• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.115-121
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• 2023

RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture, and anyone can freely design and implement a RISC-V microprocessor. This paper designes and simulates the RISC-V architecture, synthesizing it in FPGA and verifying it using logic analyzer (ILA). RISC-V core is written in SystemVerilog, which has efficient design and high reusability, and can be used in various application fields. The RISC-V core is implemented as hardware by synthesizing it on the Ultra96-V2 FPGA board using Vivado, and the accuracy and operation of the design are verified through Integrated Logic Analyzer(ILA). As a result of the experiment, it is confirmed that the designed RISC-V core performs the expected operation, and these results can contribute to the design and verification of RISC-V based systems.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.239-245
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• 2019

RISC-V is a free and open ISA enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. Born in academia and research, RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation. In this paper, according to the emergence of RISC-V architecture, we describe the RISC-V processor instruction set constituted by arithmetic logic, memory, branch, control, status register, environment call and break point instructions. Using ModelSim and Quartus-II, 38 instructions of RISC-V has been successfully simulated and synthesized.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.473-480
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• 2021

To achieve the high-speed implementation of post-quantum cryptography, primitive operations should be tailored to the architecture of the target processor. In this paper, we present the optimized implementation of multiplier operation on RISC-V processor for post-quantum cryptography. Particularly, the column-wise multiplication algorithm is optimized with the primitive instruction of RISC-V processor, which improved the performance of 256-bit and 512-bit multiplication by 19% and 8% than previous works, respectively. Lastly, we suggest the instruction extension for the high-speed multiplication on the RISC-V processor.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.331-340
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• 2021

As the communication industry develops, the development of SoC (System on Chip) is increasing. Accordingly, the paradigm of technology design of industries and companies is changing. In the existing process, companies purchased micro-architecture, but now they purchase ISA (Instruction Set Architecture), and companies design the architecture themselves. RISC-V is an open instruction set based on a reduced instruction set computer. RISC-V is equipped with ISA, which can be expanded through modularization, and an expanded version of ISA is currently being developed through the support of global companies. In this paper, we present benchmarking frameworks ARIA, LEA, and PIPO of Korean block ciphers in RISC-V. We propose implementation methods and discuss performance by utilizing the basic instruction set and features of RISC-V.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2022

RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture which has a simple base structure and can be extensible depending on the purpose. In this paper, we designed a small and low-power 32-bit RISC-V processor to establish the base for research on RISC-V embedded systems. We designed a 2-stage pipelined processor which supports RISC-V base integer instruction set except for FENCE and EBREAK instructions. The processor also supports privileged ISA for trap handling. It used 1895 LUTs and 1195 flip-flops, and consumed 0.001W on Xilinx Zynq-7000 FPGA when synthesized using Vivado Design Suite. GPIO, UART, and timer peripherals are additionally used to compose the system. We verified the operation of the processor on FPGA with FreeRTOS at 16MHz. We used Dhrystone and Coremark benchmarks to measure the performance of the processor. This study aims to provide a low-power, high-efficiency microprocessor for future extension.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.1172-1175
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• 2020

Automotive ECU integrates CPU core, IVN controller, memory interface, sensor interface, I/O interface, and so on. Current automotive ECUs are often developed with proprietary processor architectures. However, demends for standard processors such as ARM and RISC-V increase rapidly for saftware compatibility in autonomous vehicles and connected cars. In this paper, an automotive ECU is designed for parking assist system based on RISC-V with open instruction set architecture. It includes 32b RISC-V CPU core, IVN controllers such as CAN and LIN, memory interfaces such as ROM and SRAM, and I/O interfaces such as SPI, UART, and I2C. Fabricated in 65nm CMOS technology, its operating frequency, area, and gate count are 50MHz, 0.37㎟, and 55,310 gates, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.309-322
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• 2021

In this study, an extension instruction set for high-speed operation of the ARIA block cipher algorithm on RISC-V processor is added to support high-speed cryptographic operation on low performance IoT devices. We propose the efficient ARIA cryptographic instruction set which runs on a conventional 32-bit processor. Compared to the existing software cryptographic operation, there is a significant performance improvement with proposed instruction set.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.576-578
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• 2022

딥러닝 기술의 발전으로 객체 인색, 영상 분석에 관한 성능이 비약적으로 발전하였다. 하지만 고성능 GPU 를 사용하는 컴퓨팅 환경이 아닌 제한적인 엣지 디바이스 환경에서의 영상 처리 및 딥러닝 모델의 적용을 위해서는 엣지 디바이스에서 딥러닝 모델 실행 환경 과 이에 대한 분석이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 RISC-V ISA 를 구현한 RISC-V 가상 플랫폼에 yolov3-tiny 모델 기반 객체 인식 시스템을 소프트웨어 레벨에서 포팅하여 구현하고, 샘플 이미지에 대한 네트워크 딥러닝 연산 및 객체 인식 알고리즘을 적용하여 그 결과를 도출하여 보았다. 본 적용을 바탕으로 RISC-V 기반 임베디드 엣지 디바이스 플랫폼에서 딥러닝 네트워크 연산과 객체 인식 알고리즘의 수행에 대한 분석과 딥러닝 연산 최적화를 위한 알고리즘 연구에 활용할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.27-32
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• 2022

RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) developed in 2010 at UC Berkeley, and active research is being conducted as a processor to compete with ARM. In this paper, we propose an SoC system including an RV32I ISA-based 32-bit 5-stage pipeline processor and AHB bus master. The proposed RISC-V processor supports 37 instructions, excluding FENCE, ECALL, and EBREAK instructions, out of a total of 40 instructions based on RV32I ISA. In addition, the RISC-V processor can be connected to peripheral devices such as BRAM, UART, and TIMER using the AHB-lite bus protocol through the proposed AHB bus master. The proposed SoC system was implemented in Arty A7-35T FPGA with 1,959 LUTs and 1,982 flip-flops. Furthermore, the proposed hardware has a maximum operating frequency of 50 MHz. In the Dhrystone benchmark, the proposed processor performance was confirmed to be 0.48 DMIPS.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.81-86
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• 2023

Recently, demand for embedded systems requiring low power and high specifications has been increasing, and RISC-V processors are being widely applied. RISC-V, a RISC-based open instruction set architecture (ISA), has been developed and researched by UC Berkeley and other researchers since 2010. RV32I ISA is sufficient to support integer operations such as addition and subtraction instructions, but M-extension should be defined for multiplication and division instructions. This paper proposes an RV32I, RV32IM processor, and indicates benchmark performance scores compared to an existing processor. Additionally, A non-stalling method was proposed to support a 2-stage pipelined DSP multiplier to the 5-stage pipelined RV32IM processor. Proposed RV32I and RV32IM processors satisfied a maximum operating frequency of 50 MHz on Artix-7 FPGA. The performance of the proposed processors was verified using benchmark programs from Dhrystone and Coremark. As a result, the Coremark benchmark results of the proposed processor showed that it outperformed the existing RV32IM processor by 23.91%.