• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.2116-2120
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• 2003

A frame buffer device is an abstraction for the graphic hardware. It allows application software to access the graphic hardware through a well-defined interface, so that the software doesn’t need to know anything about the low-level interface stuff. We develop a frame buffer driver for VIA’s CLE266 graphic system based on ‘Qplus’, an embedded linux operating system developed by ETRI. Then, it will be seen that our frame buffer system is applied to embedded solutions such as movie player and X server successfully.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.247-249
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 임베디드 리눅스와 그에 따른 통합 개발 환경인 QpusME/Esto에서 제공하는 전력소모량 분석도구를 이용하여 H.264 디코더의 함수별 전력 소모량을 측정하여 공개함으로써 향후 연구에 기반 정보로 사용하도록 한다. 또한 이를 이용하여 MacroBlock 디코딩시, 전력을 줄일 수 있는 다양한 방법 중 하나의 예를 제시하고 그 실험 결과를 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.487-489
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 센서 네트워크를 위한 운영체제인 Nano-Qplus를 기반으로 수행되는 센서 네트워크를 위한 프로그램의 코드를 자동으로 생성하는 기법을 제시한다. 즉, 센서 네트워크를 구성하는 센서, 라우터, 싱크, 엑츄에이터와 같은 노드들이 수행해야 하는 기능에 대한 코드를 자동으로 생성하도록 하는 기법을 제시한다. 센서 네트워크에 대한 모델을 작성하고, 이를 바탕으로 센서 네트워크의 각 노드에 대한 속성을 스크립트를 통하여 설정하면 각 노드를 동작시킬 수 있는 프로그램이 자동으로 생성된다. 이를 위하여 각 노드의 속성을 설정할 수 있는 스크립트와 프로그램을 자동으로 생성하는 알고리즘을 제공한다. 본 논문에서 제시한 기법을 이용하면 센서 네트워크를 구성하는 각 노드에 대한 속성설정만으로 실행코드를 자동으로 생성함으로써 센서 네트워크를 이용하는 어플리케이션을 개발하는데 소요되는 노력을 줄일 수 있으며, 신속한 코드생성을 통해 조기에 테스트를 수행하여, 오류를 찾아내어 수정함으로써 검증된 코드를 생성할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06c
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• pp.217-219
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• 2006

일반적으로 수십 개에서 많게는 수백 수천 개의 센서노드로 구성된 센서네트워크 환경에서 각 노드들은 제한된 저장 공간과 효율적인 에너지자원소비 등의 제약사항을 가지고 있다. 따라서 센서노드에서 응용모듈에 대한 형상관리를 수행하기에는 어려움이 있다. 본 논문은 한국전자통신연구원(ETRI)에서 개발된 나노큐플러스 운영체제(Nano-Qplus OS)기반의 센서네트워크 환경에서 각 노드들의 저장 공간이나 에너지 자원 등의 여러 제약조건을 고려한 버전동기화 도구를 제안한다. 이것은 윈도우즈 기반의 eclipse개발환경과 버전관리도구인 CVSNT와 연동하여 각 응용모듈의 버전을 관리하고, 이를 이용하여 본 논문에서 소개하는 센서노드와 버전정보 저장소간의 버전동기화 도구인 NVSync(Nano-Qplus Version Synchronization)를 사용하여 센서노드의 응용모듈과 동기화함으로써 동적으로 노드들의 응용모듈을 재구성할 수 있게 한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.393-409
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a multi-task debugging environment for Qplus-T embedded-system such as internet information appliances. We will propose the structure and functions of a remote multi-task debugging environment supporting environment effective ross-development. And, we are going enhance the communication architecture between the host and target system to provide more efficient cross-development environment. The remote development toolset called Q+Esto consists to several independent support tools: an interactive shell, a remote debugger, a resource monitor, a target manager and a debug agent. Excepting a debug agent, all these support tools reside on the host systems. Using the remote multi-task debugger on the host, the developer can spawn and debug tasks on the target run-time system. It can also be attached to already-running tasks spawned from the application or from interactive shell. Application code can be viewed as C/C++ source, or as assembly-level code. It incorporates a variety of display windows for source, registers, local/global variables, stack frame, memory, event traces and so on. The target manager implements common functions that are shared by Q+Esto tools, e.g., the host-target communication, object file loading, and management of target-resident host tool´s memory pool and target system´s symbol-table, and so on. These functions are called OPEn C APIs and they greatly improve the extensibility of the Q+Esto Toolset. The Q+Esto target manager is responsible for communicating between host and target system. Also, there exist a counterpart on the target system communicating with the host target manager, which is called debug agent. Debug agent is a daemon task on real-time operating systems in the target system. It gets debugging requests from the host tools including debugger via target manager, interprets the requests, executes them and sends the results to the host.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.17A no.3
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• pp.127-136
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• 2010

