• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.351-356
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• 2010

A new current-balancing multi-channel LED driver is proposed in this paper. The conventional LED driver system consists of three cascaded power conversion stages and its driver stage has the same number of expensive boost converters as those of the LED channels. On the other hand, the proposed LED driver system consists of two cascaded power stages and its driver stage requires only passive devices instead of expensive boost converters. Nevertheless, all of the currents through multi-channel LEDs can be well balanced. Therefore, it features a smaller system size, improved efficiency, and lower cost. To confirm the validity of the proposed driver, its operation and performance are verified on a prototype for a 46" LCD TV.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2008년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.446-448
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• 2008

A new plasma display panel sustaining driver using single side sustaining technique with the dual resonant method is proposed. Since this circuit enables to reduce switches in energy recovery circuit with keeping voltage stress like that of prior circuit, it can be low cost circuit comparing with a conventional driver. To integrate sustain function into one side with single power source in the driver, a charge pump method is adopted to make negative sustaining voltage and achieve dual resonant energy recovery on sustaining modes.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.29 No.2 (2)
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• pp.10-12
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 신뢰성 있는 소프트웨어 개발을 위한 위험분석 방법을 모색한다. 기존의 프로세스 능력 결정(PCD: Process Capability Determination)결과의 차이를 이용한 전체 위험결정 방법의 취약점을 보안하기 위해 MBASE(COCOMOII)I에서 제시하는 위험분석 방법을 이용한다. 이 과정에서 필수적으로 수행되어야 할 과제는 레벨의 MP(Management Practice)단위 속성과 cost driver를 매핑함으로써 개별 위험항목(risk item)을 얻는 것이다. SPICE 레벨4 단계를 예로 cost driver를 추출하고 rating 결과를 입력하여 위험요소의 우선순위를 결정하며, 결정된 위험 우선순위에 따라 위험을 제거할 경우 전체 위험이 급격히 감소되어 RE(Risk Exposure) 그래프의 하강 곡선을 따름을 증명하였다. 이러한 산정결과를 통해 레벨에 영향을 미치는 위험 속성 및 위험 제거시 전체위험의 감소율을 예상할 수 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.377-377
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• 2000

Current software cost estimation models, such as the 1951 COCOMO, its 1987 Ada COCOMO update, is composed of nonlinear models, such as product attributes, computer attributes, personnel attributes, project attributes, effort-multiplier cost drivers, and have been experiencing increasing difficulties in estimating the costs of software developed to new lift cycle processes and capabilities. The COCOMO II is developed fur new forms against the current software cost estimation models. This paper provides a case-based analysis result of the cost driver in the software cost models, such as COCOMO and COCOMO 2.0 by fuzzy and neural network.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2018

Korea is facing a surge in the aging population, showing that population aged 65 and above will be accounted for 42.5% of the total population in 2065 with the emphasis on the over-80 population consisting of 19.2%. In response to this abrupt change in population structure, the number of traffic fatality accident referring to older driver as aged 65+ years had been increasing from 605 fatalities in 2011 to 815 fatalities in 2015 resulting in increases in 34.7% in oppose to happening to decreases in 17.2% about non-older driver. With Logit analysis based on Newton-Raphson algorithm utilizing older driver's traffic fatality data for the 2011-2015 years, it was found that the likelihood of an accident resulting in a fatality for super older driver aged 80 years and above considerably increased compared to other older driver with aging classification: 2.24 times for violation of traffic lane, 2.04 times for violation of U-turn, 1.48 times for violation of safety distance, 1.35 times for violation of obstacle of passing; also average annual increase of traffic accident cost related to super older driver was fairly increased rather than other older driver groups. Hence, this study proposes that improving and amending transport safety system and Road Traffic Act for super older driver needs to be urgently in action about license management, safe driving education, etc. when considering the increase of over-80 population in the near future. Also, implementing a social agreement with all ages and social groups to apply with advanced driver assistance system for older driver groups will be able to become a critical factor to enhance safe driving over the face of the country.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.1635-1641
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 NAND FLASH Memory를 HDD 의 Cache 로 사용하기 위해 I/O 용 Filter Driver의 구현을 제시 했으며, 이를 통해 HDD 저장장치의 느린 I/O 성능을 개선하기 위한 방법에 대해 연구했다. 반도체 부품으로서 빠른 I/O 성능을 보이는 NAND FLASH Memory이지만, 비싼 가격 때문에 HDD를 통째로 대체할 수 없음에서 본 개선 방법을 제안했다. 본 연구는 SSD의 빠른 I/O성능과 Filter Driver 의 Cache 관리 성능을 통해서 적은 비용으로 HDD의 높은 Performance를 이루어 냄을 목적으로 한다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.564-571
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• 2014

