• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.10
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• pp.186-194
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• 1996

The SliM (sliding memory plane) array processor has been proposed to alleviate disadvantages of existing mesh-connected SIMD(single instruction stream- multiple data streams) array processors, such as the inter-PE(processing element) communication overhead, the data I/O overhead and complicated interconnections. This paper presents the deisgn and implementation of SliM image processor ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) chip consisting of mesh connected 5 X 5 PE. The PE architecture implemented here is quite different from the originally proposed PE. We have performed the front-end design, such as VHDL (VHSIC hardware description language)modeling, logic synthesis and simulation, and have doen the back-end design procedure. The SliM ASIC chip used the VTI 0.8$\mu$m standard cell library (v8r4.4) has 55,255 gates and twenty-five 128 X 9 bit SRAM modules. The chip has the 326.71 X 313.24mil$^{2}$ die size and is packed using the 144 pin MQFP. The chip operates perfectly at 25 MHz and gives 625 MIPS. For performance evaluation, we developed parallel algorithms and the performance results showed improvement compared with existing image processors.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.180-188
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• 2015

As a potential alternative to the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, many researchers are focusing on carbon-nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) for future electronics. However, existing studies report the advantages of CNFETs over CMOS at the device level by using small-scale circuits, or over outdated CMOS technology. In this paper, we propose a methodology of analyzing CNFET-based circuits and study its impact at the full-chip scale. First, we design CNFET standard cells and use them to construct large-scale designs. Second, we perform parasitic extraction of CNFET devices and characterize their timing and power behaviors. Then, we perform a full-chip analysis and show the benefits of CNFET over CMOS in 45-nm and 20-nm designs. Our full-chip study shows that in the 45-nm design, CNFET circuits achieve a 5.91×/3.87× (delay/power) benefit over CMOS circuits at a density of 200 CNTs/µm. In the 20-nm design, CNFET achieves a 6.44×/3.01× (delay/power) benefit over CMOS at a density of 200 CNTs/µm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.3103-3120
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• 2015

This paper presents a single-phase energy metering chip with built-in calibration function to measure electric power quantities. The entire chip consists of an analog front end, a filter block, a computation engine, a calibration engine, and an external interface block. The key design issues are how to reduce the implementation costs of the computation engine from repeatedly used arithmetic operations and how to simplify calibration procedure and reduce calibration time. The proposed energy metering chip simplifies the computation engine using time-division multiplexed arithmetic units. It also provides a simple and fast calibration scheme by using integrated digital calibration functionality. The chip is fabricated with 0.18-μm six-layer metal CMOS process and housed in a 32-pin quad-flat no-leads (QFN) package. It operates at a clock speed of 4096 kHz and consumes 9.84 mW in 3.3 V supply.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.1240-1249
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• 2016

With the number of IP cores in a multicore system-on-chip increasing to up to tens or hundreds, the role of on-chip interconnection networks is vital. We propose a networks-on-chip-style bus network as a compromise and redefine the exploration problem to find the best IP tiling patterns and communication path combinations. Before solving the problem, we estimate the time complexity and validate the infeasibility of the solution. To reduce the time complexity, we propose two fast exploration algorithms and develop a program to implement these algorithms. The program is executed for several experiments, and the exploration time is reduced to approximately 1/22 and 7/1,200 at the first and second steps of the exploration process, respectively. However, as a trade-off for the time saving, the time cost (TC) of the searched architecture is increased to up to 4.7% and 11.2%, respectively, at each step compared with that of the architecture obtained through full-case exploration. The reduction ratio can be decreased to 1/4,000 by simultaneously applying both the algorithms even though the resulting TC is increased to up to 13.1% when compared with that obtained through full-case exploration.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.174-177
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• 2016

Wireless network-on-chip (WNoC) can alleviate critical path problem of existing typical NoCs by integrating radio-frequency module on router. In this paper, core-connection-aware genetic algorithm-based core and WIR mapping methodology at small world WNoC is presented. The methodology could optimize the critical path between cores with heavy communication. The 33% of average latency improvement is achieved compared to random mapping methodology.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.338-343
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• 2006

This paper describes about the design concept and the architecture of an economic VPN system which can perform fast crypto operations with cheap cost. The essence of the proposed system architecture is consisting of the system with two companion chips dedicated to VPN: one chip is a multi-purpose network processor for security machine and the other is a crypto acceleration chip which encrypt and decrypt network packets in a high speed. This study also addresses about some realizations that is required for fast prototyping such as the porting of an operating system, the establishment of compiler tool chain, the implementation of device drivers and the design of IPSec security engine. Especially, the second chip supports the most time consuming block cipher algorithms including 3DES, AES, and SEED and its performance was evaluated.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.228-230
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• 2002

We present a new low power scan testing and test data compression method for System-On-a-Chip (SOC). The don't cares in unspecified scan vectors are mapped to binary values for low power and encoded by adaptive encoding method for higher compression. Also, the scan-in direction of scan vectors is determined for low power. Experimental results for full-scanned versions of ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that the proposed method has both low power and higher compression.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.389-393
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• 2003

This paper presents circuit modeling and characterization of silicon-based on-chip integrated inductors in Giga Hertz range for wireless communication products. We compare several different designs of on-chip inductors for self-resonant frequency and quality factor. The measurement data could be used as a design guide for manufacturing practical spiral inductors for wireless applications. We provide the equivalent inductor circuit parameters from the actual measurement data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.326-326
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06b
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• pp.221-225
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• 2000

We designed asynchronous event logic library with 0.25$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS technology and interface chip for heterogeneous system with high-speed asynchronous FIFO operating at 1.6㎓. Optimized asynchronous standard cell layouts and Verilog models are designed for top-down design methodology. A method for mitigating a design bottleneck when it comes to tolerate clock skew is described. This communication scheme using clock control circuits, which is used for the free of synchronization failures, is analyzed and implemented. With clock control circuit and FIFO, high-speed communication between synchronous modules operating at different clock frequencies or with asynchronous modules is performed. The core size of implemented high-speed 32bit-interface chip for heterogeneous system is about 1.1mm ${\times}$ 1.1mm.