• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.11C
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• pp.1102-1110
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• 2007

In this paper, we design the FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) of the CAMB (Constant-Amplitude Multi-code Biorthogonal) modulation, and implement the SoC (System on Chip). The ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) chip is be implemented through targeting and board test. This 12Mbps modem SoC includes the ARM (Advanced RISC Machine)7TDMI, 64Kbyte SRAM(Static Random Access Memory) and ADC (Analog to Digital Converter)/DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) for flexible applications. Additionally, the modem SoC can support the variable communication interfaces such as the 16-bits PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association), USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.1, and 16C550 Compatible UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter).

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.97-105
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• 2016

Microcontrollers (MCUs) for endpoint smart sensor devices of internet-of-thing (IoT) are being implemented as system-on-chip (SoC) with on-chip instruction flash memory, in which user firmware is embedded. MCUs directly fetch binary code-based instructions through bit-line sense amplifier (S/A) integrated with on-chip flash memory. The S/A compares bit cell current with reference current to identify which data are programmed. The S/A in reading '0' (erased) cell data consumes a large sink current, which is greater than off-current for '1' (programmed) cell data. The main motivation of our approach is to reduce the number of accesses of erased cells by binary code level transformation. This paper proposes a built-in write/read path architecture using binary code inversion method based on hot-spot region detection of instruction code access to reduce sensing current in S/A. From the profiling result of instruction access patterns, hot-spot region of an original compiled binary code is conditionally inverted with the proposed bit-inversion techniques. The de-inversion hardware only consumes small logic current instead of analog sink current in S/A and it is integrated with the conventional S/A to restore original binary instructions. The proposed techniques are applied to the fully-custom designed MCU with ARM Cortex-M0$^{TM}$ using 0.18um Magnachip Flash-embedded CMOS process and the benefits in terms of power consumption reduction are evaluated for Dhrystone$^{TM}$ benchmark. The profiling environment of instruction code executions is implemented by extending commercial ARM KEIL$^{TM}$ MDK (MCU Development Kit) with our custom-designed access analyzer.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.191-202
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• 2021

In an Internet of Things (IoT)-configured system, each device executes on-chip software. Recent IoT devices require fast execution time of complex services, such as analyzing a large amount of data, while maintaining low-power computation. As service complexity increases, the service requires high-performance computing and more space for embedded space. However, the low performance of IoT edge devices and their small memory size can hinder the complex and diverse operations of IoT services. In this paper, we propose a remote on-demand software code execution unit using the cloudification of on-chip code memory to accelerate the program execution of an IoT edge device with a low-performance processor. We propose a simulation approach to distribute remote code executed on the server side and on the edge side according to the program's computational and communicational needs. Our on-demand remote code execution unit simulation platform, which includes an instruction set simulator based on 16-bit ARM Thumb instruction set architecture, successfully emulates the architectural behavior of on-chip flash memory, enabling embedded devices to accelerate and execute software using remote execution code in the IoT environment.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2625-2627
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• 2004

Recently many technology of the T.T.P.(Train Tilting Processor) has been introduced for an efficient real-time operating system. but the problems of testing increasing complex digital integrated system continue to challenge the design and test community. Design main processor part that can be used on railroad synthesis control part by ARM CORE chip.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.117-123
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• 2012

This paper implements mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) receiver using Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology. SDR system is difficult to implement on the mobile handset because of restrictions that are computing power and under space constraints. The implemented receiver processes mobile WiMAX software modem on Open Multimedia Application Platform (OMAP) System on Chip (SoC) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). OMAP SoC is composed of ARM processor and Digital Signal Processor (DSP). ARM processor supports Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instruction which could operate on a vector of data with a single instruction and DSP is powerful image and video accelerators. For this reason, we suggest the possibility of SDR technology in the mobile handset. In order to verify the performance of the mobile WiMAX receiver, we measure the software modem runtime respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed receiver is able to do real-time signal processing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06d
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• pp.24-27
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• 2011