A wireless sensor network(WSN) which roles as a mediator between living environment and computers in ubiquitous computing is very essential research area. Due to the constraint that sensor nodes should work in very resource-restricted circumstances, an operating system that can manage resources effectively is demanded. Also, a sensor network should be able to deal with many events quickly and simultaneously in order to respond to various physical changes in outer environment. The Sensor Network Operating System such as TinyOS, MANTIS and NanoQplus is much designed so that it can satisfy such requirement. But, for programmers who develop application program for sensor networks, they have lack of frameworks which the development is easily possible from restricted development environment. In this paper for this, we implemented a state machine framework apt for responsive systems in NanoQplus which is multi-thread-based sensor network operating system. In addition we propose an event broker module(EBM) for effective event dispatching, a message data structure for message sharing among state machines, and an execution module that handles messages and their queue and performs state transition of the machines. Furthermore, we could do the development more easily an application program with a state-based framework by developing CASE tools.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.231-242
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• 2004

Remote control and monitoring of information appliances require RTOS and TCP/IP network module to communicate each other. Traditional TCP/IP protocol stacks, however, require relatively large resources to be useful in small 8 or 16-bit systems both in terms of code size and memory usage. It motivates design and implementation of micro TCP/IP that is lightweight for embedded systems. Micro embedded web server is also required to control and monitor information appliances through the Web. In this paper, we design and implement micro TCP/IP and Web server for information appliances. For this goal, we investigate requirements for the interoperability of embedded systems with the Internet and the Web-based control of embedded systems. Next, we compare our micro TCP/IP protocol stack with that of RTIP and QPlus in terms of object code size and performance. The size of micro TCP/IP protocol stack can be reduced by 3/2 and 1/4, respectively, comparing with that of RTIP and QPlus. We also show that the performance of our micro TCP/IP is similar to that of RTIP and QPlus since it handles 2.9Mbps when delayed ACK is not adapted.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1655-1658
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• 2004

In this paper, we design and implement remote servo motor control system with real-time micro embedded operating system. The system, where controller and camera image grabber are mounted, handles control commands transmitted from a remote PC web browser. A hard real-time servo motor driver running on the real-time micro embedded OS and then a digital control application which confirms precise sampling time intervals is constructed. Frame grabber images transmitted from camera are saved in a image data format to view on remote PC web browser.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.252-254
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a design for URC (Ubiquitous Robotics Companion) robot S/W platform. The URC robot S/W platform is based on the Qplus/Esto which is developing in ETRI and applied for URC robot reference S/W platform that we use it in case of many different robots with same interface. We expect the platform to save the developing time, to improve the compatibility and to reuse the developed contents.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.572-580
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• 2007

Wireless sensor networks are sensing, computing and communication infrastructures that allow us to monitor, instrument, observe, and respond to phenomena in the harsh environment. Generally, the wireless sensor networks are composed of many deployed sensor nodes that were designed to be very cost-efficient in terms of production cost. For example, UC Berkeley's MICA motes have only 8-bit CPU, 4KB RAM, and 128KB FLASH memory space. Therefore, sensor operating systems that run on the sensor nodes should be able to operate efficiently in terms of the resource management. In this paper, we present a dynamic threads stack management scheme for space-constrained and multi-threaded sensor operating systems. In this scheme, the necessary stack space of each function is measured on compile-time. Then, the information is used to dynamically allocate and release each function's stack space on run-time. It was implemented in Nano-Qplus sensor operating system. Our experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing fixed-size stack allocation mechanism.