• Smart Media Journal
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2014

A virtual platform models a processor core and the peripheral devices constituting the SoC in software. Major companies utilize a variety of platforms for product development with optimal SW+SoC integrated system architecture design and IP reuse based Top-Down design flow using a virtual platform. In this paper, we propose a virtual platform based on OpenRISC, an open source RISC based core. The proposed virtual platform supports high speed emulation of approximately 20 MIPS using DBT (Dynamic Binary Translation).

• IT SoC Magazine
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• s.2
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• pp.34-38
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• 2004

실리콘 처리 기술의 고속화 요구와 유무선 환경에서 동영상 통신이 가능한 비디오 폰, 영상 회의 시스템, 이동 통신용 단말기 등의 전자 제품 사용자의 급증은 시스템을 하나의 칩에 집적화하는 SoC(System-On-a-Chip) 설계 기술을 요구하고 있다. 칩의 복잡도와 SoC 제품의 생산성 차이가 계속적으로 증가함에 따라 현재의 IC 설계 방법으로는 SoC 제품의 성능과 요구의 변화를 만족시킬 수 없다. 칩의 면적을 최소화하고 성능을 최대화하며 게이트 수준의 최적화를 통한 기존의 셀 기반 설계 방법으로는 설계의 생산성 문제를 해결할 수 없다. 이러한 문제를 해결 위한 새로운 설계 방법인 IP 재사용을 기반으로 한 플랫폼 기반 설계가 제시되었다. 플랫폼 기반 설계는 SoC 제품을 빠르게 개발하기 위한 응용 기반 통합 플랫폼과 재사용이 가능한 IP(Intellectual Property) 이용한 플랫폼 기반 설계(Platform-Based Design) 방법이다. 새로운 설계 방법은 90% 이상의 IP 재사용을 통해서 설계 시간을 단축하며, 시스템 수준에서의 최적화를 통해서 제품의 시장 경쟁력(Time-to-Market)의 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법이다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.76-84
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• 2009

This paper proposes a SOC platform which is eligible for education and application SOC design. The platform, fully synthesizable and reconfigurable, includes the OpenRISC embedded processor, some basic peripherals such as GPIO, UART, debug interlace, VGA controller and WISHBONE interconnect. The platform uses a set of development environment such as compiler, assembler, debugger and RTOS that is built for HW/SW system debugging and software development. Designed SOC, IPs and Testbenches are described in the Verilog HDL and verified using commercial logic simulator, GNU SW development tool kits and the FPGA. Finally, a multimedia SOC derived from the SOC platform is implemented to ASIC using the Magnachip cell library based on 0.18um 1-poly 6-metal technology.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.255-258
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• 2009

최근 EDA 툴의 기술적인 향상과 반도체 공정의 발달로 IC 설계자들은 RISC 프로세서, DSP 프로세서, 메모리 등 많은 IP가 하나로 집적되는 SoC구조가 가능해졌다. 하지만 기존에 사용되는 대부분의 SoC는 공유버스 구조를 가지고 있어, 병목현상이 발생하는 문제점을 가진다. 이러한 문제점은 SoC 내부의 IP들이 많을수록 SoC 플랫폼의 전체 성능이 저하되어, CPU 자체의 속도보다는 효율적인 통신에 의해 성능이 좌우된다. 본 논문에서는 공유버스의 단점인 병목현상을 줄이고 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 크로스바 스위치버스 구조를 제안한다. OpenRISC 프로세서, VGA/LCD 제어기, AC97 제어기, 디버그 인터페이스, 메모리 인터페이스로 구성되는 SoC 플랫폼의 WISHBONE 온칩 공유버스 구조와 크로스바 스위치 버스 구조의 성능을 비교한 결과, 기존의 공유버스보다 26.58%의 성능이 향상됨을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.1446-1459
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• 2007

This paper presents and analyzes a novel technique that makes it possible to improve the performance of low-end embedded systems through SoC(System-on-a-Chip) platform supporting dynamic cooperation between hardware and software modules. Traditional embedded systems with limited hardware resources have the poor capability of carrying out multi-tasking jobs including complex calculations. The proposed SoC platform, which provides dynamic cooperation between hardware and software modules, decomposes a single specific system into tasks for given system requirements. Additionally, we also propose a technique for efficient communication and synchronization between hardware and software tasks in cooperation with each other. Several experiments are conducted to illustrate the application and efficiency of the proposed SoC platform. They show that the proposed SoC platform outperforms the traditional embedded system, where only software tasks run, as the number of memory access is increased and the system become more complex.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.364-367
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• 2012

In this paper, AXI4 BUS was implemented using Verilator and C/C++ for verification of SoC platform H/W IP which is based on AXI4 BUS. In this paper we proposed a method to verify the AXI4 BUS based SoC platform H / W IP by implemented AXI4 BUS on PC using Verilator and C/C++. The result shows AXI4 BUS based H/W IP that is verified by implemented AXI4 BUS is to perform the same behavior on FPGA environment.

• IT SoC Magazine
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• s.2
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• pp.21-24
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• 2004

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.285-292
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• 2007

SoC which deploys software modules as well as hardware IPs on a single chip is a major revolution taking place in the implementation of a system design, and high-level synthesis is an important process of SoC design methodology. Recently, SPARK parallelizing high-level synthesis software tool has been developed. It takes a behavioral ANSI-C code as an input, schedules it using code motion and various code transformations, and then finally generates synthesizable RTL VHDL code. Although SPARK employs various loop transformation algorithms, the synthesis results generated by SPARK are not acceptable for basic signal and image processing algorithms with nested loop. In this paper we propose a SoC platform with an application-specific PLD targeting local operations which are feature of many loop algorithms used in signal and image processing, and demonstrate design process which maps behavioral specification with nested loops written in a high-level language (ANSI-C) onto 2D systolic array. Finally the derived systolic array is implemented on the proposed application-specific PLD of SoC platform.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.35-44
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• 2005

SoC(systnn-on-a-chip) requires high bandwidth system bus for performing multiple functions. Performance of the system is affected by bandwidth of the system bus. In this paper, for efficient management of the bus resource on a SoC platform, we present a latency model of the shared bus organized by multiple layers. Using the latency model, we can analyze latencies of the shared bus on a SoC. Moreover we evaluate a throughput of the bus and compare with needed throughput of the SoC platform including IPs such as MPEG or USB 2.0. And we can use the results as a criteria to find out an optimal bus architecture for the specific SoC design. For verifying accuracy of the proposed model, we compared the latencies with the simulation result from MaxSim tools. As the result of simulation, the accuracy of the IS model for a single layer and multiple layer are over $96\%\;and\;85\%$ respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.99-104
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• 2013

Recently smart devices which combine traditional electronic devices and personal computers, such as smart phones and smart TV, have caught people's eyes from all over the world. A multi-media SoC platform which embeds not only a calculating processor but also an operating system could provide an user-customized environment of several types of communication methods to PC or Internet. In this paper, we describe a multi-functioning SoC platform with video, audio and other communicating protocols based on Core-A processor and AMBA buses. To verify the designed multi-media SoC platform, JPEG decoding and ADPCM encoding/decoding algorithms are applied on it and the final decoding results are confirmed by video monitors and audio speakers.