ASICs FOR SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS

 

This page relates to the work being done on ASICs for safety-critical systems and currently funded by Scottish Nuclear(UK) in association with Nuclear Electric(UK) and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate(UK).

Co-workers in this endeavour are Dr Robert Zimmer, Dr Ian Dear, Richard Tully and Alan Hunter, all from Brunel University (UK).

Dr Robert Zimmer

Brunel University

REFERENCE MATERIAL

Two papers are currently publicly available in PostScript format for anyone who is interested to find out more about this work.

"Design of ASICs for Nuclear Reactor Protection Systems", Zimmer & Ambler

"Formal Verification of Design and Test for Safety-Critical Applications", Tully, Hunter, Zimmer, Dear & Ambler

"Formal Verification and Synthesis of On-Line Self Test", Hunter, Tully, Zimmer, Dear & Ambler

 

 

 

 

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Tony Ambler
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Engineering Science Building 513
Austin, TX 78712-1084

 

Tel: (512) 475 6153
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If you have any comments, suggestions or enquiries, please mail me at:

ambler@ece.utexas.edu