• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.6A
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• pp.640-647
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• 2006

This paper describes a design of AES-based CCMP(Counter mode with CBC-MAC Protocol) core for IEEE 802.11i wireless LAN security. To maximize the performance of CCMP core, two AES cores are used, one is the counter mode for data confidentiality and the other is the CBC node for authentication and data integrity. The S-box that requires the largest hardware in ARS core is implemented using composite field arithmetic, and the gate count is reduced by about 27% compared with conventional LUT(Lookup Table)-based design. The CCMP core was verified using Excalibur SoC kit, and a MPW chip is fabricated using a 0.35-um CMOS standard cell technology. The test results show that all the function of the fabricated chip works correctly. The CCMP processor has 17,000 gates, and the estimated throughput is about 353-Mbps at 116-MHz@3.3V, satisfying 54-Mbps data rate of the IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g specifications.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

FlexRay is a new standard of network communication system which provides a high speed serial communication, time triggered bus and fault tolerant communication between electronic devices for future automotive applications. FlexRay communication controller (CC) is the core of the FlexRay protocol specification. In this paper, we first design the FlexRay CC protocol specification and function parts using SDL (Specification and Description Language). Then, the system is re-designed using Verilog HDL based on the SDL source. The FlexRay CC system was synthesized using Samsung $0.35\;{\mu}m$ technology. It is shown that the designed system can operate in the frequency range above 80 MHz. In addition, to show the validity of the designed FlexRay system the FlexRay system is combined with sound source localization system in Robot applications. The combined system is implemented using ALTERA Excalibur ARM EPXA4F672C3. It is shown that the implemented system operates successfully.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.8
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• pp.98-105
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• 2008

FlexRay is a high-speed communications protocol with high flexibility and reliability. It was devised by automotive manufacturers and semiconductor vendors and implemented as on vehicle LAN protocol using x-by-wire systems. FlexRay provides a high speed serial communication, time triggered bus and fault tolerant communication between electronic devices for automotive applications. In this paper, we first design the FlexRay communication controller, bus guardian protocol specification and function parts using SDL (Specification and Description Language). Then, the system is re-designed using Verilog HDL based on the SDL source. The FlexRay system was synthesized using Samsung $0.35{\mu}m$ technology. It is shown that the designed system can operate in the frequency range above 76 MHz. In addition, to show the validity of the designed FlexRay system, the FlexRay system is combined with automobile advance alarm system in vehicle applications. The FlexRay system is implemented using ALTERA Excalibur ARM EPXA4F672C3. It is shown that the implemented system operates successfully.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.367-370
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• 2005

This paper describes a design of AES(Advanced Encryption Standard)-based CCMP core for IEEE 802.11i wireless LAN security. To maximize its performance, two AES cores are used, one is for counter mode for data confidentiality and the other is for CBC(Cipher Block Chaining)mode for authentication and data integrity. The S-box that requires the largest hardware in AES core is implemented using composite field arithmetic, and the gate count is reduced by about 25% compared with conventional LUT(Lookup Table)-based design. The CCMP core designed in Verilog-HDL has 15,450 gates, and the estimated throughput is about 128 Mbps at 50-MHz clock frequency). The functionality of the CCMP core is verified by Excalibur SoC implementation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.11C
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• pp.1541-1550
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose an advanced hardware architecture for fast multi-resolution motion estimation of the video coding standard MPEG-1,2 and MPEG-4 AVC. We describe the algorithm and derive hardware architecture emphasizing the importance of area for low cost and fast operation by using the shared memory, the special ram architecture, the motion vector for 4 pixel x 4 pixel, the spiral search and so on. The proposed architecture has been verified by ARM-interfaced emulation board using Excalibur Altera FPGA and also by ASIC synthesis using Samsung 0.18 m CMOS cell library. The ASIC synthesis result shows that the proposed hardware can operate at 140 MHz, processing more than 1,100 QCIF video frames or 70 4CIF video frames per second. The hardware is going to be used as a core module when implementing a complete MPEG-4 AVC video encoder ASIC for real-time multimedia application.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.16-20
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• 2007

