• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.227-232
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• 1988

A semicustom VLSI design fo digital filters used in TDM/FDM transmultiplexer is described. A filter bank composed of only all-pass digital filter sections are implemented with the polyphase network. The use of all-pass filters as basic building blocks is shown to provide a trans-multiplexer structure that has low computational requirements, low quantization noise, and high modularity. The silicon compiler system is used to reduce the design time and to increase the credibility of designed filters. As a prototype, 1st and 2nd order all pass filter are designed, using CMOS N-well double metal technology. The chip sizes of first order filter and the second order filter are 2652 x 533\ulcorner\ulcorner 5334x4300\ulcorner\ulcorner respectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.669-670
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• 2006

This paper describes the functions and design technology of the T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) receiver. T-DMB is a novel broadcasting media that can provide high-quality video and audio services. In this paper, we will describe the VLSI implementation of RF, Baseband and Multimedia Chip for T-DMB Receiver. The designed DMB SoC has low power consumption and has been implemented using a standard-cell library in 0.18um CMOS technology.

• IE interfaces
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.87-93
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• 2007

Burn-in is an engineering method for screening out products containing reliability defects which would cause early failures in field operation. Previously, various burn-in models have been proposed mainly focused on the trade-off of shop repair cost and warranty cost ignoring manufacturing yield. From the view point of a manufacturer, however, burn-in decreases warranty cost at the expense of yield reduction. In this paper, we provide a general model quantifying a trade-off between product yield and reliability, in which any defect distribution from previous yield models can be used. A profit function is expressed in burn-in environments for determining an optimal burn-in time. Finally, the method is illustrated with gate oxide failures which is an important reliability concerns for VLSI CMOS circuits.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.129-130
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 다중 입력의 크기를 비교하기 위한 알고리즘 및 VLSI 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 여러 입력을 동시에 비교한 후에 간단한 디지털 논리 함수를 이용하여 그 입력들 중에서 가장 큰 값(혹은 가장 작은 값)을 검출하는 방법을 제공할 수 있다. 이 방식의 단점은 하드웨어 자원이 증가하는 것인데, 이를 위해 중복된 논리 연산을 재사용하는 방법도 제안한다. 제안하고자 하는 방식은 회로 속도의 증가, 즉 지연시간의 감소에 초점을 맞추었다. 제안한 비교 알고리즘은 HDL로 설계한 후에 Magna Chip의 $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 라이브러리를 이용하여 구현하였다. 제안한 비교방법은 전통적인 방식에 비해서 4 및 8 입력인 경우에 약 0.5 및 1.1배 만큼 하드웨어 자원을 더 소비하면서, 약 1.5 및 1.8배 만큼 동작 주파수를 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.28B no.9
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• pp.712-718
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• 1991

In this paper, we propose a graphic system for high speed generation of bitmap font data from the outline font data such as PostScript, etc. In desk-top publishing system. A VLSI chip called KAFOG was designed for the high-speed calculation of a cubic Bezier curve, which was implemented in 1.5\ulcorner CMOS gate array using 17,000 gates. A cubic Bezier curve is approximated by a set of line segments in KAFOG at the throughput of 250K curves per second with the clock frequency of 40 MHz. A prototype graphic system was developed using two MC6800 microprocessors and the KAFOG chip. Two microprocessors cooperate in a master and slave mode, and handshaking is used for communication between two processors. KAFOG chip, being controlled by the slave processor, operates as a coprocessor for the calculation of the outline font. The throughput of the prototype graphic system is 40 64$\times$64 outline fonts per sencond.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.811-814
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• 2000

It this paper a VLSI architecture of the Shape-Adaptive Discrete Cosine Transform (SA-DCT) is described, which can be employed dedicatedly for MPEG-4 video codec. Adopting a fast DCT algorithm, the number of multipliers can be reduced by half in comparison with a conventional algorithm. This SA-DCT core with a small additional amount of hardware can perform the SA-Inverse DCT (SA-IDCT) by sharing multipliers and a transportation memory. The proposed SA-DCT core is integrated with 40,000 gates by using 0.35$mu$m triple-metal CMOS technology, which operates at 20 Mhz, and hence enables the realtime codec of CIF ($352{\times}288$ pixels) pictures.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.99-104
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• 2004

This paper proposes a new error pattern ROM (EP-ROM) compression method for continuousdata. The EP-ROM reduces the ROM size by dividing the continuous data into coarse values and their errors and by storing the indices of error patterns instead of the non. This method significantly reduces the ROM size by exploiting the characteristic that the errors for continuous data possess the same patterns. The experiment results show that the EP-ROM achieves 60∼77% ROM size reductions for various continuous data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.278-281
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• 1999

In this paper, Squential circuit was implemented by decision diagram that can analyze and test large amount of functions easily. First of all, Memery device of multiple valued squential circuit was used D F/F, implemented with CMOS current mode. The opreation property of this circuit involved by PSPICE simulation. The result of Decision Diagram sequential circuit is simple and regular for selecting wire routing and posesses the property of analyze, testing. so it suitable for VLSI implementation.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.491-503
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• 2022

Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are continuously scaling down in the nanoscale region to improve the functionality of integrated circuits. The scaling down of MOSFET devices causes short-channel effects in the nanoscale region. In nanoscale region, leakage current components are increasing, resulting in substantial power dissipation. Very large-scale integration designers are constantly exploring different effective methods of mitigating the power dissipation. In this study, a transistor-level input-controlled stacking (ICS) approach is proposed for minimizing significant power dissipation. A low-power ICS approach is extensively discussed to verify its importance in low-power applications. Circuit reliability is monitored for process and voltage and temperature variations. The ICS approach is designed and simulated using Cadence's tools and compared with existing low-power and high-speed techniques at a 22-nm technology node. The ICS approach decreases power dissipation by 84.95% at a cost of 5.89 times increase in propagation delay, and improves energy dissipation reliability by 82.54% compared with conventional circuit for a ring oscillator comprising 5-inverters.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.63-73
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• 1995

The conventional acoustic sounds can be synthesized by Frequency Modulation which includes the variation of frequency, amplitude, and modulation index. In this paper the number of variable synthesis parameters are limited to easily implement the existing two carrier FM algorithm by hardware. The DSP(Digital Signal Processor), which is able to carry out the modified algorithm and synthesize 16 sounds at a time, is designed with $0.8{\mu}m$ standard sells. The DSP which can synthesize 2 sounds at a time is implemented by ASIC emulator to examine the sound quality of the designed DSP. Through the objective and subjective estimation, it is confirmed that the sounds of many instruments from the implemented DSP are very closed to their real sound. Finally the designed DSP is layouted and simulated by VLSI desgn tool. According to the simulation, the designed DSP has the sufficiently fast speed for synthesizing 16 sounds at a time.