• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.414-426
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• 2022

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is one of the finest cryptographic technique of recent time due to its lower key length and satisfactory performance with different hardware structures. In this paper, a High Throughput Multiplier architecture is introduced for Elliptic Cryptographic applications based on concurrent computations. With the aid of the concurrent computing approach, the High Throughput Concurrent Computation (HTCC) technology that was just presented improves the processing speed as well as the overall efficiency of the point-multiplier architecture. Here, first and second distinct group operation of point multiplier are combined together and synthesised concurrently. The synthesis of proposed HTCC technique is performed in Xilinx Virtex - 5 and Xilinx Virtex - 7 of Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) family. In terms of slices, flip flops, time delay, maximum frequency, and efficiency, the advantages of the proposed HTCC point multiplier architecture are outlined, and a comparison of these advantages with those of existing state-of-the-art point multiplier approaches is provided over GF(2¹⁶³), GF(2²³³) and GF(2²⁸³). The efficiency using proposed HTCC technique is enhanced by 30.22% and 75.31% for Xilinx Virtex-5 and by 25.13% and 47.75% for Xilinx Virtex-7 in comparison according to the LC design as well as the LL design, in their respective fashions. The experimental results for Virtex - 5 and Virtex - 7 over GF(2²³³) and GF(2²⁸³)are also very satisfactory.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.166-173
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• 2022

Recently, studies have been conducted on intelligent transportation systems (ITS) that provide safety and convenience to humans. Systems that compose the ITS adopt architectures that applied the cloud computing which consists of a high-performance general-purpose processor or graphics processing unit. However, an architecture that only used the cloud computing requires a high network bandwidth and consumes much power. Therefore, applying edge computing to ITS is essential for solving these problems. In this paper, we propose an edge artificial intelligence (AI) device based ITS. Edge AI which is applicable to various systems in ITS has been applied to license plate recognition. We implemented edge AI on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The accuracy of the edge AI for license plate recognition was 0.94. Finally, we synthesized the edge AI logic with Magnachip/Hynix 180nm CMOS technology and the power consumption measured using the Synopsys's design compiler tool was 482.583mW.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.484-492
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• 2023

Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) based on the tapped delay line (TDL) architecture have been widely used in various applications requiring a precise time measurement. However, the poor uniformity of the propagation delays in the TDL implemented on FPGA leads to bubble error and large nonlinearity of the TDC. The purpose of this study was to develop an advanced TDC architecture capable of minimizing the bubble errors and improving the linearity. To remove the bubble errors, the decimated delay line (DDL) architecture was implemented on the UltraScale + FPGA; meanwhile, to improve the linearity of the TDC, a histogram uniformization (HU) and multi-chain TDL (MCT) methods were developed and implemented on the FPGA. The integral nonlinearities (INLs) and differential nonlinearities (DNLs) of the plain TDCs with the 'HU method' (HU TDC) and with 'both HU and MCT methods' (HU-MCT TDC) were measured and compared to those of the TDC with 'DDL alone' (plain TDC). The linearity of HU-MCT TDC were superior to those of the plain TDC and HU TDC. The experiment results indicated that HU-MCT TDC developed in this study was useful for improving the linearity of the TDC, which allowed for high timing resolution to be achieved.

• 센서학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.246-251
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• 2023

Internet of Things (IoT) systems process signals from various sensors using signal processing algorithms suitable for the signal characteristics. To analyze complex signals, these systems usually use signal processing algorithms in the frequency domain, such as fast Fourier transform (FFT), filtering, and short-time Fourier transform (STFT). In this study, we propose a multi-mode sensor signal processor (SSP) accelerator with an FFT-based hardware design. The FFT processor in the proposed SSP is designed with a radix-2 single-path delay feedback (R2SDF) pipeline architecture for high-speed operation. Moreover, based on this FFT processor, the proposed SSP can perform filtering and STFT operation. The proposed SSP is implemented on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). By sharing the FFT processor for each algorithm, the required hardware resources are significantly reduced. The proposed SSP is implemented and verified on Xilinxh's Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC ZCU104 with 53,591 look-up tables (LUTs), 71,451 flip-flops (FFs), and 44 digital signal processors (DSPs). The FFT, filtering, and STFT algorithm implementations on the proposed SSP achieve 185x average acceleration.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2024

In high radiation fields, gamma cameras suffer from pulse pile-up, resulting in poor energy resolution, count losses, and image distortion. To overcome this problem, various methods have been introduced to reduce the size of the aperture or pixel, reject the pile-up events, and correct the pile-up events, but these technologies have limitations in terms of mechanical design and real-time processing. The purpose of this study is to develop a real-time gamma camera to evaluate the radioactive contamination in high radiation fields. The gamma camera is composed of a pinhole collimator, NaI(Tl) scintillator, position sensitive photomultiplier (PSPMT), signal processing board, and data acquisition (DAQ). The pulse pile-up is corrected in real-time with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) using the start time correction (STC) method. The STC method corrects the amplitude of the pile-up event by correcting the time at the start point of the pile-up event. The performance of the gamma camera was evaluated using a high dose rate ¹³⁷Cs source. For pulse pile-up ratios (PPRs) of 0.45 and 0.30, the energy resolution improved by 61.5 and 20.3%, respectively. In addition, the image artifacts in the ¹³⁷Cs radioisotope image due to pile-up were reduced.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.56-66
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• 2017

