• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.72-80
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• 2009

In this parer, we propose a hardware abstraction architecture(HAA) for low cost flash memories that can be applicable to wireless sensor nodes. The proposed HAA consists of three layers. The three layers are 1) HHL(Hardware Interlace Layer), HAL(Hardware Adaption Layer), and HPL(Hardware Presentation Layer), where HIL provides a platform independent interlace to applications of upper layers, HAL performs hardware resource management, program status control, and generation of logical instructions as main core of the HAA, and HPL initializes hardware and communicates data between MCU and flash memory. We implemented our HAA on AT45DB flash memory, and the HAA used 4,384 bytes program memory and 195 bytes data memory respectively. Since the proposed HAA is composed of well defined three layers and shows a low utilization of memory, it can provides a high efficiency in terms of flexibility, scalability, and re-usability, and thus the HAA is well suited for wireless sensor nodes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.3-6
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• 2012

최근 응용 특화된 다양한 구조의 프로세서가 확산됨에 따라 기존 운영체제를 다른 구조의 플랫폼으로 이식하는 비용이 증가하고 있다. 기존 운영체제에서는 소스 코드 수준에서 하드웨어 의존적인 부분을 HAL(hardware abstraction layer)로 구분하여 관리함으로써 이기종 플랫폼간의 이식성을 높이고자 하였다. 그러나 기존 HAL 구조는 대부분 하드웨어의 물리적인 구조만을 고려하여 설계되어 체계적인 이식 작업이 어렵다는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 하드웨어의 물리적인 구조와 운영체제의 기능적인 요소를 함께 고려한 HAL 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 HAL 구조의 효용성은 S3C2410 에서 실행하는 운영체제를 Cell BE 플랫폼으로 이식하는 사례 연구를 통해 검증하였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.17-24
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• 2013

The localization accuracy in wireless sensor networks using ranging-based localization algorithms is greatly influenced by the ranging accuracy. Software implementation of HAL(Hardware Abstraction Layer) and MAC(Medium Access Layer) should seamlessly deliver the raw performance of ranging-based localization provided by hardware capability fully to the applications without degrading the raw performance. This paper presents the design and implementation of the software stack for IEEE 802.15.4a which supports normal ranging mode of the Nanotron's NA5TR1 RF chip. The experiment results shows that average ranging error rate with our implementation is 24.5% for the normal mode of the SDS-TWR ranging scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.54-55
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 인간형 로봇의 태스크 실행 중 자율 감정 생성을 위하여 Three-layered hybrid architecture에 기반한 감정 반응 시스템을 제안한다. Three-layered hybrid architecture는 Deliberative layer, Reactive layer Hardware abstraction layer의 3단계의 계층으로 되어 있으며, 모바일 로봇의 자율 동작을 위해서 개발되었다. 본 연구에서는 저자가 개발중인 안드로이드 EveR-2의 감정 시스템에 적용하여 로봇의 태스크 동작 중에 외부의 자극들로부터 자신의 감정을 생성하고, 생성된 감정과 태스크를 조합하여 자신의 행동을 변화시키며 인간과 상호작용하는 로봇 감정 시스템을 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.12-15
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• 2021

This paper is a survey on the advancement of virtualization technology. Virtualization of resources was an inevitable path in modern computer systems. This abstraction of hardware allowed the decoupling of the operating system that manages the hardware and applications' requirements by adding a layer between them. It also led to the application-centric view of computing and light virtual machines, where each represents a computer networking device. As virtualization technology ripens, the performance of virtual machines can only improve. This paper will be introducing how virtualization technology has evolved from Xen to LightVM and Firecracker.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1936-1939
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• 2004

This paper proposes streaming layer for personal robot's middleware. Under assumption that robot has open architecture, i.e. consists of modules created by different vendors and intercommunication between these modules is necessary, we have to consider that there are many different network interfaces. To make communication between modules possible it is necessary to develop new type of middleware. Such middleware has to support different platforms, i.e. OS, network interface, hardware, etc. In addition, it is necessary to implement effective interface between network and application in order to manage inter application communications and use network resources more effectively. Streaming layer is such interface that implements necessary functionality together with simplicity and portability. Streaming layer provides high level of abstraction and makes communication between distributed applications transparent as if are located in same module. With possibility of extension by user defined application interfaces it is suitable for distributed environments, i.e. module based architecture including small-embedded systems like as DSP board. To verify the proposed streaming layer structure it is implemented using C and tested.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.2127-2133
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed an architecture for supporting sensor transparency in sensor node operating systems, design the standard APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and sensor device abstraction to provide the sensor transparency and implemented the sensor transparency in the TinyOS, the most well known sensor node operating system. With the proposed sensor node operating system which can support the sensor transparency, application developers can develop the target applications independent to each sensor device by using the standard APIs provided by the sensor node operating system and the sensor device manufacturers also can develop sensor device drivers by using the standard hardware interfaces and HAL (Hardware Adaptation Layer) interfaces independent to the specific hardware platform of sensor nodes.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.977-981
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• 2015

We propose a method for the implementation of an EtherCAT communication bus in a Linux-based open source Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) system. Recently, increasingly more CNC systems support real-time Ethernet protocols such as EtherCAT, which is a high-performance industrial communication protocol. For real-time CNC control over an Ethernet-based protocol, an additional layer driver needs to be implemented between the CNC system and the master of industrial communication protocol. Among the various solutions for the connection layer driver, we employ a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) driver based on Linux. The operation of the implemented CNC system is demonstrated and confirmed by Hal Meter, which is used to observe the pins, signals, or parameters of HAL.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.667-674
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• 2014

One of the largest problems for tokamak devices such as Kazakhstan Tokamak for Material Testing (KTM) is the operation scenarios' development and execution. Operation scenarios may be varied often, so a convenient hardware and software solution is required for scenario management and execution. Dozens of diagnostic and control subsystems with numerous configuration settings may be used in an experiment, so it is required to automate the subsystem configuration process to coordinate changes of the related settings and to prevent errors. Most of the diagnostic and control subsystems software at KTM was unified using an extra software layer, describing the hardware abstraction interface. The experiment sequence was described using a command language. The whole infrastructure was brought together by a universal communication protocol supporting various media, including Ethernet and serial links. The operation sequence execution infrastructure was used at KTM to carry out plasma experiments.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.91-98
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• 2003

Software Communication Architecture(SCA) has been made to reduce the development period of new waveform applications by reusing design modules. Software Defined Radio(SDR) forum adopted SCA specification and follows its design concept. However, SCA specification does not describe interfaces and deployments of resources in details, which are software components, and how to implement them as well as how to communicate each other are another missing points in specification. In this paper, we propose a resource design methodology and details of adapter implementation for Core Framework(CF) that is a core set of open interface and services providing an abstraction of the underlying software and hardware layer. We also present SDR prototype system which communicates with resources implemented in different programming languages and processors in legacy environment through our design methodology.