• 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 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 IKEEE
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.495-501
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• 2014

In this paper, we designed a diversity modem hardware architecture for IEEE802.11p WAVE and tested the modem on the road with car attached shark antenna. One of the dual channel modem and the diversity single modem with maximum ratio combining algorithm can be selected on the designed architecture. The designed modem have been implemented on the Xillinx Kintex7 FPGA. We tested the modem performance on the smart highway experience road. As experimental results, we can verify the performance of the diversity modem on real road and the enlarged communication range by more than 30%.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1139-1144
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose an automatic generation method of transaction level(TL) model from algorithmic model to verify system specification fast and effectively using virtual platform. The TL virtual platform including structural properties such as timing, synchronization and real-time is one of the effective verification frameworks. However, whenever change system specification or HW/SW mapping, we must rebuild virtual platform and additional design/verification time is required. And the manual description is very time-consuming and error-prone process. To solve these problems, we build TL library which consists of basic components of virtual platform such as CPU, memory, timer. We developed a set of design/verification tools in order to generate a virtual platform automatically. Our tools generate a virtual platform which consists of embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) and hardware components from an algorithmic modeling. And for communication between HW and SW, memory map and device drivers are generated. The effectiveness of our proposed framework has been successfully verified with a Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) and H.264 algorithm. We claim that our approach enables us to generate an application specific virtual platform $100x{\tims}1000x$ faster than manual designs. Also, we can refine an initial platform incrementally to find a better HW/SW mapping. Furthermore, application software can be concurrently designed and optimized as well as RTOS by the generated virtual platform

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1840-1845
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• 2005

The SoC and digital technology development recently enabled the emergence of information devices and control devices because the SoC present many advantages such as lower power consumption, greater reliability, and lower cost. It is required to use an embedded operating system for building control systems. So far, the Real-Time operating system is widely used to implement a Real-Time system since it meets developer's requirements. However, Real-Time operating systems reveal a lack of standards, expensive development, and license costs. Embedded Linux is able to overcome these disadvantages. In this paper, the implementation of control system platform using Real-Time Embedded Linux is described. As a control system platform, we use XScale of a Soc and build Real-Time control platform using RTAI and Real-Time device driver. Finally, we address the feasibility study of the Real-Time Embedded Linux as a Real-Time operating system for mobile robots.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.194-200
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• 2006

The SoC and digital technology development recently enabled the emergence of information devices and control devices because the SoC presents many advantages such like lower power consumption, greater reliability, and lower cost. However, it is nearly impossible to use the SoC without operating systems because the SoC is included with many peripherals and complex architecture. It is required to use embedded operating systems and real-time operating systems may be used as an embedded operating system. So far, real-time operating systems are widely used to implement a Real-Time system since it meets developer's requirements. However, real-time operating systems have disadvantages including a lack of standards, expensive development, and license. Embedded Linux is able to overcome their disadvantages. In this paper, the implementation of control system platform for a mobile robot using real-time Embedded Linux is described. As a control hardware system platform, XScale board is used. As the real-time Embedded Linux, RTAI is adopted which is open source and royalty free, and supports various architectures and real-time devices, such like real-time CAN and real-time COM. This paper shows the implementation of RTAI on XScale board that means the porting procedure. We also applied the control system platform to the mobile robot and compared the Real-Time serial driver with non real-time serial driver. Experimental results show that that using RTAI is useful to build real-time control system with powerful functionalities of Linux.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.30 no.9
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• pp.28-28
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• 2003

SoC(System on Chip)의 발전은 현재 널리 쓰이는 기존의 설계 방법론으로는 해결될 수 없는 여러 가지 문제들을 생성하고 있다. 제품의 복잡도는 급격히 증가하는 반면 제품 수명은 지속적으로 감소하고 있으며, 기존 구현 기술의 향상만으로는 해결하기 쉽지 않은 VDSM (Very Deep Sub-Micron) 문제 또한 새로이 도출되고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 문제들은 적기에 시장에 제품을 출시하는 데에 많은 어려움을 끼치게 되기 때문에, 기존의 방법론을 뛰어 넘는 새로운 설계 방법론을 위한 많은 연구들이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이러한 방법론 중 효율적인 한 방안으로 "재사용"의 개념이 대두되고 있으며, platform-based design은 이러한 재사용의 개념을 SoC 설계에 효율적으로 적용할 수 있는 방법으로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 platform-based design의 최근 동향 및 현재 삼성전자에서 추진하고 있는 platform-based design에 대해 기술한다.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.30 no.9
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• pp.934-941
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• 2003

SoC(System on Chip)의 발전은 현재 널리 쓰이는 기존의 설계 방법론으로는 해결될 수 없는 여러 가지 문제들을 생성하고 있다. 제품의 복잡도는 급격히 증가하는 반면 제품 수명은 지속적으로 감소하고 있으며, 기존 구현 기술의 향상만으로는 해결하기 쉽지 않은 VDSM (Very Deep Sub-Micron) 문제 또한 새로이 도출되고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 문제들은 적기에 시장에 제품을 출시하는 데에 많은 어려움을 끼치게 되기 때문에, 기존의 방법론을 뛰어 넘는 새로운 설계 방법론을 위한 많은 연구들이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이러한 방법론 중 효율적인 한 방안으로 "재사용"의 개념이 대두되고 있으며, platform-based design은 이러한 재사용의 개념을 SoC 설계에 효율적으로 적용할 수 있는 방법으로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 platform-based design의 최근 동향 및 현재 삼성전자에서 추진하고 있는 platform-based design에 대해 기술한다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.623-627
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• 2016

A power-adjustable fully-integrated CMOS optical receiver with multi-rate clock-and-data recovery circuit is presented in standard 65-nm CMOS technology. With supply voltage scaling, key features of the optical receiver such as bandwidth, power efficiency, and optical sensitivity can be automatically optimized according to the bit rates. The prototype receiver has −23.7 dBm to −15.4 dBm of optical sensitivity for 10⁻⁹ bit error rate with constant conversion gain around all target bit rates from 1.62Gbps to 8.1 Gbps. Power efficiency is less than 9.3 pJ/bit over all operating ranges.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.13A no.7 s.104
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• pp.589-598
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• 2006

In this paper, we describe the development and optimization of an embedded Biuetooth solution on an SoC platform for real-time audio streaming over a Bluetooth wireless link. The solution includes embedded Bluetooth protocol stack and profile simplemented on a virtual operating system for portability, and other optimization techniques to fully exploit the benefits of multimedia-oriented SoC. The optimization techniques implemented in this paper are memory access minimization by using on-chip scratch pad memory, codec library optimization with DSP and parallel memory access instruction set, and dynamic audio quality adjustment regarding current wireless link status. Experimental results show that the optimized solution presented in this paper can support high-qualify audio streaming without the support of external memory.