Patent Document ID: 8249840
Application ID: 12556227
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A diversity and defense-in-depth simulation apparatus, comprising (a) a safety control system simulator, comprising (a1) a hardware architecture, said hardware architecture being an industrial personal computer in a cabinet of said safety control system simulator, said hardware architecture having a first hardware input/output (I/O) interface; (a2) a software architecture, comprising (a21) a first user interface layer; (a22) a safety control system simulator core model; (a23) a first hardware I/O data processing module; (a24) a first operating system; and (a25) a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) eXtensions for Instrumentation (PXI) hardware I/O interface layer; and (a3) a kernel architecture, comprising (a31) a program workflow control module; (a32) an external interface processing module; and (a33) a safety control system module; and (b) an enhanced nuclear power plant simulator, comprising (b1) a hardware architecture, said hardware architecture being an industrial personal computer in a cabinet of said enhanced nuclear power plant simulator, said hardware architecture having a second hardware I/O interface; (b2) a software architecture, comprising (b21) a second user interface layer; (b22) an enhanced nuclear power plant simulation module; (b23) a second hardware I/O data processing module; (b24) a second operating system; and (b25) a hardware I/O interface layer; and (b3) a kernel architecture, comprising (b31) a system calculation module; and (b32) a nuclear power plant simulation calculation module, wherein said safety control system simulator provides manual operation, shows information and simulates behaviors of said safety control system module; said safety control system simulator receives parameters of said enhanced nuclear power plant simulator through said first hardware I/O interface to respond with corresponding control signals according to control logics of said safety control system module; and said safety control system simulator transfers said control signals to said enhanced nuclear power plant simulator through said first hardware I/O interface; wherein said enhanced nuclear power plant simulator receives said control signals of said safety control system simulator and sends responses of the enhanced nuclear power plant simulator through said second hardware I/O interface; and said enhanced nuclear power plant simulator provides analysis of diversity and defense-in-depth communicates between said enhanced nuclear power plant simulator and said first hardware I/O interface of said safety control system simulator; and wherein parameters of said enhanced nuclear power plant simulator and control responses of said safety control system simulator are mutually transferred through hard-wired connections at backplanes wherein said safety control system module is a core module of said safety control system simulator and executes control logics of said safety control system module and controls facilities of said enhanced nuclear power plant simulator to be simulated and wherein said control logics of said safety control system module comprise basic logic control, logic control of qualified OR gate with 2 inputs ON (QOR2), linear control, Proportional/Integral/Derivative (PID) control, and trip control of safety signal.