• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.859-862
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• 2003

This paper proposes an emulation environment for SoC designs using small number of large gate-count FPGA's and a PC system. To overcome the pin limitation problem in partitioning the design when the design size overwhelms the FPGA gate count, we use bus splitter modules that replicate on-chip bus signals in one FPGA to arbitrary number of other FPGA's with minimal pin count. The proposed scheme is applied to the emulation of 2 million gate multimedia processing chip using two Xilinx Viretex-2 6000 FPGA devices in 6.6MHz operating frequency. An ARM core, memories, camera and LCD display are modeled in software using dual 2GHz Pentium-III processors. This scheme can be utilized for more than 2 FPGA's in the same ways as two FPGA case without losing emulation speed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.70-76
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• 2015

This paper introduces an FPGA self-test architecture reusing FPGA boundary scan chain as self-test circuits. An FPGA boundary scan cell is two or three times bigger than a normal boundary scan cell because it is used for configuring the function of input/output pins functions as well as testing and debugging. Accordingly, we analyze the architecture of an FPGA boundary scan cell in detail and design a set of built-in self-test (BIST) circuits in which FPGA boundary scan chain and a small amount of FPGA logic elements. By reusing FPGA boundary scan chain for self-test, we can reduce area overhead and perform a processor based on-board FPGA testing/monitoring. Experimental results show the area overhead comparison and simulation results.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.560-566
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• 2003

Recently, many researches on RC(Reconfigurable Computing) with highly complex FPGA's and reconfigurable processors have been reported, and even some attempts for commercialization have been successful. In this paper, we introduce the design methodology for implementing DES crypto algorithm on small-capacity FPGA by using its dynamic reconfigurability and a system-level verification technique. Throughout this design project, we could evaluate the effectiveness of this approach, which is the dynamic reconfigurability of FPGAs makes the efficient trade-off between the performance and the cost robustly viable.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.1488-1494
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• 2008

This paper is to design and implement a low power noncoherent BFSK receiver intended for future deep space communication using Xilinx System generator. The receiver incorporates a 16 point Fast Fourier Transform(FFT) for symbol detection. The design units of the receiver are digital design for better efficiency and reliability. The receiver functions on one bit data processing and supports main data rate 10kbps. In addition CORDIC algorithm is used for avoiding complex multiplications while computing FFT and multiplication of twiddle factor for low power is substituted by rotators. The design and simulation of the receiver is carried out in Simulink then the Simulink model is translated to the hardware model to implement FPGA using Xilinx System Generator and to verify performance.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2021

Recent systems contain hardware and software components together for faster execution speed and less power consumption. In conventional hardware and software co-design, the ratio of software and hardware was divided by the designer's empirical knowledge. To find optimal results, designers iteratively reconfigure accelerators and applications and simulate it. Simulating iteratively while making design change is time-consuming. In this paper, we propose a hardware and software co-design platform for energy-efficient FPGA accelerator design. The proposed platform makes it easy for designers to find an appropriate hardware ratio by automatically generating application program code and hardware code by parameterizing the components of the accelerator. The co-design platform based on the Vitis unified software platform runs on a server with Xilinx Alveo U200 FPGA card. As a result of optimizing the multiplication accelerator for two matrices with 1000 rows, execution time was reduced by 90.7% and power consumption was reduced by 56.3%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.131-138
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• 2011

The previous FPGA cluster systems for a brute force search of DES keyspace have showed cost efficient performance, but the research on optimized implementation of the DES algorithm on a single FPGA has been insufficient. In this paper, the optimized DES implementation for a single FPGA of the commercial FPGA cluster system with 77 Xilinx Virtex5-LX50 FPGAs is proposed. Design space exploration using the number of pipeline stages in a DES core, the number of DES cores and the maximum clock frequency of a DES core is performed which leads to integrating 16 DES cores running at 333MHz. Also low power design is applied to reduce the loss of performance caused by limitation of power supply on each FPGA which results in fitting 8 DES cores running at 333MHz. When the proposed DES implementations would be used in the FPGA cluster system, it is estimated that the DES key would be found at most 2.03 days and 4.06 days respectively.

• 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.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.402-413
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• 2004

This paper presents an Implementation of Korean standard 128-bit block cipher SEED for the small (8 or 16-bits) embedded system using a low-cost FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array) chip. Due to their limited computing and storage capacities most of the 8-bits/16-bits small embedded systems require a separate and dedicated cryptography processor for data encryption and decryption process which require relatively heavy computation job. So, in order to integrate the SEED with other logic circuit block in a single chip we need to invent a design which minimizes the area demand while maintaining the proper performance. But, the straight-forward mapping of the SEED specification into hardware design results in exceedingly large circuit area for a low-cost FPGA capacity. Therefore, in this paper we present a design which maximize the resource sharing and utilizing the modern FPGA features to reduce the area demand resulting in the successful implementation of the SEED plus interface logic with single low-cost FPGA. We achieved 66% area accupation by our SEED design for the XC2S100 (a Spartan-II series FPGA from Xilinx) and data throughput more than 66Mbps. This Performance is sufficient for the small scale embedded system while achieving tight area requirement.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.99-105
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• 2013

The FPGA-based emulation is an essential step in ASIC design for validation. For emulation with maximal frequency, it is crucial to understand the FPGA characteristics. This paper attempts to analyze the performance characteristics of the modern FPGAs from renowned vendors, Xilinx and Altera, with a case study utilizing various adders and MIPS CPU. Unlike the common wisdom, ripple-carry adder (RCA) does not utilize the inherent carry-chain inside FPGAs when structurally designed based on 1-bit adders. Thus, the RCA shows the inferior performance to the other types of adders in FPGAs. Our study also reveals that FPGAs from Xilinx exhibit different characteristics from the ones from Altera. That is, the prefix adder, which is optimized for speed in ASIC design, shows the poor performance on Xilinx devices, whereas it provides a comparable speed to the IP core on Altera devices. It suggests that error-prone manual change of the original design can be avoided on Altera devices if area is permitted. Experiments with MIPS CPU confirm the arguments.