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@MISC{99westinghouseowners,
author = {},
title = {WESTINGHOUSE OWNERS GROUP TO DISCUSS ASIC-BASED},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
On October 28, 1999, a public meeting was held at the U. * S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) offices in Rockville, Maryland, between industry respresentatives of Westinghouse, Southern Nuclear, and the NRC staff. The NRC requested this meeting to obtain some design and background information on the ASIC-Based Replacement Module (ABRM) Development Program. Attachment I is a list of attendees and Attachment 2 are the meeting handouts. Mike Eidson from Southern Nuclear opened the meeting by providing the utilities ' perspective on the ABRM progrm. Mr. Eidson is the Chairman of the ASIC Subgroup, which consists of eight utilities who sponsor the ABRM program. Following Mr. Eidson, Carl Vitalbo from Westinghouse provided a presentation on the ABRM program objectives, background, ASIC chip design features, and main board and personality module design. Mr. Vitalbo also provided the status of the test programs and the licensing approach. During the presentation, Eric Lee, the NRC reviewer, raised concerns on the sufficiency of validation test vectors for the ASIC chip. He and Keith Mortenson, a NRC staff member,.pointed out to Mr. Vitalbo that although Westinghouse performed about one quarter of million credible tests on ASIC, there are more than one million test vectors per each of the quarter million tests that Westinghouse performed. Mr. Vitalbo agreed with the staff, but stated that the
Keyphrases
westinghouse owner group discus asic-based southern nuclear mike eidson development program meeting handout personality module design asic chip design feature eric lee main board licensing approach abrm program test program validation test vector industry respresentatives keith mortenson carl vitalbo nrc staff member abrm progrm test vector nuclear regulatory commission asic chip asic subgroup nrc reviewer credible test background information abrm program objective asic-based replacement module nrc staff public meeting
