• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.451-460
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• 2008

Recently, the power consumption of integrated circuits has been attracting increasing attention. Many techniques have been studied to improve the power efficiency of digital signal processing units such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) processors, which are popularly employed in both traditional research fields, such as satellite communications, and thriving consumer electronics, such as wireless communications. This paper presents solutions based on parallel architectures for high throughput and power efficient FFT cores. Different combinations of hybrid low-power techniques are exploited to reduce power consumption, such as multiplierless units which replace the complex multipliers in FFTs, low-power commutators based on an advanced interconnection, and parallel-pipelined architectures. A number of FFT cores are implemented and evaluated for their power/area performance. The results show that up to 38% and 55% power savings can be achieved by the proposed pipelined FFTs and parallel-pipelined FFTs respectively, compared to the conventional pipelined FFT processor architectures.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.193-202
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• 2010

This paper presents a high-speed low-complexity pipelined Reed-Solomon (RS) (255,239) decoder using pipelined reformulated inversionless Berlekamp-Massey (pRiBM) algorithm and its folded version (PF-RiBM). Also, this paper offers efficient pipelining and folding technique of the RS decoders. This architecture uses pipelined Galois-Field (GF) multipliers in the syndrome computation block, key equation solver (KES) block, Forney block, Chien search block and error correction block to enhance the clock frequency. A high-speed pipelined RS decoder based on the pRiBM algorithm and its folded version have been designed and implemented with 90-nm CMOS technology in a supply voltage of 1.1 V. The proposed RS(255,239) decoder operates at a clock frequency of 700 MHz using the pRiBM architecture and also operates at a clock frequency of 750 MHz using the PF-RiBM, respectively. The proposed architectures feature high clock frequency and low-complexity.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.533-538
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• 2005

We developed a pipelined scheduling technique of functional hardware and software modules for platform-based system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. It is based on a modified list scheduling algorithm. We used the pipelined scheduling technique for a performance analysis of an MPEG4 video encoder application. Then, we applied it for architecture exploration to achieve a better performance. In our experiments, the modified SoC platform with 6 pipelines for the 32-bit dual layer architecture shows a 118% improvement in performance compared to the given basic SoC platform with 4 pipelines for the 16-bit single-layer architecture.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 128-bit 블록암호인 SEED 알고리즘을 하드웨어로 구현하는데 있어서 면적을 줄이고 연산속도를 증가시키는 회로구조에 대하여 논하였고 설계결과를 기술하였다. 연산속도를 증가시키기 위해 pipelined systolic array 구조를 사용하였으며, 입출력회로에 어떤 버퍼도 사용하지 않는 간단한 구조이다. 이 회로는 10 MHz 클럭을 사용하여 최대 320 Mbps의 암호화속도를 달성할 수 있다. 회로설계는 VHDL 코딩방식으로 수행하였으며, 50,000 gates 급의 FPGA에 구현하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제42권7호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2005

본 논문은 무선 및 초고속 광통신등 다양한 통신 시스템에서 사용되는 고속 Reed-Solomon (RS) 복호기의 하드웨어 면적을 줄인 새로운 구조를 소개한다. 특히 folding 기술을 이용하여 높은 처리율(throughput)과 적은 하드웨어 복잡도(hardware complexity)를 가지고 있는 새로운 PrME (Pipelined recursive Modified Euclidean) 구조를 제안한다 제안된 PrME 구조는 일반적으로 사용되는 systolic-array 그리고 완전한 병렬(fully-parallel) 구조와 비교하여 하드웨어 복잡도를 약 80$\%$정도 줄일 수 있다. 제안된 RS 복호기는 1.2 V의 공급전압과 0.13-um CMOS 기술을 사용하여 설계하고 구현하였는데, 총 24,600개의 게이트수, 5-Gbit/s의 데이터 처리율과 클락 주파수 625 MHz에서 동작함을 보여준다. 제안된 면적 효율적인 PrME 구조에 기반한 RS 복호기는 초고속 광통신뿐만 아니라 무선통신을 위한 차세대 FEC구조 등에 바로 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 춘계종합학술대회 A
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• pp.225-228
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• 2008

In this paper, we presented our implementation of a counter mode AES based on Virtex4 FPGA. Our design exploits three advanced features: composite field arithmetic SubByte, efficient MixColumn transformation, and On-the-Fly Key-Scheduling for fully pipelined architecture. By pipelining the composite field implementation of the S-box, the area cost is reduced to average 17 percent. By designing the On-the-Fly key scheduling, we implemented an efficient key-expander module which is specialized for a pipelined architecture.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.7-10
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• 2004

This paper describes techniques to implement low-cost adapt ive Pipelined LMS filter for ASIC implement ions of high communication receivers. Power consumpiton can be reduced using a careful selection of architectural, algorithmic, and VLSI circuit techlifue A Pipelined architecture for the strength-reduced algorithm is then developed via the relaxed look-ahead transformation. This technique, which is an approximation of the conventional look-ahead compution, maintains the functionality of the algorithm rather than the input-output behavior Convergence maiysis of the Proposed architecture has been presented and support via simulation results. The resulting pipelined adaptive filter achives a higher though put requires lower power as compared to the filter using the serial algorithm.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.837-840
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• 2005

This paper presents 3D graphics lighting processor based on vector processing using pipeline chaining. The lighting process of 3D graphics rendering contains many arithmetic operations and its complexity is very high. For high throughput, proposed processor uses pipelined functional units. To implement fully pipelined architecture, we have to use many functional units. Hence, the number of functional units is restricted. However, with the restricted number of pipelined functional units, the utilization of the units is reduced and a resource reservation problem is caused. To resolve these problems, the proposed architecture uses vector processing using pipeline chaining. Due to its pipeline chaining based architecture, it can perform 4.09M vertices per 1 second with 100MHz frequency. The proposed 3D graphics lighting processor is compatible with OpenGL ES API and the design is implemented and verified on FPGA.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.227-233
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• 2006

In order to reduce blocking artifacts and improve compression efficiency, H.264/AVC standard employs an adaptive in-loop deblocking filter. This paper proposes a new hardware architecture of the deblocking filter that employs a four-stage pipelined structure with an efficient data distribution. The proposed architecture allows a simultaneous supply of eight data samples to fully utilize the pipelined filter in both horizontal and vertical filterings. This paper also presents a new filtering order and data reuse scheme between consecutive macroblock filterings to reduce the communication for external memory access. The number of required cycles for filtering one macroblock (MB) is 357 cycles when the proposed filter uses dual port SRAMs. This execution speed is only 41.3% of that of the fastest previous work.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.69-72
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• 2002

This paper proposed a new charge-shared switching MDAC for a pipelined A/D converter The proposed architecture accomplishes the same function of a conventional multiplying-digital-to-analog converter (MDAC). By adopting the proposed scheme, about 40% of the total capacitances could be reduced and the speed of the MDAC increases. The performance of the charge-shared switching MDAC has been Proved by HSPICE simulations.