• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.397-400
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• 2009

This paper describes ASIC design of Multimedia application SoC platform based RISC processor with BTB(Branch Target Buffer). For performance enhancement of platform, we use a simple branch prediction scheme, BTB structure, that stores a target address for branch instruction to remove pipeline harzard. Also, the platform includes a number of peripheral such as VGA controller, AC97 controller, UART controller, SRAM interface and Debug interface. The platform is designed and verified on a Xilinx VERTEX-4 FPGA using a number of test programs for functional tests and timing constraints. Finally, the platform is implemented into a single ASIC chip which can be operated at 100MHz clock frequency using the Chartered 0.18um process. As a result of performance estimation, the proposed platform shows about 5~9% performance improvement in comparison with the previous SoC Platform.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.58-63
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• 2024

CNNs tend to take a long time to learn and consume a lot of power due to lack of system resources with many data processing units when there are repetitive handles that do not have high performance in the image field. In this paper, we propose a handling method based on a low-power bus that can increase the exchange rate of multipliers and multiplicands within the convolution mixer, which is a tendency activity that occurs when a convolution mixer has multiplication, which is the core element of combination. Convolutional neural networks have proprietary low-power shared processor support and the design was implemented on an Intel DE1-SoC FPGA board using Verilog-HDL. The experiments validated the performance by comparing it with the exchange rate of the multiplier originally proposed by Shen on MNIST's numeric image database.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.11
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• pp.140-151
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• 1996

In this study, we designed the routing structure and logic block of a SRAM cell-based FPGA with symmetrical-array architecture. The designed routing structure is composed of switch matrices, routing channels and I/O blocks, and the routing channels can be subdivided into single length channels, double length channels and global length channels. The interconnection between wires is made through SRAM cell-controlled pass transistors. To reduce the signal delay in pass transistors, we proposed a scheme raising the gate-control voltage to 7V. The designed SRAM cells have built-in shift register capability, so there is no need for separate shift registers. We designed SRAM cells in the LUTs(look-up tables) to enable the wirte operations to be performed synchronously with the clock for ease of system application. Each logic block (LFU) has four 4-input LUTs, flip-flops and other gates, and the LUTs can be used a sSRAM memory. The LFU also has a dedicated carry logic, so a 4-bit adder can be implemented in one LFU. We designed our FPGA using 0.6.mu.m CMOS technology, and simulation shows proper operation of a 4 bit counter at 100MHz.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.1016-1021
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• 2003

The overall size of electronic product is becoming small according to development of technology. Accordingly it is difficult to inspect these small components by human eyes. So, an automation system for inspecting them has been used. The existing system put microprocessor or Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) use. The structure of microprocessor-based controller and PLC use basically composed of memory devices such as ROM, RAM and I/O ports. Accordingly, the system is not only becomes complicated and enlarged but also higher price. In this paper, we implement FPGA-based One-chip Programmable Timing Controller for Inspecting Small components to resolve above problems and design the high performance controller by using VHDL. With fast development, the FPGA of high capacity that can have memory and PLL have been introduced. By using the high-capacity FPGA, the peripherals of the existent controller, such as memory, I/O ports can be implemented in one FPGA. By doing this, because the complicated system can be simplified, the noise and power dissipation problems can be minimized and it can have the advantage in price. Since the proposed controller is organized to have internal register, counter, and software routines for generating timing signals, users do not have to problem the details about timing signals and need to only send some values about an inspection system through an RS232C port. By selecting theses values appropriate for a given inspection system, desired timing signals can be generated.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.1
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• pp.100-106
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a parallel optimization method of Aho-Corasick (AC) algorithm and Parallel Failureless Aho-Corasick (PFAC) algorithm using Open Computing Language (OpenCL) on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The low throughput of string matching engine causes the performance degradation of network process. Recently, many researchers have studied the string matching engine using parallel computing. FPGA's vendors offer a parallel computing platform using OpenCL. In this paper, we apply the AC and PFAC algorithm on DE1-SoC board with Cyclone V FPGA, where the optimization that considers FPGA architecture is performed. Experiments are performed considering global id, local id, local memory, and loop unrolling optimizations using PFAC algorithm. The performance improvement using loop unrolling is 129 times greater than AC algorithm that not adopt loop unrolling. The performance improvements using loop unrolling are 1.1, 0.2, and 1.5 times greater than those using global id, local id, and local memory optimizations mentioned above.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.117-123
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• 2012

