• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.63-72
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a novel reconfigurable coprocessor for multimedia mobile terminals. Because most of multimedia operations require fast operations of large amount of data in the limited clock frequency, it is necessary to enhance the performance of the embedded processor that is widely used in current multimedia mobile terminals. Therefore, we proposed and have designed the coprocessor which had the ability of fast operations of multimedia data. The proposed coprocessor was not only reconfigurable, but also flexible and expandable. The proposed coprocessor has been designed by using VHDL and compared with previous reconfigurable coprocessors and a commercial embedded processor in architecture and speed. As a result of the architectural comparison, the proposed coprocessor had better structure in terms of hardware size and flexibility. Also, the simulation results of DCT application showed that the proposed coprocessor was 26 times faster than a commercial ARM processor and 11 times faster than the ARM processor with fast DCT core.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2569-2578
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• 2009

Core-A microprocessor is the all-Korean product designed as 32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor developed by KAIST and supported by the Industrial Property Office. This paper analyze Core-A microprocessor architecture and proposes efficient method to interface Core-A microprocessor with coprocessor. To verify proposed interfacing method, the AES cryptography processor that has 128-bit key and block size is used as a coprocessor. Coprocessor and AES are written in Verilog-HDL and verified using Modelsim simulator. It except AES module consists of about 3,743 gates and its maximum operating frequency is about 90Mhz under 0.35um CMOS technology. The proposed coprocessor interface architecture is efficiency to send data or to receive data from Core-A to coprocessor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.235-237
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• 2003

다목적실용위성 2호(KOMPSAT-2)에서는 위성자세 제어를 담당하고 있는 RDU(Remote Drive Unit)의 성능 향상를 위하여 80386 CPU와 함께 80387 Coprocessor를 장착하여 임무수행을 담당한다. 다목적실용위성 1호(KOMPSAT-1)에서는 수치연산을 위하여 상용소프트웨어인 PACLIB를 사용하여 수치연산을 80C186을 이용한 에뮬레이션 방식으로 수행하였지만, 2호기에서는 실질적인 코프로세서를 이용한 수치연산을 수행하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 다목적실용위성 2호에서 사용되는 80387 코프로세서의 초기화 과정과 예외사항 발생시 처리 방법, 80387 코프로세서를 이용한 수치연산 함수 구현 및 libtary 구성 방법에 대하여 설명한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.6 s.336
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• pp.39-48
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• 2005

This paper proposes a reconfigurable coprocessor for communication systems, which can perform high speed computations and various functions. The proposed reconfigurable coprocessor can easily implement communication operations, such as scrambling, interleaving, convolutional encoding, Viterbi decoding, FFT, etc. The proposed architecture has been modeled by VHDL and synthesized using the SEC 0.18$\mu$m standard cell library. The gate count is about 35,000 gates and the critical path is 3.84ns. The proposed coprocessor can reduced about $33\%$ for FFT operations and complex MAC, $37\%$ for Viterbi operations, and $48\%\~84\%$ for scrambling and convolutional encoding for the IEEE 802.11a WLAN standard compared with existing DSPs. The proposed coprocessor shows Performance improvements compared with existing DSP chips for communication algorithms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.2A
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• pp.188-194
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• 2007

In order to become ubiquitous world, the compatibility of wireless machines has become the significant characteristic of a communication terminal. Thus, SDR is the most necessary technology and standard. However, among the environment which has different communication protocol, it's difficult to make a terminal with only hardware using ASIC or SoC. This paper suggests the processor that can accelerate several communication protocol. It can be connected with main-processor, and it is specialized PHY layer of network The C-program that is modeled with the wireless protocol IEEE802.11a and IEEE802.11b which are based on widely used modulation way; OFDM and CDM is compiled with ARM cross compiler and done simulation and profiling with Simplescalar-Arm version. The result of profiling, most operations were Viterbi operations and complex floating point operations. According to this result we suggested a co-processor which can accelerate Viterbi operations and complex floating point operations and added instructions. These instructions are simulated with Simplescalar-Arm version. The result of this simulation, comparing with computing only one ARM core, the operations of Viterbi improved as fast as 4.5 times. And the operations of complex floating point improved as fast as twice. The operations of IEEE802.11a are 3 times faster, and the operations of IEEE802.11b are 1.5 times faster.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.7-10
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• 2002

정보화의 부작용이라 할 수 있는 보호되어야 할 자료의 유출이 심각해지면서 특정 사용자간에 데이터를 암호화해서 전송하고 다시 복호화 해서 데이터를 얻어야 할 필요성이 커지고 있다. 따라서 데이터의 고속 암호화 및 복호화 기술의 개발이 시급하다. 데이터의 암호화 및 복호화를 위해서는 비밀키 암호를 사용하는데 대표적인 비밀키 암호로 Rijndael(AES) 암호가 있다. Rijndael 암호는 기존의 블록암호와는 달리 비교적 적은 게이트 수를 사용하여 하드웨어로 구현할 수 있고, 키 관리와 암/복호 속도 측면에서 하드웨어 구현이 소프트웨어 구현보다 우수하기 때문에 코프로세서 형태로 구현하여 스마트카드, SIM카드, 모바일 시스템 등에 적용할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 카드에 적합한 Rijdnael 암호 프로세서의 구현 방법에 관하여 기술하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 방법으로 구현하여 Synopsys로 합성하여 18000 게이트 정도의 적은 게이트 수로 3㎓를 넘어서는 동작 주파수, 2.56 Gbps의 높은 암/복호율을 갖는 프로세서의 구현이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.809-810
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• 2006

An H.264 algorithm is commonly used for video compression applications. This algorithm requires a large number of data computations, for example, the sum of absolute difference (SAD) operation. We analyzed H.264 reference encoding workloads. The H.264 encoding program has 8.78% SAD operation. The SAD operation is to sum up 16 difference-values in H.264 $4{\times}4$ sub-blocks. In order to accelerate SAD operations, we implemented an application specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) that can execute SAD and data transfer instructions. The proposed coprocessor has an absolute value generator and a carry save adder (CSA) unit to sum up 8 difference-values per one clock cycle. We completed SAD operation in 2 clock cycles. Experimental results show that the performance is improved by 34% of total execution time.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.178-180
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• 2015

코프로세서(Co-processor)를 사용한 병렬 처리 시스템은 멀티코어 프로그래밍과 함께 과학기술계산 분야 프로그램 개발에 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 CPU 기반의 코프로세서인 인텔 제온 파이 환경에서의 푸아송 방정식 해법을 병렬화 하였다. 본 연구를 통해서 인텔 제온 파이 활용 가능성을 확인 하고, 일반적인 병렬화 기법이 인텔 제온 파이 환경에서도 적합한지를 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.903-906
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• 2009

In this contribution, we designed a serial port interface (SPI) suitable for embedded systems, especially for Bluetooth baseband. Proposed architecture is compatible for the APB bus in AMBA bus architecture. The 8-bit design of the SPI module is in charge of transferring the data and the instructions between the external devices and the coprocessors. We adopted the cyclic redundancy check method for the error correction. Also, we provided the interface for multimedia cards. The designed SPI module was automatically synthesized, placed, and routed. Implementation was performed through the Altera FPGA and well operated at 25MHz clock frequency.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.125-137
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• 2009

Smart card has a small sized micro computer chip. This chip contains processor, RAM, ROM, clock, bus system and crypto-co-processor. Hence it is more expensive, complicated and secure chip compared with RFID tag. The main application area of smart card is e-banking and secure communications. There are two kinds of smart card platforms; open platform and closed one. Java card is the most popular open platform because of its security, platform independency, fast developing cycle. However, the speed of Java card is slower than other ones, hence there have been hot research topics to improve the performance of Java card. In this paper, we propose an efficient transaction buffer management to improve the performance of Java card. The experimental result shows the advantage of our method.