이다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.240-240
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• 2011

The first neutral beam injector (NBI-1) has been developed for the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) tokamak. A first long pulse ion source (LPIS-1) has been installed on the NBI-1 for an auxiliary heating and current drive of KSTAR core plasmas. Performance of ion and neutral beam extractions in the LPIS-1 was investigated initially on the KSTAR NBI-1 system, prior to the neutral beam injection into the main plasmas. The ion source consists of a JAEA magnetic bucket plasma generator with multi-pole cusp fields and a set of KAERI prototype-III tetrode accelerators with circular apertures. The inner volume of plasma generator and accelerator column in the LPIS-1 is approximately 123 liters. Final design requirements for the ion source were a 120 kV/ 65 A deuterium beam and a 300 s pulse length. The extraction of ion beams was initiated by the formation of arc plasmas in the LPIS-1, called as an arc-beam extraction method. A stable ion beam extraction of LPIS-1 has been achieved up to an 100 kV/42 A for a 4 s pulse length and an 80 kV/25 A for a 14 s pulse length. Optimum beam perveance of 1.21 microperv has been found at an accelerating voltage of 80 kV. Neutralization efficiency has been measured by using a water flow calorimetry (WFC) method of calorimeter and an operation of bending magnet. The full-energy species of ion beams have been detected by using the diagnostic method of optical multichannel analyzer (OMA). An arc efficiency of the LPIS was 0.6~1.1 A/kW depending on the operating conditions of arc discharge.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.981-985
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• 2004

In this paper we designed the motor control IP Core and evaluate its quality from the viewpoint of IP reuse. The most attractive merit of this methodology, so called IP-based hardware design, is hardware reuse. Although various vendors designed hardware with the same specification and got the same functional results, all that IPs is not the same quality in the reuse aspect. As tremendous calls for SoC have been increased, associated research about IP quality standard, VSIA(Virtual Socket Interface Alliance) and STARC(Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center), has been doing best to make the IP quality evaluation system. And they made what conforms to objective IP design standard. We suggest the methodology to evaluate our own designed motor control IP quality with this standard. To attain our goal, we designed motor control IP that could control the motor velocity and position with feedback compensation algorithm. This controller has some IP blocks : digital filter, quadrature decoder, position counter, motion compensator, and PWM generator. Each block's functionality was verified by simulator ModelSim and then its quality was evaluated. To evaluate the core, We use Vnavigator for lint test and ModelSim for coverage check. During lint process, We adapted the OpenMORE's rule based on RMM (Reuse Methodology Manual) and it could tell us our IP's quality in a manner of the scored value form. If it is high, its quality is also high, and vice versa. During coverage check ModelSim-SE is used for verifying how our test circuits cover designs. This objective methods using well-defined commercial coverage metrics could perform a quantitative analysis of simulation completeness. In this manner, We evaluated the designed motor control IP's quality from the viewpoint of reuse. This methodology will save the time and cost in designing SoC that should integrate various IPs. In addition to this, It can be the guide for comparing the equally specified IP's quality. After all, we are continuously looking forward to enhancing our motor control IP in the aspect of not only functional perfection but also IP reuse to prepare for the SoC-Compliant motor control IP design.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.50-55
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 $0.35-{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 이용 $8{\sim}10.9$ GHz 밴드를 갖는 새로운 구조의 LC VCO를 설계 제안하였다. 이 회로 구성은 LC 탱크 기반의 전형적인 NMOS, PMOS cross-coupled 쌍을 병렬로 구성한 새로운 구조로 상보적인 NMOS와 PMOS 꼬리 전류와 같은 MOS cross-coupled쌍과 출력 버퍼로 구성하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 구조로 설계된 LC VCO는 8GHz에서 10.9GHz까지로 29%의 증가된 튜닝 범위와 6.48mV의 낮은 전력소모를 가지는 것을 확인하였고 이의 core size는 $270{\mu}m{\times}340{\mu}m$, 시뮬레이션을 통한 VCO의 위상잡음은 1MHz와 10MHz offset에서 각각 -117dBc/Hz와 -137dBc/Hz이다. FOM은 10GHz의 중심 주파수으로 부터 1MHz offset에서 -189dBc/Hz를 가진다. 제안한 설계방법은 10Gb/s급의 클럭과 데이터 복원회로 그리고 SONET 통신응용에 매우 유용하다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.1075-1082
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 새로운 해쉬 알고리듬인 SHA-3과 출력 길이 확장함수인 SHAKE256을 구현하는 해쉬 프로세서를 설계하였다. 해쉬 프로세서는 성능을 극대화하기 위해 Padder 블록, 라운드 코어 블록, 출력 블록이 블록 단계에서 파이프라인 구조로 동작한다. Padder 블록은 가변길이의 입력을 여러 개의 블록으로 만들고, 라운드 코어 블록은 on-the-fly 라운드 상수 생성기를 사용하여 SHA-3와 SHAKE256에 대응하는 해쉬 및 출력 확장 결과를 생성하며, 출력 블록은 결과 값을 호스트로 전달하는 기능을 수행한다. 해쉬 프로세서는 Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA에서 최대 동작 속도는 220 MHz이며, SHA3-512의 경우 5.28 Gbps의 처리율을 갖는다. 프로세서는 SHA-3 와 SHAKE-256 알고리듬을 지원하므로 무결성, 키 생성, 난수 생성 등의 암호 분야에 응용이 가능하다.