최근 스마트 폰 등 모바일 기기의 폭발적인 성장에 의해 내장 프로세서인 ARM 프로세서 기반 기기들이 활발히 개발되어 사용되고 있다. 이에 따라 상대적으로 저성능, 저 전력화에 치중하였던 내장 프로세서도 고성능화를 위한 고속 동작 및 멀티코어 프로세서를 개발하여 사용하게 되었으며, 메모리 동작 속도 역시 빠르게 발전하고 있다. 특히 모바일 기기 등에 사용 되는 저전력 메모리인 LPDDR2 소자 등의 개발에 따라 빠른 동작 속도를 가지도록 개발되고 있다. 그러나 시스템 온 칩(SoC, System on Chip) 형태로 제작되는 ARM 프로세서 기반의 SoC는 다양한 하드웨어 가속기 등을 함께 내장하고 있고, 저 전력화를 위한 버스 구조 등에 의하여 온 칩 버스의 속도 향상이 고성능 범용 시스템에 비하여 낮은 수준이다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 점을 고려하여, 프로세서 코어와 메모리 소자의 동작 속도 향상에 의하여 얻을 수 있는 성능 향상과, 상대적으로 낮은 버스 동작 속도에 의하여 저하되는 성능의 정도를 분석하고 이를 극복하기 위한 방안을 검토하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.880-882
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• 2005

소프트웨어 개발에 있어 가상 프로토타입의 활용은 하드웨어와의 병렬적인 개발 진행, 하드웨어 변경에 따른 신속한 대처, 확장된 디버깅과 벤치마킹 정보 등을 통해 개발 효율을 증대시킨다. 본 논문은 ARM을 기반하는 시스템의 소프트웨어 개발을 위한 가상 프로토타입 구현에 대해 다룬다. ARM사의 ADS1.2에서 제공하는 ARMulator의 Instruction Set Simulator를 기반하여 소프트웨어 개발자 관점의 추상화 수준으로 System-on-chip인 삼성 S3C2400의 축소된 형태를 가정하여 가상 프로토타입을 설계 및 구현하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.99-113
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• 2020

In the future, robots and drones for the convenience of our lives in everyday life will increase. As a method for controlling this, a remote control or a human voice method is most commonly used. However, the remote control needs to be operated by a person and can not ignore ambient noise in the case of voice. In this paper, we propose an economical attitude information acquisition method to accurately acquire the posture information of the arm in real time under the assumption that the surround drones or robots can be controlled wirelessly with the posture information of the arm. For this purpose, the extended Kalman filter was used to eliminate the noise of the arm position information. in order to detect the arm movement, a low cost MEMS type sensor was applied to secure the economical efficiency of the apparatus. To increase the wear ability of the arm, We developed a compact and lightweight attitude information acquisition system by integrating all functions into one chip as much as possible. As a result, the real-time performance of 1 ms was secured and the extended Kalman filter was applied to acquire the accurate attitude information of the arm with noise removed and display the attitude information of the arm in real time. This provides a basis for generating commands using real-time attitude information of the arm.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1308-1311
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• 2002

We present a low-power MPEG-4 video codec chip capable of delivering high-quality video data in wireless multimedia applications. The discussion will focus on the architectural design techniques for implementing a high-performance video compression/decompression chip at low power architectures. The proposed MPEG-4 video codec can perform 30 frames/s of QCIF or 7.5 frame/s of CIF at 27MHz for 128k∼144kbps. By introducing the efficiently optimized Frame Memory Interface architecture, low power motion estimation and embedded ARM microprocessor and AMBA interface, the proposed MPEG-4 video codec has low power consumption for wireless multimedia applications such as IMT-2000.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.859-862
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• 2003

This paper proposes an emulation environment for SoC designs using small number of large gate-count FPGA's and a PC system. To overcome the pin limitation problem in partitioning the design when the design size overwhelms the FPGA gate count, we use bus splitter modules that replicate on-chip bus signals in one FPGA to arbitrary number of other FPGA's with minimal pin count. The proposed scheme is applied to the emulation of 2 million gate multimedia processing chip using two Xilinx Viretex-2 6000 FPGA devices in 6.6MHz operating frequency. An ARM core, memories, camera and LCD display are modeled in software using dual 2GHz Pentium-III processors. This scheme can be utilized for more than 2 FPGA's in the same ways as two FPGA case without losing emulation speed.