• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1187-1188
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• 2008

An area of research called evolvable hardware has recently emerged which combines aspects of evolutionary computation with hardware design and synthesis. Evolvable hardware (EHW) is hardware that can change its own circuit structure by genetic learning to achieve maximum adaptation to the environment. In conventional EHW, the learning is executed by software on a computer. In this paper, we have studied and surveyed a gate-level evolvable hardware chip, by integrating both GA hardware and reconfigurable hardware within a single LSI chip. The chip consists of genetic algorithm(GA) hardware, reconfigurable hardware logic, and the control logic. In this paper, we describe the architecture, functions of the chip.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.53 no.10
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• pp.3327-3334
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• 2021

Present electric grids are advanced to integrate smart grids, distributed resources, high-speed sensing and control, and other advanced metering technologies. Cybersecurity is one of the challenges of the smart grid and nuclear plant digital system. It affects the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), for grid data communication and controls the information in real-time. The research article is emphasized solving the nuclear and smart grid hardware security issues with the integration of field programmable gate array (FPGA), and implementing the latest Time Authenticated Cryptographic Identity Transmission (TACIT) cryptographic algorithm in the chip. The cryptographic-based encryption and decryption approach can be used for a smart grid distribution system embedding with FPGA hardware. The chip design is carried in Xilinx ISE 14.7 and synthesized on Virtex-5 FPGA hardware. The state of the art of work is that the algorithm is implemented on FPGA hardware that provides the scalable design with different key sizes, and its integration enhances the grid hardware security and switching. It has been reported by similar state-of-the-art approaches, that the algorithm was limited in software, not implemented in a hardware chip. The main finding of the research work is that the design predicts the utilization of hardware parameters such as slices, LUTs, flip-flops, memory, input/output blocks, and timing information for Virtex-5 FPGA synthesis before the chip fabrication. The information is extracted for 8-bit to 128-bit key and grid data with initial parameters. TACIT security chip supports 400 MHz frequency for 128-bit key. The research work is an effort to provide the solution for the industries working towards embedded hardware security for the smart grid, power plants, and nuclear applications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.12C
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• pp.1182-1191
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new hardware architecture for integer transform, quantizer, inverse quantizer, and inverse integer transform of a new video coding standard H.264/JVT. We describe the algorithm and derive hardware architecture emphasizing the importance of area for low cost and low power consumption. The proposed architecture has been verified by PCI-interfaced emulation board using APEX-II Alters FPGA and also by ASIC synthesis using Samsung 0.18 um CMOS cell library. The ASIC synthesis result shows that the proposed hardware can operate at 100 MHz, processing more than 1,300 QCIF video frames per second. The hardware is going to be used as a core module when implementing a complete H.264 video encoder/decoder ASIC for real-time multimedia application.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.570-581
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• 2017

Multiplication in finite fields is used in many applications, especially in cryptography. It is a basic and the most computationally intensive operation from among all such operations. Several systolic multipliers are proposed in the literature that offer low hardware complexity or high speed. In this paper, a bit-parallel polynomial basis systolic multiplier for generic irreducible polynomials is proposed based on a modified interleaved multiplication method. The hardware complexity and delay of the proposed multiplier are estimated, and a comparison with the corresponding multipliers available in the literature is presented. Of the corresponding multipliers, the proposed multiplier achieves a reduction in the hardware complexity of up to 20% when compared to the best multiplier for m = 163. The synthesis results of application-specific integrated circuit and field-programmable gate array implementations of the proposed multiplier are also presented. From the synthesis results, it is inferred that the proposed multiplier achieves low power consumption and low area complexitywhen compared to the best of the corresponding multipliers.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06b
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• pp.165-168
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• 2000

A hardware architecture to implement the SEED block cipher algorithm into one chip is described. Each functional unit is designed with VHDL hardware description language and synthesis tools. The designed hardware receives a 128-bit block of plain text input and a 128-bit key, and generates a 128-bit cipher block after 16-round operations after 8 clocks. The encryption time is within 20 nsec.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.31A no.6
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• pp.209-221
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• 1994

Timers are commonly used in hardware design for time delays that are to be much longer than the system clock period. In this paper, we present a method by which we can synthesie a hardware containing timers that implement long time delays described in VHDL. Because, in general, timers require high hardware cost, they must be utilized as efficiently as possible. To solve this problem we define a graph model and propose an algorithm that uses the graph model to minimize number of timers. A preliminary experimental result show that the algorithm implements all required time delays using minimum number of timers.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.619-633
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• 1993

A new High level hardware Description Language, ASPHODEL(Algorithm Synthesis Pascal Hardware for Optimal Design and Efficient Language), and its algorithm compiler for high level synthesis are described in this paper. The new HDL, appropriated to the description of algorithmic level and lower, models VLSI circuits as an abstracted block which is consisted of input/output ports and hierachical processors to control VLSI complexities with efficiency. Also, in order to improve the descriptive power, popular Pascal programming language is modified to build ASPHODEL syntax rules. ASPHODEL algorithm compiler generates an intermediate form through lexical and syntax analysis from ASPHODEL source codes. To show the validation of presented language and its compiler, those are applied to practical design examples.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.10-14
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• 2021

This paper presents a hardware that improves the complexity of the CIE1931 color coordinate algorithm operation. The conventional algorithm has disadvantage of growing hardware due to 4-Split Multiply operations used to calculate large bits in the computation process. But the proposed algorithm pre-calculates the defined R2X, X2R Matrix operations of the conventional algorithm and makes them a matrix. By applying the matrix to the images and improving the color, it is possible to reduce the amount of computation and hardware size. By comparing the results of Xilinx synthesis of hardware designed with Verilog, we can check the performance for real-time processing in 4K environments with reduced hardware resources. Furthermore, this paper validates the hardware mount behavior by presenting the execution results of the FPGA board.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.1303-1310
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• 1990

This paper describes the design and implementation of a system for automatic data path synthesis in digital system. There are four subtasks to synthesize a digital system: scheduling, register allocation, functional unit allocation and bus allocation. In this paper, force directed algorithm is used for the scheduling while new algorithms are proposed for the allocation subtasks. Synthesis results of two experimental data paths including MC6502 have shown that our proposed algorithm out goes most of previous works.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.31A no.12
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• pp.122-134
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• 1994

Design of a heuristic algorithm for high level synthesis of multichip architecture is presented in this paper. Considering the design constraints: individual chip area, I/O pin counts, chip-to-chip interconnection counts, interchip communication delay, and chip latecy, the proposed system automatically generates pipelined multichip architectures from behavioral descriptions. For efficient mulichip synthesis, a new methodology is proposed, which performs partitioning and schedulting of SFG into multichip architectures simultaneously. Experimental results for several benchmark programs show that the systems can be used for designing multichip hardware efficiently.