• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1679-1682
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• 2005

최근 SoC를 포함하는 대부분의 임베디드시스템에서는 RTOS가 선택이 아닌 필수적인 구성요소가 됨에 따라 SoC 개발의 초기단계에서부터 RTOS를 도입하는 것이 바람직하다. 하지만, 기존의 범용 RTOS가 제공하는 기능은 대부분 응용 소프트웨어의 개발과 수행을 위한 것으로 SoC 개발 및 검증에는 적합하지 않은 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 SoC 개발을 위해 운영체제가 만족시켜야할 요구사항을 제시하고, 소프트웨어의 재사용성과 SoC의 검증을 함께 지원하는 VPOS(Verification-Purpose OS)를 개발하였다. VPOS는 초경량의 단순한 계층적 구조(layered structure)를 가지는 RTOS로서 소프트웨어 재사용을 위해 POSIX 표준 API, 유닉스 호환 디바이스 드라이버 인터페이스, HAL 등을 제공한다. 또한 SoC 설계의 검증을 위해 RT 수준의 통합시뮬레이션에 적합한 커널 구조 및 최적화된 코드, 하드웨어 테스트를 위한 쉘 명령어, 응용 소프트웨어의 디버깅을 위한 KREM(kernel resource and event monitoring) 등의 특징을 함께 제공한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.73-79
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• 2010

The number of electronic embedded software in vehicle system is ever increasing for years. As a result, the electronic control units have been growing dramatically, and it is required to mutual link between these units. Due to separate API each and every embedded platform, it is difficult to develop and integrate in automotive industry. The AUTOSAR project consists suppliers and manufacturers, and the partnership is a standardized platform to establish and develop an industry standard. On the previous works, we implemented the RTE generated module design based on AUTOSAR architecture. This paper specifically focuses on the testing of the development tool that generates RTE source code. The result satisfied a need for a RTE requirements and AUTOSAR methodology in a vehicle applications.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.135-142
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• 2012

The Quality of embedded system depends on the embedded software. As the complexity and the size of embedded software have been increasing, it is more likely that the software may include faults, and the reliability and stability issues are getting more important. In this paper, we propose a remote test tool for software based on VxWorks by using fault injection method. The test tool consists of test server and test client for testing on the cross development environment. The test server operates in the host system and user can not only test but also monitor the software by using it. The test client operates in the target system and it controls kernel objects and sends the input data into the software when receiving the control and data from the test server. We developed the prototype software and demonstrated the ability of testing software robustness by injecting faults.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.17-24
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• 2012

Recently automotive software has been more complex and needs to be reduced its development time. Software testing of its functionalities and performance should be conducted in an early development phase to reduce time to market and the development cost. Software functional testing can be performed through simulating the hardware, but it is not guaranteed that evaluation of real-time performance using simulation has enough accuracy. Real-time performance can be precisely evaluated with hardware-in-the-loop simulation, but it costs time and effort to set up hardware for testing. In this paper, we suggest a testing system that can evaluate functional requirements and real time properties with a general-purpose development board in the early development phase. In addition, we improve reusability of the testing system through modularized and layered architecture. With the proposed testing system we can contribute to building reliable testing system at low cost without difficulty.

• KSCI Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.99-102
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• 2007

최근 들어 인간의 의지를 각종의 전자시스템에 전달하기 위한 수단으로 음성인식 기술을 이용하고자 하는 연구가 널리 진행되고 있다. 음성인식 인터페이스에서 가장 중요한 이슈는 처리시간의 감소 및 범용 인터페이스의 개발이다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 하드웨어 기반의 상용 IC로 생산되고 있는 음성인식프로세서인 RSC-4128이 내장된 음성인식 모듈 VR-STAMP를 사용하였다. 본 연구에서 새롭게 개발한 시스템은 T2SI(Text To Speaker Independent) 기반의 화자(話者)독립 방식으로 음성인식 신호를 컨텐츠 네비게이션 시스템의 제어신호로 활용하여 임베디드 시스템 및 PC 등에 설치된 윈도우즈 기반의 응용 소프트웨어를 제어할 수 있는 시스템이다. 필드 테스트를 통해 그 유용성을 확인한 결과, 본 연구에서 개발한 시스템은 컨텐츠 네비게이션은 물론 가전기기 제어 및 흠 네트워크 등에 널리 응용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.896-903
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• 2011

