• 연구논문집
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• s.24
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• pp.129-140
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• 1994

Design and implementation of monitoring and control system using dual-microprocessor node is presented for real time process. The proposed system is implemented with 2 of the single chip microprocessors in tightly coupled mode and results in speed up of $s_p=1.74.$ Under the assumption that the nodes are interconnected in multidrop. the overall system performance such as average throughout-delay characteristics and effective throughput are analyzed using M/G/1 gueueing model, and results show that the proposed node can be used to medium sized distributed monitoring and control system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.173-174
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• 2007

Through Silicon Via ( TSV)는 향후3D integration devices (CMOS image sensors) 와 보다 더 직접화되고 진보된 memory stack에 기여 할 것이다. 이는 한층 더 진보된 microprocessors system 을 구축 하리라 본다. 해서 본문은 TSV plasma etching processing 소개와 특히 Bosch process에 대한 개선 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.685-687
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• 2002

고성능 슈퍼스칼라 프로세서에서 값 예측 실패 시에 잘못 예측된 값을 사용하여 모험적으로 수행된 명령들만을 순차적으로 취소하고 복구한 후에 재이슈하는 값 예측 실패 복구 메커니즘을 제안한다. 제안된 복구 방식은 값 예측이 틀린 종속명령만을 선택적으로 재이슈하여 불필요한 재이슈를 줄임으로써 값 예측 실패 시에 손실을 줄인다. 또한 기존의 방식들처럼 잘못 예측된 명령에 종속적인 명령들의 한번에 병렬로 검색하지 않고 명령들의 종속체인을 따라 순차적으로 검색함으로써 프로세서의 클럭 사이클에 영향을 미치지 않으면서 하드웨어의 구현의 복잡성을 줄인다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.11
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• pp.56-62
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• 2008

Modern microprocessors must deliver high application performance, while the design process should not subordinate power. In terms of performance and power tradeoff, the instructions window is particularly important. This is because a large instruction window leads to achieve high performance. However, naive scaling conventional instruction window can severely affect the complexity and power consumption. This paper explores an architecture level approach to reduce power dissipation. We propose a low power issue logic with an efficient tag translation. The direct lookup table (DTL) issue logic eliminates the associative wake-up of conventional instruction window. The tag translation scheme deals with data dependencies and resource conflicts by using bit-vector based structure. Experimental results show that, for SPEC2000 benchmarks, the proposed design reduces power consumption by 24.45% on average over conventional approach.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.1497-1501
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• 2005

Branch instructions which make the sequential instruction flow changed cause pipeline stalls in microprocessor. The pipeline hazard due to branch instructions are the most serious problem that degrades the performance of microprocessors. Branch target buffer predicts whether a branch will be taken or not and supplies the address of the next instruction on the basis of that prediction. If the hanch target buffer predicts correctly, the instruction flow will not be stalled. This leads to the better performance of microprocessor. In this paper, the architecture of a ta8 memory that branch target buffer and TLB can share is presented. Because the two tag memories used for branch target buffer and TLB each is replaced by single combined tag memory, we can expect the smaller chip size and the faster prediction. This shared tag architecture is more advantageous for the microprocessors that uses more bits of address and exploits much more instruction level parallelism.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.401-407
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• 2000

Modern microprocessors exploit instruction-level parallel processing to increase the performance. Especially VLIW processors supported by the parallelizing compiler are used more and more in specific applications such as high-end DSP and graphic processing. Bus-based VLIW architecture was proposed for these specific applications and it was designed to reduce the overhead of forwarding unit and the instruction width. In this paper, a optimizing scheduling compiler developed for the proposed bus-based VLIW processor is introduced. First, the method to model interconnections between buses and resource usage patterns is described. Then, on the basis of the modeling, machine-dependent optimization techniques such as bus-to-register promotion, copy coalescing and operand substitution were implemented. Optimization techniques for general-purpose VLIW microprocessors such as selective scheduling and enhanced pipelining scheduling(EPS) were also implemented. The experiment result shows about 20% performance gain for multimedia application benchmarks.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.79-90
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• 2000

In this paper, a high-performance floating point unit, which is suitable for high-performance superscalar microprocessors and supports IEEE 754 standard, is designed. Floating-point arithmetic unit (AU) supports all denormalized number processing through hardware, while eliminating the additional delay time due to the denormalized number processing by proposing the proposed gradual underflow prediction (GUP) scheme. Contrary to the existing fixed-radix implementations, floating-point divide/square root unit adopts a new architecture which determines variable length quotient bits per cycle. The new architecture is superior to the SRT implementations in terms of performance and design complexity. Moreover, sophisticated exception prediction scheme enables precise exception to be implemented with ease on various superscalar microprocessors, and removes the stall cycles in division. Designed floating-point AU and divide/square root unit are integrated with and instruction decoder, register file, memory model and multiplier to form a floating-point unit, and its function and performance is verified.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.235-244
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• 2000

This paper presents a low power PLL based clock geneator circuit for microprocessors. It generates 32MHz${\sim}$1GHz clocks and can be integrated inside microprocessor chips. A high speed D Flip-Flop is designed using dynamic differential latch and a new Phase Frequency Detector(PFD) based on this FF is presented. The PFD enjoys low error characteristics in phase sensitivity and the PLL using this PFD has a low phase error. To improve the linearity of voltage controlled oscillator(VCO) in PLL, the voltage to current converter and current controlled oscillator combination is suggested. The resulting PLL provides wide lock range and extends frequency of generated clocks over 1 GHz. The clock generator is designed by using $0.65\;{\mu}m$ CMOS full custom technology and operates with $11\;{\mu}s$ lock-in time. The power consumption is less than 20mW.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.35-40
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• 2023

In this paper, a serial wireless LAN virtual communication module that allows microprocessors to communicate wirelessly with other peripheral devices is developed as part of a study to build an online virtual experiment system that allows them to practice virtually anytime, anywhere in microprocessor application education in electrical and electronic control engineering. The developed module is connected to the microprocessor in the virtual experiment system through serial interface. The serial data is sent to and received from peripheral devices through the wireless LAN interface of the host computer where the virtual experiment software is being performed. In order to verify the function of the developed serial wireless LAN virtual communication module, experiments were conducted in which a microprocessor in the virtual experiment system exchanged data with an Android smartphone through a wireless LAN interface of a host computer. The developed serial wireless LAN communication module is expected to enable virtual microprocessors to communicate with surrounding real devices through wireless LAN, which can be efficiently used in microprocessor application education.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.513-519
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• 2004

This paper presents a low power 16-bit adiabatic reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessor with efficient charge recovery logic (ECRL) registers. The processor consists of registers, a control block, a register file, a program counter, and an arithmetic and logical unit (ALU). Adiabatic circuits based on ECRL are designed using a $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. An adiabatic latch based on ECRL is proposed for signal interfaces for the first time, and an efficient four-phase supply clock generator is designed to provide power for the adiabatic processor. A static CMOS processor with the same architecture is designed to compare the energy consumption of adiabatic and non-adiabatic microprocessors. Simulation results show that the power consumption of the adiabatic microprocessor is about 1/3 compared to that of the static CMOS microprocessor.