A single-stage current-balancing multi-channel light-emitting diode (LED) driver is proposed in this study. The conventional LED driver system consists of two cascaded power conversion stages, i.e., an isolation DC/DC converter and LED driver. LED driver is usually implemented with the same number of expensive boost converters as those of LED channels to tightly control the current through each LED channel. Therefore, its overall system size is not only bulky, but the cost is rather high. By contrast, the proposed LED driver system is composed of a single power stage with the DC/DC converter and LED driver merged. Although the current balancing circuit of the proposed LED driver requires only passive devices instead of expensive boost converters, all currents through multi-channel LEDs can be well balanced. Therefore, the proposed LED driver features a small system size, improved efficiency, and low cost. To confirm the validity of the proposed driver, its operation and performance are verified on a prototype for a 46" LED TV.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.184-193
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• 2015

This paper proposes a cost-efficient and automatic method for large data acquisition from a test chip without expensive equipment to characterize random process variation in an integrated circuit. Our method requires only a test chip, a personal computer, a cheap digital-to-analog converter, a controller and multimeters, and thus large volume measurement can be performed on an office desk at low cost. To demonstrate the proposed method, we designed a test chip with a current model logic driver and an array of 128 current mirrors that mimic the random process variation of the driver's tail current mirror. Using our method, we characterized the random process variation of the driver's voltage due to the random process variation on the driver's tail current mirror from large volume measurement data. The statistical characteristics of the driver's output voltage calculated from the measured data are compared with Monte Carlo simulation. The difference between the measured and the simulated averages and standard deviations are less than 20% showing that we can easily characterize the random process variation at low cost by using our cost-efficient automatic large data acquisition method.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2016

천연가스는 장거리 수송을 위해서는 액화가 필수적으로 이루어진다. 액화공정 내 압축기에서 특히 많은 동력이 요구되며, 동력을 공급하기 위해서는 동력기가 필요하다. 여러 가지 동력기 중 어떠한 동력기를 선택하느냐에 따라 동력 공급에 필요한 비용이 변하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 최소의 비용으로 천연가스 액화공정에 동력을 공급하는 최적의 동력기 선택을 위해 최적화를 수행하였다. 또한 가스전의 용량을 고려하여 일정한 가스전에서 천연가스가 추출부터 소멸될 때까지의 전체기간 동안에 추출되는 속도가 변경되는 시나리오를 구성하였다. 공정모사를 통해 동력기 장치의 비용과 운전비용 간의 상관관계를 예측하였으며, 장치의 수명 등을 고려하여 모델링하였다. 그 결과 최대 6.4%의 비용을 감소하는 최적의 동력기 모델을 설계하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.205-213
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• 2006

A cost-effective magnetic-coupled AC-PDP sustain driver with low switching loss is proposed. The transformer reduces current stress in the energy recovery switches which affects circuit cost and reliability. The turns-ratio can be used to adjust the sustain pulse slopes which affect gas discharge uniformity. Dividing the recovery paths prevents abrupt changes in the output capacitance and thereby switching losses of the recovery switches is reduced. In addition, the proposed circuit has a more simple structure because it does not use the recovery path diodes which also afford a large recovery current. By reducing the current stress and device count in the energy recovery circuit, the proposed driver may have decreased circuit cost and improved circuit reliability.