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RSFQ 4-bit ALU 개발 (Development of an RSFQ 4-bit ALU)

  • 김진영;백승헌;김세훈;정구락;임해용;박종혁;강준희;한택상
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • 제6권2호
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    • pp.104-107
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    • 2005
  • We have developed and tested an RSFQ 4-bit Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) based on half adder cells and de switches. ALU is a core element of a computer processor that performs arithmetic and logic operations on the operands in computer instruction words. The designed ALU had limited operation functions of OR, AND, XOR, and ADD. It had a pipeline structure. We have simulated the circuit by using Josephson circuit simulation tools in order to reduce the timing problem, and confirmed the correct operation of the designed ALU. We used simulation tools of $XIC^{TM},\;WRspice^{TM}$, and Julia. The fabricated 4-bit ALU circuit had a size of $\3000{\ cal}um{\times}1500{\cal}$, and the chip size was $5{\cal} mm{\times}5{\cal}mm$. The test speeds were 1000 kHz and 5 GHz. For high-speed test, we used an eye-diagram technique. Our 4-bit ALU operated correctly up to 5 GHz clock frequency. The chip was tested at the liquid-helium temperature.

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임베디드 마이크로 프로세서의 전력 소비에 대한 연구 (A Study on Power Dissipation of Embedded Microprocessors)

  • 이종복
    • 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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    • 제18권4호
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    • pp.169-175
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    • 2018
  • 프로세서의 전력 소비량은 최근에 이르러 고성능 마이크로프로세서 및 멀티코어프로세서 뿐만이 아니라 임베디드 시스템 및 모바일 장치에 매우 중요하게 대두되고 있다. 이러한 전력 소비량은, 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어 설계자로 하여금 성능과 전력에 대한 올바른 타협점을 찾도록 하는 바탕이 된다. 대부분의 전력 분석 도구들은 반도체 칩 레이아웃이나 평면계획이 완료된 후에야 최소의 정확도를 갖게 되며 또한 느리다. 본 논문에서는 전력 분석기와 연동이 가능한 빠른 속도를 갖는 임베디드 마이크로프로세서 명령어 자취형 (trace-driven) 모의실험기를 개발하였다. 또한, MiBench 임베디드 벤치마크를 입력으로 모의실험을 수행하여 기존의 도구보다 훨씬 빠른 속도로 명령어 당 평균 전력 소비량을 측정하였다.

재료의 변형거동 추적을 통한 예비형상 설계 (Preform Design Technique by Tracing the Material Deformation Behavior)

  • 홍진태;박철현;이석렬;양동열
    • 소성∙가공
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    • 제13권6호
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    • pp.503-508
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    • 2004
  • Preform design techniques have been investigated to reduce die wear and forming load and to improve material flow, filling ratio, etc. In hot forging processes, a thin deformed part of a workpiece, known as a flash, is formed in the narrow gap between the upper and lower tools. Although designers make tools that generate a flash intentionally in order to improve flow properties, excessive flash increases die wear and forming load. Therefore, it is necessary to make a preform shape that can reduce the excessive flash without changing flow properties. In this paper, a new preform design technique is proposed to reduce the excessive flash in a metal forging process. After a finite element simulation of the process is carried out with an initial billet, the flow of material in the flash region is traced from the final shape to the initial billet. The region belonging to the flash is then easily found in the initial billet. The finite element simulation is then carried out again with the modified billet from which the selected region has been removed. In several iterations of this technique, the optimal preform shape that minimizes the amount of flash without changing the forgeability can be obtained.

Impact of molybdenum cross sections on FHR analysis

  • Ramey, Kyle M.;Margulis, Marat;Read, Nathaniel;Shwageraus, Eugene;Petrovic, Bojan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제54권3호
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    • pp.817-825
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    • 2022
  • A recent benchmarking effort, under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), has been made to evaluate the current state of modeling and simulation tools available to model fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactors (FHRs). The FHR benchmarking effort considered in this work consists of several cases evaluating the neutronic parameters of a 2D prismatic FHR fuel assembly model using the participants' choice of simulation tools. Benchmark participants blindly submitted results for comparison with overall good agreement, except for some which significantly differed on cases utilizing a molybdenum-bearing control rod. Participants utilizing more recently updated explicit isotopic cross sections had consistent results, whereas those using elemental molybdenum cross sections observed reactivity differences on the order of thousands of pcm relative to their peers. Through a series of supporting tests, the authors attribute the differences as being nuclear data driven from using older legacy elemental molybdenum cross sections. Quantitative analysis is conducted on the control rod to identify spectral, reaction rate, and cross section phenomena responsible for the observed differences. Results confirm the observed differences are attributable to the use of elemental cross sections which overestimate the reaction rates in strong resonance channels.

