• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.4 s.334
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• pp.9-18
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• 2005

This paper proposes the novel synchronous segmented bus architecture that has the pipeline bus architecture based on OCP(open core protocol) and the memory-oriented bus for MPEG system. The proposed architecture has bus architectures that support the memory interface for image data processing of MPEG system. Also it has the segmented hi-directional multiple bus architecture for multitasking processing by using multi -masters/multi - slave. In the scheme address of masters and slaves are fixed so that they are arranged for the location of IP cores according to operational characteristics of the system for efficient data processing. Also the bus architecture adopts synchronous segmented bus architecture for reuse of IP's and architecture or developed chips. This feature is suitable to the high performance and low power multimedia SoC systum by inherent characteristics of multitasking operation and segmented bus. Proposed bus architecture can have up to 3.7 times improvement in the effective bandwidth md up to 4 times reduction in the communication latency.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a Small Active Command scheme which reduces the power consumption of the command bus to DRAM. To do this, we target the ACTIVE command, which consists of multiple packets, containing the row address that occupies the largest size among the addresses delivered to the DRAM. The proposed scheme identifies frequently referenced row addresses as Hot pages first, and delivers index numbers of small caches (tables) located in the memory controller and DRAM. I-ACTIVE and I-PRECHARGE commands using unused bits of existing DRAM commands are added for index number transfer and cache synchronization management. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the command bus power consumption by 20% and 8.1% on average in the close-page and open-page policies, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.299-302
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• 2004

본 논문은 OCP(Open Core Protocol)에 호환되는 파이프라인 구조를 가진 시스템 버스와 MPEG 시스템에 적합한 메모리 버스를 갖는 계층 구조를 가지는 새로운 동기 세그먼트 버스를 제안한다. 이 구조는 MPEG 시스템의 모바일 제품에 사용되는 영상 데이터 처리를 위한 메모리 인터페이스에 기반을 둔 버스 구조와 Multi-master와 Multi-slave를 사용하여 고성능의 다중 처리를 위한 양방향 다중 버스 구조(bi-direction multiple bus architecture)를 가진다. 효율적인 데이터 처리를 위하여 파이프라인 stage와 결합된 Master와 Slave의 주소번지가 latency를 결정하며, 시스템의 특성에 따라서 IP 코어를 배치하였다. 제안된 버스는 저 전력 구현을 위하여 세그먼트 버스 구조를 가지고, 멀티미디어 SoC 시스템의 성능 저하 없이 다중 작업이 가능한 구조를 갖는다. Wirability를 고려하여 양방향 구조를 채택하였고, Testablility를 위하여 단방향(uni-direction) 구조와 대체 가능하다. 또한, Local arbiter의 수정만으로 Master의 추가가 가능한 확장 구조를 가진다. Latency를 줄이기 위하여 직접 제어 방식과 단순한 구조의 Central arbiter로 구현되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.273-278
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• 2012

In this contribution, we design and implement an SPI hardware interface for the microprocessor to communicate with the MMC (Multi-Media Card) in an embedded system. Proposed architecture is compatible with the APB in AMBA bus architecture. Embedding OS in an embedded system means a big burden in terms of hardware and software ending up with performance decline. In this paper, we adopt the concept of SPI communication without using OS in the embedded system and implement in a form of FPGA chip. The designed SPI module was automatically synthesized, placed, and routed. Implementation was performed through the Altera FPGA and well operated at 25MHz clock frequency, which satisfied our target speed.

• 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 the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.1941-1948
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• 2016

The incident during commuting to school happened frequently in these days, such that the government announced the student commuting safety policy for addressing to implement the safety management system of the unsafer school commuting zone. In this paper, a commuting tracking system is proposed that notifies the location of vehicles and the boarding status of student using BLE beacon and smart phone GPS function. The commuting tracking system that gets the data from the system server of driver's smart phone GPS location and UUID of the beacon which had provided students has configured to provide notifications to parents and related administrators. It provides real-time information about whether a student boarding, boarding times and bus locations for parents and administrators. It verifies the disembarking time for each student and also provides to driver to secure if any student tries to board the wrong school bus and if any students is left behind in the bus.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.107-112
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• 2012

In this contribution, we designed a general purpose input/output (GPIO) suitable for embedded systems, especially for Bluetooth baseband. Proposed architecture is compatible for the APB bus in AMBA bus architecture. General purpose I/O should be used as multi-functional and versatile interrupt sources. We considered the edge-sensitive mode as well as the level-sensitive mode for acquiring the interrupt sources. Also, we provided an option to select the operation polarity for flexible application to the embedded systems. The designed GPIO module was automatically synthesized, placed, and routed. The proposed GPIO was implemented through the Altera FPGA and well operated at 25MHz clock frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.895-898
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• 2009

In this contribution, we designed a general purpose input/output (GPIO) suitable for embedded systems, especially for Bluetooth baseband. Proposed architecture is compatible for the APB bus in AMBA bus architecture. General purpose I/O should be used as multi-functional and versatile interrupt sources. We considered the edge-sensitive mode as well as the level-sensitive mode for acquiring the interrupt sources. Also, we provided an option to select the operation polarity for flexible application to the embedded systems. The designed GPIO module was automatically synthesized, placed, and routed. Implementation was performed through the Altera FPGA and well operated at 25MHz clock frequency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.75-82
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• 2000

In this paper, a new low power 16-bit ALU has been designed, fabricated and tested at the transistor level. The designed ALU performs 16 instructions and has a two-stage pipelined architecture. For the reduction of switched capacitance, the ELM adder of the proposed ALU is inactive while the logical operation is performed and P(propagation) block has a dual bus architecture. A new efficient P and G(generation) blocks are also proposed for the above ALU architecture. ELM adder, double-edge triggered register and the combination of logic style are used for low power consumption as well. As a result of simulations, the proposed architecture shows better power efficient than conventional architecture$^{[1,2]}$ as the number of logic operation to be performed is increased over that of arithmetic to logic operation to be performed is 7 to 3, compared to conventional architecture. The proposed ALU was fabricated with 0.6${\mu}m$ single-poly triple-metal CMOS process. As a result of chip test, the maximum operating frequency is 53MHz and power consumption is 33mW at 50MHz, 3.3V.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.1081-1084
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose the bus coding technique for low power consumption. For CMOS circuit most power is dissipated as dynamic power for charging and discharging node capacitances.Though the I/O and bus are likely to have the very large capacitances associated with them and dissipate much of the power dissipated by an IC, they have little beenthe special target for power reduction. The conventional Bus-Invert coding method can't decrease the peak power dissipation by 50% because the additional invert signal line can invoke a transition at the time when Bus-Invert coding isn't used to code original bus data. The proposed technique always constraints the Hamming distance between data transferred sequentially to be below the half of the bus width, and thus decrease the I/O peak power dissipation and the I/O average power dissipation.