In this paper, a co-design method for JPEG2000 video compression system using DSP and FPGA is presented. By profiling the complexity of JPEG2000 algorithm, it is noticed that a MQ-coder is the most complex part. Thus, we implement the MQ-coder on FPGA for the parallel processing using VHDL to reduce the complexity. In order to verify the performance of the MQ-coder, JBIG2 standard test vector and images are used. The experimental results show that the proposed MQ-coder enhances the processing time approximately 3 times compared with the previous software MQ-coder.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.201-214
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a test case generation method adequate to destructive test of the BLDC(Brush Less Direct Current) motor controller used for the MDPS(Motor Driven Power Steering) system embedded in an automobile. The proposed method is a modified CTM(Classification Tree Method). CTM generates test cases assuming that all inputs are equally important. Therefore, it is very hard to generate test cases for extreme situations. To overcome the drawback and generate test cases specialized for destructive test. a modified CTM that compensates the limitation of traditional CTM is proposed. The proposed method has an advantage that it can intensively generate the test scenarios adequate to extreme situations by combining the test cases generated by the transitional CTM the while keeping the merit of the traditional CTM. The test scenarios for destructive test for the MDPS system embedded in a commercial automobile are generated utilizing the proposed method. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified through the test.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.307-314
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• 2014

Recently, software reliability and safety issues are seriously considered since failures of embedded systems may cause the damages of human lifes. For verifying and testing embedded software, execution environment including sensors and actuators should be prepared in the actual plants or virtual forms on PC. In this paper, we provide the virtual prototype based code simulation techniques and testing framework on PC. Virtual prototypes are generated by combining the Adobe's Flash SWF images corresponding to the state machine of HW or environment components. Code simulation on PC is possible by replacing the device drivers into virtual drivers which connect to virtual prototypes. Also, testing is performed by controlling the states of virtual prototype and simulators. By using these tools, embedded software can be executed in the earlier development phase and the efficiency and SW quality can be enhanced.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.164-173
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• 2009

Automotive systems have tended to be equipped with many electronic contents to satisfy safety, comport, convenience, and entertainment services over the past years. As a result, the amount of vehicle embedded software in electrical/electronic(E/E) systems is steadily increasing to manage these requirements. This leads to the traditional, document-based software development in the vehicle embedded systems being increasingly displaced by a model-based development in order to reduce software development time and cost. Due to the application of model-based development, a great evolution is being realized in the aspect of efficiency, but the development is being made without sufficient testing. So, erroneous automotive embedded software may cause serious problems such as car accidents which relate to human safety. Therefore, efficient methods for model-based test and validation are needed to improve software reliability in the stage of embedded software development. This paper presents the model-based development and test method for AUTOSAR embedded software to improve its reliability and safety, and it is demonstrated based on the case study.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.6 no.9
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• pp.419-428
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• 2017

In an embedded system, modules exchange data by interacting among themselves. Exchanging erroneous resource data among modules may lead to execution errors. The interacting resources produce dependencies between the two modules where any change of the resources by one module affects the functionality of another module. Several investigations of the embedded systems show that interaction faults between the modules are one of the major cause of critical software failure. Therefore, interaction testing is an essential phase for reducing the interaction faults and minimizing the risk. The direct and indirect interactions between the modules generate interaction faults. The direct interaction is the explicit call relation between the modules, and the indirect interaction is the remaining relation that is made underneath the interface that possesses data dependence relationship with resources. In this paper, we investigate the errors that are based on the indirect interaction between modules and introduce a new test criterion for identifying the errors that are undetectable by existing approaches at the integration level. We propose a novel approach for generating the interaction model using the indirect interaction pattern and design test criteria that are based on different interaction errors to generate test cases. Finally, we use the fault injection technique to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach.