• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.60-69
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• 2000

This paper describes a single-chip full-custom implementation of pipelined adaptive decision-feedback equalizer(PADFE) using a 0.25-${\mu}m$ CMOS technology for wide-band wireless digital communication systems. To enhance the throughput rate of ADFE, two pipeline stages are inserted into the critical path of the ADFE by using delayed least-mean-square(DLMS) algorithm. Redundant binary (RB) arithmetic is applied to all the data processing of the PADFE including filter taps and coefficient update blocks. When compared with conventional methods based on two's complement arithmetic, the proposed approach reduces arithmetic complexity, as well as results in a very simple complex-valued filter structure, thus suitable for VLSI implementation. The design parameters including pipeline stage, filter tap, coefficient and internal bit-width, and equalization performance such as bit error rate (BER) and convergence speed are analyzed by algorithm-level simulation using COSSAP. The single-chip PADFE contains about 205,000 transistors on an area of about $1.96\times1.35-mm^2$. Simulation results show that it can safely operate with 200-MHz clock frequency at 2.5-V supply, and its estimated power dissipation is about 890-mW. Test results show that the fabricated chip works functionally well.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.4
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• pp.479-488
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• 2001

As the SoC designs complexity constantly increases, the simulation that uses their software models simply takes too much time. To solve this problem, FPGA-based logic emulators have been developed and commonly used in the industry. However, FPGA-based logic emulators are facing with the problems of which not only very low FPGA resource usage rate due to the very limited number of pins in FPGAs, but also the emulation speed getting slow drastically as the complexity of designs increases. In this paper, we proposed a new innovative emulation architecture and its software that has high FPGA resource usage rate and makes the emulation extremely fast. The proposed emulation system has merits to overcome the FPGA pin limitation by pipelined ring which transfers multiple logic signal through a single physical pin, and it also makes possible to use a high speed system clock through the intelligent ring topology. In this topology, not only all signal transfer channels among EPGAs are totally separated from user logic so that a high speed system clock can be used, but also the depth of combinational paths is kept swallow as much as possible. Both of these are contributed to achieve high speed emulation. For pipelined singnals transfer among FPGAs we adopt a few heuristic scheduling having low computation complexity. Experimental result with a 12 bit microcontroller has shown that high speed emulation possible even with these simple heuristic scheduling algorithms.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.178-184
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• 2015

This paper proposes a hardware architecture for high performance Deblocking filter(DBF) in High Efficiency Video Coding for UHD(Ultra High Definition) videos. This proposed hardware architecture which has less processing time has a 4-stage pipelined architecture with two filters and parallel boundary strength module. Also, the proposed filter can be used in low-voltage design by using clock gating architecture in 4-stage pipeline. The segmented memory architecture solves the hazard issue that arises when single port SRAM is accessed. The proposed order of filtering shortens the delay time that arises when storing data into the single port SRAM at the pre-processing stage. The DBF hardware proposed in this paper was designed with Verilog HDL, and was implemented with 22k logic gates as a result of synthesis using TSMC 0.18um CMOS standard cell library. Furthermore, the dynamic frequency can process UHD 8k($7680{\times}4320$) samples@60fps using a frequency of 150MHz with an 8K resolution and maximum dynamic frequency is 285MHz. Result from analysis shows that the proposed DBF hardware architecture operation cycle for one process coding unit has improved by 32% over the previous one.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.691-693
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• 2002

