• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.324-332
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• 2005

In general, bus system consumes a very significant portion of power in a chip. Bus splitting can be used to reduce the energy dissipation and to reduce the Propagation delay on the bus by lowering the parasitic load of each bus segment. Data exchange probability distribution between a set of interconnected processing elements affects the average energy dissipation of the splitted bus architectures. In this research, we have developed tree-based bus splitting techniques and design methodologies, as an extension of horizontally aligned bus splitting. We have developed the methodology to select near-optimal bus architectures for low energy dissipation when data exchange probability distribution of a system is given. Experimental results show that the proposed techniques can reduce energy dissipation on the bus by up to 83$\%$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.919-921
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• 2004

최근 임베디드 시스템 설계에서 저전력 소모와 SoC가 주된 관심사가 되면서, ARM 프로세서와 AMBA 버스가 각광을 받고 있다. AMBA 버스가 고속 모듈에 대해서는 장점을 지니지만. 저속 모듈과의 인터페이스에는 많은 제약이 따른다. 따라서 속도가 서로 다른 이종 모듈간에 속도 보상을 위한 bridge 가 필요하다. 이러한 용도로 APB bridge가 표준으로 자리 매김하고 있지만, 속도가 고정되어 있기 때문에 융통성이 배제된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단정을 보완하기 위해, 구조가 간단하고 구현이 쉬운 ISA 방식의 bridge를 제안하여, 많은 주변장치들을 손쉽게 AHB Slave로 인터페이스 할 수 있게 만든다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.93-98
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• 2004

A low power SRAM using elevated source level memory cells is proposed to save the write power of SRAM. It reduces the swing voltages of the bit lines and data bus by elevating the source level of the memory cells from GND to $V_{T}$ and lowering the precharge level of the bit lines and data bus from $V_{DD}$ to $V_{DD}$ - $V_{T}$. It saves the write power of SRAM without area overhead and speed degradation. An SRAM with 8K${\times}$32bits is fabricated in a 0.25um CMOS process. It saves 45% of the power in write cycles at 300MHz with 2.5V. The maximum operating frequency is 330MHz.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.1_2
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• pp.52-57
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• 2001

이 논문에서는 우리는 버스에서의 연속된 데이터 전송 시 발생하는 데이터 값의 천이를 줄이는 새로운 버스-인버트 코딩에 적용 된 것과는 달리, 우리의 기법은 다양한 버스 분할을 시도하여, 각 분할에 독립적으로 버스-인버트 코딩을 적용하여 전체의 데이터 값 천이를 최소화하고자 한다. 실제 회로를 통한 실험에서 기존의 버스-인버트 코딩과 비교하여 우리의 제안한 기법은 데이터 값의 천이를 전체적으로 10%-50% 수준으로 줄일 수 있음을 보여 준다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.4-5
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• 2019

본 논문은 DC마이크로그리드에서 저전압 배터리 에너지 저장 시스템과 DC 버스 연결을 위한 Dual Active Bridge(DAB) 컨버터의 제어 방법에 대한 연구이다. DC 마이크로그리드에서 전력을 효율적으로 사용하기 위해 양방향 전력전달이 쉬운 DAB 컨버터는 많이 사용되고 있다. 다만, 낮은 배터리 저장 시스템을 사용하는 경우 과도상태에서 DC 버스 측 커패시터를 충전하기 위해 높은 돌입전류가 발생하게 된다. 이러한, 높은 돌입전류는 시스템의 전력반도체 소자를 파손시키는 문제를 가져온다. 따라서, 초기 돌입전류를 저감시킬 수 있는 소프트 스타트 알고리즘이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 돌입전류 저감을 위한 소프트 스타트 알고리즘을 제안하고, 3kW급 DAB 컨버터의 실험 결과를 바탕으로 제안 된 알고리즘을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2633-2640
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• 2009

We design a small-area, low-power, and high-speed EEPROM for touch screen controller IC. As a small-area EEPROM design, a SSTC (side-wall selective transistor) cell is proposed, and high-voltage switching circuits repeated in the EEPROM core circuit are optimized. A digital data-bus sensing amplifier circuit is proposed as a low-power technology. For high speed, the distributed data-bus scheme is applied, and the driving voltage for both the EEPROM cell and the high-voltage switching circuits uses VDDP (=3.3V) which is higher than the logic voltage, VDD (=1.8V), using a dual power supply. The layout size of the designed 128-KBit EEPROMIP is $662.31{\mu}m{\times}1314.89{\mu}m$.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.23-24
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• 2010

본 논문에서 설계한 3kW급 절연형 DC/DC 컨버터는 전기 버스의 주 동력원인 고전압 배터리로부터 차량의 전장시스템에 저전압 전원을 공급한다. 이 전력변환에는 고전압 배터리측과 저전압 배터리측의 절연이 반드시 필요하기 때문에 고주파 변압기를 사용한 절연형 DC/DC 컨버터가 일반적으로 사용된다. 따라서 ZVS 동작이 가능한 위상천이 방식의 풀-브리지 컨버터를 선정하였다. 본 논문에서 사용된 전력변환장치는 차량시스템에 적용하기 적합한 프리스케일사의 32-Bit DSP인 MPC5553 기반의 제어기를 이용한 실험을 통해 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.8
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• pp.33-44
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• 2011

In this paper, we presents a hybrid on-chip bus architecture based on the AMBA 3.0 AXI protocol for MPSoC with high performance and low power. Among AXI channels, data channels with a lot of traffic are designed by crossbar-switch architecture for massively parallel processing. On the other hand, addressing and write-response channels having a few of traffic is handled by shared-bus architecture due to the overheads of (areas, interconnection wires and power consumption) reduction. In experiments, the comparisons are carried out in terms of time, space and power domains for the verification of proposed hybrid on-chip bus architecture. For $16{\times}16$ bus configuration, the hybrid on-chip bus architecture has almost similar performance in time domain with respect to crossbar on-chip bus architecture, as the masters's latency is differenced about 9% and the total execution time is only about 4%. Furthermore, the hybrid on-chip bus architecture is very effective on the overhead reduction, such as it reduced about 47% of areas, and about 52% of interconnection wires, as well as about 66% of dynamic power consumption. Thus, the presented hybrid on-chip bus architecture is shown to be very effective for the MPSoC interconnection design aiming at high performance and low power.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.56-62
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• 2002

A new high speed and low voltage swing on-chip BUS using threshold voltage swing driver and dual sense amplifier receiver is proposed. The threshold voltage swing driver reduces the rising time in the bus to 30% of the full CMOS inverter driver and the dual sense amplifier receiver increases twice the throughput. of the conventional reduced-swing buses using sense amplifier receiver. With threshold voltage swing driver and dual sense amplifier receiver combined, approximately 60% speed improvement and 75% power reduction are achieved in the proposed scheme compared to the conventional full CMOS inverter for the on-chip bus.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.12B
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• pp.1548-1555
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• 2011

In ultra-deep submicron technology, minimization of propagation delay and power consumption on buses is one of the most important design objectives in system-on-chip (SOC) design. Crosstalk between adjacent wires on the bus may create a significant portion of propagation delay. Elimination or minimization of such faults is crucial to the performance and reliability of SOC designs. Most of the previous works on bus encoding are targeted either to minimize the bus switching or minimize the crosstalk delay, but not both. This paper proposes a new bus encoding scheme which can adaptively select one of functions "invert" and "logic-convert" according the number of bus switching on an encoded 4-bit cluster. This scheme leads to minimization of both crosstalk and bus switching. In experiment result, our proposed encoding technique consumes about 25% less power over the previous, while completely eliminating the crosstalk delay.