• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.318-328
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• 2011

Stage-level reconfigurable chip multiprocessor (CMP) aims to achieve highly reliable and fault tolerant computing by using interwoven pipeline stages and on-chip interconnect for communicating with each other. The existing crossbar-switch based stage-level reconfigurable CMPs offer high reliability at the cost of significant area/power overheads. These overheads make realizing large CMPs prohibitive due to the area and power consumed by heavy interconnection networks. On other hand, area/power-efficient architectures offer less reliability and inefficient stage-level resource utilization. In this paper, I propose a hierarchical multiplexing interconnection structure in lieu of crossbar interconnect to design area/power-efficient stage-level reconfigurable CMP. The proposed approach is able to keep the reliability offered by the crossbar-switch while reducing the area and power overheads. Experimental results show that the proposed approach reduces area by up to 21% and power by up to 32% when compared with the crossbar-switch based interconnection network.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.766-772
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• 1999

With the increase of portable system and high-density IC, power consumption of VLSI circuits is very important factor in design process. Power estimation is required in order to estimate the power consumption. A simple and correct solution of power estimation is to use circuit simulation. But it is very time consuming and inefficient way. Probabilistic method has been proposed to overcome this problem. Transition density using probability was an efficient method to estimate power consumption using BDD and Boolean difference. But it is difficult to build the BDD and compute complex Boolean difference. In this paper, we proposed Propowest. Propowest is building a digraph of circuit, and easy and fast in computing transition density by using modified COP algorithm. Propowest provides an efficient way for power estimation.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2002년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.11-15
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• 2002

Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) offers the advantages of simple and robust motor construction, high speeds and high efficiencies over a wide operating range of torque and speed, excellent controllability. However, SRM has the disadvantages of high current harmonics, and low power factor because of a capacitor filter is inserted in the power converter and inductance of SRM is high, it has pulse waveform of current. This paper deals with an energy efficient converter fed SRM system with the reduced harmonics and improved power factor and with higher efficiency. The validity of the proposed scheme is verified via experiment. We are implemented the proposed control system using 80C196KC micro-controller.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.68-80
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• 2007

This paper covers switched reluctance generator (SRG) and its comparison with induction and synchronous machines for distributed generation. The SRG is simple in design, robust in construction, and fault tolerant in operation; it can also withstand very high temperatures. However, the performance and cost of the SRG power electronics driver are highly affected by the topology and design of the converter. IGBT and MOSFET based converters are not suitable for very high power applications. This paper presents thyristor-based resonant converters which are superior candidates for very high power applications. Operations of the converters are analyzed and their characteristics and dynamics are determined in terms of the system parameters. The resonant converters are capable of handling high currents and voltages; these converters are highly efficient and reliable as well. Therefore, they are suitable for high power applications in the range of 1MW or larger for distributed generation.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.121-128
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• 1998

새로운 형태의 자기식 형광등 안정기를 설계 개발하여 고효율화 성능시험을 수행하였다. 새로운 철심재료인 고성능의 G-9 재료를 사용하고, 철심구조와 모양을 개선하였고 코일의 동선을 짧고 굵은 것으로 대체하여 직류저항 성분을 줄여서 안정기 자체의 에너지 손실을 감소시켰다. 반도체형 점등회로를 대폭 개선하여 순간 점등을 가능하게 하고 형광램프의 사용수명연장, 화재방지 등을 할 수 있게 하였다. 안정기 자체의 에너지 감소가 1.7Watt, 형광등 조명광 향상이 7.6[%] 증가 등 큰 에너지 절약을 보였다. 본 연구결과는 형광등 안정기의 기술 향상과 국가 전력소비 절감효과 등 중요한 의미가 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2005

With the recent advances in Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) technology, low cost and low power consumption wireless micro sensor nodes have become available. However, energy-efficient routing is one of the most important key technologies in wireless sensor networks as sensor nodes are highly energy-constrained. Therefore, many researchers have proposed routing protocols for sensor networks, especially cluster-based routing protocols, which have many advantages such as reduced control messages, bandwidth re-usability, and improved power control. Some protocols use information on the locations of sensor nodes to construct clusters efficiently. However, it is rare that all sensor nodes know their positions. In this article, we propose another cluster-based routing protocol for sensor networks. This protocol does not use information concerning the locations of sensor nodes, but uses the remaining energy of sensor networks and the desirable number of cluster heads according to the circumstances of the sensor networks. From performance simulation, we found that the proposed protocol shows better performance than the low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH).

