• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06b
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• pp.327-330
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• 2008

최근 무어의 법칙이 깨짐에 따라 멀티코어 프로세서의 활용이 늘어나고 있으며 이는 임베디드 환경에서도 보편화되었다. 이러한 멀티코어 환경에 기존에 멀티프로세서용으로 개발된 AMP 또는 SMP 구조의 운영체제를 적용시키게 된다면 멀티코어의 장점을 살리기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 기존 운영체제 구조에 대한 분석을 통해 멀티코어용으로 적합한 운영체제 구조가 가상 머신 구조라는 것을 보이고 있으며 산업에 활용할 수 있는 멀티코어용 가상 머신 모니터의 설계를 제공하고 있다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.219-224
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• 2015

Recently, the multi-core processor architecture is widely used in the digital signal processors for enhancing its performance. Multi-core processors are classified either as symmetric or asymmetric. Asymmetric multi-core processors are known to have higher performance and more efficient than symmetric multi-core processors. In order to study the performance enhancement of asymmetric multi-core digital signal processors over the symmetric ones, the trace-driven simulation has been executed for various asymmetric quad-core, octa-core and hexadeca-core digital signal processors and compared with the symmetric ones of similar hardware budget using UTDSP benchmarks as input.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06b
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• pp.405-410
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• 2008

성능 / 에너지를 강조하는 현재의 멀티코어 추세에서 임베디드 시스템에 사용되는 대부분의 프로세서들은 단일 프로세서와 메모리를 버스 형태로 연결하여 구현하였다. 하지만 칩 내부의 프로세서 코어 수가 증가 하게 되면, 기존 버스 형태의 구조는 제한된 대역폭으로 인하여 확장성이 제약된다. 본 논문에서는 멀티코어 프로세서에서 사용 가능한 기존 연결 망 구조들을 분석하고, 기존 계층적 링 구조에서의 지연 시간 문제를 극복하여 성능을 개선할 수 있는 새로운 이중 광역 계층 링 구조를 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.1-10
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• 2011

Unfortunately, in current microprocessors, increasing the frequency causes increased power consumption and reduced reliability whereas it improves the performance. To overcome the power and thermal problems in the singlecore processors, multicore processors has been widely used. For 2D multicore processors, interconnection is regarded as one of the major constraints in performance and power efficiency. To reduce the performance degradation and the power consumption in 2D multicore processors, 3D integrated design technique has been studied by many researchers. Compared to 2D multicore processors, 3D multicore processors get the benefits of performance improvement and reduced power consumption by reducing the wire length significantly. However, 3D multicore processors have serious thermal problems due to high power density, resulting in reliability degradation. Detailed thermal analysis for multicore processors can be useful in designing thermal-aware processors. In this paper, we analyze the impact of workload distribution, distance to the heat sink, and number of stacked dies on the processor temperature. We also analyze the effects of the temperature on overall system performance. Especially, this paper presents the guideline for thermal-aware multicore processor design by analyzing the thermal problems in 2D multicore processors and 3D multicore processors.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.233-238
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• 2016

Recently, the multi-core processor architecture is widely adopted in the embedded processors for enhancing its performance. Multi-core processors are classified either as symmetric or asymmetric. Asymmetric multicore processors are known to score higher performance and more efficient than symmetric multi-core processors. In order to study the performance enhancement of asymmetric multi-core embedded processors over the symmetric ones, the trace-driven simulation has been executed for various asymmetric embedded dual-core, quad-core, octa-core and hexadeca-core processors and compared with the symmetric ones of similar hardware budget using MiBench benchmarks as input.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

