A modular fault-tolerant approach to design a front-end microsystem for calorimetry at LHC

Author

Breveglieri, Luca ; Piuri, Vincenzo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. and Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Italy

fYear

1994

fDate

10-12 May 1994

Firstpage

1136

Abstract

The FERMI system has been designed to perform acquisition and DSP of calorimeter data in high energy collision experiments, planned at the LHC collider (CERN, Geneva, CH). The system relies mainly upon the FERMI chip, a dedicated VLSI multi-chip device: it requires rad-hard features due to the critical application, to the difficulties in maintenance. And to the operating environment. In this paper, a modular approach to support policies for self diagnosis and fault tolerance is discussed

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; computerised instrumentation; fault tolerant computing; high energy physics instrumentation computing; multichip modules; nuclear electronics; nuclear instrumentation; physics computing; silicon-on-insulator; CERN; CH; DSP; FERMI system; Geneva; LHC collider; calorimetry; critical application; dedicated VLSI multi-chip device; fault tolerance; front-end microsystem; high energy collision experiments; modular fault-tolerant approach; self diagnosis; Calorimetry; Circuit faults; Complexity theory; Electrical fault detection; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Large Hadron Collider; Radiation hardening;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1994. IMTC/94. Conference Proceedings. 10th Anniversary. Advanced Technologies in I & M., 1994 IEEE

Conference_Location

Hamamatsu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1880-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1994.351855

Filename

351855