• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.14 no.3 s.57
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• pp.64-75
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• 1999

System-On-Chip 설계에서 이미 설계된 코어들을 연결시켜 시스템을 구성하기 위해 가장 필요한 기술 중에 하나는 온칩 버스 기술이라고 하겠다. 성능의 극대화를 위해 기존의 PCB상에서 사용되던 버스 대신에 별도의 온칩 버스들이 제안되고 있으며, 시스템 통합을 빠르고 용이하게 하기 위해서, 버스 자체에 대한 표준화나 전달물의 내용과 형식에 대한 표준화가 절실히 필요하며, VSIA에서 제안한 온칩 버스에 대한 표준 전달물과 그에 근거하여 온칩 버스를 비교한 결과를 제시한다.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.27-35
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• 2012

In this paper, the performance analysis for multimedia video codec(MPEG-4, H.264) on on-chip network communication architecture is presented. The On-Chip Network (OCN) is the new communication architecture of multimedia SoC design that overcomes the limits of On-Chip Bus architecture by providing higher data traffic bandwidth, reusability and higher scalability. We compared the performance of MPEG-4, H.264 decoder based on-chip network and AMBA on-chip bus. Experimental results show that the performance of MPEG-4, H.264 based on on-chip network is improved over 33~56% compared to the design based on AMBA on-chip bus.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.343-350
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• 2016

A secure and effective on-chip bus for detecting and preventing malicious attacks by infected IPs is presented in this paper. Most system inter-connects (on-chip bus) are vulnerable to hardware Trojan (Malware) attack because all data and control signals are routed. A proposed secure bus with modifications in arbitration, address decoding, and wrapping for bus master and slaves is designed using the Advanced High-Performance and Advance Peripheral Bus (AHB and APB Bus). It is implemented with the concept that arbiter checks share of masters and manage infected masters and slaves in every transaction. The proposed hardware is designed with the Xilinx 14.7 ISE and verified using the HBE-SoC-IPD test board equipped with Virtex4 XC4VLX80 FPGA device. The design has a total gate count of 39K at an operating frequency of 313MHz using the $0.13{\mu}m$ TSMC process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.885-888
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• 2015

A secure and effective on-chip bus for detecting and preventing malicious attacks by infected IPs is presented in this paper. Most system inter-connect (on-chip bus) are vulnerable to hardware Trojan (Malware) attack because all data and control signals are routed. A proposed secure bus with modifications in arbitration, address decoding, and wrapping for bus master and slaves is designed using the Advanced High-Performance and Advance Peripheral Bus (AHB and APB Bus). It is implemented with the concept that arbiter checks share of masters and manage infected masters and slaves in every transaction. The proposed hardware is designed with the Xilinx 14.7 ISE and verified using the HBE-SoC-IPD test board equipped with Virtex4 XC4VLX80 FPGA device. The design has a total gate count of 40K at an operating frequency of 250MHz using the $0.13{\mu}m$ TSMC process.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.684-690
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• 2010

Most of the existing SoCs have shared bus architecture which always has a bottleneck state. The more IPs are in an SOC, the less performance it is of the SOC, Therefore, its performance is effected by the entire communication rather than CPU speed. In this paper, we propose cross-bar switch bus architecture for the reduction of the bottleneck state and the improvement of the performance. The cross-bar switch bus supports up to 8 masters and 16 slaves and parallel communication with architecture of multiple channel bus. Each slave has an arbiter which stores priority information about masters. So, it prevents only one master occupying one slave and supports efficient communication. We compared WISHBONE on-chip shared bus architecture with crossbar switch bus architecture of the SOC platform, which consists of an OpenRISC processor, a VGA/LCD controller, an AC97 controller, a debug interface, a memory interface, and the performance improved by 26.58% than the previous shared bus.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.255-258
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• 2009

최근 EDA 툴의 기술적인 향상과 반도체 공정의 발달로 IC 설계자들은 RISC 프로세서, DSP 프로세서, 메모리 등 많은 IP가 하나로 집적되는 SoC구조가 가능해졌다. 하지만 기존에 사용되는 대부분의 SoC는 공유버스 구조를 가지고 있어, 병목현상이 발생하는 문제점을 가진다. 이러한 문제점은 SoC 내부의 IP들이 많을수록 SoC 플랫폼의 전체 성능이 저하되어, CPU 자체의 속도보다는 효율적인 통신에 의해 성능이 좌우된다. 본 논문에서는 공유버스의 단점인 병목현상을 줄이고 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 크로스바 스위치버스 구조를 제안한다. OpenRISC 프로세서, VGA/LCD 제어기, AC97 제어기, 디버그 인터페이스, 메모리 인터페이스로 구성되는 SoC 플랫폼의 WISHBONE 온칩 공유버스 구조와 크로스바 스위치 버스 구조의 성능을 비교한 결과, 기존의 공유버스보다 26.58%의 성능이 향상됨을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.345-348
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• 2013

This paper provides a method for compression and transmission of on-chip bus data. As the data traffic on on-chip buses is rapidly increasing with enlarged video resolutions, many video processor chips suffer from a lack of bus bandwidth and their IP cores have to wait for a longer time to get a bus grant. In multimedia data such as images and video, the adjacent data signals very often have little or no difference between them. Taking advantage of this point, this paper develops a simple bus data compression method to improve the chip performance and presents its hardware implementation. The method is applied to a Video Codec - 1 (VC-1) decoder chip and reduces the processing time of one macro-block by 13.6% and 10.3% for SD and HD videos, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.780-783
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• 2012

Recently, the SoC industry mainly uses various multi-layered bus architectures. However, reckless use of bus layers may results in on-chip communication resources and waste of silicon area. This paper performs a quantitative analysis to compare the two de-facto on-chip buses and SNP. Through the performance estimation, the performance of SNP turns out to be significantly enhanced for asymmetric write and read traffic (non-central F distribution) while symmetric traffic is similar to that of AXI. More specifically, SNP properly places IP cores on the top or bottom, induces the write and read channels to be balanced, and achieves about twenty percent improved performance compared to AXI.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.116-122
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• 2024

AMBA AHB-Lite bus is widely used in on-chip bus protocol for low-power and cost-effective SoC. However, it lacks built-in error detection and correction for end-to-end data integrity. This can lead to data corruption and system instability, particularly in harsh environments like automotive applications. To mitigate this problem, this paper proposes the application of SEC-DED (Single Error Correction-Double Error Detection) to AMBA AHB-Lite bus. It aims not only to detect errors in real-time but also to correct them, thereby enhancing end-to-end data integrity. Simulation results demonstrate real-time error detection and correction when errors occur, which bolsters end-to-end data integrity of automotive on-chip bus.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.465-474
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• 2005

For high density SoC design, on-chip communication based on bus interconnection encounters bandwidth limitation while an NoC(Network-on-Chip) approach suffers from unacceptable complexity in its Implementation. This paper introduces a new on-chip communication protocol, SNP (SoC Network Protocol) to overcome these problems. In SNP, conventional on-chip bus signals are categorized into three groups, control, address, and data and only one set of wires is used to transmit all three groups of signals, resulting in the dramatic decrease of the number of wires. SNP efficiently supports master-master communication as well as master-slave communication with symmetric channels. A sequencing rule of signal groups is defined as a part of SNP specification and a phase-restoration feature is proposed to avoid redundant signals transmitted repeatedly over back-to-back transactions. Simulation results show that SNP provides about the same bandwidth with only $54\%$ of wires when compared with AMBA AHB.