This paper implements mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) receiver using Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology. SDR system is difficult to implement on the mobile handset because of restrictions that are computing power and under space constraints. The implemented receiver processes mobile WiMAX software modem on Open Multimedia Application Platform (OMAP) System on Chip (SoC) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). OMAP SoC is composed of ARM processor and Digital Signal Processor (DSP). ARM processor supports Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instruction which could operate on a vector of data with a single instruction and DSP is powerful image and video accelerators. For this reason, we suggest the possibility of SDR technology in the mobile handset. In order to verify the performance of the mobile WiMAX receiver, we measure the software modem runtime respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed receiver is able to do real-time signal processing.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.333-336
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• 2016

LIN (local interconnect network) is a standard low-speed serial communication protocol, and it was developed as an efficient sub-bus for automotive electronic modules. In this paper, a LIN controller was implemented in Verilog HDL, based on LIN ver. 2.2A. The implemented LIN controller was verified in FPGA, and it can be supplied as an IP to be integrated into SoC system. Its size is about 2,300 gates when synthesized in 0.18um technology.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.411-413
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 ARM922T Core와 주변장치를 설계할 수 있는 100만 게이트의 FPGA를 내장한 알데라(Altera)사의 엑스칼리버(Excalibur)를 이용하여 DC모터 제어용 SoC를 설계하였다. SoC란 System on Chip의 약자로 하나의 칩 안에 프로세서와 다양한 목적의 주변장치들을 집적하는 것을 말한다. 모터를 구동하기 위한 PWM신호 생성기를 하드웨어 설계언어(Hardware Description Language)로 구현하고 시뮬레이션을 통해 설계모듈을 검증하였다. 이렇게 검증한 PWM 생성기 모듈과 ARM922T Core를 합성하여 SoC를 설계하였다. PWM 생성기 모들을 구성하는 내부의 각 분분을 VerilogHDL로 코딩하여 심볼로 만들어 통합하는 방식으로 설계를 하였으며 실제 모터를 구동하기 위해서 프로세서가 동작할 수 있도록 C언어로 프로그램하여 함께 칩에 다운로드하여 테스트를 하였다. SoC를 기반으로한 시스템 설계의 장점은 시스템이 간단해지고 고속의 동작이 가능하며 회로의 검증 및 다양한 시뮬레이션이 용이하다는데 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.649-651
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 Core-A를 이용한 실시간 영상 신호 처리 SoC 설계와 검증에 대해 기술한다. 영상 신호 처리를 위한 방식으로 SoC를 사용하였으며 영상 처리를 위한 ISP를 설계하였다. 영상 처리를 위한 마이크로프로세서는 코드밀도를 높이고 Verilog HDL을 사용하여 기술되어 여러 응용분야에서 최적화할 수 있는 국내에서 개발된 Core-A를 사용하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 SoC는 Verilog HDL언어로 설계 되었고, 기본 SoC의 구조는 Core-A, AMBA Bus, ISP, Memory controller, Uart로 구성하였다. 구현된 SoC는 다양한 영상 신호 처리를 지원하여 향후 영상압축 인코더의 실시간 이미지 처리용 소스로 사용할 수 있고 신호 처리 알고리즘 검증용에도 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것으로 보인다. 설계 검증을 위해 먼저 FPGA를 이용하여 검증하였으며 TSMC $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS공정으로 합성한 결과 동작주파수는 50MHz, 전체 게이트 수 86.1k로 확인되었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.8
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• pp.619-630
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• 2003

We present a method of runtime configuration scheduling in reconfigurable SoC design. As a model of computation, we use a popular formal model of computation, hierarchical FSM (HFSM) with synchronous dataflow (SDF) model, in short, HFSM-SDF model. In reconfigurable SoC design with HFSM-SDF model, the problem of configuration scheduling becomes challenging due to the dynamic behavior of the system such as concurrent execution of state transitions (by AND relation), complex control flow (HFSM), and complex schedules of SDF actor firing. This makes it hard to hide configuration latency efficiently with compile-time static configuration scheduling. To resolve the problem, it is necessary to know the exact order of required configurations during runtime and to perform runtime configuration scheduling. To obtain the exact order of configurations, we exploit the inherent property of HFSM-SDF that the execution order of SDF actors can be determined before executing the state transition of top FSM. After obtaining the order information and storing it in the ready configuration queue (ready CQ), we execute the state transition. During the execution, whenever there is FPGA resource available, a new configuration is selected from the ready CQ and fetched by the runtime configuration scheduler. We applied the method to an MPEG4 decoder and IS95 design and obtained up to 21.8% improvement in system runtime with a negligible overhead of memory usage.