• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.159-166
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• 2019

Unlike modern Solid-State Drives with DRAM, DRAM-less SSDs do not have DRAM because they are cheap and consume less power. Obviously, they have performance degradation problem due to lack of DRAM in the controller and this problem can be alleviated by utilizing host memory buffer(HMB) feature of NVMe, which allows SSDs to utilize the DRAM of host. In this paper, we show that commercial DRAM-less SSDs surely exhibit lower I/O performance than other SSDs with DRAM, but they can be improved by utilizing the HMB feature. Through various experiments and analysis, we also show that DRAM-less SSDs mainly exploit the DRAM of host as mapping table cache rather than read cache or write buffer to improve I/O performance.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.139-144
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• 2020

Recently, the electronic equipment industry has become active due to the continuous increase in portable storage media with high-speed information communication, and in particular, the production of SSD(Solid State Drives) for miniaturization of mobile devices and high-speed information communication has increased rapidly. When the SSD is ejecting in the SSD test gender, the necessary ejecting force must be kept constant to have a lifespan applicable to the test device. When the ejecting force increased, it leads to wear of the link for ejecting, which causes a problem in that repeated durability decreases and the ejecting of the SSD becomes impossible. In this paper, the repeated durability test analysis according to the material and the reducing ejecting force design were performed to increase the life of the test gender for SSD inspection. The wear level of the pusher head and ejector was analyzed through repeated durability tests according to the material of the pusher head. The validity of the design was verified through the ejecting force test and repeated durability test of the Test gender, which was designed by carrying out the design to reduce the size and ejecting force of the test gender.

• The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.29-35
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• 1996

We are often faced with the clinical situations that is inevitably extended SSD for electron beam therapy due to anatomical restriction or applicator structure. But there are some difficulties in accurately predicting output and properties. In electron beam treatment , unlike photon beam the decrease in output for extended SSD does not follow inverse-square law accurately because of a loss of side scatter equilibrium, which is particularly significant for small cone size and low energies. The purpose of our study is to analyze the output in changing with the energy, cone size, air gap beyond the standard SSD and to compare inverse-square law factor derived from calculated effective SSD, mominal SSD with measured output factor. In addition, we have analyzed the change of PDD for several cones with different SSDs which range from 100cm to 120cm with 5cm step and with different energies(6MeV, 9MeV, 12MeV, 16MeV, 20MeV). In accordance with our study, an extended SSD produces a significant change in beam output, negligible change in depth dose which range from 100cm to 120cm SSDs. In order to deliver the more accurate dose to the neoplastic tissue, first of all we recommend inverse-square law using the table of effective SSDs with cone sizes and energies respectively or simply to create a table of extended SSD air gap correction factor. The second we need to have an insight into some change of dose distribution including PPD, penumbra caused by extended SSD for electron beam therapy.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.8
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• pp.45-52
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• 2011

Flash memory is becoming widely prevalent in various area due to high performance, non-volatile features, low power, and robust durability. As price-per-bit is decreased, NAND flash based SSDs (Solid State Disk) have been attracting attention as the next generation storage device, which can replace HDDs (Hard Disk Drive) which have mechanical properties. Especially for the single package SSD, if channel number or FIFO buffer size per channel increases to improve performance, the size of a controller and I/O pin count will increase linearly with channel numbers and form factor will be affected. We propose a novel technique which can minimize form factor by optimizing the number of NAND flash channels and the size of interface FIFO buffer in the SSD. For SSD with 10 channel and double buffer, the experimental results show that buffer block size can be reduced about 73% without performance degradation and total size of a controller can be reduced about 40% because control block per channel and I/O pin count decrease according to decrease channel number.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.157-163
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• 1987

It is known that fixed source to skin distance (SSD) cannot be used when the treatment field is sloped or larger than the size of second collimator in electron beam irradiation and inverse square law using effective ssd should be adopted. Effective SSDs were measured in different field sizes in each 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18MeV electron energy by suing NELAC 1018D linear accelerator of Kosin Medical Center. We found important parmeters of effective SSD. 1. Minimum effective SSD was 58.8cm in small field size of $6\pm6cm$ and maximum effective SSD was 94.9cm in large field size of $25\pm25cm$, with 6MeV energy. It's difference was 36.1cm. The dose rate at measuring point was quite different even with a small difference of SSD in small field $(6\times6cm)$ and low energy (6 MeV). 2. Effective SSD increased with field size in same electron energy. 3. Effective SSDs gradually increased with the electron energies and reached maximum at 12 or 15 MeV electron energy and decreased again at 18MeV electron energy in each identical field size. And so the effective SSD should be measured in each energy and field size for practical radiotherapy.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.117-123
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• 2013