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부A
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• pp.239-241
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• 1998

The probabilistic production simulation of power system generally has been used to formulate a reasonable power production plan or generation planning. It integrates the convolution process of a generating unit's random outage(FOR) with equivalent load duration curve(ELDC), and provides the reliability indices of power system. This paper presents the reliability characteristics of power system reflected on demand side management and proposes the modified ELDC representation technique due to the high-efficient end-use diffusion among the customers. Load reductions are simulated from the multi-state deconvolution process with the saved capacity of end-use. Case study shows the computed reliability from the power system production simulation incorporated with DSM planning scheme.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1629-1638
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• 2016

Differential power processing (DPP) systems are among the most effective architectures for photovoltaic (PV) power systems because they are highly efficient as a result of their distributed local maximum power point tracking ability, which allows the fractional processing of the total generated power. However, DPP systems require a high-efficiency, high step-up/down bidirectional converter with broad operating ranges and galvanic isolation. This study proposes a single, magnetic, high-efficiency, high step-up/down bidirectional DC-DC converter. The proposed converter is composed of a bidirectional flyback and a bidirectional isolated switched-capacitor cell, which are competitively cheap. The output terminals of the flyback converter and switched-capacitor cell are connected in series to obtain the voltage step-up. In the reverse power flow, the converter reciprocally operates with high efficiency across a broad operating range because it uses hard switching instead of soft switching. The proposed topology achieves a genuine on-off interleaved energy transfer at the transformer core and windings, thus providing an excellent utilization ratio. The dynamic characteristics of the converter are analyzed for the controller design. Finally, a 240 W hardware prototype is constructed to demonstrate the operation of the bidirectional converter under a current feedback control loop. To improve the efficiency of a PV system, the maximum power point tracking method is applied to the proposed converter.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.201-208
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• 2006

최근 에너지 절약에 대한 관심이 고조되면서 기존 광원보다 효율이 좋은 광원개발이 계속되고 있으며 그 대표적인 것이 고효율 및 고출력(high-power) LED이다. 고출력 LED의 개발로 인해 일부에서는 일반 조명용으로 사용하려는 연구가 진행 중이며 풍력과 태양광 발전을 이용한 야간 조명용 전원으로 사용하려는 연구도 진행되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 조명용 광원으로 직류 전원을 이용한 고출력 LED의 사용 가능성을 확인하고자 하며 기존 방식에 비하여 보다 안정적이고 효율이 좋은 새로운 LED 전원구동장치를 제안한다. 제안된 방식은 기존 방식보다 리액터의 크기를 줄일 수 있었으며 효율이 개선됨을 확인하였다.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.762-767
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• 2015

다양한 사물이 유무선 네트워크를 통해 연결되어 정보를 수집, 처리, 교환/공유하는 사물인터넷(IoT) 환경에서 대표적인 역할을 하는 것이 스마트폰, 태블릿과 같은 모바일 IoT 단말이다. 이 단말은 고성능 어플리케이션 서비스를 제공하기 위해 파워 소비량이 많은 편이지만 전원을 상시 공급할 수 없기 때문에 효율적으로 파워를 관리하는 것이 중요하다. 모바일 IoT 단말의 파워 소비에는 어플리케이션 프로세서(AP), AP 내/외부 하드웨어 모듈, 운영체제, 모바일 IoT 플랫폼, 어플리케이션 등 다양한 요소가 복잡하게 얽혀 있다. 따라서 파워 효율이 높은 모바일 IoT 단말을 개발하기 위해서는 이 관계를 체계적으로 파악하고 이를 바탕으로 파워 관리를 할 수 있도록 하는 방법이 필요하다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 파워 효율이 높은 모바일 IoT 단말 개발을 위한 소프트웨어 공학적 원칙을 소개한다. 제안하는 원칙은 스마트폰의 카메라 서비스 파워 관리 개발에 적용하여 검증하였다.