Monte Carlo-based identification of electron and proton edges for calibration of miniaturized tissue equivalent proportional counter

  • Mingi Eom;Sukwon Youn;Sung-Joon Ye
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권11호
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    • pp.4167-4172
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    • 2023
  • Miniaturized tissue equivalent proportional counters (mini-TEPCs) are proper for radiation dosimetry in medical application because the small size of the dosimeter could prevent pile-up effect under the high intensity of therapeutic beam. However, traditional methods of calibrating mini-TEPCs using internal alpha sources are not feasible due to their small size. In this study, we investigated the use of electron and proton edges on Monte Carlo-generated lineal energy spectra as markers for calibrating a 0.9 mm diameter and length mini-TEPC. Three possible markers for each spectrum were calculated and compared using different simulation tools. Our simulations showed that the electron edge markers were more consistent across different simulation tools than the proton edge markers, which showed greater variation due to differences in the microdosimetric spectra. In most cases, the second marker, yδδ, had the smallest uncertainty. Our findings suggest that the lineal energy spectra from mini-TEPCs can be calibrated using Monte Carlo simulations that closely resemble real-world detector and source geometries.

K-FPGA 패브릭 구조의 평가 툴킷 (Evaluation Toolkit for K-FPGA Fabric Architectures)

  • 김교선
    • 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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    • 제49권4호
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    • pp.15-25
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    • 2012
  • FPGA용 CAD툴에 대한 학계의 연구는 상용 FPGA에 적용하기에는 단순하고 비효율적인 아키텍처를 가정하고 있기 때문에 실용성 측면에서 뒤처져 왔다. 최근 상용 FPGA 아키텍처의 배치 위치 및 배선 그래프 데이터베이스를 구축하고 인터페이스를 제공함으로써 상용 FPGA에 적용할 수 있는 배치 배선 툴의 개발을 가능하게 하려는 시도가 있었다. 본 논문은 신규 FPGA 아키텍처로 개발되고 있는 K-FPGA의 경쟁력을 벤치마킹 할 수 있는 툴킷 개발에 대해 기술한다. 이는 학계 CAD 툴의 실용성 한계를 한층 더 확장하고 있다. 기존 상용 툴과 매핑, 패킹, 배치, 배선 각 단계 별로 데이터를 교환할 수 있어 세부 툴별 비교 평가가 가능하며 이전 단계의 결과물을 기다리거나 결과의 질에 영향을 받지 않으면서 각 단계를 독립적으로 개발할 수 있는 체계를 구축하였다. 또한, 상용 FPGA의 아키텍처를 추출하여 단위 셀 라이브러리를 구축함으로써 FPGA 아키텍처의 신규 개발 시 참조 설계 역할을 할 뿐만 아니라 상시 벤치마킹 환경을 제공하도록 하였다. 특히, 아키텍처 정보를 툴 내에 하드 코딩하지 않고 하드웨어 설계자에게 익숙한 표준 HDL 형식으로 기술하여 읽어 들일 수 있도록 함으로써 아키텍처에 수시로 다양한 변경을 시도하면서 최적화해도 툴이 유연하게 수용할 수 있는 데이터 구동 방식의 툴 개발을 추구하였다. 실험을 통해 단위 셀 라이브러리 및 툴 기능을 검증하였으며 개발 중에 변경되고 있는 FPGA 아키텍처 상에서 임의의 설계를 매핑해 보고 정상 동작할 지 시뮬레이션으로 검증할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 배치 및 배선 툴이 개발 중이며 이들이 완성되면 실용적이고 다양한 신규 FPGA 아키텍처들을 개발하고 그 경쟁력을 평가할 수 있게 될 뿐만 아니라 신규 아키텍처를 위한 최적화 CAD 툴 개발 연구가 활발해지는 시너지 효과도 기대할 수 있다.

가치통합 의사결정모델을 이용한 간호학생 대상 웹기반 환자권리교육 시뮬레이션 프로그램 개발 및 평가 (Development and Evaluation of a Web-based Simulation Program on Patient Rights Education using Integrated Decision Making Model for Nurse Students)

  • 김기경
    • 간호행정학회지
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    • 제20권2호
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    • pp.227-236
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: This study was designed to develop and evaluate the a web-based simulation program on patient rights education using integrated decision making model into values clarification for nurse students. Methods: The program was designed based on the Aless & Trollip model and Ford, Trygstad-Durland & Nelms's decision model. Focus groups interviews, surveys on learning needs for patient rights, and specialist interviews were used to develop for simulation scenarios and decision making modules. The simulation program was evaluated between May, 2011 and April, 2012 by 30 student nurses using an application of the web-based program evaluation tools by Chung. Results: Simulation content was composed of two scenarios on patient rights: the rights of patients with HIV and the rights of psychiatric patients. It was composed of two decision making modules which were established for value clarifications, behavioral objective formations, problems identifications, option generations, alternatives analysis, and decision evaluations. The simulation program was composed of screens for teacher and learner. The program was positively evaluated with a mean score of $3.14{\pm}0.33$. Conclusion: These study results make an important contribution to the application of educational simulation programs for nurse students' behavior and their decision making ability in protecting the patient rights.

