• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.145-157
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• 2007

OpenMP is an attractive parallel programming model for a chip multiprocessor because there is no standard parallel programming method for a chip multiprocessor and it is easy to write a parallel program in OpenMP. Then, chip multiprocessor systems can have various architectures according to target application programs. So, we need to implement OpenMP in different way for each system. In this paper, we propose the implementation and the effective translation of major OpenMP directives for a chip multiprocessor without using OS to improve the performance without using special hardware and without extending the OpenMP directives. We present the experimental results on our target platform CT3400.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.408-411
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• 1999

Microarchitecture simulator is an important tool to verify and optimize the microarchitecture of a new microprocessor. Moreover. it can be use as a performance simulator to estimate the target microprocessor′s performance. And system software designers can use it as a software developing environment. This paper describes a "microarchitecture simulator for on-chip Multiprocessor microprocessor". It is a program-driven and cycle-based simulator that can execute simultaneous mutithreading benchmarks. We verified the microarchitecture of a new on-chip multiprocessor microprocessor with it and did performance simulations to estimate the performance of the on-chip multiprocessor microprocessor.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.723-724
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• 2006

Exploiting the instruction level parallelism encountered with the limit. Single chip multiprocessor was introduced to overcome the limit of traditional processor using the instruction level parallelism. Also, a branch miss prediction is one of the causes that reduce the processor performance. In order to overcome the problems, in this paper, we make single chip multiprocessor having the idle core execute the two control flow of conditional branch. This scheme is a kind of multi-path execution technique based on single chip multiprocessor architecture.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.13-24
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• 2000

As more transistors are integrated onto bigger die, an on-chip multiprocessor will become a promising alternative to the superscalar microprocessor that dominates today's microprocessor marketplace. This paper describes key parts of a new on-chip multiprocessor, called Raptor, which is composed of four 2-way superscalar processor cores and one graphic co-processor. To obtain performance characteristics of Raptor, a program-driven simulator and its programming environment were developed. The simulation results showed that Raptor can exploit thread level parallelism effectively and offer a promising architecture for future on-chip multi-processor designs.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.558-566
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• 2000

Object recognition is a challenging application for high-performance computing. Currently, the superscalar architecture dominates todays microprocessor marketplace. As more transistors are integrated onto larger die, however, an on-chip multiprocessor is regarded as a promising alternative to the superscalar microprocessor. This paper examines the behavior of the object recognition on the on-chip multiprocessor, which will be employed in general-purpose parallel machines. To obtain the performance characteristics of the microprocessor, a program-driven simulator and its programming environment were developed. The simulation results showed that the on-chip multiprocessor can exploit thread level parallelisms effectively and offer a promising architecture for the object recognition application.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.751-754
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• 1998

This research aims at developing a single chip multiprocessor for high-performance computer system. Our design approach is to design a relatively small and simple processor unit and to integrate multiple copies of the unit in an efficient way. The proposed multiprocessor is composed of four CPUs and one graphic coprocessor. The four CPUs share the graphic coprocessor and each CPU implements the 64-bit SPARC-V9 instruction set architecture. This paper gives an overview of the proposed microarchitecture and discusses the considerations made in the course of the design.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.11 no.4
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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.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 1997

A multiprocessor microprocessor named SMPC(scaleable multiprocessor chip) that contains tow IU (integer unit) is presented in this paper. It can execute multiple instructions from several tasks exploiting task-level parallelism that is free from instruction dependencies, and provide high performance and throughput on both single program and multiprogramming environments. the IU is a 32-bit scalar processor expecially designed to boost up the performance of string manipulations which are frequently used in RDBMS(relational data base management system) applications. A memory management unit and a data cache shared by two IUs improve the performance and reduce the chip area required. ETH SMPC is implemented in VLSI circuit by custom design and automated design tools.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.3-12
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• 2001

Currently, the superscalar architecture dominates todays microprocessor marketplase. As, more transistors are integrated onto larger die, however, an on-chip multiprocessor is regarded as a promising alternative to the superscalar microprocessor. This paper examines the behavior of the next generation block encryption algorithms RC6 and Rijndael on the on-chip multiprocessing microprocessor. Based on the simulation results by using a program-driven simulator, the on-chip multiprocessor can exploit thread level parallelism effectively and overcome the limitation of instruction level parallelism in the next generation block encryption algorithms.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.767-770
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• 1998

This paper introduces an instruction fetch unit which is designed for RAPTOR, an on-chip multiprocessor. In order to reduce control hazards, the proposed fetch unit supports a hybrid branch prediction scheme which consists of a static scheme and the 2bC branch prediction scheme. The fetch unit also utilizes the branch folding technique with two instruction buffers to avoid the branch penalty caused by imspredictions. Instructions are predecoded in the fetch unit to achieve extra performance gain.