Fast and accurate fault detection is the primary step and one of the most important tasks in fault tolerant converters. In this paper, a fast and simple method is proposed to detect and diagnosis the faulty cell in a cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter under a short circuit fault. In this method, the reference voltage is calculated using switching control pulses and DC-Link voltages. The comparison result of the output voltage and the reference voltage is used in conjunction with active cell pulses to detect the faulty cell. To achieve this goal, the cell which is active when the Fault signal turns to "0" is detected as the faulty cell. Furthermore, consideration of generating the active cell pulses is completely described. Since the main advantage of this method is its simplicity, it can be easily implemented in a programmable digital device. Experimental results obtained with an 11-level inverter prototype confirm the effectiveness of the proposed fault detection technique. In addition, they show that the diagnosis method is unaffected by variations of the modulation index.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제45권10호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2008

본 논문은 유선으로 연결된 다양한 센서들의 제어와 센서들 간의 호환성을 보장하는 IEEE 1451.2 표준을 적용한 센서 네트워크 시스템 구현에 대한 연구이다. 제안된 시스템은 IEEE 1451.0에서 기술된 네트워크 수용 가능한 응용 프로세서(NCAP-Network Capable Application Processor)와 IEEE 1451.2에서 기술된 변환기 독립 인터페이스(TII-Transducer Independent Interface), 변환기 전자 데이터 시트(TEDS-Transducer Electronic Data Sheet)와 아날로그 디지털 변환기를 포함한 송수신기 부분으로 구성된다. 본 시스템은 추후 반도체 집적회로 설계에 용이할 수 있돌고 시스템의 소형화와 최적화를 목표로 구현되었다. 네트워크 수용 가능한 응용 프로세서는 개인용 컴퓨터상에서 C언어로 구현하였고 변환기 독립 인터페이스는 개인용 컴퓨터의 병렬포트와 FPGA(Field-Programmable Gate Array) 응용보드의 확장포트를 이용하였고, 송수신기는 FPGA 응용보드를 이용하여 Verilog로 구현하였다. 표준에 근거한 실험을 수행하여 제안된 구조의 검증을 수행하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.74-81
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• 2007

이 논문에서는 H.264의 효율적인 움직임 추정을 위한 새로운 SAD(Sum of Absolute Differences) 프로세서의 구조를 제안하였다. SAD 프로세서는 전영역 탐색기법의 움직임 추정이나 고속 탐색기법의 움직임 추정에서 모두 사용되는 중요한 블록이다. 제안된 구조는 SAD 계산기 블록, combinator 블록, 최소값 계산기 블록의 3개의 블록으로 구성된다. 제안된 구조는 덧셈연산을 분산 연산(Distributed Arithmetic)을 사용하여 계산함으로써 구조를 단순화시켰다. 제안 구조를 HDL(Hardware Description Language)을 사용하여 실험한 결과 기존의 구조와 비교하여 39%의 게이트 카운트 감소효과를 보였다. 또한 FPGA를 사용하여 검증한 결과도 32%의 게이트 카운트 감소효과를 보였다. 따라서 제안된 움직임 추정용 SAD 프로세서는 칩의 면적이 중요한 변수인 H.264 칩에서 널리 사용될 수 있는 구조가 될 것이다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권2A호
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• pp.147-156
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• 2004

본 논문은 CDMA2000 1X 신호 환경에서 동작하는 스마트 안테나 기지국의 각 안테나 소자에서 수신된 독립적인 신호를 이용하여 다이버시티 이득을 얻는 액세스 채널 복조기를 구현하고 구현된 복조기의 성능을 분석한다. 제안된 액세스 채널 복조기는 4개의 핑거를 지원하는 탐색기와 왈쉬 복조기 그리고 복조 제어기로 구성되고, 이들은 Alters사의 백만 게이트급 FPGA인 APEX EP20K1000EBC652와 TI사의 TMS320C6203으로 구현되었다. 제안된 액세스채널 복조기는 스마트 안테나 기지국이 최적의 웨이트 벡터를 얻을 수 없는 액세스 상태에서 데이터 복조 성능을 증가시키는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 실증시험을 통해서 위상 다이버시티 기법이 적용된 액세스채널 복조기의 성능이 기존의 액세스채널 복조기보다 우수함을 액세스 프로브 검출 확률, 액세스 실패 확률, 왈쉬 복조기에서의 $E_{b/}$ $N_{o}$ 항목에서 확인하였다.다.

• 천문학논총
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2006

We have developed a control electronics system for an infrared detector array of KASINICS (KASI Near Infrared Camera System), which is a new ground-based instrument of the Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI). Equipped with a $512{\times}512$ InSb array (ALADDIN III Quadrant, manufactured by Raytheon) sensitive from 1 to $5{\mu}m$, KASINICS will be used at J, H, Ks, and L-bands. The controller consists of DSP(Digital Signal Processor), Bias, Clock, and Video boards which are installed on a single VME-bus backplane. TMS320C6713DSP, FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array), and 384-MB SDRAM(Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) are included in the DSP board. DSP board manages entire electronics system, generates digital clock patterns and communicates with a PC using USB 2.0 interface. The clock patterns are downloaded from a PC and stored on the FPGA. UART is used for the communication with peripherals. Video board has 4 channel ADC which converts video signal into 16-bit digital numbers. Two video boards are installed on the controller for ALADDIN array. The Bias board provides 16 dc bias voltages and the Clock board has 15 clock channels. We have also coded a DSP firmware and a test version of control software in C-language. The controller is flexible enough to operate a wide range of IR array and CCD. Operational tests of the controller have been successfully finished using a test ROIC (Read-Out Integrated Circuit).