This paper describes the development of the sensor interface and driver program for a point of care (POC) device. The proposed pac device comprises an ARM9 embedded processor and eight-channel sensor input to measure various bio-signals. It features a user-friendly interface using a full-color TFT-LCD and touch-screen, and a bluetooth wireless communication module. The proposed device is based on the system on a programmable chip (SOPC). We use Altera's Excalibur device, which has an ARM9 and FPGA area on a chip, as a test bed for the development of interface hardware and driver software.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.703-706
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 스테레오 비전 알고리즘을 ARM9 프로세서를 사용하는 SoC의 IP 개념으로 구현하였다. 구현하고자 하는 스테레오 비전 시스템을 기능에 따라서 하드웨어와 소프트웨어 모듈로 나누어서 성능을 최대화할 수 있도록 설계하였다. SAD correlator는 한 쌍의 이미지에 많은 계산을 필요로 하기 때문에 성능을 우선시하여 하드웨어로 구성하였고, 소프트웨어는 프로세서를 초기화 시키고, 인터럽트 처리와 SAD correlator, TFT-LCD controller, 메모리 등의 하드웨어를 제어하는 역할을 하는 firmware로 구성을 하였다. 메모리에 기저장된 영상정보를 스테레오 비전 알고리즘을 이용한 결과를 외부 TFT-LCD 모듈에서 필요로 하는 포맷에 맞게 변환시켜서 depth map을 출력하는 시스템을 ARM922T 프로세서가 내장된 Altera Excalibur를 target으로 설계하여 테스트 보드에서 정상적으로 동작하는 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11c
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• pp.129-131
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• 2004

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) coprocessors support massive scalar multiplications of a point. We research the design for multi-segment multipliers in fixed-size ECC coprocessors using the multi-segment Karatsuba algorithm on GF($2^m$). ECC coprocessors of the proposed multiplier is verified on the SoC-design verification kit which embeds ALTERA EXCALIBUR FPGAs. As a result of our experiment, the multi-segment Karatsuba multiplier, which has more efficient performance about twice times than the traditional multi-segment multiplier, can be implemented as adding few H/W resources. Therefore the multi-segment Karatsuba multiplier which satisfies performance for the cryptographic algorithm, is adequate for a low cost embedded system, and is implemented in the minimum area.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.425-426
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• 2008

본 논문에서 설계한 802.11 MAC(Medium Access Control)은 하드웨어와 소프트웨어의 통합 구조로 되어 있다. MAC에서 가장 빠르게 동작해야 하는 프레임 전송과 수신블록은 하드웨어로 설계를 하였고, 그 외에는 소프트웨어로 설계가 되었다. 하드웨어로 설계된 MAC은 802.11 표준문서에 포함된 SDL(Specification and Description Language)을 기초하여 설계하였으며, 성능 향상을 위하여 수신블록의 중복 프레임 검사를 수행하는 블록과 프레임을 분석하여 정보를 추출하는 블록을 SDL과 다르게 설계 하였다. 삼성 0.35공정 라이브러리를 이용하여 합성한 결과 3만 게이트의 크기를 갖으며, 최대 동작 주파수는 100MHz이다. 메모리는 47Kbits SRAM을 사용하였다. 실제동작의 검증에 앞서 Mentor Graphics사의 ModelSim을 이용하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하였으며, 동작 검증은 Huins 사의 Altera Excalibur FPGA가 탑재된 XP8000 보드를 이용하여 이루어 졌다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.1281-1284
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• 2002

본 논문은 인터넷을 이용한 음성통신 서비스를 제공하기 위해 사용되는 VoIP 시스템 칩 설계 및 기능 검증을 위한 보드 개발에 관한 것이다. 구성이 간단한 시스템을 구현하기 위하여 32 비트 RISC 프로세서인 ARM922T 프로세서 코어를 중심으로 IP 망 접속 기능, 톤 발생 및 음성신호 접속기능과 다양한 사용자 정합 기능을 가지는 VoIP 시스템 칩을 설계하고, 이 칩의 기능을 검증하기 위하여 시험 프로그램 및 통신 프로토콜을 개발하였으며, 각종 설계 및 시뮬레이션 툴을 사용하고 ARM922T와 FPGA가 결합된 Excalibur를 사용한 시험용 보드를 개발하여 시험하였다.