• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제35C권8호
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• pp.23-32
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose a memory compiler to genrate embedded RAMs and ROMs for ASIC chips. We design the leaf cells to be compsoed of memory blocks. The compiler is built using tile-based method to simplify routing. The compiler can genrate any memory layouts to satisfy 64 to 4096 words and 4 to 256 bits per word. The technology we used here is 0.8.mu.m single poly double metal CMOS process. The address access time and power consumption are verifie dthrough the HSPICE simulation.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.38-45
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 메모리 컴파일러를 정확하고 빠르게 특성화할 수 있도록 기준 메모리를 기반으로 특성화하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 특성화 방법은 메모리 컴파일러의 정확도를 유지하면서 특성화 시간을 최소화하기 위해 메모리 컴파일러의 타이밍 경향을 분석하고 분석 결과를 토대로 기준 메모리를 선정하고, 메모리간의 경향성을 대변할 수 있도록 모델링하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법론을 검증하기 위하여 130nm에서 개발된 메모리 컴파일러를 제안한 방법을 이용하여 110nm 메모리 컴파일러를 특성화하였다. 이를 통해 생성한 메모리들의 특성과 SPICE를 사용하여 특성화한 결과를 비교하여 메모리 타이밍의 평균 오차율은 ${\pm}0.1%$ 이내였으며 실제 110nm 공정을 사용하여 제작된 메모리 BIST(Built-In Self Test) 테스트 칩으로 기능 검사한 결과, 수율(Yield)이 98.8% 임을 확인하였다. 또한, 180nm 공정을 사용하여 비교한 결과, 수율이 98.3%로 그 유용성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.69-74
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• 2019

The compiler is the key of the prototyping framework for the new memory system. These compiler-centric prototyping tools have several components, including compiler, linker, assembler, and standard libraries. It takes a lot of cost and man power to develop it all at zero base. Therefore, developer usually use a development framework to develop these prototyping tools efficiently. These development frameworks should be free of licensing issues when considering the commercialization of development results. Thus, developer should investigate the development framework, which is free from licensing issues and that provides all of the development environment to enable actual execution. There are three representative compiler-centric development frameworks: GCC, Clang (LLVM), and MS visual studio. There are some differences depending on the release version among them. And, there are some limitations to the freeware and commercial use. We chose LLVM here to explain the development of prototyping tools. This information will help accelerate the development of prototyping tools and will help reduce system development costs.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.141-145
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• 2021

다양한 형태의 메모리 아키텍처가 개발되었고, 이를 효과적으로 사용하기 위한 여러 컴파일러 최적화 기법이 연구되었다. 특히, 모바일 컴퓨팅 디바이스에서 메모리는 성능을 결정하는 주요 컴포넌트이기 때문에 이를 지원하기 위한 다양한 최적화 기법들이 개발되었다. 최근에는 하이브리드 형태의 메모리 아키텍처에 대한 연구가 많이 진행되고 있기 때문에 이를 지원하기 위한 다양한 컴파일러 기법이 연구되고 있다. 시장의 요구조건에 맞추어 저전력에 대한 제약조건과 필요한 최소한의 성능을 달성하기 위하여 기존의 컴파일러 최적화 기법들이 사용될 수 있다. 이러한 최적화 기법들을 활용한 저전력 효과 및 성능 개선 정도를 파악하기 위한 레퍼런스가 제대로 제공되지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구는 기존의 컴파일러 기법에 대한 실험 결과를 멀티뱅크 메모리 아키텍처 개발의 레퍼런스로 제공하기 위하여 진행되었다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.6-11
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• 2018

As embedded memory technology evolves, the traditional Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) technology has reached the end of development. For deepening the manufacturing process technology, the next generation memory technology is highly required because of the exponentially increasing leakage current of SRAM. Non-volatile memories such as STT-MRAM (Spin Torque Transfer Magnetic Random Access Memory), PCM (Phase Change Memory) are good candidates for replacing SRAM technology in embedded memory systems. They have many advanced characteristics in the perspective of power consumption, leakage power, size (density) and latency. Nonetheless, nonvolatile memories have two major problems that hinder their use it the next-generation memory. First, the lifetime of the nonvolatile memory cell is limited by the number of write operations. Next, the write operation consumes more latency and power than the same size of the read operation.These disadvantages can be solved using the compiler. The disadvantage of non-volatile memory is in write operations. Therefore, when the compiler decides the layout of the data, it is solved by optimizing the write operation to allocate a lot of data to the SRAM. This study provides insights into how these compiler and architectural designs can be developed.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2003년도 가을 학술발표논문집 Vol.30 No.2 (1)
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• pp.196-198
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• 2003

