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Security and safety of FPGAs in nuclear safety systems: benefits and challenges

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Event
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  • Thursday, 17 March 2016
  • 12:17 - 12:17
  • Duration: 32 mins
  • Publication date: 08 Apr 2016
  • Location: NA, Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel, Bristol, United Arab Emirates
  • Part of event Nuclear Engineering for Safety, Control & Security

About the session

- Justifying programmable logic devices in protection systems
- Are they a cost-effective option for C&I systems?
- When and where should they be implemented?

This one-day seminar provided the perfect forum for hearing from the ONR about what is expected of personnel working in nuclear facilities whilst learning from engineers, managers and other specialists implementing solutions to challenges the whole industry faces, whatever the facility.

The scope of Nuclear engineering for safety, control and security issues covers all stages of the lifecycle of nuclear from new build through existing plant operations (civil and defence) to end of life / decommissioning.

Keywords:
  • cloning
  • counterfeit
  • cryptographic attack
  • field-programmable gate array
  • gate array
  • logic gate
  • malware
  • power station
  • smart

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    Chris Sampson

    Atkins, Chief Engineer Software Assurance

    Chris Sampson is Chief Engineer for Software Assurance at Atkins. After graduating from the University of York, he worked on the Independent Confidence Building Measures for the Sizewell B Primary Protection System software. He has since worked extensively on the substantiation of software safety systems in the Defence, Aerospace, Rail and Medical sectors, promoting the use of static analysis and formal verification and is now again involved with the ICBMs for Nuclear New Build.
  • Richard Piggin

    Richard Piggin

    Atkins, Capability manager

    Dr Richard Piggin is a capability manager at Atkins. He has an Engineering Doctorate in industrial networking from the University of Warwick and has since focused on networking, technology evangelism, international standards, safety and security. At Atkins, Richard is working with clients to make their Operational Technology resilient against current and emerging threats.
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