• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.464-466
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• 2019

Controllers used in nuclear power plants require high reliability. A controller including a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and a Complex Programmable Logic Device (referred to hereinafter as FPGA) has been applied to many Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) in the past, including the APR1400 (Advanced Power Reactor 1400), a Korean digital nuclear power plant. Initially, the FPGA was considered as a general IC (Integrated Circuit) and verified only by device verification and performance testing. In the 1990s, research on FPGA verification began, and until the FPGA became a chip, it was regarded as software and the software Verification and Validation (V&V) using IEEE 1012-2004 was implemented. Currently, IEC 62566, which is a European standard, has been applied for a lot of verification. This method has been evaluated as the most sensible method to date. This is because the method of verifying the characteristics of SoC (System on Chip), which has been a problem in the existing verification method, is sufficiently applied. However, IEC 62566 is a European standard that has not yet been adopted in the United States and maintains the application of IEEE 1012 for FPGA. IEEE 1012-2004 or IEC 62566 is a technical standard. In practice, various methods are applied to meet technical standards. In this paper, we describe the procedure and important points of verification method of Nuclear Safety Class FPGA applying SoC verification method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.259-266
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• 2021

USB bus not only works with convenience but also transmits data fast and becomes a standard peripheral interface between FPGA development board and personal computer. In this paper FPGA verification system with slave FIFO interface for Cypress FX3 USB 3 bridge chip was implemented. The designed slave FIFO interface consists of host interface module based on FIFO structure, master bus controller and command decoder and supports streaming communication interface for FX3 bridge chip and memory-mapped input and output interface for user design circuit. The ZestSC3 board with Cypress FX3 USB 3 bridge chip and Xilinx Artix FPGA(XC7A35T-1C5G3241) was used to implement FPGA verification system. It was verified that the FPGA verification system for user design circuit operated correctly under various clock frequencies using GUI software developed by visual C# and C++ DLL. The designed slave FIFO interface for FPGA verification system has modular structure and can be applicable to the different user designs with memory-mapped I/O interface.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.91-103
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• 2002

For massive FPGA based emulator, the interconnection architecture and the transmission method of signals between FPGA's are important elements which decide speed of emulation and extendability of emulator. Existing FPGA-based emulation system is faced the problems of which the emulation speed getting slow drastically as the complexity of circuit increases. In this paper, we proposed a new innovative emulation architecture that has high resource usage rate and makes the fast emulation Possible. The emulator with very unique hierarchical ring topology Presented here has merits to overcome FPGA pin limitation by connecting each FPGA into a set of pipelined rings, and it also makes emulation speed at the tens of MHz at least even at system level where the verification complexity can easily exceed the verification capability of designers.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.792-802
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• 2016

Real time verification is necessary, since there are several features that cannot be verified through design simulation in the design of multiband soundbar system. And then this paper describes an implementation of an FPGA-based real-time verification system for a soundbar SoC with an embedded processor. It is verified a real-time performance test and a listening test which are several features in the design stage that cannot be verified through a design simulation. The measurement of quantitative specifications such as SNR, THD+N, frequency response, etc. as well as the listening test were performed through the implemented FPGA system, and it was verified that test results satisfied the target specifications.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.14A no.3 s.107
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• pp.141-146
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• 2007

In this paper, we proposed an efficient FPGA-based simulation acceleration method based on FPGA compilation avoidance, which can effectively decrease the long debugging turnaround time incurred from the every debugging process in the functional verification. The proposed method had been experimentally applied to the functional verification for a microcontroller design. It had clearly shown that the debugging turnaround time was greatly reduced while the high simulation speed of the simulation acceleration was still maintained.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.115-121
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• 2023

RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture, and anyone can freely design and implement a RISC-V microprocessor. This paper designes and simulates the RISC-V architecture, synthesizing it in FPGA and verifying it using logic analyzer (ILA). RISC-V core is written in SystemVerilog, which has efficient design and high reusability, and can be used in various application fields. The RISC-V core is implemented as hardware by synthesizing it on the Ultra96-V2 FPGA board using Vivado, and the accuracy and operation of the design are verified through Integrated Logic Analyzer(ILA). As a result of the experiment, it is confirmed that the designed RISC-V core performs the expected operation, and these results can contribute to the design and verification of RISC-V based systems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.397-400
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• 2003

