• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.120-132
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• 2008

네트워크-온-칩은 미래 시스템-온-칩 제품을 위한 실용적인 개발 플랫폼으로서 부각되고 있다. 우리는 전압 조절이 가능한 회선을 가진 네트워크-온-칩에서 태스크간 통신으로 인한 전력 소모를 최소화하기 위한 정적 알고리즘을 제시한다. 최적의 통신 속도를 찾기 위해 제시된 (유전자 알고리즘에 기반한) 기법은 네트워크 망 구조, 태스크 할당, 타일 매핑, 라우팅 경로 할당, 태스크 스케줄링과 회선 속도할당을 포함한다. 제시된 설계 기법은 기존의 기법과 비교하여 평균 28%까지 전력 소비를 감소시킬 수 있다는 것을 실험 결과는 보여 준다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1355-1360
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• 2005

In this paper, we approach the problem of image filter design automation using a kind of intrinsic evolvable hardware architecture. For the purpose of implementing the intrinsic evolution process in a common FPGA chip and evolving a complicated digital circuit system-image filter, the design automation system employs the reconfigurable circuit architecture as the reconfigurable component of the EHW. The reconfigurable circuit architecture is inspired by the Cartesian Genetic Programming and the functional level evolution. To increase the speed of the hardware evolution, the whole evolvable hardware system which consists of evolution algorithm unit, fitness value calculation unit and reconfigurable unit are implemented by a commercial FPGA chip. The Celoxica RC1000 card which is fitted with a Xilinx Virtex xcv2000E FPGA chip is employed as the experiment platform. As the result, we conclude the terms of the synthesis report of the image filter design automation system and hardware evolution speed in the Celoxica RC1000 card. The evolved image filter is also compared with the conventional image filter form the point of filtered image quality.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제6권11호
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• pp.225-234
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 콘텐츠 보호의 암호화를 위해 ECC, MD-5, AES를 통합한 보안 프로세서를 SIP (Semiconductor Intellectual Property)로 설계하였다. 각각의 SIP는 VHDL RTL로 모델링하였으며, 논리합성, 시뮬레이션, FPGA 검증을 통해 재사용이 가능하도록 구현하였다. 또한 ARM9과 SIP들이 서로 통신이 가능하도록 AMBA AHB의 스펙에 따라 버스동작모델을 설계, 검증하였다. 플렛폼기반의 통합 보안 SIP는 ECC, AES, MD-5가 내부 코어를 이루고 있으며 각각의 SIP들은 ARM9과 100만 게이트 FPGA가 내장된 디바이스를 사용하여 검증하였으며 최종적으로 매그나칩 $0.25{\mu}m(4.7mm{\times}4.7mm$) CMOS 공정을 사용하여 MPW(Multi-Project Wafer) 칩으로 제작하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.767-774
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• 2013

In this paper, a novel parallel Viterbi decoding scheme is proposed to decrease the decoding latency and power consumption for the software-defined radio (SDR) system. It implements a divide-and-conquer approach by first dividing a block into a series of subblocks, then performing independent Viterbi decoding for each subsequence, and finally merging the surviving subpaths into the final path. Moreover, a network-on-chip-based SDR platform is used to evaluate the performance of the proposed parallel Viterbi decoding scheme. The experiment results show that our scheme can speed up the Viterbi decoding process without increasing the BER, and it performs better than the current state-of-the-art methods.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a novel ant colony optimization (ACO)-based test scheduling method for testing network-on-chip (NoC)-based systems-on-chip (SoCs), on the assumption that the test platform, including specific methods and configurations such as test packet routing, generation, and absorption, is installed. The ACO metaheuristic model, inspired by the ant's foraging behavior, can autonomously find better results by exploring more solution space. The proposed method efficiently combines the rectangle packing method with ACO and improves the scheduling results by dynamically choosing the test-access-mechanism widths for cores and changing the testing orders. The power dissipation and variable test clock mode are also considered. Experimental results using ITC'02 benchmark circuits show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently reduce overall test time. Moreover, the computation time of the algorithm is less than a few seconds in most cases.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제63권3호
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• pp.195-199
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• 2014

Various M2M applications have different quality-of-service(QoS) requirements to be implemented practically. QoS requirements are normally data rate and delay constraint. However, there are limited number of wireless communication chip solutions which cannot support QoS requirements for all M2M application. Hence, aggregated usage of plural wireless communication chip solutions should be needed to implement M2M applications. In this paper, we consider the case that two wireless communication chips using random access protocol work together to transmit data of an M2M application. In such case, data rate and delay performance are mathematically analyzed. In our results, practical data rate can be improved from 2.5 to 7 times while delay constraints are satisfied if we simply use two wireless communication chips together.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권1호
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• pp.156-160
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• 2011

This paper describes the design and implementation of a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for pattern recognition to use in embedded applications. The target Soc consists of LEON2 core, AMBA/APB bus-systems and custom-designed accelerators for Gaussian Pyramid construction, lighting compensation and histogram equalization. A new FPGA-based prototyping platform is implemented and used for design and verification of the target SoC. To ensure that the implemented SoC satisfies the required performances, a pattern recognition application is performed.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose vehicle SoC fault diagnosis platform using FlexRay protocol in order to detect the faults of semiconductor control chip even after vehicle production. Before FlexRay protocol by sending NFI (Null Frame Indicator) bit among the header segment and a specific identifier in the payload segment of FlexRay frame, this technique can be distinguishable from normal mode and test mode. By using this technique, it is possible to detect the faults such as performance degradation of vehicle network system caused by the aging or several problems of vehicle semiconductor chip. Also high reliability and safety of vehicle can be maintained by using structural test for vehicle SoC fault detection.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.76-79
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• 2004

The DS-SS (Direct Sequence Spread Spec1nun) transmitter is part of a low data rate (∼150 kbps - burst rate and 64 bps - average data rate) wireless communication system. It is traditionally implemented using Digital Signal processing chip (DSP). However, with rapid increase in variety of services through cell phones, such as, web access, video transfer, online games etc. demand for higher rate is increasing steadily. Since the chip rate and thereby the sampling rate requirements of the system are fairly high, the transmitter should implemented using Field programmable Gate Arrays FPGAs instead of a DSP. This paper shows the steps taken to get a working prototype of the transmitter unit on a FPGA based platform.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권11호
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• pp.56-65
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• 2009

최근 SoC의 집적도가 증가함에 따라 칩 내부의 통신 효율성은 시스템 성능에 직접적인 영향을 미치고 있다. 이에 따라 칩내부의 통신 메커니즘은 과거 shared wire를 이용한 버스 시스템에서 라우터를 기반으로 하는 NoC로 진화하고 있다. 하지만, NoC 내부의 라우터는 컨트롤 로직이 복잡해짐에 따라 신호 전달 과정에서 지연시간을 증가시켜 NoC의 성능을 제한시킨다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 지연시간을 개선시키기 위하여 낮은 복잡도를 갖는 라우터를 제시한다. 제안한 라우터의 구조 검증 및 성능 평가를 위하여 ESL 기법의 시뮬레이션 플랫폼을 구축하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 NoC 구조는 기존의 VC 라우터 기반의 NoC에 비해 대역폭은 약 1-2% 정도 감소하였지만, 평균적으로 약 50%의 지연시간이 감소 효과를 보였다.