• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.115-120
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• 2015

Until now, AOCS SW has used FPU which is one of CPU resources for satellite attitude control. And most of the SW Throughput was consumed to calculate Matrix Multiply. As SW throughput margin is decreasing seriously with shorter control period and more computational burden at next satellite programs, a dedicated HW matrix multiplier is absolutely required. This paper represents results of HW implementation & performance measurement and mentions several techniques for performance improvement, further works.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.10
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• pp.82-90
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• 2011

Because of the development of Smart phone devices, the demands of high performance FPU(Floating-point Unit) becomes increasing. Therefore, we propose the high-speed single-/double-precision FPU design that includes an elementary add/sub unit and improved multiplier and compare and convert units. The most commonly used add/sub unit is optimized by the parallel rounding unit. The matrix operation is used in complex calculation something like a graphic calculation. We designed the Multiply-Add Fused(MAF) instead of multiplier to calculate the matrix more quickly. The branch instruction that is decided by the compare operation is very frequently used in various programs. We bypassed the result of the compare operation before all the pipeline processes ended to decrease the total execution time. And we included additional convert operations that are added in IEEE754-2008 standard. To verify our RTL designs, we chose four hundred thousand test vectors by weighted random method and simulated each unit. The FPU that was synthesized by Samsung's 45-nm low-power process satisfied the 600-MHz operation frequency. And we confirm a reduction in area by comparing the improved FPU with the existing FPU.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.398-400
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• 1996

We present the implementation of the adaptive filter for EMG signal processing using VHDL. For making ASIC, the basic FPU(floating point processor), e.g., adder, multiplier and divider, are implemented with VHDL. The FPU is simulated and the controller for the RLSL(recursive least square lattice) algorithm of the adaptive filter is implemented. Then FPU and the controller are linked and simulated. Finally the models are synthesized and the gate level is implemented.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.762-765
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• 2021

In this paper, an automotive ECU (electronic control unit) with Kalman filter accelerator is designed and implemented. RISC-V is exploited as a processor core. Accelerator for Kalman filter matrix operation, CAN (controller area network) controller for in-vehicle network, and LIN (local interconnect network) controller are designed and embedded. Kalman filter operation consists of time update process and measurement update process. Current state variable and its error covariance are estimated in time update process. Final values are corrected from input measurement data and Kalman gain in measurement update process. Usually floating-point multiplication is exploited in software implementation, but fixed-point multiplier considering accuracy analysis is exploited in this paper to reduce hardware area. In 28nm silicon fabrication, its operating frequency, area, and gate counts are 100MHz, 0.37mm², and 760k gates, respectively.