• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.249-254
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• 2005

This paper presents a system-on-a-chip (SOC) design for digital TV. The single LSI incorporates almost all essential parts such as CPU, ISO/IEC 11172/13818 system/audio/video decoders, a video post-processor, a graphics/OSD processor and a display processor. It has analog IP's inside such as video DACs, an audio PLL, and a system PLL to reduce the system-level implementation cost. Descramblers and Smart Card interface are included to support widely used conditional access systems. The video decoder can decode two video streams simultaneously. The DSP-based audio decoder can process various audio coding specifications. The functional blocks for video quality enhancement also form outstanding features of this SoC. The SoC supports world-wide major DTV services including ATSC, ARIB, DVB, and DIRECTV.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.1211-1217
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• 2005

Current generation embedded systems are built around only a small number of SOCs, which are again based on general-purpose embedded micro-processors, such as ARM and MIPS. These RISC-based processors are not, however, designed for specific functions such as networking and multimedia processing, whose importances have increased dramatically in recent years. Network devices for small business and home networks, are especially dependent upon such SOCs based on general processors. Except for PHY and MAC layer functions, which are built with hardware, all the network functions are processed by the embedded micro-processor. Enabling technologies such as VDSL and FTTH promise Internet access with a much higher speed, while at the same time explore the limitations of general purpose microprocessors. In this paper we design a network processor, embed it into an SOC for Home gateway, evaluate the performance rigorously, and gauge a possibility for commercialization.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.55-67
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• 2003

본 고에서는 차세대 무선통신용 초소형 단말기 구현에서 RF 시스템의 성능 개선에 크게 기여하게 될 RF 집적형 안테나 기술 현황과 향후 발전 방향이 제시된다. 고성능을 유지하면서 초소형 RF 전치단을 실현하기 위한 능동소자와 안테나가 결합하여 복합 기능을 하는 능동 집적 안테나(AIA, Active Integrated Antenna) 기술 현황, RF 시스템 단일 패키지(RF-SOP, System On Package) 형태에 집적 가능한 안테나 및 미래의 꿈인 RF 시스템 단일 칩 (RF-SOC, System On Chip)을 향한 단일 칩 안테나 (AOC, antenna on chip) 기술 동향 등이 기술된다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.1071-1073
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• 2000

The use of HDL(Hardware Description Language) is now central to the ASIC(Application Specific Integrated Circuit). HDL-based ASIC can simplify the process of development and has a competition in market because it reduce the consuming time for the design of IC(Integrated circuit) in system level. Therefore, the development of power electronics system on chip (SOC), to design microcontroller and switching logic as one chip, is required extremely for the purpose of having reliability and low cost in power electronics which is based on switching elements. The major application of SOC is variable converter, active filter inverter for induction motor. UPS and power supply with a view to reducing electro-magnetic pollution.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• 제31권3_4호
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• pp.160-169
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• 2004

With an emergence of SOC from developed IC technology, the VLSI design has required the core re-use technique and modular test development. To minimize the cost of testing SOC, an efficient method is required to optimize the test time and area overhead in conjunction for the core test wrapper, which is one of the important elements for SOC test architecture. In this paper, we propose an efficient design strategy of core test wrapper to achieve the minimum cost for SOC testing. The proposed strategy adopted advantages of traditional methods and more developed to be successfully used in practice.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.729-732
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• 2011

Power consumption during testing System-On-Chip (SOC) is becoming increasingly important as the IP core increases in SOC. We present a new algorithm to reduce the scan-in power using the modified scan latch reordering and clock gating. We apply scan latch reordering technique for minimizing the hamming distance in scan vectors. Also, during scan latch reordering, the don't care inputs in scan vectors are assigned for low power. Also, we apply the clock gated scan cells. Experimental results for ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that reduced low power scan testing can be achieved in all cases.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• 제58권7호
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• pp.1418-1423
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• 2009

This paper describes the design and implementation of a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for image processing applications to use in wearable/mobile products. The target Soc consists of LEON 2 core, AMBA/APB bus-systems and custom-designed controllers. A new FPGA-based prototyping platform is implemented and used for design and verification of the target SoC. To ensure that the implemented SoC satisfies the required performances, an image processing application is performed.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.228-230
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• 2002

We present a new low power scan testing and test data compression method for System-On-a-Chip (SOC). The don't cares in unspecified scan vectors are mapped to binary values for low power and encoded by adaptive encoding method for higher compression. Also, the scan-in direction of scan vectors is determined for low power. Experimental results for full-scanned versions of ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that the proposed method has both low power and higher compression.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 한국정보과학회 2010년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.37 No.1(B)
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• pp.324-327
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• 2010

최근 카메라 센서는 ISP(Image Signal Processor)를 별도로 사용하지 않고 SOC(System on Chip) 방식으로 설계를 하여 소형화를 추구하고 있지만, High Resolution의 카메라가 개발 요구되어지면서 센서 Pixel 및 스위칭 트랜지스터의 집적화가 심화되고 있다. 이러한 고집적화는 카메라 센서 내 발열 관리에 대한 관심을 높여주고 있다. 본 논문에서는 우선 SOC 센서가 ISP를 탑재한 센서이므로 프로세서 발열 관리 기법에 대해 먼저 소개를 한 후, SOC 방식 센서를 대상으로 열이 발생되는 관련 조건을 확인 검사하고, 분석한 결과를 보인다. 또한 이러한 분석 결과를 토대로 발열을 제어 할 수 있는 방법으로 DAC(Digital Analog Converter)를 사용하여 센서 내 사용되는 전류 증폭을 최소화 한 설계 방식에 대해 분석해 보았으며, 전류 증폭을 최소화한 결과 최대 PCLK(Pixel Clock)에서도 열화에 따른 Noise(Hot Pixel)를 개선시킬 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.695-698
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• 1998

Today SOC(system on a chip) is a trend in VLSI design society. Especially MML(merged memory Logic) process provides designers with good chances to implement SOC which is consists of DRAM, SRAM, Logic and A/D mixed mode ciruit blocks. Designers need good circuit library which is reliable and easy to tune for specific design. For this need we present semi-automated analog compiler methodology. And we aplied this design methodology to resistor-string DAC design.