• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.25-34
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• 2001

In this paper, we describe the generation method of interface logic which replace between IP & IP handshaking signal with asynchronous logic circuit. Especially, we suggest the new asynchronous sequential "Waveform to VHDL" code creation algorithm by flow chart conversion : Wave2VHDL - if only mixed asynchronous timing waveform is presented the level type input and pulse type input for handshaking, we convert waveform to flowchart and then replace with VHDL code according to converted flowchart. Also, we confirmed that asynchronous electronic circuits are created by applying extracted VHDL source code from suggest algorithm to conventional domestic/abroad CAD Tool, Finally, we assured the simulation result and the suggest timing diagram are identical.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.569-578
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• 2016

The PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) has been widely used for the development of digital control system of nuclear power plant. The PLC has high maintenance costs and increasing complexity, hence, FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) based digital control system has been considered as an alternative. However, the development of FPGA based digital control system is a challenge for PLC engineers because they are required to learn about new language to develop FPGA and knowledge and know-how acquired in the development of PLC is not transferable. In this study, we proposed and implemented an automatic translation tool for translation of FBD (Function Block Diagram), a programming language of PLC software, into VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language). Automatically translating the FBD to VHDL using this tool allows PLC engineers to develop FPGA without any knowledge of the hardware description language.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.12
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• pp.39-45
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• 2003

Design verification of VHDL models is getting difficult and has become a critical and time-consuming process in hardware design. Recent]y the methods using Bayesian estimation and stopping rule have been introduced to verify behavioral models and to reduce clock cycles. This paper presents two strategies to reduce clock cycles when using stopping rule in a VHDL model verification. The first method is that a semi-random variable is defined and the data that stay in the range of semi-random variable are skipped when stopping rule is running. The second one is to keep the old values of parameters when phases of stopping rule are changed. 12 VHDL models are examined to observe the effectiveness of strategies, and the simulation results show that more than about 25% of clock cycles is reduced by using the two proposed strategies with 0.6% losses of branch coverage rate.

• KSCI Review
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.24-32
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 VHDL을 이용하여 16-비트의 파이프라인 SIC를 함수적 레벨에서 기술하여 구현하고. 그 프로세서의 동작을 확인하였다. 구현된 파이프라인 SIC를 시뮬레이션할 때 그 프로세서 내에서 실행되는 테스트 벡터를 기호로 표시된 명령어로 먼저 설정하여 규정하고, 구현된 명령어 세트를 프로그래밍하여 입력하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제시된 테스트 벡터를 이용한 시뮬에이션 방법은 프로세서의 동작을 쉽게 확인할 수 있었으며, 정확한 시뮬레이션을 할 수 있었고, VHDL을 이용하므로써 구현시 프로세서의 동작을 문서화하는 것이 간편하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10B
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• pp.1458-1463
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 고밀도 광 기록 시스템에 적용이 가능한 코드율이 8/15이고, (d, $textsc{k}$)=(2, 15)인 새로운 변조 코드 체계에 대한 변조 코딩 방법을 VHDL로 구현하였다. 인코딩 방법은 크게 세 가지로 구분되어 진다. 먼저 입력 데이터를 복수개의 바이트 단위로 묶어서 블록을 정의하고, 이 블록의 입력 데이터를 변환 테이블을 이용해서 채널 데이터로 변환한 후, 머징 비트(merging bits)를 첨가하여 데이터를 전송한다. 위와 같은 코딩 방법을 적용하여 새롭게 개발한 변조 코드에 대해 모의 실험을 통한 성능을 분석한 후 VHDL로 구현하여 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.34C no.7
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• pp.1-7
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• 1997

VHDL simulation requires both analysis and elaboration processes. Reducing the time taken by these processes shorten design cycles. We propose an incremental analysis and elaboration algorithm for VHDL, which minimizes the number of design units to be re-analyzed and re-elaborated after an incremental change, thereby reducing the desing cycle time. Experimental results show about four times performance improvement in analysis and 1.25 times in elaboration over the conventional method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.325-328
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• 2001

This paper describes a VHDL code coverage checker for If design and verification. Applying the verification coverage to IP design is a methodology rapidly gaining popularity. This enables the designers to improve the IP design quality and reduces the time-to-market by providing the Quantitative measure of simulation completeness and test benches. To support this methodology, a VHDL code coverage model was defined and the measurement tool was developed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.67-71
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• 1999

In this paper, we design circuits embedded in memory chip which perform memory testing algorithms using BIST scheme to reduce testing time and cost for testing. In order to implement circuits for MSCAN, Marching and checkerboard test algorithms, which have widely used in memory testing, we survey structure of the BIST circuits and describe each block of BIST circuits by using VHDL. Thereafter, We verify behavior of each VHDL coding block and extract BIST circuits for target testing algorithms by CAD tool for simulation and synthesis. Extracted circuits have very low area overhead.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.30A no.10
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• pp.67-76
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• 1993

This paper presents the design and implementation of SVSIM (Sogang VHDL SIMulator), a multi-level VHDL simulator, designed for the construction of an integrated VGDL design environment. The internal model of SVSIM is the hierarchical C/DFG which is extended from C/DFG to include the network hierarchy and local/glabal control informations. Hierarchical network is not flattened for simulation, resulting in the reduction of space complexity. The predufined/user-defined types except for the record type and the predefined/user-defined attributes are supported in SVSIM. Algorithmic-level descriptions can be siumlated by the support of recursive procedure/function calls. Input stimuli can be generated by command script in stimuli file or in VHDL source code. Experimential results show SVSIM can be efficiently used for the simulation of the pure behavioral descriptions, structural descriptions or mixture of these.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.5
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• pp.180-187
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• 1996

This paper describes a post-layout simulation method using VHDL and C for verifying the architecture of antifuse-based FPGAs and the dedicated CAD system. An antifuse-based FPGA consists of programming circuitry including decoding logic, logic modules, segmented tracks, antifuses and I/O pads. The VHDL model which includes all these elements is used for logic verification and programming verification of the implemented circuit by reconstructing the logic circuit from the bit-stream generated from layout tool. The implemented circuit comprises of logic modules and routing networks. Since the routing delay of the complex networks is comparable to the delay of the logic module in the FPGA, the accurate post-layout simulation is essential to the FPGA system. In this paper, the C program calculates the delay of the routing netowrks using SPICE, elmore or horowitz delay models and the results feedback to the VHDL simulation. Critical path anc be found from this post-layout simulation results.