Analysis of landing mission phases for robotic exploration on phobos mar's moon

  • Stio, A.;Spinolo, P.;Carrera, E.;Augello, R.
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • 제4권5호
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    • pp.529-541
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    • 2017
  • Landing phase is one of the crucial and most important phases during robotic aerospace explorations. It concerns the impact of the landing module of a spacecraft on a celestial body. Risks and uncertainties of landing are mainly due to the morphology of the surface, the possible presence of rocks and other obstacles or subsidence. The present work quotes results of a computational analysis direct to investigate the stability during the landing phase of a lander on Phobos, a Mars Moon. The present study makes use of available software tools for the simulation analyses and results processing. Due to the nature of the system under consideration (i.e., large displacements and interaction between several systems), multibody simulations were performed to analyze the lander's behavior after the impact with the celestial body. The landing scenario was chosen as a result of a DOE (Design of Experiments) analysis in terms of lander velocity and position, or ground slope. In order to verify the reliability of the present multibody methodology for this particular aerospace issue, two different software tools were employed in order to emphasize two different ways to simulate the crash-box, a particular component of the system used to cushion the impact. The results show the most important frames of the simulations so as to provide a general idea about how lander behaves in its descent and some trends of the main characteristics of the system. In conclusion, the success of the approach is demonstrated by highlighting that the results (crash-box shortening trend and lander's kinetic energy) are comparable between the two tools and that the stability is ensured.

정밀 공작기계 안내면의 평행도 측정 (Parallelism Measurement for Guide Rails of Precision Machine Tools)

  • 황주호;박천홍;;김승우
    • 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.792-795
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    • 2005
  • The guide-ways of precision machine tools are one of important element of machine tools. It has usually a pair of surfaces for constraint of one direction with bearing. In the case of precision machine tools, non-contact bearing such as hydrostatic bearing and aerostatic bearing is adopted usually. In this case, profiles of rails has effect on straightness and the clearance of bearing has effect on stiffness of guide way, which changes to higher if clearance changes to smaller. The clearance is varied along moving table according to relative distance of pair of rails. The relative distance of pair of rail can be divided by three properties. First and second properties are straightness of each pair of rail and bearing pad. And, third is parallelism about pair of rails and pairs of bearing pad. There are several methods for measuring straightness of each surface such as reversal method, sequential two point method, and way straightness. These straightness measuring methods are always acquiring deviation of profile from eliminating linear fitted inclined line and don't have the information of parallelism. Therefore, to get the small clearance for high stiffness, the straightness of rail and bearing pad and parallelism about pair of rails and pair of bearing pads are measured for correction such as regrinding, reassembling and lapping. In this research, new and easy method for measuring parallelism of pair of rails is suggested. Two displacement probe and sensor stage, which is carry on the displacement sensor, are needed. The simulation and experiment was accomplished about pair of horizontal guide way to confirm the measurement of parallelism. And, the third probe is added to measure the straightness of each rails by sequential two point method. From the estimation of combined these two methods, it is confirmed that the profiles of a pairs of rails can be measured.

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신호교차로 분석도구별 제어지체 산출 성능 비교 연구 (Performance Comparison of Signalized Intersections Analysis Tools in Estimating Control Delays)

  • 윤일수;오철;안현경;김경현;한음;강남원;윤정은
    • 한국도로학회논문집
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    • 제16권5호
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    • pp.109-119
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    • 2014
  • PURPOSES : The control delay in seconds per vehicle is the most important traffic operational index to evaluate the level of service of signalized intersections. Thus, it is very critical to calculate accurate control delay because it is used as a basic quantitative evidence for decision makings regarding to investments on traffic facilities. The control delay consists of time-in-queue delay, acceleration delay, and deceleration delay so that it is technically difficult to directly measure it from fields. Thus, diverse analysis tools, including CORSIM, SYNCHRO, T7F, VISTRO, etc. have been utilized so far. However, each analysis tool may use a unique methodology in calculating control delays. Therefore, the estimated values of control delays may be different by the selection of an analysis tool, which has provided difficulties to traffic engineers in making solid judgments. METHODS : This study was initiated to verify the feasibility of diverse analysis tools, including HCM methodology, CORSIM, SYNCHRO, T7F, VISTRO, in calculating control delays by comparing estimated control delays with that measured from a field. RESULTS : As a result, the selected tools produced quite different values of control delay. In addition, the control delay value estimated using a calibrated CORSIM model was closest to that measured from the field. CONCLUSIONS : First, through the in-depth experiment, it was explicitly verified that the estimated values of control delay may depend on the selection of an analysis tool. Second, among the diverse tools, the value of control delay estimated using the calibrated microscopic traffic simulation model was most close to that measured from the field. Conclusively, analysts should take into account the variability of control delay values according to the selection of a tool in the case of signalized intersection analysis.