• International Journal of Contents
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.23-28
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• 2011

In a SoC (system-on-chip) design, a design complexity is a big bottleneck. In order to overcome the design complexity, platform based design method is widely adopted for designers. Most complex SoCs need a heterogeneous design development environment for hardware and software co-design. In this paper, we discuss about some kinds of verification approaches with platform based design methodology at various abstraction levels of SoC design. We separate the verification process to two steps according to the different levels of verification. We employ a flexible SoC design environment to support simultaneous hardware and software development. We demonstrate the verification strategy of a target SoC design, IEEE 802.11a WLAN SoC.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.376-382
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• 2008

Developing highly cost-efficient and reliable embedded systems demands hardware/software co-design and co-simulation due to fast TTM and verification issues. So, it is essential that Platform-Based SoC design methodology be used for enhanced reusability. This paper addresses a reusable SoC platform based on OpenCores soft processor with reconfigurable architectures for hardware/software codesign methodology. The platform includes a OpenRISC microprocessor, some basic peripherals and WISHBONE bus and it uses the set of development environment including compiler, assembler, and debugger. The platform is very flexible due to easy configuration through a system configuration file and is reliable because all designed SoC and IPs are verified in the various test environments. Also the platform is prototyped using the Xilinx Spartan3 FPGA development board and is implemented to a single chip using the Magnachip cell library based on $0.18{\mu}m$ 1-poly 6-metal technology.

• 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.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2014

버츄얼 플랫폼은 SoC를 구성하는 프로세서 코어 및 주변장치들을 소프트웨어로 모델링한 것으로, 현재 국내외 대기업에서는 버츄얼 플랫폼을 활용한 Top-Down 설계 플로우를 기반으로 최적 SW+SoC 융합시스템 구조 설계 및 IP 재활용을 통해 개발한 다양한 플랫폼을 제품 개발에 활용하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 오픈 IP인 OpenRISC 프로세서 코어 기반의 버츄얼 플랫폼을 제안한다. 제안된 버츄얼 플랫폼은 타겟 코드를 호스트 코드로 변환하여 수행하는 코드 변환 기법을 사용하여 약 20 MIPS 급의 고속 에뮬레이션을 지원한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.4227-4240
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• 2019

In this paper, we present our proposed magnetic induction based wireless communication system. The proposed system is designed to perform communication as well as distance measurement in underground environments. In order to improve the communication quality, we propose and implement the adaptive channel compensation technique. Based on the fact that the channel may be fast time-varying, we keep track of the channel status each time the data is received and accordingly compensate the channel coefficient for any change in the channel status. By using the proposed compensation technique, the developed platform can reliably communicate over distances of 10m while the packet error rate is being maintained under 5%. We also implement the distance measurement block that is useful for various applications that should promptly estimate the location of nearby nodes in communication. The distance between two nodes in communication is estimated by generating a table describing pairs of the magnetic signal strength and the corresponding distance. The experiment result shows that the platform can estimate the distance of a node located within 10m range with the measurement error less than 50cm.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.510-516
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• 2003

In this paper, we describe the development of a platform-based SoC of a 32-bit smart card. The smart card uses a 32-bit microprocessor for high performance and two cryptographic processors for high security. It supports both contact and contactless interfaces, which comply with ISO/IEC 7816 and 14496 Type B. It has a Java Card OS to support multiple applications. We modeled smart card readers with a foreign language interface for efficient verification of the smart card SoC. The SoC was implemented using 0.25 ${\mu}m$ technology. To reduce the power consumption of the smart card SoC, we applied power optimization techniques, including clock gating. Experimental results show that the power consumption of the RSA and ECC cryptographic processors can be reduced by 32% and 62%, respectively, without increasing the area.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.89-101
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• 2005

Research on highly abstracted system modeling and simulation has received a great deal of attention as of the concept of platform based design is becoming ubiquitous. From a practical design point of view, such modeling and simulation must consider the following: (i) fast simulation speed and cycle accuracy, (ii) early availability for early stage software development, (iii) inter-operability with external tools for software development, and (iv) reusability of the models. Unfortunately, however, all of the previous works only partially addresses the requirements, due to the inherent conflicts among the requirements. The objective of this study is to develop a new system design methodology to effectively address the requirements mentioned above. We propose a new transaction-level system modeling methodology, called ViP (Virtual Platform). We propose a two-step approach in the ViP method. In phase 1, we create a ViP for early stage software development (before RTL freeze). The ViP created in this step provides high speed simulation, lower cycle accuracy with only minor modeling effort.(satisfying (ii)). In phase 2, we refine the ViP to increase the cycle accuracy for system performance analysis and software optimization (satisfying (i)). We also propose a systematic ViP modeling flow and unified interface scheme based on utilities developed for maximizing reusability and productivity (satisfying (ii) and (iv)) and finally, we demonstrate VChannel, a generic scheme to provide a connection between the ViP and the host-resident application software (satisfying (iii)). ViP had been applied to several System-on-a-chip (SoC) designs including mobile applications, enabling engineers to improve performance while reducing the software development time by 30% compared to traditional methods.

• 정보과학회지
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2007

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.397-400
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 멀티미디어 어플리케이션을 위한 BTB(Branch Target Buffer)를 이용한 RISC 프로세서 기반 SoC 플랫폼의 ASIC 설계에 대해 기술한다. 제안된 SoC 플랫폼은 성능 개선을 위해 BTB를 포함하며 분기 명령어 패치 시 분기할 타깃 주소를 BTB에 저장함으로써 예측 주소의 명령어를 미리 패치, 파이프라인의 지연을 최소화하였다. 또한, 다양한 멀티미디어 어플리케이션을 위해 VGA 제어기, AC97 제어기, UART 제어기, SRAM 인터페이스, 디버그 인터페이스를 포함한다. 구현된 플랫폼은 다양한 테스트 프로그램을 사용하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하였으며, Xilinx VIRTEX-4 XC4VLX80 FPGA를 이용해 기능 및 타이밍 검증을 수행하였다. 최종적으로 Chartered 0.18um 공정을 이용하여 단일 ASIC 칩으로 구현되었으며 100MHz에서 정상 동작함을 확인하였고, 이전 OpenRISC 마이크로프로세서를 사용한 플랫폼과의 비교를 위해 산술연산 및 AC97 테스트 프로그램을 이용한 시뮬레이션 결과 5~9%의 성능향상을 확인하였다.

• 전자공학회지
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• 제30권9호
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• pp.28-28
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• 2003

SoC(System on Chip)의 발전은 현재 널리 쓰이는 기존의 설계 방법론으로는 해결될 수 없는 여러 가지 문제들을 생성하고 있다. 제품의 복잡도는 급격히 증가하는 반면 제품 수명은 지속적으로 감소하고 있으며, 기존 구현 기술의 향상만으로는 해결하기 쉽지 않은 VDSM (Very Deep Sub-Micron) 문제 또한 새로이 도출되고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 문제들은 적기에 시장에 제품을 출시하는 데에 많은 어려움을 끼치게 되기 때문에, 기존의 방법론을 뛰어 넘는 새로운 설계 방법론을 위한 많은 연구들이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이러한 방법론 중 효율적인 한 방안으로 "재사용"의 개념이 대두되고 있으며, platform-based design은 이러한 재사용의 개념을 SoC 설계에 효율적으로 적용할 수 있는 방법으로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 platform-based design의 최근 동향 및 현재 삼성전자에서 추진하고 있는 platform-based design에 대해 기술한다.