• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.24-31
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• 2007

Up to date, a lot of bus protocol and bus architecture are released though most of them are based on the shared bus architecture and inherit the limitation of performance. SNP (SoC Network Protocol), and hence, SNA (SoC Network Architecture) which are high performance on-chip-bus protocol and architecture, respectively, have been proposed to solve the problems of the conventional shared bus. We refine the SNA specification and improve the performance and functionality. The performance of the SNA is improved by supporting simultaneous routing for bus request of multiple masters. The internal routing logic is also improved so that the gate count is decreased. The proposed SNA employs XSNP (extended SNP) that supports almost perfect compatibility with AMBA AHB protocol without performance degradation. The hardware complexity of the improved SNA is not increased much by optimizing the current routing logic. The improved SNA works for IPs with the original SNP at its best performance. In addition, it can also replace the AMBA AHB or interconnect matrix of a system, and it guarantees simultaneous multiple channels. That is, the existing AMBA system can show much improved performance by replacing the AHB or the interconnect matrix with the SNA. Thanks to the small number of interconnection wires, the SNA can be used for the off-chip bus system, too. We verify the performance and function of the proposed SNA and XSNP simulation and emulation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.288-299
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• 1993

This paper proposes the new bus protocol in the tightly coupled multiprocessor system. The bus protocol uses the pipelined data transfer and block transfer scheme to increase the bus bandwidth, The bus also has the independent transfer lines for the address and data respectively, and it can transfer the data up to maximum 264 Mbytes /sec. This paper also models the multiprocessor system where each processor boards have the private cache. Simulation evaluates the bus and system performance according to hit ratio of the reference data in cache memory, In the case of using this bus, the bus is evaluated not to be saturated when up to 10 processor boards are connected to the bus. As for up to 4 memory interleavng, the performance increases linearly.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.1282-1295
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• 1994

In this paper, a hierarchical cluster multiprocessor system based on a hierarchical bus system is proposed and its cache coherency protocol is designed and implemented. The hierarchical cluster architecture aims at elimination the system bottleneck of the existing single bus system by adding a hierarchy of buses as the number of clusters is increased. Therefore the system is easy to scale up to a large number of processors. The proposed cache protocol is designed to be adapted to the general N-level (N>2) hierarchical cluster architecture. The original pended protocol is extended to implement the cache protocol on the system bus and cache coherency operations for this protocol are explained.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1990.10a
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• pp.741-744
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• 1990

This paper deals with the implementation of the IEEE 802.4 token passing bus protocol which is the world standard for LAN protocol. We are design station adaptor using MC68824 for data link layer, MC68194 for physical layer, and implemented by IEEE 802.4 and 802.2 type 3. We made three station adaptor and its performance is experimented.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.22-31
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• 1989

In this paper, we analyze the performance of the IEEE 802.4 token passing bus protocol through a simulation model of the protocol. In order to analyze performance of the protocol in the initialization, transition and fault recovery states as well as in the steady state, the protocol functions are divided into five processes each of which can effectively simulate protocol behaviors according to the variations of protocol parameters. From the simulation study, we obtain protocol parameters which severely influence the protocol performance and find out that proper selection of the protocol parameter values for token passing is very important to obtain good performance of the protocol when the priority scheme is used.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.68-75
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• 2016

As the number of cores and IPs increase in multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC), network-on-chip (NoC) has emerged as a promising novel interconnection architecture for its parallelism and scalability. However, minimization of the latency in NoC with legacy bus IPs must be addressed. In this paper, we focus on the latency minimization problem in NoC which accommodates legacy bus protocol based IPs considering the trade-offs between hop counts and path collisions. To resolve this problem, we propose separated address/data network for independent address and data phases of bus protocol. Compared to Mesh and irregular topologies generated by TopGen, experimental results show that average latency and execution time are reduced by 19.46% and 10.55%, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.1815-1827
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• 1993

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a Futurebus based multiprocessor system with MESI cache coherence protocol for four bus transaction types. Graphical symbols and compiler of SLAM II are used in modeling and simulation. A steady-state probability of each state for MESI protocol is computed by a Markov chain. The probability of each state is used as an input value for a correct simulation. Processor utilization, memory utilization, bus utilization, and the waiting time for bus arbitration are measured in terms of the number of processors, the hit ratio of cache memory, the probability of internal operation, and bus bandwidth.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.177-178
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• 2005

Wireless 1394 over IEEE802.15.3 must allow a data reserved for delivery over a wired 1394 network to be delivered over an IEEE802.15.3 wireless network through bridging IEEE 1394 to IEEE802.15.3. Isochronous transfers on the 1394 bus guarantee timely delivery of data. Specifically, isochronous transfers are scheduled by the bus so that they occur once every $125\;{\mu}s$ and require clock time synchronization to complete the real-time data transfer. IEEE1394.1 and Protocol Adaptation Layer for IEEE1394 over IEEE802.15.3 specify clock time synchronization for a wired 1394 bus network to a wired 1394 bus network and wireless 1394 nodes, which are IEEE802.15.3 nodes handling 1394 applications, over IEEE802.15.3. Thus, the clock time synchronizations are just defined within a homogeneous network environment like IEEE1394 or IEEE802.15.3 until now. This paper proposes new clock time synchronization method for wireless 1394 heterogeneous networks between 1394 and 802.15.3. If new method is adopted for various wireless 1394 products, consumer electronics devices such as DTV and Set-top Box or PC devices on a 1394 bus network can transmit real time data to the AV devices on the other 1394 bus in a different place via IEEE 802.15.3.

• 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.33 no.8
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• pp.554-561
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• 2006

In recent years, as SoC design research is actively conducted, a large number of IPs are included in a system. Various bus protocols and bus architectures are designed to increase IP reusability. Among them, the AMBA AHB became a de facto standard although it is somewhat inadequate for a large scale SoC. We proposed SNP and SNA, high performance on-chip-bus protocol and architecture, respectively, to solve the problem of the conventional shared buses. However, it seems to be imperative that the new on-chip-bus system support AMBA-compatible IPs for a while since there are a lot of IPs with AMBA interface. In this paper, we propose an extended SNP specification and a corresponding SNA component to support ABMA-compatible IPs used in SNA - based system. We extend the phase of the SNP by 1 bit to add new 8 phases to support communication based on AMBA protocol without penalty of elongated cycle latency. The ARB-to -XSNP converter translates the protocol between AHB and SNP to attach AMBA -compatible IPs to SNA based system. We show that AMBA IPs can communicate through SNP without any degradation of performance using the extended SNP and AHB - to- XSNP converter.