• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.113-128
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• 2008

Turbo codes are extensively used in current communications standards and have a promising outlook for future generations. The advantages of software defined radio, especially dynamic reconfiguration, make it very attractive in this multi-standard scenario. However, the complex and power consuming implementation of the maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm, employed by turbo decoders, sets hurdles to this goal. This work introduces an ASIP architecture for the MAP algorithm, based on a dual-clustered VLIW processor. It displays the good performance of application specific designs along with the versatility of processors, which makes it compliant with leading edge standards. The machine deals with multi-operand instructions in an innovative way, the fetching and assertion of data is serialized and the addressing is automatized and transparent for the programmer. The performance-area trade-off of the proposed architecture achieves a throughput of 8 cycles per symbol with very low power dissipation.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2003

This paper presents a retargetable compiled assembly simulation technique for fast ASIP(application specific instruction processor) simulation. Development of ASIP which satisfies design requirements in various fields of applications such as telecommunication, wireless network, etc. needs formal design methodology and high-performance relevant software environments such as compiler and simulator In this paper, we employ the architecture description language(ADL) named ${HiXR}^2$ to automatically synthesize an instruction-level compiled assembly simulator. A compiled simulation has benefit of time efficiency to interpretive one because it performs instruction fetching and decoding at compile time. Especially, in case of assembly simulation, instruction decoding is usually a time-consuming job(string operation), so the compiled simulation of assembly simulation is more efficient than that of binary simulation. Performance improvement of the compiled assembly simulation based on ${HiXR}^2$ is exemplified with an ARM9 architecture and a CalmRISC32 architecture. As a result, the compiled simulation is about 150 times faster than interpretive one.

• 정보와 통신
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• 제25권12호
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• pp.10-18
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• 2008

In this paper, we present a low-power design of H.264 codec based on dedicated hardware and software solution on EMP(ETRI Multi-core platform). The dedicated hardware scheme has reducing computation using motion estimation skip and reducing memory access for motion estimation. The design reduces data transfer load to 66% compared to conventional method. The gate count of H.264 encoder and the performance is about 455k and 43Mhz@30fps with D1(720x480) for H.264 encoder. The software solution is with ASIP(Application Specific Instruction Processor) that it is SIMD(Single Instruction Multiple Data), Dual Issue VLIW(Very Long Instruction Word) core, specified register file for SIMD, internal memory and data memory access for memory controller, 6 step pipeline, and 32 bits bus width. Performance and gate count is 400MHz@30fps with CIF(Common Intermediated format) and about 100k per core for H.264 decoder.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제48권12호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2011

본 논문은 H.264/AVC, MPEG4 등, 다양한 영상압축 코덱을 지원할 수 있는 ME ASIP (Application-specific Instruction Processor)의 정화소 움직임 추정 전용 명령어와 재구성 가능한 하드웨어 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 전용의 명령어와 하드웨어 가속기는 HD급의 고화질 영상을 지원할 수 있는 성능을 가지고 있다. 제안하는 정화소 움직임 추정 명령어는 다수의 병렬 연산과 패턴 정보를 이용한 가변 포인트 2D SAD 연산기 구조를 통하여 전역탐색을 비롯한 각종 고속 탐색 알고리즘을 지원한다. 이를 위한 하드웨어 구조는 128개의 Processor Elements (PEs)로 구성되어 있는 Processor Element Group (PEG) 하나당 25,500 게이트를 가진다. 제안하는 ASIP은 Synopsys 사의 Processor Designer 로 검증하였고, Design Compiler를 이용 IBM 90nm 공정으로 합성하였다. 그 결과 제안하는 ASIP의 하드웨어 사이즈는 453K 게이트였으며, 동작 주파수는 188MHz로 HD급 1080p의 해상도를 가지는 영상을 실시간으로 동작 시킬 수 있다. 본 논문은 기존 2D SAD ASIP에 비하여 하드웨어 사이즈 측면에서 26%, 연산 속도 측면에서 평균 18%의 성능 향상을 보인다.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.3-9
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• 2020