Virtually every digital signal processors(DSPs) support on-chip multi- memory banks that allow the processor to access multiple words of data from memory in a single instruction cycle. Also, all existing fixed-point DSPs have irregular architecture of heterogeneous register which contains multiple register files that are distributed and dedicated to different sets of instructions. Although there have been several studies conducted to efficiently assign data to multi-memory banks, most of them assumed processors with relatively simple, homogeneous general-purpose resisters. Therefore, several vendor-provided compilers fer DSPs were unable to efficiently assign data to multiple data memory banks. thereby often failing to generate highly optimized code fer their machines. This paper presents an algorithm that helps the compiler to efficiently assign data to multi- memory banks. Our algorithm differs from previous work in that it assigns variables to memory banks in separate, decoupled code generation phases, instead of a single, tightly-coupled phase. The experimental results have revealed that our decoupled algorithm greatly simplifies our code generation process; thus our compiler runs extremely fast, yet generates target code that is comparable In quality to the code generated by a coupled approach

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.695-698
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• 1998

Today SOC(system on a chip) is a trend in VLSI design society. Especially MML(merged memory Logic) process provides designers with good chances to implement SOC which is consists of DRAM, SRAM, Logic and A/D mixed mode ciruit blocks. Designers need good circuit library which is reliable and easy to tune for specific design. For this need we present semi-automated analog compiler methodology. And we aplied this design methodology to resistor-string DAC design.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.274-282
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• 2016

This paper proposes code optimization techniques to reduce energy consumption of complex multimedia applications in a hybrid memory system with volatile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and non-volatile spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive RAM (STT-MRAM). The proposed approach analyzes read/write operations for variables in an application. Based on the profile, variables with a high read operation are allocated to STT-MRAM, and variables with a high write operation are allocated to DRAM to reduce energy consumption. In this paper, to optimize code for real-life complicated applications, we develop a profiler, a code modifier, and compiler/link scripts. The proposed techniques are applied to a Fast Forward Motion Picture Experts Group (FFmpeg) application. The experiment reduces energy consumption by up to 22%.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제18A권3호
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• pp.109-114
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• 2011

IR(Intermediate Representation) 최적화 과정은 컴파일러 back-end의 중요한 부분으로서 sub-expression elimination, dead code elimination 등 최적화 기법들을 사용한다. 하지만 IR 최적화 단계에서 생기는 에러들을 검출하고 디버깅하는데 많은 어려움이 있다. 그 첫 번째 이유로는 컴파일 된 어셈블리 코드를 해독하여 에러를 체크하기 어렵고 두 번째로는 IR 최적화 단계에서 에러가 생겼는지 결정 짓기 어렵기 때문이다. 이런 이유들로 인하여, 우리는 C 레벨에서 IR 코드변환 무결점 여부를 체크하기 위한 기법들에 관한 연구를 진행하여 왔다. 우리는 MeCC(Memory Comparison-based Clone) 탐색기를 기반으로 하여, 최적화하기 전 IR코드와 최적화 한 후의 IR코드를 각각 C코드로 다시 변환한 뒤, 이 두 개의 C코드를 MeCC의 입력으로 주고, 결과의 일치 여부를 확인하는 방법을 사용한다. 하지만 MeCC가 완벽한 결과를 알려주지 않기 때문에, 우리는 각 IR 최적화 기법마다의 특징에 대한 정보를 사전에 처리해서 그 결과의 정확도를 높였다. 이 논문에서는 dead code elimination, instruction scheduling 및 common sub-expression elimination 등 최적화 기법들을 이용한 변환 코드들을 예시로 실험하여 최종적으로 MeCC에서의 C 레벨 코드의 정확한 에러 체크 동작여부를 보여준다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.731-740
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• 2011

Reconfigurable computing using a field-programmable gate-array (FPGA) device has become a promising solution in system design because of its power efficiency and design flexibility. To bring the benefit of FPGA to many application programmers, there has been intensive research about automatic translation from high-level programming languages (HLL) such as C and C++ into hardware. However, the large gap of syntaxes and semantics between hardware and software programming makes the translation challenging. In this paper, we introduce a new approach for the translation by using the widely used GCC compiler. By simply adding a hardware description language (HDL) backend to the existing state-of- the-art compiler, we could minimize an effort to implement the translator while supporting full features of HLL in the HLL-to-HDL translation and providing high performance. Our translator, called GCC2Verilog, was implemented as the GCC's cross compiler targeting at FPGAs instead of microprocessor architectures. Our experiment shows that we could achieve a speedup of up to 34 times and 17 times on average with 4-port memory over PICO microprocessor execution in selected EEMBC benchmarks.