슈퍼스칼라 프로세서 구조에서 명령어 실행을 수행하는 데 사용되는 자원은 그 양에 비해 실제로 활용된 자원의 양은 적다. 본 논문에서는 낮은 자원활용도를 보이는 자원을 활용하는 방안으로 슈퍼스칼라 프로세서를 멀티쓰레드 프로세서로 확장하는데 필요한 기본 데이터를 얻기 위해서 실제로 활용되는 자원의 양을 측정하여 어느 정도의 자원을 활용할 수 있는 지와 자원이 충분히 활용되지 못하는 원인을 분석하였다. 실험을 위해 RA(Resource Analyzer)를 구현하여 SimpleScalar 시뮬레이터에서 제공되는 명령어 파이프라인 트레이스 파일을 분석하여 각 파이프라인 단계에서 처리되는 자원의 활용도를 실험하였다. 자원 활용도가 낮은 원인을 분석하기 위해 프로그램 내에 존재하는 데이터 의존성과 여러 가지 미스 요인들의 비율을 실험을 통해 알아본 결과 IPC(Instruction Per Cycle)는 평균 0.6으로 나타났으며, EX단계의 평균 활용 빈도는 22.9%로 낮아 멀티쓰레드 처리의 필요성이 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 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 KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.301-309
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 RSA 암호 시스템의 핵심 과정인 모듈로 멱승 연산에 대한 새로운 하드웨어 구조를 제시한다. 본 방식은 몽고메리 곱셈 알고리즘을 사용하였으며 기존의 방법들이 데이터 종속 그래프(DG : Dependence Graph)를 수직으로 매핑한 것과는 달리 여기서는 수평으로 매핑하여 1차원 선형 어레이구조를 구성하였다. 그 결과로 멱승시에 중간 결과값이 순차적으로 나와서 바로 다음 곱셈을 위한 입력으로 들어갈 수 있기 때문에 100%의 처리율(throughput)을 이룰 수 있고, 수직 매핑 방식에 비해 절반의 클럭 횟수로 연산을 해낼 수 있으며 컨트롤 또한 단순해지는 장점을 가진다. 각 PE(Processing Element)는 2개의 전가산기와 3개의 멀티플렉서로 이루어져 있고, 암호키의 비트수를 k비트라 할 때 k+3개의 PE만으로 파이프라인구조를 구현하였다. 1024비트 RSA데이터의 암호 똔느 복호를 완료하는데 2k$^2$+12k+19의 클럭 수가 소요되며 클럭 주파수 100Mhz에서 약 50kbps의 성능을 보인다. 또한, 제안된 하드웨어는 내부 계산 구조의 지역성(locality), 규칙성(regularity) 및 모듈성(modularity) 등으로 인해 실시간 고속 처리를 위한 VLSI 구현에 적합하다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.470-476
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• 2000

This paper describes an IP design of a low-power microcontroller using an architecture level design methodology instead of a transistor level. To reduce switching capacitance, the register-toregister data transfer is adopted to frequently used register transfer micro-operations. Also, distributed buffers are proposed to reduce a input data rising edge time. To reduce power consumption without any loss of performance, pipeline processing should be used. In this paper, a 4-stage pipelined datapath being able to process CISC instructions is designed. Designed microcontroller lessens power consumption by 20%. To measure a power consumption, the SYNOPSYS EPIC powermill is used.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.578-580
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• 2017

IoT technology poses a lot of security threats. Various algorithms are thus employed in ensuring security of transactions between IoT devices. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) has gained huge popularity among many other symmetric key algorithms due to its robustness till date. This paper presents a hardware based implementation of the AES algorithm. We present a four-stage pipelined architecture of the encryption and key generation. This method allowed a total plain text size of 512 bits to be encrypted in 46 cycles. The proposed hardware design achieved a maximum frequency of 1.18GHz yielding a throughput of 13Gbps and 800MHz yielding a throughput of 8.9Gbps on the 65nm and 180nm processes respectively.

• Proceedings of the CALSEC Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.175-186
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• 1998

국내 섬유ㆍ의류산업의 고비용/저효율 구조를 혁신하기 위해서는 산업간 공급사슬을 효율적으로 관리할 수 있는 QR 시스템의 도입이 불가피할 것으로 보인다. QR 시스템의 성공적인 도입을 위해서는 정보기술적 측면에서 효과적이며 통합적인 정보 파이프라인의 구현, 그리고 기업문화적 측면에서 서로 다른 기업문화와 산업환경하에서의 기업 상호간 전략적 협력관계의 창출이 필수적 요건이라고 하겠다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.20-27
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• 2010

This paper describes a design of 5-stage pipelined de-blocking filter with power reduction scheme and proposes a efficient memory architecture and filter order for high performance H.264/AVC Decoder. Generally the de-blocking filter removes block boundary artifacts and enhances image quality. Nevertheless filter has a few disadvantage that it requires a number of memory access and iterated operations because of filter operation for 4 time to one edge. So this paper proposes a optimized filter ordering and efficient hardware architecture for the reduction of memory access and total filter cycles. In proposed filter parallel processing is available because of structured 5-stage pipeline consisted of memory read, threshold decider, pre-calculation, filter operation and write back. Also it can reduce power consumption because it uses a clock gating scheme which disable unnecessary clock switching. Besides total number of filtering cycle is decreased by new filter order. The proposed filter is designed with Verilog-HDL and functionally verified with the whole H.264/AVC decoder using the Modelsim 6.2g simulator. Input vectors are QCIF images generated by JM9.4 standard encoder software. As a result of experiment, it shows that the filter can make about 20% total filter cycles reduction and it requires small transposition buffer size.