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Recent Trends in Implementing Cryptography with Embedded Microprocessors (임베디드 마이크로 프로세서 상에서의 최신 암호 구현 동향)

  • Seo, Hwa-Jeong;Kim, Howon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.815-824
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    • 2013
  • Traditionally embedded microprocessors is considered as a device for low- and simple-computations because of its limited computing power and constrained resources. However high-end embedded devices have been developed and many applications are getting feasible in the embedded devices. To provide secure and robust service environments, security on embedded devices are in order. Recently many research results on embedded devices have been proposed. In this paper, we explore various cryptography implementation results on representative 8-, 16- and 32-bit embedded processors including AVR, MSP and ARM. This report would be helpful for following researchers who are interested in cryptography implementation techniques on resource constrained devices.

Study of Modular Multiplication Methods for Embedded Processors

  • Seo, Hwajeong;Kim, Howon
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.145-153
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    • 2014
  • The improvements of embedded processors make future technologies including wireless sensor network and internet of things feasible. These applications firstly gather information from target field through wireless network. However, this networking process is highly vulnerable to malicious attacks including eavesdropping and forgery. In order to ensure secure and robust networking, information should be kept in secret with cryptography. Well known approach is public key cryptography and this algorithm consists of finite field arithmetic. There are many works considering high speed finite field arithmetic. One of the famous approach is Montgomery multiplication. In this study, we investigated Montgomery multiplication for public key cryptography on embedded microprocessors. This paper includes helpful information on Montgomery multiplication implementation methods and techniques for various target devices including 8-bit and 16-bit microprocessors. Further, we expect that the results reported in this paper will become part of a reference book for advanced Montgomery multiplication methods for future researchers.

Embedded Operating Systems;Windows CE, Embedded Linux, pSOS, uC/OS

  • Park, Kwang-Hyun;Jeon, Jae-Wook
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.1976-1981
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    • 2003
  • Except a desktop computer and workstation, an embedded system is a system containing microprocessors. While a desktop computer and a workstation are designed for a general purpose, an embedded system is designed for a dedicated purpose. Thus, an embedded system must meet some constraints such as low power consumption, low cost, small size, real-time, or user-defined ones. A simple and low cost embedded system may be able to be designed without using embedded operating systems (OS). However, considered design time and effort, some embedded system had better be designed with using embedded OS. Under given constraints and purpose of some embedded systems, one embedded OS can save more time, cost, and effort in designing those embedded systems than others. This paper compares four embedded OSs, Windows CE, Embedded Linux, pSOS, and uC/OS. It analyzes several issues of embedded OS such as process scheduling, inter-process communication (IPC), memory management, and network support. Also, it describes the product of each embedded OS.

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A Study on 16 bit EISC Microprocessor (16 비트 EISC 마이크로 프로세서에 관한 연구)

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    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.192-200
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    • 2000
  • 8 bit and 16 bit microprocessors are widely used in the small sited control machine. The embedded microprocessors which is integrated on a single chip with the memory and I/O circuit must have simple hardware circuit and high code density. This paper proposes a 16 bit high code density EISC(Extendable Instruction Set Computer) microprocessor. SE1608 has 8 general purpose registers and 16 bit fixed length instruction set which has the short length offset and small immediate operand. By using an extend register and extend flag, the offset and immediate operand in instruction could be extended. SE1608 is implemented with 12,000 gate FPGA and all of its functions have been tested and verified at 8MHz. And the cross assembler, the cross C/C++compiler and the instruction simulator of the SE1608 have been designed and verified. This paper also proves that the code density$.$ of SE1608 shows 140% and 115% higher code density than 16 bit microprocessor H-8300 and MN10200 respectively, which is much higher than traditional microprocessors. As a consequence, the SE1608 is suitable for the embedded microprocessor since it requires less program memory to any other ones, and simple hardware circuit.

