• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.7
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• pp.78-86
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• 2010

This paper discusses the programming model of SODA-II that is a baseband processor for software defined radio (SDR) systems. Signal processing On-Demand Architecture Ⅱ (SODA-II) is an on-chip multiprocessor architecture consisting of four processor cores and each core has both an wide SIMD datapath and a scalar datapath. This architecture is appropriate for baseband processing that is a mixture of vector computations and scalar computations. The programming model of the SODA-II is based on C library routines. Because the library routines hide the details of complex SIMD datapath control procedures, end users can easily program the SODA-II without deep understanding on its architecture. In this paper, we discuss the details of library routines and how these routines are exploited in the implementation of baseband signal processing algorithms. As application examples, we show the implementation result of W-CDMA multipath searcher and OFDM demodulator on the SODA-II.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.8-14
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• 2012

Improving the speed of image processing is in great demand according to spread of high quality visual media or massive image applications such as 3D TV or movies, AR(Augmented reality). SIMD computer attached to a host computer can accelerate various image processing and massive data operations. MAMS is a multi-access memory system which is, along with multiple processing elements(PEs), adequate for establishing a high performance pipelined SIMD machine. MAMS supports simultaneous access to pq data elements within a horizontal, a vertical, or a block subarray with a constant interval in an arbitrary position in an $M{\times}N$ array of data elements, where the number of memory modules(MMs), m, is a prime number greater than pq. MAMS-PP4 is the first realization of the MAMS architecture, which consists of four PEs in a single chip and five MMs. This paper presents implementation of image processing algorithms and performance analysis for MAMS-PP16 which consists of 16 PEs with 17 MMs in an extension or the prior work, MAMS-PP4. The newly designed MAMS-PP16 has a 64 bit instruction format and application specific instruction set. The author develops a simulator of the MAMS-PP16 system, which implemented algorithms can be executed on. Performance analysis has done with this simulator executing implemented algorithms of processing images. The result of performance analysis verifies consistent response of MAMS-PP16 through the pyramid operation in image processing algorithms comparing with a Pentium-based serial processor. Executing the pyramid operation in MAMS-PP16 results in consistent response of processing time while randomly response time in a serial processor.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.883-891
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• 1998

This paper proposes a scheme to exploit SIMD parallelism in the simulation of Cellular Automata models. The basic idea is to increase the utilization of an ALU in the underlying computer and to reduce simulation time by exploiting the parallelism. Thus, several cells are packed into a computer word and transit their state together. To show the performance of the proposed simulation scheme, two Cellular Automata models are simulated under three distinct hardware environments. The results show considerably high simulation speed-up for every case. Especially, the simulation speedup with the proposed simulation scheme reaches nearly 20 times in the best case.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.294-301
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• 2016

In this paper, we present methods to efficiently parallelize iterative 3D image reconstruction by exploiting trigeneous devices (three different types of device) at the same time: a CPU, an integrated GPU, and a discrete GPU. We first present a technique that exploits single instruction multiple data (SIMD) architectures in GPUs. Then, we propose a performance estimation model, based on which we can easily find the optimal data partitioning on trigeneous devices. We found that the performance significantly varies by up to 6.23 times, depending on how SIMD units in GPUs are accessed. Then, by using trigeneous devices and the proposed estimation models, we achieve optimal partitioning and throughput, which corresponds to a 9.4% further improvement, compared to discrete GPU-only execution.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2018.07a
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• pp.1-2
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• 2018

해상 선박의 안전을 위해 해저의 객체 및 장애물의 정확한 탐지를 위해 해저환경에서 감쇠현상이 비교적 적은 음파 기반의 소나가 널리 활용된다. 그러나 기존의 소나 영상 시뮬레이션은 고해상도의 영상, 잡음 처리, 해저지형과 객체 데이터 등의 방대한 데이터 처리로 인해 물체 탐지 및 식별을 위한 처리속도와 비용이 크게 증가한다. 이러한 문제를 최소화하기 위해서 해저지형, 객체 생성과 잡음 처리 모델을 Multi-Threading, SIMD 등 병렬처리를 적용하여 처리속도를 최적화 한다. 본 논문에서는 혼합된 병렬처리 방법을 적용하여 소나를 기반으로 해저 환경 시뮬레이션을 위한 모의 신호를 생성하는 성능을 향상시킨다. 병렬처리로 인해 개선된 성능을 순차처리에 따른 속도와 실험적으로 비교한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.298-306
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• 2013

The scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) is an effective algorithm used in object recognition, panorama stitching, and image matching. However, due to its complexity, real-time processing is difficult to achieve with current software approaches. The increasing availability of parallel computers makes parallelizing these tasks an attractive approach. This paper proposes a novel parallel approach for SIFT algorithm implementation using a block filtering technique in a Gaussian convolution process on the SIMD Pixel Processor. This implementation fully exposes the available parallelism of the SIFT algorithm process and exploits the processing and input/output capabilities of the processor, which results in a system that can perform real-time image and video compression. We apply this implementation to images and measure the effectiveness of such an approach. Experimental simulation results indicate that the proposed method is capable of real-time applications, and the result of our parallel approach is outstanding in terms of the processing performance.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.39-52
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• 2009

Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is an effective algorithm in object recognition, panorama stitching, and image matching, however, due to its complexity, real time processing is difficult to achieve with software approaches. This paper proposes using a reconfigurable hardware processor with integer half kernel. The integer half kernel Gaussian reduces the Gaussian pyramid complexity in about half [] and the reconfigurable processor carries out a parallel implementation of a full search Fast SIFT algorithm. We use a low memory, fine grain single instruction stream multiple data stream (SIMD) pixel processor that is currently being developed. This implementation fully exposes the available parallelism of the SIFT algorithm process and exploits the processing and I/O capabilities of the processor which results in a system that can perform real time image and video compression. We apply this novel implementation to images and measure the effectiveness. Experimental simulation results indicate that the proposed implementation is capable of real time applications.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.530-533
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• 2011

방사형 그라디언트 페인트(radial gradient paint)는 벡터 그래픽스(vector graphics)에서 적은 정보로 다양한 효과를 적용시킬 수 있는 방법이다. 기본적으로 이 방법은 곱하기, 나누기, 제곱근 등의 복잡한 연산이 필요하기 때문에 모바일 같은 저성능 환경에 적합하지 않았다. 하지만 최근 모바일 기기들은 SIMD 연산 지원 및 고성능의 GPU 탑재 등으로 성능이 향상됨에 따라 이러한 문제를 해결할 수 있게 되었다. 본 논문은 ARM의 SIMD연산인 NEON을 이용하여 최대 2.6배의 성능을 가속시켰으며 GPU의 쉐이더를 이용하여 4.9배의 성능을 가속하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.453-456
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• 2012

최근 멀티코어 프로세서의 사용이 증가함에 따라 영상처리나 대용량 처리가 필요한 기술과 같은 다양한 분야에 OpenMP, SIMD 등과 같은 다양한 병렬화 기법들이 적용되고 있다. 특히, 영상처리 분야에서 Full-HD, UHD, 3D TV 등과 같이 높은 복잡도를 갖는 컨텐츠들의 수요가 높아짐에 따라 기존의 싱글코어 기반의 코덱에 병렬화를 적용하는 여러가지 기법들이 제안되어왔다. 본 논문은 기존의 OpenMP와 SIMD와 같은 병렬처리 기법을 H.264/AVC 코덱의 참조 소프트웨어 JM 18.2의 디코더에 적용함으로써 Full-HD영상을 실시간으로 디코딩하는 기법을 제안한다. 실험결과는 평균 38.338 fps의 프레임 율을 보이며 병렬처리시 평균 2배 이상 프레임 율이 증가함으로써 Full-HD 영상의 실시간 처리가 가능하다는 것을 보여준다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.1-11
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• 2011

As the use of mobile multimedia devices is increasing in the recent year, the needs for high-performance multimedia processors are increasing. In this regard, we propose a SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) based parallel processor that supports high-performance multimedia applications with low energy consumption. The proposed parallel processor consists of 16 processing elements (PEs) and operates on a 3-stage pipelining. Experimental results indicated that the proposed parallel processor outperforms conventional parallel processors in terms of performance. In addition, our proposed parallel processor outperforms commercial high-performance TI C6416 DSP in terms of performance (1.4-31.4x better) and energy efficiency (5.9-8.1x better) with same 130nm technology and 720 clock frequency. The proposed parallel processor was developed with verilog HDL and verified with a FPGA prototype system.