• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.2 s.332
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• pp.65-72
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• 2005

We can integrate more IP blocks on a silicon die as the development of fabrication technologies and EDA tools. Consequently, we can design complicated SoC architecture including multi-processors. However, most of existing SoC buses have bottleneck in on-chip communication because of shared bus architectures, which result in the performance degradation of systems. In most cases, the performance of a multi-processor system is determined by efficient on-chip communication and the well-balanced distribution of computation rather than the performance of the processors. We propose an efficient SoC Network Architecture(SNA) using crossbar routers which provide a solution to ensure enough communication bandwidth. The SNA can significantly reduce the bottleneck of on-chip communication by providing multi-channels for multi-masters. According to the proposed architecture, we design a model system for the SNA. The proposed architecture has a better efficiency by $40\%$ than the AMBA AHB according to a simulation result.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.465-474
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• 2005

For high density SoC design, on-chip communication based on bus interconnection encounters bandwidth limitation while an NoC(Network-on-Chip) approach suffers from unacceptable complexity in its Implementation. This paper introduces a new on-chip communication protocol, SNP (SoC Network Protocol) to overcome these problems. In SNP, conventional on-chip bus signals are categorized into three groups, control, address, and data and only one set of wires is used to transmit all three groups of signals, resulting in the dramatic decrease of the number of wires. SNP efficiently supports master-master communication as well as master-slave communication with symmetric channels. A sequencing rule of signal groups is defined as a part of SNP specification and a phase-restoration feature is proposed to avoid redundant signals transmitted repeatedly over back-to-back transactions. Simulation results show that SNP provides about the same bandwidth with only $54\%$ of wires when compared with AMBA AHB.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.886-895
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• 2018

This paper describes a hardware design of the Secure Hash Algorithm-3 (SHA-3) hash functions that are the latest version of the SHA family of standards released by NIST, and an implementation of ARM Cortex-M0 interface for security SoC applications. To achieve an optimized design, the tradeoff between hardware complexity and performance was analyzed for five hardware architectures, and the datapath of round block was determined to be 1600-bit on the basis of the analysis results. In addition, the padder with a 64-bit interface to round block was implemented in hardware. A SoC prototype that integrates the SHA-3 hash processor, Cortex-M0 and AHB interface was implemented in Cyclone-V FPGA device, and the hardware/software co-verification was carried out. The SHA-3 hash processor uses 1,672 slices of Virtex-5 FPGA and has an estimated maximum clock frequency of 289 Mhz, achieving a throughput of 5.04 Gbps.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.651-654
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• 2005

In this paper, we designed ECC(Elliptic Curve Cryptographic) Processor with Bus-splitting mothod for embedded SoC. ECC SIP is designed by VHDL RTL modeling, and implemented reusably through the procedure of logic synthesis, simulation and FPGA verification. To communicate with ARM9 core and SIP, we designed SIP bus functional model according to AMBA AHB specification. The design of ECC Processor for platform-based SoC is implemented using the design kit which is composed of many devices such as ARM9 RISC core, memory, UART, interrupt controller, FPGA and so on. We performed software design on the ARM9 core for SIP and peripherals control, memory address mapping and so on.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.735-738
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• 2005

This paper presents an AMBA-based IP that can perform the deblocking filtering operations required in the H.264 video compression. The deblocking filter circuit was optimized for area and performance. The AHB wrapper was added to the circuit to interface with the AMBA-based platform. The AMBA-compliant operation of the proposed IP was verified on the platform board with Xilinx Virtex2 XC2V600 FPGA and ARM9 processor.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11c
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• pp.123-125
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• 2004

The importance for Internet security has being increased and the Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) standard, which incorporates cryptographic algorithms, has been developed as one solution to this problem. IPSec provides security services in IP-Layer using IP Authentication Header (AH) and IP Encapsulation Security Payload (ESP). In this paper, we propose IPSec cryptographic processor design based AMBA architecture. Our design which is comprised Rijndael cryptographic algorithm and HAMC-SHA-1 authentication algorithm supports the cryptographic requirements of IP AH, IP ESP, and any combination of these two protocols. Also, our IPSec cryptographic processor operates as AMBA AHB Slave. We designed IPSec cryptographic processor using Xilinx ISE 5.2i and VHDL, and implemented our design using Xilinx's FPGA Vertex XCV600E.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.269-275
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• 2005

This article describes the development on a new style active hybrid bearing system including both merits of an aerostatic bearing system and a magnetic bearing system. The developed active hybrid bearing system has several advantages: exact rotation, robust controller against the variation of a disturbance, improvement of stiffness and a damper of the system at a high-speed operation, and constraints of the heat generated by a bias current. In order to measure a rotating error due to the change of a cutting force and the variation of a system parameter, a CCS (Cylindrical Capacity displacement Sensor) was used.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.25-33
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 임베디드 시스템 온칩 적용을 위한 통합 보안 프로세서를 SIP(Semiconductor Intellectual Property)로 설계하였다. 각각의 SIP는 VHDL RTL로 모델링하였으며, 논리합성, 시뮬레이션, FPGA 검증을 통해 재사용이 가능하도록 구현하였다. 또한 ARM9과 SIP들이 서로 통신이 가능하도록 AMBA AHB의 스펙에 따라 버스동작모델을 설계, 검증하였다. 플랫폼기반의 통합 보안 SIP는 ECC, AES, MD-5가 내부 코어를 이루고 있으며 각각의 SIP들은 ARM9과 100만 게이트 FPGA가 내장된 디바이스를 사용하여 검증하였으며 최종적으로 매그나칩 $0.25{\mu}m(4.7mm\times4.7mm)$ CMOS 공정을 사용하여 MPW(Multi-Project Wafer) 칩으로 제작하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1421-1423
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• 2007

제안하는 arbiter 구조는 AMBA AHB Protocol에서 사용하는 표준 arbiter 를 개선하여, master device들간의 버스 사용에 따른 bus conflict 를 감소시킨 구조이다. 제안하는 arbiter 구조는 인접한 주소를 참조하는 master device 들의 전송을 버스의 대역폭 내에서 한 번에 전송함으로써 버스 전송 횟수 및 데이터 전송량을 감소시킨다. 실험결과, 제안하는 arbiter 구조는 기존의 arbiter 구조에 비해 최대 89%의 전송량이 감소하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1733-1736
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 기존의 설계 방법의 문제점을 해결하기 위한 설계 방법인 플랫폼 기반 설계에서 사용할 수 있는 DSP 기반 플랫폼을 구현하였다. 구현된 DSP 기반 플랫폼을 AMBA AHB 버스를 바탕으로한 듀얼프로세서 플랫폼과 crossbar switch 구조의 버스 구조를 가지고 4개의 프로세서를 연결한 멀티프로세서 플랫폼으로 확장하여 검증함으로서 이질적인 환경에서 동작함을 나타내었다. 멀티프로세서 플랫폼에서는 DVB-T baseband 수신기를 HW/SW 분할 구현하고 성능 평가를 수행하였다. DSP 기반 플랫폼은 유연성, 확장성, 고속의 연산의 특징을 가진다.