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A GA-based Floorplanning method for Topological Constraint

  • Yoshikawa, Masaya;Terai, Hidekazu
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1098-1100
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    • 2005
  • The floorplanning problem is an essential design step in VLSI layout design and it is how to place rectangular modules as density as possible. And then, as the DSM advances, the VLSI chip becomes more congested even though more metal layers are used for routing. Usually, a VLSI chip includes several buses. As design increases in complexity, bus routing becomes a heavy task. To ease bus routing and avoid unnecessary iterations in physical design, we need to consider bus planning in early floorplanning stage. In this paper, we propose a floorplanning method for topological constraint consisting of bus constraint and memory constraint. The proposed algorithms based on Genetic Algorithm(GA) is adopted a sequence pair. For selection control, new objective functions are introduced for topological constraint. Studies on floor planning and cell placement have been reported as being applications of GA to the LSI layout problem. However, no studies have ever seen the effect of applying GA in consideration of topological constraint. Experimental results show improvement of bus and memory constraint.

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Development of the Pre-erection Block Arrangement System for Deckhouse (선실 PE장 정반배치 계획수립 시스템 개발)

  • Ha, Seung-Jin;Kim, Ji-On;Choi, Tae-Hoon
    • Special Issue of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • 2007.09a
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    • pp.79-88
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    • 2007
  • In this study, we improved the layout of deckhouse pre-erection area where erects the blocks and developed the pre-erection block arrangement system for the improvement of productivity and effectiveness. The major operating point of the pre-erection area is to fabricate as many as possible that has restrict area and working plate. The developed system has information management module, scheduling module, schedule control module, statistics module, and information integrate module. The heuristic algorithm is issued and evaluated with real data. And genetic algorithm is used for the evaluation of issued it.

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IoT Based Office Environment Improvement Plan - Focusing on Office Relocation Applying Block Stacking Principle - (사물인터넷 기반 사무환경개선방안 -블록 스태킹 원리를 적용한 사무실 재배치를 중심으로-)

  • Park, Kwang-Chul;Suh, Dong-Hyok
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the IOT-based desk layout method was proposed to complement the existing seating method and to improve the work efficiency. The IoT system for the desk layout needs determining the function, type and network protocol of the sensor to find out the working status of the desk to reasonably assist the worker's seat placement. A collection method was proposed. The algorithm used in Block Stacking was used when deciding how to allocate seats using the acquired data. As a result, we could suggest an arithmetic basis for rational desk layout in IoT environment and show that it can be applied to an advanced flexible seating system based on working type in addition to the preferences of employees in the future.

Analysis of Process and Layout Dependent Analog Performance of FinFET Structures using 3D Device Simulator (3D Device simulator를 사용한 공정과 Layout에 따른 FinFET 아날로그 특성 연구)

  • Noh, SeokSoon;Kwon, KeeWon;Kim, SoYoung
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, the analog performance of FinFET structure was estimated by extracting the DC/AC characteristics of the 22 nm process FinFET structures with different layout considering spacer and SEG using 3D device simulator, Sentaurus. Based on the analysis results, layout methods to enhance the analog performance of multi-fin FinFET structures are proposed. By adding the spacer and SEG structures, the drive current of 1-fin FinFET increases. However, the unity gain frequency, $f_T$, reduces by 19.4 % due to the increase in the total capacitance caused by the added spacer. If the process element is not included in multi-fin FinFET, replacing 1-finger with 2-finger structure brings approximately 10 % of analog performance improvement. Considering the process factors, we propose methods to maximize the analog performance by optimizing the interconnect and gate structures.

