• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.869-872
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• 2005

In this paper we present a switch wrapper for an AMBA AXI, which is an efficient on-chip-network interface compared to bus-based interfaces in a multiprocessor SoC. The AXI uses an idea of NoC to provide the increasing demands on communication bandwidth within a single chip. A switch wrapper for AXI is located between a interconnection network and two IPs connecting them together. It carries out a mode of routing to interconnection network and executes protocol conversions to provide compatibility in IP reuse. A switch wrapper consists of a direct router, AHB-AXI converters, interface modules and a controller modules. We propose the design of a all-in-one type switch wrapper.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.959-961
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• 2003

In this paper, we describe implemented DMAC (Direct Memory Access Controller) architecture on Altera's $Excalibur^{TM}$ that includes industry-standard $ARM922T^{TM}$ 32-bit RISC processor core operating at 200 MHz. We implemented DMAC based on AMBA (Advanced Micro-controller Bus Architecture) AHB (Advanced Micro-performance Bus) interface. Implemented DMAC has 8-channel and can extend supportable channel count according to user application. We used round-robin method for priority selection. Implemented DMAC supports data transfer between Memory-to-Memory, Memory-to-Peripheral and Peripheral-to-Memory. The max transfer count is 1024 per a time and it can support byte, half-word and word transfer according to AHB protocol (HSIZE signals). We implemented with VHDL and functional verification using $ModelSim^{TM}$. Then, we synthesized using $LeonardoSpectrum^{TM}$ with Altera $Excalibur^{TM}$ library. We did FPGA P&R and targeting using $Quartus^{TM}$. We can use implemented DMAC module at any system that needs high speed and broad bandwidth data transfers.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.2B
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

TCP/IP protocols have been implemented in software program running on CPU in end systems. As the increased demand of fast protocol processing, it is required to implement the protocols in hardware, and Host Interface is responsible for communication between external CPU and the hardware blocks of TCP/IP implementation. The Host Interface follows AMBA AHB specification for the communication with external world. For control flow, the Host Interface behaves as a slave of AMBA AHB. Using internal Command/status Registers, the Host Interface receives commands from CPU and transfers hardware status and header information to CPU. On the other hand, the Host Interface behaves as a master for data flow. Data flow has two directions, Receive Flow and Transmit Flow. In Receive Flow, using internal RxFIFO, the Host Interface reads data from UDP FIFO or TCP buffer and transfers data to external RAM for CPU to read. For Transmit Flow, the Host Interface reads data from external RAM and transfers data to UDP buffer or TCP buffer through internal TxFIFO. TCP/IP hardware blocks generate packets using the data and transmit. Buffer Descriptor is one of the Command/Status Registers, and the information stored in Buffer Descriptor is used for external RAM access. Several testcases are designed to verify TCP/IP functions. The Host Interface is synthesized using the 0.18 micron technology, and it results in 173 K gates including the Command/status Registers and internal FIFOs.

• 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 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.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.2A
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• pp.137-146
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• 2005

IP-based design methodology has been popularly employed for SoC design to reduce design complexity and to cope with time-to-market pressure. Interface modules for communication between system buses and IPs are required, since many IPs employ different protocols. Automatic generation of these interface modules would enhance designer's productivity and IP's reusability. This paper proposes an automatic interface generation system based on FSM generated from the protocol description of IPs. The proposed system provides the library modules for the standard buses to reduce the burdens of describing the protocols for data transfer from/to standard buses. Experimental results show that the area of the interface circuits generated by the proposed system had been increased slightly by 4.5% on the average when compared to manual designs. In the experiment, where bus clock is 100 Mhz and slave module clock is 34 Mhz, the latency of the interface had been increased by 7.1% in burst mode to transfer 16 data words. However, occupation of system bus can be reduce by 64.9%. A chip designer can generate an interface that improves the efficiency of system bus, by using this system.