The WIMS/PANTHER Embedded Supercell Method (ESM) provides a significant improvement in prediction accuracy radial power distributions for pressurised water reactors compared to the standard “two-step” approach, without need increase computational resource. A companion paper presents validation of ESM as previously presented, using PANTHER pin-by-pin diffusion correct interface errors arising fr...

A 12-bit recycling ADC was designed for the WIMS cochlear implant project. The design uses IBM’s 0.25 μm mixed-signal process with the final layout covering a die area of approximately 600 μm x 550 μm. The ADC has a sampling speed of 24 kHz and a power draw of <2.5 mW. Preliminary analysis shows a maximum DNL and INL of 0.3 and 0.8 respectively, and a SNDR of 43.35 dB.

Abstract We present the Active Learning tools introduced in basic mathematics courses Preparatory Curriculum for Engineering schools at Université Claude Bernard. Additions were academic year 2018/2019 Foundations of Mathematics 2, first bachelor study program. Its content are Linear Algebra (matrices, vector spaces and linear applications), Calculus (Taylor polynomials, Integration) Differenti...

Increased integration of components into a single SoC will enable performance improvements in bio-medical applications. The microsystem described here combines an energy-efficient MCU, the first reported cochlear implant (CI) algorithm-specific DSP core and a self-referenced hybrid LC oscillator clock reference into a monolithic SoC intended for use in CIs. By merging all of these components on...

Scratchpad memories have been shown to reduce power consumption, but the different characteristics of nanometer scale processes, such as increased leakage power, motivate an examination of how the benefits of these memories change with process scaling. Process and application characteristics affect the amount of energy saved by a scratchpad memory. Increases in leakage as a percentage of total ...

This paper discusses the variety of teaching methods employed by the Nuclear Department in the education and training of nuclear practioners in support of the United Kingdom’s Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme (NNPP). Reactor physics is required to be taught at a variety of levels from introductory principles to postgraduate, a variety of teaching methods are employed to satisfy this requireme...