The Basic Study on Improvement Bridge Layout by Link Analysis in Korean Coastal Large Trawler (링크분석에 의한 우리나라 근해대형트롤선의 선교 레이아웃 개선에 관한 기초연구)

  • Kim, Min-Son;Shin, Hyeon Ok
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.724-732
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study is to obtain a basic data on layout of the trawlers' bridge equipment. The task activities of bridge workers involved in the navigation and fishing operation were analyzed by link analysis methods. The results are as follows. It was found that the movement pattern and frequency of bridge workers are different accordance with the bridge work (navigation, casting net, towing net and hauling net). The central workstation of movement of the bridge workers was a radar workstation, a steering workstation and a trawl winch workstation in the bridge work. But the radar did not show up as the center of movement during the hauling net. Workstations related deeply to the central workstations of the movement on the bridge were as below. Radar workstation was related to a GPS plotter, a microphone location for external communication with VHF and MF/HF equipment and a steering in the case of the navigation, the steering, the GPS plotter and the net monitor in the case of the fishing operation. Steering workstation was related deeply to the GPS plotter, the radar in the case of the navigation, a speed controller, the GPS plotter, a fish finder, the net monitor and the microphone location in the case of the fishing operation. Trawl winch workstation showed deep relation with the GPS plotter and the speed control during the fishing operation. Through this study, it was found that Workstations related deeply to the central workstation of the movement of the bridge workers in accordance with the bridge work. The results of this study might be utilized as the basic data on the bridge layout to minimize the fatigue degree due to a physical movement of the bridge workers.

A Study on the Air Flow Characteristics in an Apartment Complex and Ventilation Performance of an Individual Unit for Improving IAQ (주동형태 변화에 따른 아파트 단지내 기류분석 및 단위주호의 환기성능에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-Hyun;Lee, Seung-Hee;Kim, Taeyeon
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2005
  • The recent trends of high-density and high-rise in apartment housing have caused the problems of decrease in ventilation rates and increase of indoor pollutant contaminants. SHS(Sick House Syndrome) has now become a major issue and threats the health of residents. To solve these indoor air problems, increase in ventilation rate is considered as one of the most efficient approach. Thus, the recent housing development is pursuing improvement in the site design and the layout of apartment building blocks to promote natural ventilation is now investigated as one of the fundamental solutions. This study was focused on the air flow characteristics of outdoor environment in an apartment complex to keep the pollutants out of the site. Age of air and pressure difference have been used as indices of the outdoor air quality. Four different types of apartment building layouts have been analyzed by CFD simulation. This study again selected a real apartment housing complex as a case study model. By analyzing the pressure differences between the front and rear of an apartment building block, the ventilation performance in each individual unit was evaluated, and its impact on ventilation performance is investigated by analyzing the stagnant air around the apartment building blocks. During this process, existing patterns of apartment housing layout have been evaluated, and the most appropriate site layout has been chosen to analyze the outdoor airflow patterns. Based on the analysis of airflow patterns of site layout, the possibilities of improving ventilation performance of an individual apartment housing is proposed.

Comparative analysis of fishing operation with the difference of deck layout of Korean coastal large trawler (우리나라 근해 대형트롤 어선의 갑판 레이아웃 차이에 따른 어로작업의 비교 분석)

  • Kim, Min-Son;Kang, Kyong-Mi;Lee, Ju-Hee;Shin, Hyeon-Ok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.311-326
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    • 2013
  • For providing a basic data concerning with a fishing deck layout design of a trawler the authors conducted the video observations about the working activities of crews on the deck in the different layout of two Korean coastal large stern trawlers (gross tonnage: 139). The winch of the trawler-A was installed on the aft of the fishing deck and the trawler-B, on the forward of the fishing deck. The work and activities of the deck hands on both trawlers were observed using the CCD (charge coupled device) camera installed on each trawler's deck for one month from August 3, 2010. The video data was analyzed by the hierarchical task analysis (HTA) method. In results, numbers of tasks to require deck hands during the hauling net and the casting net were 25 and 28 for the trawler-A and 27 and 48 for the trawler-B, respectively. The working processes were represented a same in both of the trawlers. Location for controlling the deck machineries, the location installed trawl winch, kinds of deck machineries, crew's custom for using deck machineries were the factor affecting to the number of the task. In the case of the improvement suggested in the results is carried out, the reduction percentages of the number of task in the trawler-A and trawler-B were estimated as 24.5% and 51.3%, respectively. Through this study it was found that the quantitative analysis is possible for the work processes, work methods and the work contents in the trawler. Also the suggestion for improving the fishing deck layout design of the trawler was possible by finding out the factors increasing the number of tasks and removing the tasks. We expect that the results of this paper are used as a basic data for designing the layout of deck machineries in the trawler in the future.

