• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.646-654
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• 2020

이 논문은 강수의 공간분포를 측정할 수 있는 전자파 기반 센서를 개발하는 것이며, 악천후 관측의 핵심인 강우, 강설, 바람장을 동시 측정할 수 있는 전파강수계(EWRG, Electromagnetic Wave Rain Gauge)에 관한 것이다. 본 연구를 통해 LFM 방식의 송수신 신호를 이론적으로 분석하였다. 또한 전파강수계 송수신기를 개발하기 위해서 LFM 송수신기 설계 및 모의실험을 수행하였다. 본 논문은 소형 HMIC(Hybrid Microwave Integrated Circuit)를 사용하여 K-BAND 펄스 구동 형 6W SSPA(Solid State Power Amplifiers) 송수신기 개발을 하였다. 65도의 고온의 환경에서 1%의 짧은 Duty를 가지는 6W 이상의 출력파워, 5dB이하의 수신 NF(Noise Figure)를 가지고 있다. 제작된 모듈은 파형발생부가 내장되어 LFM과 Square Pulse파형을 방출하며 수신부는 40dB이상의 수신 이득을 가진다. 이 논문에서 개발된 송수신기는 다른 소형 기상 레이더에 적용할 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권7호
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• pp.1071-1077
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• 2022

타원곡선 암호 (elliptic curve cryptography; ECC) 기반의 공개키 기반구조 구현에 사용될 수 있는 보안 SoC(system-on-chip)를 설계하였다. 보안 SoC는 타원곡선 디지털 서명 알고리듬 (elliptic curve digital signature algorithm; ECDSA)용 하드웨어 가속기가 AXI4-Lite 버스를 통해 Cortex-A53 CPU와 인터페이스된 구조를 갖는다. ECDSA 하드웨어 가속기는 고성능 ECC 프로세서, SHA3 (secure hash algorithm 3) 해시 코어, 난수 생성기, 모듈러 곱셈기, BRAM (block random access memory), 그리고 제어 FSM (finite state machine)으로 구성되며, 최소의 CPU 제어로 ECDSA 서명 생성과 서명 검증을 고성능으로 연산할 수 있도록 설계되었다. 보안 SoC를 Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC 디바이스에 구현하여 하드웨어-소프트웨어 통합 검증을 하였으며, 150 MHz 클록 주파수로 동작하여 초당 약 1,000번의 ECDSA 서명 생성 또는 서명 검증 연산 성능을 갖는 것으로 평가되었다. ECDSA 하드웨어 가속기는 74,630개의 LUT (look-up table)와 23,356개의 플립플롭, 32kb BRAM 그리고 36개의 DSP (digital signal processing) 블록의 하드웨어 자원이 사용되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.803-811
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• 2024

Nuclear accidents such as Fukushima Daiichi have highlighted the potential of passive safety systems to replace or complement active safety systems as part of the overall prevention and/or mitigation strategies. In addition, passive systems are key features of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), for which they are becoming almost unavoidable and are part of the basic design of many reactors available in today's nuclear market. Nevertheless, their potential to significantly increase the safety of nuclear power plants still needs to be strengthened, in particular the ability of computer codes to determine their performance and reliability in industrial applications and support the safety demonstration. The PASTELS project (September 2020-February 2024), funded by the European Commission "Euratom H2020" programme, is devoted to the study of passive systems relying on natural circulation. The project focuses on two types, namely the SAfety COndenser (SACO) for the evacuation of the core residual power and the Containment Wall Condenser (CWC) for the reduction of heat and pressure in the containment vessel in case of accident. A specific design for each of these systems is being investigated in the project. Firstly, a straight vertical pool type of SACO has been implemented on the Framatome's PKL loop at Erlangen. It represents a tube bundle type heat exchanger that transfers heat from the secondary circuit to the water pool in which it is immersed by condensing the vapour generated in the steam generator. Secondly, the project relies on the CWC installed on the PASI test loop at LUT University in Finland. This facility reproduces the thermal-hydraulic behaviour of a Passive Containment Cooling System (PCCS) mainly composed of a CWC, a heat exchanger in the containment vessel connected to a water tank at atmospheric pressure outside the vessel which represents the ultimate heat sink. Several activities are carried out within the framework of the project. Different tests are conducted on these integral test facilities to produce new and relevant experimental data allowing to better characterize the physical behaviours and the performances of these systems for various thermo-hydraulic conditions. These test programmes are simulated by different codes acting at different scales, mainly system and CFD codes. New "system/CFD" coupling approaches are also considered to evaluate their potential to benefit both from the accuracy of CFD in regions where local 3D effects are dominant and system codes whose computational speed, robustness and general level of physical validation are particularly appreciated in industrial studies. In parallel, the project includes the study of single and two-phase natural circulation loops through a bibliographical study and the simulations of the PERSEO and HERO-2 experimental facilities. After a synthetic presentation of the project and its objectives, this article provides the reader with findings related to the physical analysis of the test results obtained on the PKL and PASI installations as well an overall evaluation of the capability of the different numerical tools to simulate passive systems.