• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제39권12호
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• pp.1045-1054
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• 2002

System-On-a-Chip(SOC)에 대하여 테스트 데이터 압축 및 저전력 스캔테스팅에 대한 새로운 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 스캔벡터내의 don't care 입력들을 저전력이 되도록 적절하게 값을 할당하였고 높은 압축율을 갖도록 적응적 인코딩을 적용하였다. 또한 스캔체인에 입력되는 동안 소모되는 scan-in 전력소모를 최소화하도록 스캔벡터의 입력 방향을 결정하였다. ISCAS 89 벤치마크 회로에 대하여 실험한 결과는 평균전력 소모는 약 12% 감소되었고 압축율은 약 60%가 향상됨을 보였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.228-230
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• 2002

We present a new low power scan testing and test data compression method for System-On-a-Chip (SOC). The don't cares in unspecified scan vectors are mapped to binary values for low power and encoded by adaptive encoding method for higher compression. Also, the scan-in direction of scan vectors is determined for low power. Experimental results for full-scanned versions of ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that the proposed method has both low power and higher compression.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2011년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.892-895
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• 2011

SoC(System-On-Chip)을 테스트 하는 동안 소모하는 전력소모는 SoC내의 IP 코어가 증가됨에 따라 매우 중요한 요소가 되었다. 본 논문에서는 Scan Latch Reordering과 Clock Gating 기법을 적용하여 scan-in 전력소모를 줄이는 알고리즘을 제안한다. Scan vector들의 해밍거리를 최소로 하는 새로운 Scan Latch Reordering을 적용하였으며 Gated scan 셀을 사용하여 저전력을 구현하였다. ISCAS 89 벤치마크 회로에 적용하여 실험한 결과 모든 회로에 대하여 향상된 전력소모를 보였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.229-236
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• 2005

System-On-a-Chip(SOC)을 테스트하는 동안에 요구되는 테스트 시간과 전력소모는 SOC내의 IP 코어의 개수가 증가함에 따라서 매우 중요하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 수정된 스캔 래치 재배열을 사용하여 scan-in 전력소모와 테스트 데이터의 양을 줄일 수 있는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 스캔 벡터 내의 해밍거리를 최소화하도록 스캔 래치 재배열을 적용하였으며 스캔 래치 재배열을 하는 동안에 스캔 벡터 내에 존재하는 don't care 입력을 할당하여 저전력 및 테스트 데이터 압축을 하였으며 ISCAS 89 벤치마크 외호에 적용하여 모든 경우에 있어서 테스트 데이터를 압축하고 저전력 스캔 테스팅을 구현하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.399-402
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• 2004

This paper presents a system-on-chip prototype implementing a full integration for a portable digital audio system. The chip is composed of a audio processor block to implements audio decoding and voice compression or decompression software, a system control block including 8-bit MCU core and Memory Management Unit (MMU) a low power 16-bit ${\Sigma}{\Delta}$ CODEC, two DC-to-BC converter, and a flash memory controller. In order to support other audio algorithms except Mask ROM type's fixed codes, a novel 16-bit fixed-point DSP core with the program-download architecture is proposed. Funker, an efficient power management technique such as task-based clock management is implemented to reduce power consumption for portable application. The proposed chip has been fabricated with a 4 metal 0.25um CMOS technology and the chip area is about 7.1 mm ${\times}$ 7.1mm with 100mW power dissipation at 2.5V power supply.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제31B권7호
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• pp.42-48
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• 1994

In this paper, a low power and high speed flash Analog-to-Digital Converter using current-mode concept is proposed. Current-mode approach offers a number of advantages over conventional voltage-mode approach, such as lower power consumption small chip area improved accuracy etc. Rescently this concept was applied to algorithmic A/D Converter. But, its conversion speed is limited to medium speed. Consequently this converter is not applicable to the high speed signal processing system. This ADC is fabricated in 1.2um double metal CMOS standard process. This ADC's conversion time is measured to be 7MHz, and power consumption is 2.0mW, and differential nonlinearity is less than 1.14LSB and total harmonic distortion is -50dB. The active area of analog chip is about 350 x 550u$m^2$. The proposed ADC seems suitable for a single chip design of digital signal processing system required high conversion speed, high resolution small chip area and low power consumption.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.540-547
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• 2010

One of the critical issues in on-chip serial communications is increased power consumption. In general, serial communications tend to dissipate more energy than parallel communications due to bit multiplexing. This paper proposes a low-power bus serialization method. This encodes bus signals prior to serialization so that they are converted into signals that do not greatly increase in transition frequency when serialized. It significantly reduces the frequency by making the best use of word-to-word and bit-by-bit correlations presented in original parallel signals. The method is applied to the revision of an MPEG-4 processor, and the simulation results show that the proposed method surpasses the existing one. In addition, it is cost-effective when implemented as a hardware circuit since its algorithm is very simple.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.729-732
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• 2011

Power consumption during testing System-On-Chip (SOC) is becoming increasingly important as the IP core increases in SOC. We present a new algorithm to reduce the scan-in power using the modified scan latch reordering and clock gating. We apply scan latch reordering technique for minimizing the hamming distance in scan vectors. Also, during scan latch reordering, the don't care inputs in scan vectors are assigned for low power. Also, we apply the clock gated scan cells. Experimental results for ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that reduced low power scan testing can be achieved in all cases.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.783-789
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• 2008

A bio-inspired vision chip for edge detection was fabricated using 0.35 ${\mu}m$ double-poly four-metal complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology. It mimics the edge detection mechanism of a biological retina. This type of vision chip offer several advantages including compact size, high speed, and dense system integration. Low resolution and relatively high power consumption are common limitations of these chips because of their complex circuit structure. We have tried to overcome these problems by rearranging and simplifying their circuits. A vision chip of $160{\times}120$ pixels has been fabricated in $5{\times}5\;mm^2$ silicon die. It shows less than 10 mW of power consumption.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2002

The Cartesian loop chip which is one of key devices in narrow-band Walky-Talky transmitter using RZ-SSB modulation method was designed and implemented with 0.35 Um CMOS technology. The reduced size and low cost of transmitter were available by the use of direct-conversion and Cartesian loop chip, which improved the power efficiency and linearity of transmitting path. In addition, low power operation was possible through CMOS technology. The performance test results of transmitter showed -23 dBc improvement of IMD level and -30 dEc below suppression of SSB characteristic in the operation of Cartesian loop chip (closed-loop). At that time, the transmitting power was about 37 dBm (5 W). The main parameters to improve the transmitting characteristic and to compensate the distortion in feed back loop such as DC-offset, loop gain and phase value are interfaced with notebook PC to be controlled with S/W.