• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06b
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• pp.161-164
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• 2000

The architecture of microprocessor for a embedded system should be one that can perform more tasks with fewer instruction codes. The machine codes that high-level language compiler produces are mainly composed of specific ones, and codes that have small size are more frequently used. Extended Instruction Set Architecture (EISC) was proposed for that reason. We have designed pipe-line system for 64 bit EISC microprocessor. function level simulator was made for verification of design and instruction set architecture was also verified by that simulator. The behavioral function of synthesized logic was verified by comparison with the results of cycle-based simulator.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.71-81
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• 2015

In the EISC processor, the Instruction Queue (IQ) supporting LERI folding and loop buffering occupies roughly 20% of real estate, and its efficient utilization is a key for performance. This paper presents an architectural enhancement for the IQ utilization with return address stack (RAS) in the EISC processor. The proposed architecture eliminates the RAS corruption from the wrong-path, taking advantage of shallow pipeline. In experiments, a 4-entry RAS reduces the number of IQ flushes by up to 58.90% over baseline, and an 8-entry RAS by up to 61.28%. The experiments show up to 3.47% performance improvement with 8-entry RAS and up to 3.15% performance improvement with 4-entry RAS.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.35-38
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• 2004

In this paper, we aim to implement the embedded VoIP Phone based on EISC core Microcontroller. EISC is recently new microprocessor architecture, which contains both advantage of RISC and CISC. This advantages are desirably resulted in high code density, high performance and 16/32/64bit scalable instruction length. Also, we select the embedded system which can be guaranteed performance and economical efficiency for implementation that system. As the step of this research, we first study basic system for implementation of target system. Next, we construct the structure of embedded VoIP Phone based on 32bit EISC MCU efficiently. And then we realize that constructed system and verify the performance of that realized system by the test of voice communication in field.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.3
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• pp.153-158
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• 2010

Most of software developers use the GNU Debugger (GDB) in order to debug code execution. The GDB supports a remote debugging environment through serial communication. However, in embedded systems, the speed is limited in the serial communication. Due to this reason, the serial communication is rarely used for the debugging purpose. To solve this problem, many embedded systems adapt the JTAG and the USB interface. This paper proposes debugging environment via USB-JTAG interface to debug the EISC processor, and introduces how the USB interface works on the GDB and how the JTAG module handles debugging packets.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.7
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• pp.1332-1339
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• 2001

SoC(System on Chip) technology is widely used in the field of embedded systems by providing high flexibility for a specific application domain. An important aspect of development any new embedded system is verification which usually requires lengthy software and hardware co-design. To reduce development cost of design effort, the instruction set of microprocessor must be suitable for a high level language compiler. And FPGA prototype system could be derived and tested for design verification. In this paper, we propose a 16 bit FPGA microprocessor, which is tentatively-named EISC16, based on an EISC(Extendable Instruction Set Computer) architecture for embedded applications. The proposed EISC16 has a 16 bit fixed length instruction set which has the short length offset and small immediate operand. A 16 bit offset and immediate operand could be extended using by an extension register and an extension flag. We developed a cross C/C++ compiler and development software of the EISC16 by porting GNU on an IBM-PC and SUN workstation and compared the object code size created after compiling a C/C. standard library, concluding that EISC16 exhibits a higher code density than existing 16 microprocessors. The proposed EISC16 requires approximately 6,000 gates when designed and synthesized with RTL level VHDL at Xilinix's Virtex XCV300 FPGA. And we design a test board which consists of EISC16 ROM, RAM, LED/LCD panel, periodic timer, input key pad and RS-232C controller. 11 works normally at 7MHz Clock.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.5
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• pp.11-20
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• 1999

The data transfer width between the mocroprocessor and the memory comes to a critical part that limits system performance since the data transfer width has been as it was while the performance of a microprocessor is getting higher due to its continuous development in speed. And it is important that the memory should be in small size for the reduction of embedded microprocessor's price which is integrated on a single chip with the memory and IO circuit. In this paper, a mocroprocessor tentatively named as Extendable Instruction Set Computer(EISC) is proposed as the high code density 32 bit mocroprocessor architecture. The 32 bit EISC has 16 general purpose registers and 16 bit fixed length instruction which has the short length offset and small immediate operand. By using and extend register and extend flag, the offset and immediate operand could be extended. The proposed 32 bit EISC is implemented with an FPGA and all of its functions have been tested and verified at 1.8432MHz. And the cross assembler, the cross C/C++ compiler and the instruction simulator of the 32 bit EISC shows 140-220% and 120-140% higher code density than RISC and CISC respectively, which is much higher than any other traditional architectures. As a consequence, the EISC is suitable for the next generation computer architecture since it requires less data transfer width compared to any other ones. And its lower memory requirement will embedded microprocessor more useful.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.255-258
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• 2003

To design the Bluetooth core efficiently, I analyzed the entire architecture and basic functions in the baseband and attempted to implement a Bluetooth one-chip solution on the basis of the Bluetooth SIG specification 1.1. We implemented important blocks into the hardware and firmware and found increased efficiency implementation when compared with the results of the implementation that using the criterion of size, Performance, stability, etc. And then to connect the baseband to the SE3208 core of the EISC type, we defined the baseband register and discovered a suitable method by comparing two results with the two connection ways.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06b
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• pp.129-132
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• 2002

AE64000 is the 64-bit high-performance microprocessor that ADC Co. Ltd. is developing for an embedded environment. It has a 5-stage pipeline and uses Havard architecture with a separated instruction and data caches. It also provides SIMD-like DSP and FP operation by enabling the 8/16/32/64-bit MAC operation on 64-bit registers. AE64000 processor implements the EISC ISA and uses the instruction folding mechanism (Instruction Folding Unit) that effectively deals with LERI instruction in EISC ISA. But this unit makes branch prediction behavior difficult. In this paper, we designs a branch predictor optimized for AE64000 Pipeline and develops a AES4000 simulator that has cycle-level precision to validate the performance of the designed branch predictor. We makes TAC(Target address cache) and BPT(branch prediction table) seperated for effective branch prediction and uses the BPT(removed indexed) that has no address tags.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.96-102
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• 2014

The embedded processor market has grown rapidly and consistently with the appearance of mobile devices. In an embedded system, the power consumption and execution time are important factors affecting the performance. The system performance is determined by both hardware and software. Although the hardware architecture is high-end, the software runs slowly due to the low quality of codes. This study compared the performance of two major compilers, LLVM and GCC on a32-bit EISC embedded processor. The dynamic instructions and static code sizes were evaluated from these compilers with the EEMBC benchmarks.LLVM generally performed better in the ALU intensive benchmarks, whereas GCC produced a better register allocation and jump optimization. The dynamic instruction count and static code of GCCwere on average 8% and 7% lower than those of LLVM, respectively.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.480-490
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• 2013

As technology evolves into the deep submicron level, synchronous circuit designs based on a single global clock have incurred problems in such areas as timing closure and power consumption. An asynchronous circuit design methodology is one of the strong candidates to solve such problems. To verify the feasibility and efficiency of a large-scale asynchronous circuit, we design a fully clockless 32-bit processor. We model the processor using an asynchronous HDL and synthesize it using a tool specialized for asynchronous circuits with a top-down design approach. In this paper, two microarchitectures, basic and enhanced, are explored. The results from a pre-layout simulation utilizing 0.13-${\mu}m$ CMOS technology show that the performance and power consumption of the enhanced microarchitecture are respectively improved by 109% and 30% with respect to the basic architecture. Furthermore, the measured power efficiency is about 238 ${\mu}W$/MHz and is comparable to that of a synchronous counterpart.