FPGA 보드를 이용하여 디지털 논리 설계를 검증하려면 고가의 논리 분석기 장비를 필요로 한다. 본 논문은 FPGA 설계에 대한 검증을 PC에서 직접 입력 데이터를 FPGA 보드 쪽으로 전달하고 그 결과를 다시 PC 쪽에서 GUI 형태로 확인할 수 있도록 구성된, 논리 분석기 기능을 갖는 VHDL 모듈과 소프트웨어의 구현에 관한 것이다. 이와 같은 VHDL 모듈과 소프트웨어 모듈을 활용함으로써 추가 비용 없이 검증 과정을 수행할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.62-65
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• 2011

FPGA는 대용량의 게이트를 지원하는 하드웨어를 프로그램 할 수 있는 디바이스이다. ASIC을 위해 설계된 로직은 칩으로 제조되기 전에 검증 과정을 거친다. 이 검증 과정에서 시뮬레이션의 한계를 극복하기 위해 FPGA를 사용한 에뮬레이션 방법을 많이 채택한다. 에뮬레이션 과정에서 ASIC의 동작 속도로 검증하는 것이 바람직하지만 FPGA의 특성상 ASIC과 같은 속도로 동작하기는 쉽지 않은 것이 현실이다. 본 논문에서는 HDL 코딩 방법에 따른 FPGA의 성능 민감도를 실험하였다. 실험 및 평가를 위해 다양한 알고리즘을 가진 가산기를 이용하였고 각 가산기 종류와 비트수에 따라 Verilog-HDL을 이용하여 코딩하였으며 대표적인 FPGA 제조사(Altera와 Xilinx)별, 디바이스별로 동작 속도와 자원 사용량을 측정하였다. 실험 결과 FPGA 제조사별로 다른 경향을 보임을 확인하였다. 성능 면에서는 비트별로 다소 차이는 있지만 Altera 디바이스에서는 Ripple Carry, Carry Lookahead 가산기보다 Prefix 가산기의 성능이 우수하게 나왔다. Xilinx 디바이스에서는 예상과 달리 가산기들 사이의 성능 차이가 크게 나지 않았으며 Ripple Carry, Carry Lookahead 가산기가 Prefix 가산기보다 높은 성능을 보이는 경우도 있었다. 비용 면에서는 디바이스별로 큰 차이가 나지 않았으며 ASIC과 비슷한 성능 민감도를 보였다. 그리고 각 제조사에서 제공하는 IP(Intellectual Property) Core를 사용했을 경우는 대부분의 디바이스에서 우수한 성능을 보여 주었다. TSMC 90nm 공정 기술로 제작한 ASIC과 IP Core를 비교했을 때는 ASIC의 성능이 4배 정도 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.23 no.11
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• pp.23-33
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• 1996

본 논문은 원판과 전용 CAD 틀로 구성되는 FPGA시스템을 개발하는데 있어서 서로 다른 요소 기술들의 관계와 이들 요소 기술들과 시스템성능의 관계를 모델하여 시스템 사양을 만족하기 위하여 가장 효율적인 방법을 찾게하는 방법에 관한 것이다. 본 논문에서는 실제로 개발된 시스템을 예로 하여 FPGA시스템 개발에서 고려해야 할 점들을 고찰하였다. 새로운 FPGA 시스템의 개발 순서는 먼저 개발할 FPGA의 응용 분야를 결정하고, 그 응용 분야에 필요한 시스템 사양에 맞게 개발한 요소 기술들과 그 기술들의 범위를 정한다. 개발 흐름도를 이용하여 이 요소 기술들의 연관 관계를 수직적으로는 시스템 성능에 미치는 영향을 모델링하고 수평적으로는 요소 기술간의 서로 미치는 영향을 모델링 하여 시스템 사양을 만족하기 위한 최적의 해를 구한다. 이때 최종적인 FPGA 시스템을 평가하고 검증할 수 있는 방법을 결정한다. 요소 기술들이 개발 됨에 따라 좀 더 구체적이고 정확한 모델에 의해 전체 시스템의 성능은 평가되고 검증될 수 있다. 이러한 방법과 환경은 FPGA 시스템을 빠르고 효율적으로 개발할 수 있게 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.167-169
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• 2010

This paper describes hardware design and FPGA verification of TFT-LCD controller used in mobile devices widely. TFT-LCD controller outputs pixel's color information red, green, blue and Hsync, Vsync synchronization signals. We used verilog-hdl to describe TFT-LCD controller and simulated it using modelsim software and verified it's exact operation on Xilinx FPGA. Framebuffer made up Block RAM form in FPGA and TFT-LCD displayed image file.