The purpose of the study was to develop the Arduino based STEAM instruction materials for creative engineering design class. PDIE model was used in this study. We developed a STEAM lesson plan and a STEAM lesson worksheet for a total of six sessions through the steps of preparation, development, implementation and evaluation. The validity of the instruction materials was evaluated by the 10 experts using a survey. The instruction materials were applied to the class (52 students attended) of the creative engineering designs unit in technology and home economics subject. The class satisfaction and the creative solving-problem ability were examined after the calss. The class satafacition was high as the average of 10 item was 4.57 (out of 5). The paired t-test was conducted to compare the means of the creative solving-problem ability. It was observed that 'understanding and mastery of knowledge, thought, function and skills in a specific domain', 'divergent thinking', 'critical and logical thinking' and ' motivational factors' were significantly increased after the class. The instruction materials develped in this study were successfully designed to enhance the creative solving-problem ability by designing creative tasks and to intrique the interest by adding visual and auditory stimuli with the Arduino.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.401-407
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• 2000

최근의 고성능 프로세서들은 명령어 수준의 병렬처리(Instruction Level Parallel Processing) 를 이용하여 성능향상을 꾀하고 있다. 특히 컴파일러의 도움을 받는 VLIW(Very Long Instruction Word) 방식의 프로세서는 고성능 DSP 및 그래픽 프로세싱 등 특수한 분야에서 사용이 증가하고 있다. 이러한 특수 목적의 프로세서 구조로서 버스 기반의 VLIW 구조가 제안되었으며[2], 이는 포워딩 하드웨어의 부담과 명령어 폭을 줄여주는 장점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 버스 기반의 VLIW 프로세서를 위해 개발된 최적화 스케쥴링 컴파일러를 소개한다. 우선 버스간 연결 및 자원사용을 모델링 하는 기법을 설명하고 이를 바탕으로 레지스터-버스 승진, 복사자 융합, 오퍼랜드 대체 등의 기계 의존적인 최적화 기법과 선택 스케쥴링, EPS(Enhanced Pipelining Scheduling) 기법 등 VLIW 스케쥴링 기법을 어떻게 구현했는지 설명한다. 이러한 최적화 기법들을 멀티미디어 응용 프로그램에 대하여 적용하여 보았고 약 20%의 성능향상을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.19-20
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• 2009

H.264 부호기의 on-chip 상의 구현방법으로는 성능에 중점을 둔 ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) 기반의 접근 방식과 ASIC 보다 성능은 떨어지나 일반성과 유연성에 중점을 둔 ASIP (application specific instruction set architecture) 기반의 설계 방식이 연구되어 왔다. 우리는 영상 압축 응용 범위 내에서는 일반성 및 유연성을 잃지 않으면서도 기존에 문제시 되던 ASIP의 성능은 대폭 개선할 수 있는 ISA와 micro architecture를 제안하고 구현한 바 있다. 본 논문의 핵심적인 기여는 이 ASIP의 추가적인 성능 개선이다.

• 의학교육논단
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to examine teaching strategies from cognitive learning theory applied to medical education and to present specific applications of the strategies and cases. The results of this study yielded (1) seven teaching strategies and specific sample activities that instructors can use based on learning processes in medical schools; (2) nine instructional events to which cognitive learning strategies were applied; (3) principles of curriculum design from a cognitive perspective; and (4) instruction cases employing cognitive teaching strategies. Cognitive learning theory has two implications: first, if instructors in medical schools apply the results of the study to design a class and curriculum, it would be possible for them to minimize cognitive loading of the learners that may stem from ineffective teaching strategies or curricula; second, cognitive teaching strategies that seek improvement in thinking skills could provide useful teaching strategies for medical education, which aims to develop experts with high-level thinking processes. In this sense, cognitive learning theory is not an out-of-date learning theory, but one that can be effectively applied in current medical education.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.333-340
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• 2017

In this paper, we describe HW/SW co-optimizations for reconfigurable application specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs). Based on our previous very long instruction word (VLIW) ASIP, the proposed framework realizes various forward error-correction (FEC) algorithms for wireless communication systems. In order to enhance the energy efficiency, we newly introduce several design methodologies including high-radix algorithms, task-level out-of-order executions, and intensive resource allocations with loop-level rescheduling. The case study on the radix-4 turbo decoding shows that the proposed techniques improve the energy efficiency by 3.7 times compared to the previous architecture.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2014년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.53-56
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• 2014

Application specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) is a suitable design choice for system designers who seek both flexibility to handle various applications in the domain together with the performance. Successful development of an ASIP, however, requires a software development kit (SDK) to be provided along with the processor. Synopsys Processor Designer is an ASIP development tool, which takes as input a set of files written in a high-level architecture description language called LISA (Language for Instruction Set Architecture), and generates SDK as well as RTL. Recently, they have added support for the generation of LLVM compiler backend, though some manual work is required. In this paper, we introduce some details in porting LLVM compiler to a custom processor architecture in Synopsys Processor Designer.