• 대한기계학회논문집 C: 기술과 교육
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2014

내륙의 주전력 공급계통과 단절되어 있는 도서지역은 대부분의 전력공급을 디젤발전설비가 담당하고 있다. 디젤발전설비는 특성상 예방정비 및 유지보수를 통해 사용수명을 연장시킬 수 있으나, 계속 사용에 따른 기계설비의 노후화 및 발전 효율 감소로 인해 운영비가 증가한다. 즉, 적기에 노후 발전설비를 교체할 경우 발전소 운영비용을 줄일 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 디젤발전설비의 상태를 대표할 수 있는 지표를 도출하고, 몬테카를로 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 각 지표별 민감도 분석을 수행하고자 한다. 이를 통해 디젤발전설비의 현상태를 정량적으로 나타낼 수 있는 상태점수를 정의하고 이를 바탕으로 설비 교체의 기준을 마련하고자 한다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.918-924
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• 2009

In this paper, we designed micro-structured electromagnetic transducers for energy harvesting and verified the performance of proposed transducers using finite element analysis software, COMSOL Multiphysics. To achieve higher energy transduce efficiency, around the magnetic core material, three-dimensional micro-coil structures with high number of turns are fabricated using semiconductor fabrication process technologies. To find relations between device size and energy transduce efficiency, generated electrical power values of seven different sizes of transducers ($3{\times}3\;mm^2$, $6{\times}6\;mm^2$, $9{\times}9\;mm^2$, $12{\times}12\;mm^2$, $15{\times}15\;mm^2$, $18{\times}18\;mm^2$, and $21{\times}21\;mm^2$) are analyzed on various magnetic flux density environment ranging from 0.84 T to 1.54 T and it showed that size of $15{\times}15\;mm^2$ device can generate $991.5\;{\mu}W$ at the 8 Hz of environmental kinetic energy. Compare to other electromagnetic energy harvesters, proposed system showed competitive performance in terms of power generation, operation bandwidth and size. Since proposed system can generate electric power at very low frequency of kinetic energy from typical life environment including walking and body movement, it is expected that proposed system can be effectively applied to various pervasive computing applications including power source of embodied medical equipment, power source of RFID sensors and etc. as an secondary power sources.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제29권10호
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• pp.635-640
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• 2016

This paper dealt with the deterioration characteristics and an on-line diagnosis equipment for SPDs (surge protective devices). An accelerated aging test was carried out using a $8/20{\mu}s$ standard lightning impulse current to analyze the changes of electrical characteristics and to propose the diagnostic parameters and the criterion for deterioration of ZnO varistor which is the core component of SPDs. Based on the experimental results, an on-line diagnosis equipment for SPD was fabricated, which can measure the total leakage current, reference and clamping voltage. The leakage current measurement circuit was designed using a low-noise amplifier and a clamp type ZCT. A linear controller, the leakage current measurement part and a HVDC were used in the measurement of reference voltage. The measurement circuit of clamping voltage consisted of a surge generator and a coupling circuit. In a calibration process, measurement error of the prototype equipment was less than 3%.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.474-499
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• 2010

This paper presents the mostortant developments implemented in the APOLLO2 spectral code since its last general presentation at the 1999 M&C conference in Madrid. APOLLO2 has been provided with new capabilities in the domain of cross section self-shielding, including mixture effects and transfer matrix self-shielding, new or improved flux solvers (CPM for RZ geometry, heterogeneous cells for short MOC and the linear-surface scheme for long MOC), improved acceleration techniques ($DP_1$), that are also applied to thermal and external iterations, and a number of sophisticated modules and tools to help user calculations. The method of characteristics, which took over the collision probability method as the main flux solver of the code, allows for whole core two-dimensional heterogeneous calculations. A flux reconstruction technique leads to fast albeit accurate solutions used for industrial applications. The APOLLO2 code has been integrated (APOLLO2-A) within the $ARCADIA^{(R)}$ reactor code system of AREVA as cross section generator for PWR and BWR fuel assemblies. APOLLO2 is also extensively used by Electricite de France within its reactor calculation chain. A number of numerical examples are presented to illustrate APOLLO2 accuracy by comparison to Monte Carlo reference calculations. Results of the validation program are compared to the measured values on power plants and critical experiments.