• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.117-120
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• 2001

This paper presents a HW/SW co-design environments and its validation for development of virtual component on the 32-bit RISC core which is used in the design of Information-Appliance-On-a-Chip. For the experimental environment, we developed the cycle-accurate instruction set simulator based on SE3208 RISC core of ADChips. To verify the function of RISC core at the cycle level, we implemented the verification environment by grafting this simulator on the Seamless CVE which is a commercial co-verification environment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.623-626
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• 2001

최근 휴대폰단말기, PDA 와 같은 내장형시스템에 필수적으로 사용되고 있는 SoC(System On a Chip)에 대한 설계에서는 HW/SW 동시설계를 통한 설계생산성 향상이 필수적이다. 이에 따라서 설계검증에서도 HW/SW 통합검증의 중요성이 매우 커지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같이 내장형시스템을 위한 HW/SW 통합검증을 효율적으로 수행 할 수 있는 방법들인 co-simulation 과 co-emulation 및 co-prototyping 에 대하여 이들 방법들의 장단점과 더불어 이들을 통합한 새로운 검증방법인 집적 동시-검증(integrated co-verification) 기법에 대하여 논하기로 한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.261-267
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• 2002

In SOC(System On a Chip) designs, reducing time and cast for design verification is the most critical to improve the design productivity. this is mainly because the designs require co-verifying HW together with SW, which results in the increase of verification complexity drastically. In this paper, to cope with the verification crisis in SOC designs, we propose a new verification methodology, so called integrated co-verification, which lightly combine both co-simulation and co-emulation in unified and seamless way. We have applied our integrated co-verification to ARM/AMBA platform-based co-verification environment with a commercial co-verification tool, Seamless CVE, and a physical prototyping board. The experiments has shown clear advantage of the proposed technique over conventional ones.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.274-279
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• 2009

The flow of a universal system-level design methodology consists of system specification, system-level hardware/software partitioning, co-design, co-verification using virtual or physical prototype, and system integration. In this paper, verification environments based-on SystemVerilog and SystemC, one is native-code co-verification environment which makes prompt functional verification possible and another is SystemVerilog layered testbench which makes clock-level verification possible, are implemented. In native-code co-verification, HW and SW parts of SoC are respectively designed with SystemVerilog and SystemC after HW/SW partitioning using SystemC, then the functional interaction between HW and SW parts is carried out as one simulation process. SystemVerilog layered testbench is a verification environment including corner case test of DUT through the randomly generated test-vector. We adopt SystemC to design a component of verification environment which has multiple inheritance, and we combine SystemC design unit with the SystemVerilog layered testbench using SystemVerilog DPI and ModelSim macro. As multiple inheritance is useful for creating class types that combine the properties of two or more class types, the design of verification environment adopting SystemC in this paper can increase the code reusability.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.1480-1483
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• 2009

In this paper, the hardware(HW) and software(SW) co-design methodology of H.264/AVC decoder using ARM-Excalibur is proposed. The SoC consists of embedded processor, memory, peripheral device and logic circuits. Recently, the co-design method which designs simultaneously HW and SW part is a new paradigm in SoC design. Because the optimization for partitioning the SoC system is very difficult, the verification must be performed earlier in design flow. We designed the H.264 and AVC Decoder using co-design method. It is shown that, for the proposed co-design method, the performance improvements can be obtained.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.58-66
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• 2014

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.7 s.349
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• pp.38-49
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• 2006

In this paper, a novel concept based on embedded processor and reconfigurable logic is proposed for efficient manufacturing test and design verification. Unlike traditional gap between design verification and manufacturing test, proposed concept is to combine both design verification and manufacturing test. The semiconductor chip which is using the proposed concept is named "SwToC" and SwToC stands for System with Test On a Chip. SwToC has two main features. First, it has functional verification function on a chip and this function could be made by using embedded processor, reconfigurable logic and memory. Second, it has internal ATE on a chip and this feature also could be made by the same architecture. To evaluate the proposed SwToC, we have implemented SwToC using commercial FPGA device with embedded processor. Experimental results showed that the proposed chip is possible for real application and could have faster verification time than traditional simulation method. Moreover, test could be done using low cost ATE.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.376-382
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• 2008

Developing highly cost-efficient and reliable embedded systems demands hardware/software co-design and co-simulation due to fast TTM and verification issues. So, it is essential that Platform-Based SoC design methodology be used for enhanced reusability. This paper addresses a reusable SoC platform based on OpenCores soft processor with reconfigurable architectures for hardware/software codesign methodology. The platform includes a OpenRISC microprocessor, some basic peripherals and WISHBONE bus and it uses the set of development environment including compiler, assembler, and debugger. The platform is very flexible due to easy configuration through a system configuration file and is reliable because all designed SoC and IPs are verified in the various test environments. Also the platform is prototyped using the Xilinx Spartan3 FPGA development board and is implemented to a single chip using the Magnachip cell library based on $0.18{\mu}m$ 1-poly 6-metal technology.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.50-61
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• 2010

Nowadays, the SoC is watched by all over the world with interest. The design trend of the SoC is hardware and software co-design which includes the design of hardware structure in RTL level and the development of embedded software. Also the technology is toward deep-submicron and the observability of the SoC's internal state is not easy. Because of the above reasons, the SoC debug is very difficult and time-consuming. So we need a reliable debugger to find the bugs in the SoC and embedded software. In this paper, we developed a hardware debugger named OCD. It is based on IEEE 1140.1 JTAG standard. In order to verify the operation of OCD, it is integrated into the 32bit RISC processor - Core-A (Core-A is the unique embedded processor designed by Korea) and is tested by interconnecting with software debugger. When embedding the OCD in Core-A, there is 14.7% gate count overhead. We can modify the DCU which occupies 2% gate count in OCD to adapt with other processors as a debugger.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.469-474
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• 2006

전통적인 임베디드 시스템 개발은 하드웨어와 소프트웨어가 독립적으로 개발된다. 그러나 시스템 개발 후 오류 발생 시, 하드웨어와 소프트웨어 둘 중 어디에서 발생했는지 알아내기 어려웠다. 따라서 임베디드 시스템 개발을 위해 하드웨어/소프트웨어의 통합 설계 방법이 연구기관들에 의해 제시되어 왔다. 본 논문은 현실적으로 많이 사용되고 있는 일반 임베디드 시스템 개발 방법으로부터 접근하는 HW/SW 통합 개발 방법을 제안하였다. 즉, 이미 만들어진 하드웨어를 설계 단계로 끌어올려 정형 기법을 통해 하드웨어를 설계 및 정형 검증하여 견고한 하드웨어를 만들고, 이를 기반으로 소프트웨어를 정형 명세 및 검증하는 하드웨어/소프트웨어 통합 개발을 수행하였다. 따라서 개발 후 하드웨어 또는 소프트웨어에서 발생할 수 있는 오류를 최소화하고 오류가 발생하였다고 해도 개발 전에 설계상에서 오류를 수정할 수 있어 임베디드 시스템의 신뢰성을 보장하였다. 또한 설계 과정의 어떤 시점에서 개발 중인 가상의 하드웨어가 아닌 개발 완료된 하드웨어의 실제 코드를 테스트할 수 있으므로, 현실적인 임베디드 시스템 개발에 더 효과적인 하드웨어/소프트웨어 통합 개발 방법론을 제시하여 그 효율성을 높였다.