As the process technology scales down, an interconnection has became a major performance constraint for multi-core processors. Recently, in order to mitigate the performance bottleneck of the interconnection for multi-core processors, a 3D integration technique has drawn quite attention. The 3D integrated multi-core processor has advantage for reducing global wire length, resulting in a performance improvement. However, it causes serious thermal problems due to increased power density. For this reason, to design efficient 3D multi-core processors, thermal-aware design techniques should be considered. In this paper, we analyze the temperature on the 3D multi-core processors in function unit level through various experiments. We also present temperature characteristics by varying application features, cooling characteristics, and frequency levels on 3D multi-core processors. According to our experimental results, following two rules should be obeyed for thermal-aware 3D processor design. First, to optimize the thermal profile of cores, the core with higher cooling efficiency should be clocked at a higher frequency. Second, to lower the temperature of cores, a workload with higher thermal impact should be assigned to the core with higher cooling efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.339-342
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• 2010

최근 프로세서가 클럭 향상의 한계에 부딪힘에 따라, 프로세서의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 멀티 코어 기반의 병렬처리를 이용한 방법들이 제안 되고 있다. 본 논문은 여러개의 연산기를 한 명령어 사이클에 동시에 사용할 수 있는 MIMD(Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data) 구조를 가지며, Scratch Counter를 이용해 멀티 코어와 멀티 스레드의 작업을 할당하는 구조의 GP-GPU(General Purpose - Graphics Processing Unit)를 활용해 멀티 코어, 멀티 스레드 환경에서의 효율적인 픽셀 셰이딩 방법을 설계 하였다. 선형 안개 픽셀 셰이딩의 경우 싱글코어에서 18.3 FPS이며 4개의 멀티코어 GP-GPU에서는 4배가 증가한 73.2 FPS 결과를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.827-829
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• 2009

현재 멀티 코어 프로세서는 많은 서버에 적용되어 사용되고 있으며, 향후에는 하나의 프로세서 패키지에 포함될 코어의 개수는 계속해서 증가할 것이다. 그러나 현재 운영체제들은 멀티 코어 시스템을 멀티 프로세서 환경과 거의 동일하게 다루고 있으며 아직 멀티 코어 특성을 고려한 성능 최적화 시도는 미흡한 상태이다. 본 논문은 SMP와 NUMA 구조의 멀티 코어 프로세서 환경에서 통신 프로세스와 네트워크 인터럽트의 프로세서 친화도를 변화시키며 네트워크 처리율과 코어의 유휴 자원 양을 정량적으로 분석한다. 측정 결과 프로세서 친화도에 따라 통신 처리율은 크게 변하지 않지만 프로세서 자원의 요구량에는 크게 영향을 주는 것을 보인다. 또한 이러한 프로세서 자원의 영향은 멀티 코어 프로세서의 캐쉬 공유 구조 및 메모리 분산 구조와 밀접한 관계를 갖고 있음을 밝힌다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.163-169
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• 2014

Recently, the importance of multicore processor system is growing rapidly. Multicore processors are classified either as symmetric or asymmetric. Asymmetric multicore processors consist of a high performance complex core and number of low performance simple cores, and are known to be more efficient than symmetric multicore processors. Therefore, performance impact on various configurations of asymmetric multi-core processor needs to be studied. Using SPEC 2000 benchmarks as input, the trace-driven simulation has been performed for different asymmetric quad-core and octa-core processors and compared to the corresponding symmetric ones.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.9-16
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• 2009

Energy consumption as well as performance should be considered when designing up-to-date multicore processors. In this paper, we propose new design technique to reduce the energy consumption in the instruction cache for multicore processors by using modified filter cache. The filter cache has been recognized as one of the most energy-efficient design techniques for singlecore processors. The energy consumed in the instruction cache accounts for a significant portion of total processor energy consumption. Therefore, energy-aware instruction cache design techniques are essential to reduce the energy consumption in a multicore processor. The proposed technique reduces the energy consumption in the instruction cache for multicore processors by reducing the number of accesses to the level-1 instruction cache. We evaluate the proposed design using a simulation infrastructure based on SimpleScalar and CACTI. Simulation results show that the proposed architecture reduces the energy consumption in the instruction cache for multicore processors by up to 3.4% compared to the conventional filter cache architecture. Moreover, the proposed architecture shows better performance over the conventional filter cache architecture.