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A Study on an Error Correction Code Circuit for a Level-2 Cache of an Embedded Processor (임베디드 프로세서의 L2 캐쉬를 위한 오류 정정 회로에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Pan-Ki;Jun, Ho-Yoon;Lee, Yong-Surk
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 2009
  • Microprocessors, which need correct arithmetic operations, have been the subject of in-depth research in relation to soft errors. Of the existing microprocessor devices, the memory cell is the most vulnerable to soft errors. Moreover, when soft errors emerge in a memory cell, the processes and operations are greatly affected because the memory cell contains important information and instructions about the entire process or operation. Users do not realize that if soft errors go undetected, arithmetic operations and processes will have unexpected outcomes. In the field of architectural design, the tool that is commonly used to detect and correct soft errors is the error check and correction code. The Itanium, IBM PowerPC G5 microprocessors contain Hamming and Rasio codes in their level-2 cache. This research, however, focuses on huge server devices and does not consider power consumption. As the operating and threshold voltage is currently shrinking with the emergence of high-density and low-power embedded microprocessors, there is an urgent need to develop ECC (error check correction) circuits. In this study, the in-output data of the level-2 cache were analyzed using SimpleScalar-ARM, and a 32-bit H-matrix for the level-2 cache of an embedded microprocessor is proposed. From the point of view of power consumption, the proposed H-matrix can be implemented using a schematic editor of Cadence. Therefore, it is comparable to the modified Hamming code, which uses H-spice. The MiBench program and TSMC 0.18 um were used in this study for verification purposes.

A Study on the Method of Giving Hysteresis Characteristics to the Digital input port of Microprocessors (마이크로프로세서 디지털 입력포트에 대한 히스테리시스 특성 부여방법에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Chang
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.56-63
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents the method of giving hysteresis characteristics to the digital input port of microprocessors or micro-controllers and it's design procedures. And this paper shows the example of circuit design and the effect of this method by experiments. Presented method has advantages : By the additional one port and two resistors, input port can have hysteresis characteristics and hysteresis band is larger than TTL, CMOS schmitt trigger gates.

The teleautonomous control of an integrated FRHC-PUMA telerobot control system

  • Lee, Jin-S.;Kan, Edwin-P.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1990.10b
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    • pp.974-979
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    • 1990
  • The system discussed in this paper is an integrated stand-alone system with the full functional capabilities required of a telerobot system. It is complete with a force-reflecting 6-DOF hand controller, driving a PUMA 560 or 762 robot, with an integrated force-torque sensing wrist sensor and servo-driven parallel jaw gripper. A mix of custom and standard electronics, distributed computers and microprocessors, with embedded and downloadable software, have been integrated into the system, giving rise to a powerful and flexible teleautonomous control system.

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Evaluation and Benchmarking on Operating System for Embedded Devices (임베디드 디바이스를 위한 운영체제의 벤치마킹과 성능평가)

  • Jeong, Tai-Kyeong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.156-163
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    • 2006
  • The objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance of an operating system for embedded devices to that of the commercially available Windows platform. Analysis includes benchmarking the operating systems using a 'typical' PC workload, as well as identifying low-level areas in which the updated OS is limiting or enhancing the system performance. The primary benchmarking suites selected for this paper are 'WinStone' and 'HBench', with the former providing an application-based suite of tests and the latter providing the most direct means for isolating operating system effects on the system. We have demonstrated in a case study for embedded microprocessors, and evaluated a Windows platform at a low-level test as well as an application level using a benchmarking suite.

A Study on Power Dissipation of Embedded Microprocessors (임베디드 마이크로 프로세서의 전력 소비에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jongbok
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.169-175
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    • 2018
  • Recently, power dissipation issue is very significant not only in high-end modern processors but also in embedded systems and mobile devices. Based on the power dissipation, hardware and software designers can correctly find the power/performance tradeoffs. Most power analysis tools calculate power dissipation when chip layout or floor planning are finished. In this paper, a trace-driven simulator that can interact with power analysis tool for an embedded microprocessor has been developed. Using MiBench embedded benchmarks as input, the trace-driven simulation has been performed to estimate the average power dissipation which is faster than the conventional tools.

An Implementation of Automotive Parking Assistance System using Qplus-Auto OSEK Edition

  • Son, Jeongho;Kim, Jong Hyo;Ha, Soo Young;Kwon, Kee-Koo
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.103-109
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    • 2013
  • Traditional implementation schemes for automotive electronic control units look simple, but the tradition schemes need so many coarse works to satisfy the user requirements regarding time constraints whenever their microprocessors are changed. Recently, a movement toward using middle-wares, such as OSEK operating system, has risen in automotive industry. In this paper, we describe how to use the features of operating systems to replace traditional firmware based softwares in points of views of services, such as multitask support, preemption, and realtime property. To show an example, we implemented a parking assistance system as a prototype.