Study on precision improvement in weight measurement of an egg for the automatic egg sorting system (계란(鷄卵) 자동(自動) 선별기(選別機)의 난중측정(卵重測定) 정밀도(精密度) 향상(向上)에 관(關)한 기초연구(基礎硏究))

  • Kim, K.D.;Bok, J.S.
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.48-53
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    • 2000
  • The various errors existing in a weight measurement system in most automatic egg sorting system available in Korean poultry farms have caused a large amount of economic losses to the egg producers. The object of this study was an importance of egg measurement system by changing both the number and the arrangements of load cells to reduce measuring errors. The results obtained were summarized as follow : 1. Four arrangements of load cells were selected as follows : layout I : Conventional one load cell method layout II : One load cell located as egg moving direction layout III : Two load cells located facing each other layout IV : Two load cells located as parallel with egg moving direction 2. The results of egg weight measurement according to four arrangements (Layout I, II, III, IV) showed that the average errors were 1.1218g, 0.5953g, 0.7786g, 0.2793g respectively. This indicated that the Layout IV (measuring by 2 load cells located parallel with the egg moving direction) caused the lowest average error and the best in precision. 3. The average vibration of axis X, y, Z were resulted as $5.1937{\times}10^{-3}G$, $9.3604{\times}10^{-3}G$, and $16.8657{\times}10^{-3}G$ respectively when sorting large sized egg. This indicated that the vibration of axis-Z was relatively higher than those of axis-X, and axis-Y.

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Improvement of Address Pointer Assignment in DSP Code Generation (DSP용 코드 생성에서 주소 포인터 할당 성능 향상 기법)

  • Lee, Hee-Jin;Lee, Jong-Yeol
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.37-47
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    • 2008
  • Exploitation of address generation units which are typically provided in DSPs plays an important role in DSP code generation since that perform fast address computation in parallel to the central data path. Offset assignment is optimization of memory layout for program variables by taking advantage of the capabilities of address generation units, consists of memory layout generation and address pointer assignment steps. In this paper, we propose an effective address pointer assignment method to minimize the number of address calculation instructions in DSP code generation. The proposed approach reduces the time complexity of a conventional address pointer assignment algorithm with fixed memory layouts by using minimum cost-nodes breaking. In order to contract memory size and processing time, we employ a powerful pruning technique. Moreover our proposed approach improves the initial solution iteratively by changing the memory layout for each iteration because the memory layout affects the result of the address pointer assignment algorithm. We applied the proposed approach to about 3,000 sequences of the OffsetStone benchmarks to demonstrate the effectiveness of the our approach. Experimental results with benchmarks show an average improvement of 25.9% in the address codes over previous works.

Seismic Performance Improvement of Concrete Gravity Dam by Post-tensioned Anchors (앵커공법을 적용한 기존 콘크리트 중력식 댐의 내진성능 보강방안)

  • Kim, Yongon;Kim, Se-Il;Ok, Seung-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.49-53
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    • 2013
  • This paper describes the assessment of seismic performance of the concrete gravity dam seismically reinforced by post-tensioned anchors. In order to evaluate the seismic performance, the response spectrum analyses have been carried out for 7 different configurations of the post-tensioned anchors, and then their performance improvement in the maximum tensile and compressive stresses is compared to each other. The comparative results demonstrate that the layout of the post-tensioned anchors strongly influences the seismic performance of the concrete gravity dam. In this study, the slightly-inclined vertical anchorage system shows the largest improvement on the overall performance of the seismically-excited concrete gravity dam.