• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.123-125
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• 2011

A SATA hard disk has been widely used in recent years and NCQ is one of its crucial features. Despite the development from IDE to SATA disk, there is still much room for improvement for a SATA disk. In addition, until now a hard disk is a black box to us and it is very hard to make research at the level of a disk controller. To enhance the performance of NCQ, we try to do I/O clustering over the requests, which combines multiple sequential requests into a single large one. To evaluate the effect of an I/O clustering mechanism, we created a simple but practical SATA hard disk simulator. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective in enhancing the I/O performance of a SATA disk.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.47-53
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• 2013

In this work, signal transmission properties of SATA connector have been improved using its differential impedance calculation and its design revision to closer impedance matching. Using 3 dimensional electromagnetic field simulator, the differential mode S-parameter was calculated to investigate its signal fidelity. The differential impedance is calculated from the equation of the odd mode impedance with inductance, capacitance, mutual inductance, and mutual capacitance. The differential impedance of SATA connector was calculated to be $107.3{\Omega}$ and did not meet the design specification with $100{\Omega}{\pm}5%$. In order to achieve its impedance range and improve its signal transmission properties, SATA connector's design has been revised with two different directions and analyzed through the calculation of differential impedance, differential reflection loss, and differential insertion loss.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.201-211
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• 2012

This paper addresses a Full Disk Encryption hardware processor for SATA HDD in a single FPGA design, and shows its experimental result using an FPGA board. The proposed processor mainly consists of two blocks: the first block processes XTS-AES block cipher which is the IEEE P1619 standard of storage media encryption and the second block executes the interface between SATA Host (PC) and Device (HDD). To minimize the performance degradation, we designed the XTS-AES block with the 4-stage pipelined structure which can process a 128-bit block per 4 clock cycles and has 4.8Gbps (max) performance. Also, we implemented the proposed design with Xilinx ML507 FPGA board and our experiment showed 140MB/sec read/write speed in Windows XP 32-bit and a SATA II HDD. This performance is almost equivalent with the speed of the direct SATA connection without FDE devices, hence our proposed processor is very suitable for SATA HDD Full Disk Encryption environments.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2012.05b
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• pp.800-803
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 SATA(Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) 커넥터의 차동 임피던스를 정합하여 신호 전달 특성을 개선한다. 3차원 FEM(Finite Elements Method) 전자기장 시뮬레이터를 이용하여 SATA 커넥터의 차동 모드 S-파라미터를 추출하고, 신호 전달 특성을 분석한다. SATA 커넥터의 반사 손실 ($S_{dd11}$)은 5 GHz 까지 20 dB 이하의 값을 나타내고, 삽입 손실($S_{dd21}$)은 0.1 dB 이하의 값을 나타낸다. 또한 인덕턴스, 커패시턴스, 상호 인덕턴스, 상호 커패시턴스를 추출하여 차동 임피던스를 계산한다. SATA 커넥터의 차동 임피던스는 107.3 ${\Omega}$으로 부정합이다. 차동 임피던스를 정합하기위해서 커넥터 신호 핀을 dx 방향으로 설계 변경한다. $d_x$ 방향으로 0.04 mm 증가 시켰을 때 차동 임피던스가 99.5 ${\Omega}$으로 최적으로 정합되었다. 또한 반사 손실은 1.5 GHz 에서 11 dB 개선되고, 삽입 손실은 최대 약 0.05 dB 개선되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Clinical Electrophysiology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.87-100
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• 2003

The present studies have been designed to evaluate the effect of acute wound healing that frequency and intensity of pulsed ultrasound application in diabetic rat. Mild diabetes mellitus was induced in rat with 45 mg/kg streptozotocin. The results were analyzed and summarized as follows: 1. The rate of wound length on ultrasonic capacity in $1.0\;W/cm^2$ $SATA_i$ group was more significantly decreased than $0.5\;W/cm^2$ $SATA_i$ group. 2. In the histological change, the $1.0\;W/cm^2$ $SATA_i$ application group was more effective than $0.5\;W/cm^2$ $SATA_i$ group, decrease of inflammatory cell was significantly in several groups. From the conclusions above, in this study application of 3 MHz pulsed ultrasound in acute wound healing, $1.0\;W/cm^2$ $SATA_i$ capacity can be an effective way of promotion wound healing than $0.5\;W/cm^2$ $SATA_i$ capacity in diabetic rat.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.651-652
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• 2010

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.129-133
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• 2011

A spread spectrum clock generation is an efficient way to reduce electro-magnetic interference (EMI) radiation in modern mixed signal chip systems. The proposed circuit generates the spread spectrum clock by directly injecting the modulation voltage into the voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) current source for SATA II. The resulting 33KHz modulation profile has a Hersey-Kiss shape with a rounded peak. The chip has been fabricated using $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and test results show that the proposed circuit achieves 0.509% (5090ppm) down spreading at 1.5GHz and peak power reduction of 10dB. The active chip area is 0.36mm ${\times}$ 0.49mm and the chip consumes 30mW power at 1.5GHz.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.428-433
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• 2017

Recently, the demand for high performance non-volatile memory storage devices that can replace existing hard disks has been increasing in environments requiring high performance computing such as data-centers and social network services. The performance of such non-volatile memory can greatly depend on the interface between the host and the storage device. With the evolution of storage interfaces, the non-volatile memory express (NVMe) interface has emerged, which can replace serial attached SCSI and serial ATA (SAS/SATA) interfaces based on existing hard disks. The NVMe interface has a higher level of scalability and provides lower latency than traditional interfaces. In this paper, an evaluation and analysis are conducted of the performance of NVMe storage devices through various workloads. We also compare and evaluate the cost efficiency of NVMe SSD and SATA SSD.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.55-61
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• 2017

In radio astronomy, high-capacity HDDs are being used to save huge amounts of HDDs in order to record the observational data. For VLBI observations, observational speeds increase and huge amounts of observational data must be stored as they expand to broadband. As the HDD is frequently used, the number of failures occurred, and then it takes a lot of time to recover it. In addition, if a failed HDD is continuously used, observational data loss occurs. And it costs a lot of money to buy a new HDD. In this study, we developed the integrity verification system of the Serial ATA HDD using FirmOS. The FirmOS is an OS that has been developed to function exclusively for specific purposes on a system having a general server board and CPU. The developed system performs the process of writing and reading specific patterns of data in a physical area of the SATA HDD based on a FirmOS. In addition, we introduced a method to investigate the integrity of HDD integrity by comparing it with the stored pattern data from the HDD controller. Using the developed system, it was easy to determine whether the disk pack used in VLBI observations has error or not, and it is very useful to improve the observation efficiency. This paper introduces the detail for the design, configuration, testing, etc. of the SATA HDD integrity verification system developed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.64-70
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• 2009

A 6-Gbps feed-forward equalizer having a 6.2-dB gain at 3GHz is designed in 0.13-um CMOS technology and the equalizer helps error-free data recovery over a 7-m SATA cable with 14.7dB loss. Based on a differentially-connected varactor, the proposed equalizer uses only a one-fourth varactor size of a conventional equalizer, which enables the equalizer's integration in a pad-frame, high operating frequency, and low power dissipation of 3.6mW.