• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.177-185
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• 2005

NAND-type flash memory is becoming increasingly popular as a large data storage for mobile computing devices. Since flash memory is an order of magnitude more expensive than magnetic disks, data compression can be effectively used in managing flash memory based storage systems. However, compressed data management in NAND-type flash memory is challenging because it supports only page-based I/Os. For example, when the size of compressed data is smaller than the page size. internal fragmentation occurs and this degrades the effectiveness of compression seriously. In this paper, we present an efficient flash compression layer (FCL) for NAND-type flash memory which stores several small compressed pages into one physical page by using a write buffer Based on prototype implementation and simulation studies, we show that the proposed scheme offers the storage of flash memory more than $140\%$ of its original size and expands the write bandwidth significantly.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.12-23
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• 2005

In the past decade, advances in speed of commodity CPUs have iu out-paced advances in memory latency Main-memory access is therefore increasingly a performance bottleneck for many computer applications, including database systems. To reduce memory access latency, cache memory incorporated in the memory subsystem. but cache memories can reduce the memory latency only when the requested data is found in the cache. This mainly depends on the memory access pattern of the application. At this point, previous research has shown that B+ trees perform much faster than T-trees because B+ trees are more cache conscious than T-trees, and also proposed 'Cache Sensitive B+trees' (CSB. trees) that are more cache conscious than B+trees. The goal of this paper is to make T-trees be cache conscious as CSB-trees. We propose a new index structure called a 'Cache Sensitive T-trees (CST-trees)'. We implemented CST-trees and compared performance of CST-trees with performance of other index structures.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.9
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• pp.40-47
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• 2007

For image processing hardware, including a face detecting engine, efficient constitution of external and internal memories is a consequential point because huge memory is required to store various signal processing filters and incoming images. In this paper, we modified a face detect algerian of a general filter method for efficient hardware design. In the hardware, several memory design techniques are presented for efficient handling of image data : re-accessing avoidance with minimized internal memory usage, residing frequently accessed memory and sequence memory accessing. The hardware which can process 25 frame image data per one second with 40KB internal memory was verified by using ARM(S3C2440A) and Virtex4 FPGA and it is being fabricated as a ASIC chip using Samsung CMOS 0.18um technology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.1-3
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• 2016

낸드 플래시 메모리는 저 전력, 빠른 동작 속도, 높은 신뢰성, 가벼운 무게와 같은 특성을 가지는 비휘발성 메모리로써 폭넓은 분야에서 사용이 증가하고 있다. 그러나 낸드 플래시 메모리는 기존의 보조 기억 장치와 달리 쓰기 전 소거와 낮은 수명에 대한 문제가 존재한다. 기존의 많은 연구에서는 가비지 컬렉션을 통해 수명을 연장하기 위해 노력하였다. 본 논문에서는 낸드 플래시 메모리에 삭제 구간 정보를 활용한 가비지 컬렉션 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 "N 삭제 구간 정보"를 이용하여 효과적인 희생블록을 선정하는 특징이 있다. 제안하는 기법은 GA 기법과 비교하여 평균 페이지 이주비용은 최대 50.1% 감소하였으며, 블록 당 소거 횟수의 표준 편차는 최대 233% 감소하였다. 또한, 낸드 플래시 메모리 시스템의 첫 번째 배드 블록 발생 시간은 최대 22.7% 연장하였고, 시스템 수명은 최대 16.7% 연장하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.5_6
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• pp.232-238
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• 2003

Traditional operating systems use a virtual memory to provide users with a bigger memory than a physical memory. The virtual memory augments the insufficient physical memory by the swap device. Since disks are usually used as the swap device, the cost of a page fault is relatively high compared to the access cost of the physical memory. Recently, numerous papers have investigated the Network RAM in order to exploit the idle memory in the network instead of disks. Since today's distributed systems are interconnected with high-performance networks, the network latency is far smaller than the disk access latency In this paper we design and implement the Network RAM using block device driver on Linux. This is the first implementation of the Network RAM on Linux. We propose the new reliability method to recover the page when the other workstation's memory is damaged. The system using the Network RAM as the swap device reduces the execution time by 40.3% than the system using the disk as the swap device. The performance results suggest that the new reliability method that use the processor more efficiently has the similar execution time with others, but uses smaller server memory and generates less message traffic than others.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.41-49
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• 2009

Flash memory has become increasingly requestion for the importance and the demand as a storage due to its low power consumption, cheap prices and large capacity medium. This research is to design a high performance flash memory structure for the substitution of a hard-disk by dynamic prefetching of aggressive spatial locality from the spatial smart buffer system. The proposed buffer system in a NAND flash memory consists of three parts, i.e., a fully associative victim buffer for temporal locality, a fully associative spatial buffer for spatial locality, and a dynamic fetching unit. We proposed new dynamic prefetching algorithm for aggressive spatial locality. That is to use the flash memory instead of the hard disk, the proposed flash system can achieve better performance gain by overcoming many drawbacks of the flash memory by the new structure and the new algorithm. According to the simulation results, compared with the smart buffer system, the average miss ratio is reduced about 26% for Mediabench applications. The average memory access times are improved about 35% for Mediabench applications, over 30% for Spec2000 applications.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.62-66
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• 2009

Recently developed compilers perform some optimizations in order to speed up the execution time of source program. These optimizations require the transformation of the sequence of program statements. This transformation does not give any problems in a single-threaded program. However, the transformation gives some significant errors in a multi-threaded program. State-of-the-art model checkers such as Java-Pathfinder do not consider the transformation resulted in the optimization step in a compiler since they just consider a single memory model. In this paper, we describe a new technique which is based on SMT solver. The Java Memory Model Simulator based on SMT Solver can compute all possible output of given multi-thread program within one second which, in contrast, Traditional Java Memory Model Simulator takes one minute.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.543-544
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• 2009

본 논문은 Linux에서 사용되는 Shared Memory는 동일한 메모리 영역에 여러 개의 프로세스가 접근할 수 있도록 해 주는 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 Shared Memory의 큰 두 갈래 중 커널 단계에서 처리 되는 SVR(System V Release) 형식의 Shared Memory를 다룬다. 본 논문에서는 리눅스 운영체제의 공유 메모리 기능을 Dual Core 시스템에서 동작하도록 구현한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.85-91
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• 2009

Recently, the LCD has high market share in TV market. The use of motion images in portable devices like DMB, PMP and Cell Phone is growing rapidly. One of the technique of enhancing the LCD's characteristic which is the slow response time. But, the technique requires a lot of memory usage, because of the requirement of frame memory. In this paper, we propose a reduction method for the frame memory that is required for LCD overdrive. Proposed overdrive architecture based on modified DWT-Inverse DWT and Color Conversion. The proposed architecture has a considerable PSNR. At once, it uses 50% of frame memory size and reduces 15% of frame memory size compare with previous architecture. The design was implemented using Xilinx Vertex4 and had 2172 Slice except Memory.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.72-79
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• 2003

Due to the improvements in circuit design technique and manufacturing technique, complexity of a circuit is growing along with the demand for memories with large capacities. Likewise, as a memory capacity gets larger, testing gets harder and testing cost increases, and testing process in chip development gets larger as well. Therefore, a research on an effective test algorithm to improve the chip yield rate in a short time period is becoming an important task. This paper proposes an effective, March C-algorithm based, test algorithm that can also be applied to a dual-port memory since it considers all the fault types, which can be occurred in a single-port as well as in a dual-port memory, without increasing the test length.