• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.163-165
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a world's first programmable video processing platform for video quality enhancement of 8K ($7680{\times}4320$) UHD (Ultra High Definition) TV at 60 frames per second. To support huge computation and memory bandwidth of video quality enhancement for 8K resolution, the proposed platform has unique features like symmetric multi-cluster architecture for data partitioning, ring data-path between clusters to support data pipelining, on-the-fly processing architecture to reduce DDR bandwidth, flexible hardware to accelerating common kernel in video enhancement algorithms. In addition to those features, general programmability of SRP (Samsung reconfigurable processor) as main core of the proposed platform makes it possible to upgrade continuously video enhancement algorithm even after the platform is fixed. This ability is very important because algorithms for 8K DTV is under development. The proposed sub-system has been embedded into SoC (System on Chip) and new 8K UHD TV using the programmable SoC is expected at CES2015 for the first time in the world.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.45.4-45
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• 2001

In this paper, we present the wet-based monitoring system for industrial controller such as inverter controller for hydraulic elevators. The monitoring system is using an embedded web server on embedded Linux platform. The control board of system-On-Chip (SoC) is based on ARM7TDMI with Ethernet controller. Wet-based monitoring system using embedded Linux platform can reduce the cost, and have flexibility both of technical issues and locations If the system to be monitored. The system shows the feasibility of remote monitoring system based on embedded Linux platform.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.699-707
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• 2016

This paper proposes a low-complexity central processing unit (CPU) that is suitable for deeply embedded systems, including Internet of things (IoT) applications. The core features a 16-bit instruction set architecture (ISA) that leads to high code density, as well as a multicycle architecture with a counter-based control unit and adder sharing that lead to a small hardware area. A co-processor, instruction cache, AMBA bus, internal SRAM, external memory, on-chip debugger (OCD), and peripheral I/Os are placed around the core to make a system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform. This platform is based on a modified Harvard architecture to facilitate memory access by reducing the number of access clock cycles. The SoC platform and CPU were simulated and verified at the C and the assembly levels, and FPGA prototyping with integrated logic analysis was carried out. The CPU was synthesized at the ASIC front-end gate netlist level using a $0.18{\mu}m$ digital CMOS technology with 1.8V supply, resulting in a gate count of merely 7700 at a 50MHz clock speed. The SoC platform was embedded in an FPGA on a miniature board and applied to deeply embedded IoT applications.

• Korea Information Processing Society Review
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.118-127
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• 2007

공정기술의 미세화가 진행될수록 반도체 제품의 개발비용은 급격히 증가 할 것으로 예측되고 있다. 이는 지속적으로 증가하는 설계 복잡도와 미세공정에서 고성능 및 저전력 반도체 구현의 어려움에 의한 것이다. 제품수명기간(Product Life Cycle: PLC)이 점점 짧아지지만 핵심 부품인 반도체 제품의 개발기간과 설계인력은 급격히 증가해감에 따라 늘어만 가는 개발 비용은 반도체 제품의 수익향상 측면에서 매우 큰 장애가 되고 있다. 따라서 설계의 복잡화와 구현의 어려움 이라는 기술적인 문제들을 해결하여 시장에서의 생존이 걸린 극한적인 경쟁환경에서 살아 남기위해서는 반도체 설계의 paradigm 자체를 변화 시켜야 할 것이다. 이에 대한 해법으로 반도체 설계의 abstraction level을 현재의 RTL에서 상위 수준으로 올리고 설계의 virtualization을 해야 한다는 것은 설계 재사용과 신개념 검증 방법 기술과 함께 필수적인 변화의 한 방향이다. 이미 수년전부터 많은 연구 논문에서 이와 관련된 새로운 system 설계 기술들이 제시되어 왔고, 이에 대응하는 platform 기반의 설계기법 소개와 삼성전자의 구축현황에 대해 저자는 지난 논문에서 기술 한 바 있다. 본 논문은 2003년 9월 이후 platform 설계기법의 virtual 화가 어떻게 발전되어 왔는지에 대해 기술하고 문제점 확인 및 앞으로 이에 대한 해결 방안들의 방향에 대해 논하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.1027-1028
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• 2006

A case study in low-power PostPC Platform is presented. We introduce an S3C2460 Mobile SoC Processor and Implementation of Embedded Linux on out platform. This Processor is designed to Multimedia & Telecommunication Applications. We focuse on the verification of S3C2460 Processor and operation of Embedded Linux OS on it.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.122-127
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• 2016

This paper propose implementation method of SoC system for efficient depth image segmentation. SoC systems are combined platform in the form of the Software and Hardware IP. In order to perform effectively, the user to determine the operation of the configuration of each part. In this paper, we implemented a segmentation of depth images taken by the infrared sensor at APU of SoC system. The proposed method efficiently implements high performance and low power in SoC system. Proposed method that using software parts of SoC system is capable to use at several depth image processing systems.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.78-85
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• 2008

This paper presents a high-level design methodology applied on an SoC using SystemC. The topic will emphasize on high-level design approach for intensive architecture exploration and verifying cycle accurate SystemC models comparative to real Verilog RTL models. Unlike many high-level designs, we started the poject with working Verilog RTL models in hands, which we later compared our SystemC models to real Verilog RTL models. Moreover, we were able to use the on-chip test board performance simulation data to verify our SystemC-based platform. This paper illustrates that in high-level design, we could have the same accuracy as RTL models but achieve over one hundred times faster simulation speed than that of RTL's. The main topic of the paper will be on architecture exploration in search of performance degradation in source.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.69-80
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• 2019

This paper proposes a multimodal sensor platform which supports plug and play (PnP) technology. PnP technology automatically recognizes a connected sensor module and an application program easily controls a sensor. To verify a multimodal platform for PnP technology, we build up a firmware and have the experiment on a sensor system. When a sensor module is connected to the platform, a firmware recognizes the sensor module and reads sensor data. As a result, it provides PnP technology to simply plug sensors without any software configuration. Measured sensor raw data suffer from various distortions such as gain, offset, and non-linearity errors. Therefore, we introduce a polynomial calculation to compensate for sensor distortions. To find the optimal coefficients for sensor calibration, we apply a genetic algorithm which reduces the calibration time. It achieves reasonable performance using only a few data points with reducing 97% error in the worst case. The platform supports various protocols for multimodal sensors, i.e., UART, I2C, I2S, SPI, and GPIO.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

The requirement of a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design is increasing, which combines various and complex functional units on a single device. However, short time to market prohibits to release the device. To satisfy this shorter time-to-market, verification of both hardware and software at the same time is important. A virtual platform-based design method supports faster verification of these combined software and hardware by reusing pre-defined intellectual properties (IP). In this paper, we introduce the virtual platform-based design and redesign the existing ARM processor based S3C2440A system using the virtual platform-based method. In addtion, we implement and evaluate the performance of a JPEG decoder on the S3C2440A virtual platform. Furthermore, we introduce an optimized technique of the JPEG decoder using the ARM based inline assembly language, and then verify the performance improvement on the virtual platform. Such virtual platform-based design allows to verify both software and hardware at the same time and can meet the requirement of the shorter time-to-market.

• 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.