• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.387-390
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a fast booting solution with embedded linux-based smart devices. We have divided the fast boot process into six steps, such as boot loader, kernel, file system, the init-scripts, shared libraries, and applications for an embedded linux-based boot process to improve the fast booting. Improvements for the fast boot are made in the boot loader phase, which is the first phase at power-up, and the init-script that runs the boot loader phase. To improve the fast booting, standby time from the boot loader and unnecessary initialization routine have been removed, and uncompressed kernel image loading as well as optimized copy routine have been applied. Further, a technology that replaces binary scripts in init-script phase and light-weight init process have been utilized to improve the boot.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.2173-2180
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• 2006

Linux has peculiarities of safety, flexibility, and open source. and Linux supports various hardware platforms. But because general Linux was designed for high performance H/W, Linux has several points to support for embedded system with limited resource. Specially, a main point is booting time that is spent to tens of second. In this paper, we purpose a fast booting scheme of Linux for Embedded System and estimate a performance of scheme purposed through realized prototype. Specially, to reduce booting time in environment of embedded system, we optimize boot loader, kernel and root file system. As a result, boot time reduce 28 second to 11 second in HBE-EMPOS II.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.434-441
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• 2015

Next generation memory technologies, which we denote as 'new memory', have both non-volatile and byte addressable properties. These characteristics are expected to bring changes to the conventional computer system structure. In this paper, we propose a fast boot technique for hybrid main memory architectures that have both new memory and DRAM. The key technique used for fast booting is write-tracking. Write-tracking is used to detect and manage modified data detection and involves setting the kernel region to read-only. This setting is used to trigger intentional faults upon modification requests. As the fault handler can detect the faulting address, write-tracking makes use of the address to manage the modified data. In particular, in our case, we make use of the MMU (Memory Management Unit) translation table. When a write occurs to the boot completed state, write-tracking preserves the original state of the modified address of the kernel region to a particular location, and execution continues. Upon booting, the fast booting process restores the preserved data to the original kernel region allowing rapid system boot-up. We develop the fast booting technique in an actual embedded board equipped with new memory. The boot time is reduced to less than half a second compared to around 15 seconds that is required for the original system.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.139-146
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• 2007

Most of embedded systems have been developed practically based on the PC platform equipped with Intel x86 CPU since it is able to reduce the total time for product development and improve the reliability of product by making use of a variety of solutions developed for a long time in the PC environment. Also, embedded systems based on PC-platform mainly use a high-capacity hard disk as data storage device for applications intending to store multimedia data. Recently, while the capacity of hard disk is increasing rapidly, the start-up ready time of hard disk is growing longer more than 30 seconds. The lengthened start-up ready time may delay the booting time of embedded system seriously, weighting users down with inconvenience. This paper proposes the refined system architecture and the dynamic IDE device probing method for fast booting of linux kernel in the embedded system based on PC platform with high-capacity hard disks, and the performance of proposed methods is evaluated and presented.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.594-598
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• 2008

In this paper we propose a fast booting technique based on Improved snapshot boot in embedded Linux, widely adopted in personal devices such as PDA and mobile phones. The existing Snapshot boot technique tries to create a snapshot image at the time of suspend, and later load the entire snapshot image into the system memory at the predefined location with the help of a bootloader at the time of resume. Since a bootloader has to copy the entire snapshot image into the predefined memory to resume the previous suspended computing state, a little bit long time is required to resume. Improved snapshot boot does not create a snapshot image consisting of whole memory pages at the time of suspend, thus resulting in smaller snapshot image than the existing snapshot boot. The remaining pages are in the swap area. The resulting smaller sized snapshot image enables much faster booting latency. Through the experiment, we can see the booting latency is reduced almost 30% with suspend image of 2982 pages. This result depends on the amount of swap-out pages.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.11
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• pp.851-858
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• 2010

Most mobile devices use a NAND flash memory as their secondary memory. A compressed code of the firmware is stored in the NAND flash memory of mobile devices in order to reduce the size and the loading time of the firmware from the NAND flash memory to a main memory. In order to use a demand paging properly, a compressed code should be decompressed very quickly. The thesis introduces a new dictionary based compression algorithm for the fast decompression. The introduced compression algorithm uses a different method with the current LZ method by storing the "exclusive or" value of the two instructions when the instruction for compression is not equal to the referenced instruction. Therefore, the thesis introduces a new compression format that minimizes the bit operation in order to improve the speed of decompression. The experimental results show that the decoding time is reduced up to 5 times and the compression ratio is improved up to 4% compared to the zlib. Moreover, the proposed compression method with the fast decoding time leads to 10-20% speed up of booting time compared to the booting time of the uncompressed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.301-304
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• 2013

In this paper, to improve the fast boot and soft real-time for the responsiveness in Qplus with relative evaluation rather than an absolute evaluation using validated to perform the services actually used. Qplus is included soft real-time, fast booting, and file system technology. There is a development board that mounted on an embedded Linux and Qplus. AV (Audio / Video) group communications is ported on the development board for soft real-time multimedia streaming services and to evaluate the performance of communication. We performed three major evaluation such as booting time measurement experiment, own performance measurement experiments for soft real-time measurement experiment, and performance measurement experiments for via the network communication performance evaluation. They are a practical Qplus performance evaluation and analysis.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a method of embedded linux light-weight to improve efficiency of application running on embedded systems. Three methods including fast booting scheme applying the Hibernation technique, JFFS2 file system optimization applying the Symbolic Link and virtual address mapping, kernel light-weight that guarantees the general purpose was applied. Since then check the system dependency and generate kernel image according to the target embedded kit. And embedded system performance of existing linux and linux which the method proposed in this paper was compared. In experimental result, the kernel size was 9.6% improved and the system booting time was 18% improved. And application processing speed on target embedded kit was improved 11% in the best case, 66% in the worst case. This result show that the light-weight method proposed in this paper is guarantee fast booting time and securing resources and it is good for the application processing speed improvement.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.10
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• pp.1523-1531
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• 2017

In general, the thrust vector control should be fast and stable in the initial launch phase. Two types of conventional controllers, one is for pitch angle control and the other is for pitch rate control, are designed based on the equation of motion without aerodynamics and are compared in the viewpoints of the stability margin and the time response performance. Also analyzed are the rejection capabilities to cope with high aerodynamic disturbances caused by high angle of attacks in initial booting phase. Additionally, time response features at actuator saturation are investigated. Based on those results, we suggest a controller structure which is more suitable for thrust vector control of missiles at initial booting phase.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.2 no.3 s.4
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• pp.147-152
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• 2006

NAND flash memory-based embedded systems are becoming increasingly common. These embedded systems have to provide a fast boot time. In this paper, we have designed and proposed a flash file system for embedded systems that require fast booting. By using a Flash Image Area, which keeps the latest flash memory information such as types and status of all blocks, the file system mounting time can be reduced significantly. We have shown by experiments that our file system outperforms YAFFS and RFFS.