• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.762-765
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• 2021

In this paper, an automotive ECU (electronic control unit) with Kalman filter accelerator is designed and implemented. RISC-V is exploited as a processor core. Accelerator for Kalman filter matrix operation, CAN (controller area network) controller for in-vehicle network, and LIN (local interconnect network) controller are designed and embedded. Kalman filter operation consists of time update process and measurement update process. Current state variable and its error covariance are estimated in time update process. Final values are corrected from input measurement data and Kalman gain in measurement update process. Usually floating-point multiplication is exploited in software implementation, but fixed-point multiplier considering accuracy analysis is exploited in this paper to reduce hardware area. In 28nm silicon fabrication, its operating frequency, area, and gate counts are 100MHz, 0.37mm², and 760k gates, respectively.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.13A no.4 s.101
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• pp.275-288
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• 2006

Rapid design space exploration is crucial to customizing embedded system design for exploiting the application behavior. As the time-to-market becomes a key concern of the design, the approach based on an application specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) is considered more seriously as one alternative design methodology. In this approach, the instruction set architecture (ISA) for a target processor is frequently modified to best fit the application with regard to code size and speed. Two goals of this paper is to introduce our new retargetable compiler and how it has been used in ASIP-based design space exploration for a popular digital signal processing (DSP) application. Newly developed retargetable compiler provides not only the functionality of previous retargetable compilers but also visualizes the features of the application program and profiles it so that it can help architecture designers and application programmers to insert new application specific instructions into target architecture for performance increase. Given an initial RISC-style ISA for the target processor, we characterized the application code and incrementally updated the ISA with more application specific instructions to give the compiler a better chance to optimize assembly code for the application. We get 32% performance increase and 20% program size reduction using 6 audio codec specific instructions from retargetable compiler. Our experimental results manifest a glimpse of evidence that a higgly retargetable compiler is essential to rapidly prototype a new ASIP for a specific application.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.60-64
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• 2004

In this paper, we implemented a real-time remote home monitoring system which we have ported the Linux OS and HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol) web server. The GoAhead web server was ported using by ARM cross compiler. And then we used the analog to digital converter ADC0809 for sensing the vii able input signal at widely separated home. We have implemented linux device driver for ADC(Analog to Digital Convertor) and CGI-C(Common Gateway Interface - C language) application program using Client pull method for monitoring real-time changing data. The factor of monitoring is temperature, intensity of illumination and gas's existence. And this system has ability which check the status of out door and gas valve. We have designed the embedded web server system for home emergency monitoring in low cost.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2005

Embedded systems have a set of tasks to execute. These tasks can be implemented either on application specific hardware or as software running on a specific processor. The design of an embedded system involves the selection of hardware software resources, Partition of tasks into hardware and software, and performance evaluation. An accurate estimation of execution time for extreme cases (best and worst case) is important for hardware/software codesign. A tighter estimation of the execution time bound nay allow the use of a slower processor to execute the code and may help lower the system cost. In this paper, we consider an ARM-based embedded system and developed a tool to estimate the tight boundary of execution time of a task with loop bounds and any additional program path information. The tool we developed is based on an exiting timing analysis tool named 'Cinderella' which currently supports i960 and m68k architectures. We add a module to handle ARM ELF object file, which extracts control flow and debugging information, and a module to handle ARM instruction set so that the new tool can support ARM processor. We validate the tool by comparing the estimated bound of execution time with the run-time execution time measured by ARMulator for a selected bechmark programs.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1218-1219
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• 2011