In the recent cloud storage environment, the amount of SSD (Solid-State Drive) replacing with the traditional hard disk drive is increasing. Management of SSD for its space efficiency has become important since SSD provides fast IO performance due to no mechanical movement whereas it has wearable characteristics and does not provide in place update. In order to manage space efficiency of SSD, data de-duplication technique is frequently used. However, this technique occurs much overhead because it consists of data chunking, hasing and hash matching operations. In this paper, we propose new data de-duplication method using PRAM cache. The proposed method uses hierarchical hash tables and LRU(Least Recently Used) for data replacement in PRAM. First hash table in DRAM is used to store hash values of data cached in the PRAM and second hash table in PRAM is used to store hash values of data in SSD storage. The method also enhance data reliability against power failure by maintaining backup of first hash table into PRAM. Experimental results show that average writing frequency and operation time of the proposed method are 44.2% and 38.8% less than those of existing data de-depulication method, respectively, when three workloads are used.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.260-264
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• 2010

최근 낸드 플래시 메모리를 이용한 SSD(Solid State Disk)는 차세대 저장 매체로서 주목받고 있다. SSD의 성능을 높이기 위해 다양한 기술이 연구되고 있지만, 그 중 병렬성 향상 기법이 성능에 가장 큰 영향을 미치고 있다. 이에 따라 SSD에서는 병렬성 향상을 위해 논리 주소 스트라이핑(Striping)을 사용하고 있다. 논리 주소 스트라이핑을 이용하면 병렬성이 크게 증가되지만 매핑 기법에 따라 블록 활용률에 문제점이 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 논리 주소 스트라이핑 기법과 하이브리드 매핑 기법이 동시에 SSD에 적용되었을 때 발생하는 블록 파편화 문제를 확인하고, 블록 파편화 문제가 블록 활용률과 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.333-335
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• 2014

페이스북, 트위터와 같은 클라우드 및 웹 서비스 제공회사와 클라우드 및 웹 서비스 제공자는 수많은 사용자들에 의해 발생되는 무수한 데이터를 빠르게 처리하기 위해 하드 디스크보다는 램에 저장 할 필요가 있다. 그러한 좋은 도구로서 분산메모리 객체 캐싱 소프트웨어인 멤캐시드가 있다. 멤캐시드의 성능은 저장공간의 크기에 따라 많은 차이를 보이는데, 하드웨어의 비용, 전력소비와 온도조절 등 공간의 제약을 감안했을 때, 무작정 개별 서버에 많은 RAM을 장착하거나, 서버 배열을 확장하는 것은 효율적인 방법이 아니다. 따라서 많은 양의 데이터가 메모리에 저장이 가능하도록 RAM과 SSD를 같이 확장한 SSD 기반 하이브리드 메모리를 제안한다. 하이브리드 메모리는 객체 캐시로 동작하고 페이지 단위로 할당하는 것보다 객체 단위로 자원할당을 함으로서 SSD에서 빠른 무작위 읽기를 할 수 있게 해 객체의 접근속도를 향상시켰다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.343-345
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• 2014

플래시 메모리의 인기가 증가하면서 스토리지 시스템의 변화를 가져왔다. 플래시 메모리 기반의 SSD(Solid State Disk)는 기존의 HDD(Hard Disk Drive)를 대체할 매체로 주목을 받고 있으며 HDD에 비해 훨씬 더 높은 대역폭, 랜덤 접근 성능 및 충격에 강한 장점들을 갖는다. 그러나 플래시 메모리는 HDD와 달리 덮어쓰기(In-Place update)가 불가능 하기 때문에, 데이터를 업데이트 하기 위해서는 해당영역을 지운 후 업데이트를 해야 하는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 캐시 안에서의 거의 접근하지 않을 블락과 캐시로 들어가는 것을 막기 위한 기법을 제시한다. 이것은 캐시의 오염을 막고 더 오랜 기간 동안 캐시 안에서 인기 있는 블락 들을 유지하고 높은 히트율로 연결될 것이다. 또한 캐시 교체의 수를 줄임으로써 SSD의 쓰기를 감소할 것이고 그 결과 성능 뿐만 아니라 SSD의 수명도 연장 에도 도움이 될 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.347-349
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• 2014

데이터의 폭발적인 증가로 우리는 빅데이터 시대를 맞이하게 되었다. 빅데이터의 파일 시스템 내에는 아주 큰 트리구조로 이루어진 디렉토리와 파일이 무수히 존재한다. 이 커다란 트리구조에서 사용자가 요청하는 디렉토리와 파일을 탐색하는 것은 매우 어려운 작업이다. 이에 우리는 카운팅 블룸필터를 이용한 디렉토리 탐색 기법을 제시한다. SDP(SSD-based Directory Parsing)는 최근 또는 자주 액세스한 디렉토리와 파일의 메타데이터를 보관하는 SSD 기반의 캐시이다. 대규모 파일 시스템에서 사용자가 파일을 요청했을 때 파일 시스템은 저장 장치에 메타데이터를 검색하기 위해 여러 번 액세스한다. 이러한 비효율적인 SSD에 대한 액세스를 방지하기 위해 카운팅 블룸필터를 이용하여 메타데이터를 빠르고 효율적으로 검색하는 기법을 제시한다.