본 논문은 KA555 Timer을 이용한 PWM회로로 구성된 아날로그 방식의 DC-DC Buck Converter와 AVR ATmega128를 이용한 PWM회로로 구성된 디지털 방식의 Buck Converter을 설계하여 각각의 특성을 비교 분석하였다. 제안된 컨버터들은 공통적으로 전원을 공급받아 전압분압회로를 통해 DC-DC Buck Converter의 PWM 제어회로부에 공급되며, 아날로그방식 컨버터의 제어부는 KA555 timer을 이용하여 구형파회로와 미분회로를 구성하고, 출력된 삼각파와 정현파를 KA555 timer을 이용하여 PWM파형으로 제어한다. 디지털방식의 컨버터는 AVR RISC 8-bit 마이크로프로세서 ATmega128을 이용하여 PWM 제어부를 구성하고 이를 LCD창을 통해 그 값을 확인할 수 있도록 설계하였다. 본 논문에서는 두 가지 방식의 제어부를 구성하여 제작 및 실험함으로써, 각각의 장단점을 비교하여 시스템 구성시 요구조건인 소형경량, 단가저감, 효율 등을 비교하여 그 상황에 맞는 설계가 가능할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.361-363
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 MPEG-4 Version2 Audio 표준에 근거하여 낮은 연산부담을 갖는 독자적인 엘고리즘을 적용한 MPEG-4 BSAC Audio 디코더를 개발하였다. 개발된 BSAC 디코더는 32bit RISC 구조를 갖는 Intel Xscale Processor 기반 시스템에 최적화하여 구현 및 평가를 수행하였다. 수행속도 증가 및 연산 정밀도 향상을 위해 각 기능 블록별 기능 및 구현 원리 연구와 32 bit 연산 구조를 파악하여, 이를 고정소수점 연산 구조로 구현함으로써 성능을 향상시켰다. 유한비트에 따른 오차 영향을 최소화하기 위해 데이터의 표현 범위에 대한 연구를 통해 근사한 오차를 최소화 하여 연산 정밀도를 향상 시키고자 하였다. 비선형 양자화기 및 filter bank 등 상대적으로 높은 연산 부담을 갖는 기능 블록은 Table look-up, 보간법, 지수연산 제거, pre/post scrambling 기법 등을 적용하여 최적화 하였다. 최종적으로 개발된 BSAC 디코더는 32 bit 연산 구조의 X-scale 프로세서를 탑재한 Development Board와 WindowsCE OS로 구성된 타겟 system에 이식하여 performance 평가하였으며, 높은 연산 정밀도 및 다른 수행속도를 확인할 수 있었다. 주관적인 청각 평가에서도 MPEG-4 reference 디코더와의 음원의 차이가 거의 없음을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.11
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• pp.225-234
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• 2006

In this paper, we design a combined security processor, ECC, MD-5, and AES, as a SIP for cryptography of securing contents. Each SIP is modeled and designed in VHDL and implemented as a reusable macro through logic synthesis, simulation and FPGA verification. To communicate with an ARM9 core, we design a BFM(Bus Functional Model) according to AMBA AHB specification. The combined security SIP for a platform-based SoC is implemented by integrating ECC, AES and MD-5 using the design kit including the ARM9 RISC core, one million-gate FPGA. Finally, it is fabricated into a MPW chip using Magna chip $0.25{\mu}m(4.7mm{\times}4.7mm$) CMOS technology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.340-343
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• 2005

A realization for digital multimedia receiving system using Conditional Access System is presented in this paper. The key word for descrambling is make from smart card and Conditional Access System, a Stabilization is grow up in the method. It is possible to decoding that of average 15 fame/second of H.264 video format and that 24Khz${\sim}$48Khz audio sample rate using dual processor that of high performance DSP and RISC. This system is evaluated correct descrambling procedure in test stream added that signed user data.

• Journal of Advanced Engineering and Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.349-353
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• 2012

Recently, Mobile multimedia equipments as smart phone and tablet pc requirement is increasing and this market is also being expanded. These mobile equipments require large multi-media function, so more power consumption is required. For these reasons, the needs of power management IC as switching type dc-dc converter and linear regulator have increased. DC-DC buck converter become more important in power management IC because the operating voltage of VLSI system is very low comparing to lithium-ion battery voltage. There are many people to be concerned about digital DC-DC converter without using external passive device recently. Digital controlled DC-DC converter is essential in mobile application to various external circumstance. This paper proposes the DC-DC Buck Converter using the AVR RISC 8-bit micro-processor control. The designed converter receives the input DC 18-30 [V] and the output voltage of DC-DC Converter changes by the feedback circuit using the A/D conversion function. Duty ratio is adjusted to maintain a constant output voltage 12 [V]. Proposed converter using the micro-processor control was compared to a typical boost converter. As a result, the current loss in the proposed converter was reduced about 10.7%. Input voltage and output voltage can be displayed on the LCD display to see the status of the operation.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.1
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• pp.61-68
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose the VLSI design of Multi-Format Video Decoder (MFD) to support video codec standards such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 and VC-1. The target of the proposed MFD is the Full HD (High Definition) video processing needed for the high-end D-TV SoC (System-on-Chip). The size of the design is reduced by sharing the common large-size resources such as the RISC processor and the on-chip memory among the different codecs. In addition, a detachable architecture is introduced in order to easily add or remove the codecs. The detachable architecture preserves the stability of the previously designed and verified codecs. The size of the design is about 2.4 M gates and the operating clock frequency is 225MHz in the Samsung 65nm process. The proposed MFD supports more than Full-HD (1080p@30fps) video decoding, and the largest number of video codec standards known so far.