• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.3702-3707
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• 2009

In this paper, a new approximated MAP algorithm for soft bit decision from QAM symbols is proposed for Gray Coded QAM signals, based on the Max-Log-MAP and a Gray coded QAM signal can be separated into independent two Gray coded PAM signal, M-PAM on I axis with M symbols and N-PAM on Q axis with N symbols. The Max-Log-MAP used distance comparisons between symbols to get the soft bit decision instead of mathematical exponential or logarithm functions. But in accordance with the increase of the number of symbols, the number of comparisons also increase with high complexity. The proposed algorithm is used with the Euclidean distance and constituted with plain arithmetic functions, thus we can know intuitively that the algorithm has low implementing complexity comparing to conventional ones.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.1256-1265
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• 1996

Soft-decision detectors are used in many FEC and ARQ schemes to enhance the bit-error-probability and system throughput. Also, the hybrid-ARQ protocol is a very efficient schemeto achieve overall performance improvement. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid-ARQ protocol based on the first-order Reed-Muller codes employing soft-decision detectors. The Reed-Muller codes have the virtue of being able to use the fast Green machine decoder that is simple to implement. As the performance measures, the bit-error-probability and system throughput are evaluted for the proposed hybrid-ARQ procol, and compared with those of other hybrid-ARQ schemes. It is shown that the use of the proposed hybrid-ARQ protocol results in significant performance improvement without causing much loss in view of system complexity.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.13-17
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• 2003

The longitudinal magnetooptical Kerr effect was used to analyse magnetic domains in soft magnetic ${(Fe_{97}A1_3)}_{85}N_{15}$/$Al_{2}O_{3}$ multilayers in order to get microscopic understanding of interlayer exchange coupling. The measuring system consists of a Kerr microscope, a CCIR camera (with an 8-bit framegrabber), 16 bit digital camera and computer system for real-time image processing and to control external magnetic field and cameras. The strength of ferromagnetic (EM) coupling as a function of the spacer thickness of $Al_2O_3$ was investigated. It was found that strong FM-coupling, strong uniaxial anisotropy and coherent rotation of the magnetization have been observed for the spacer thickness in the range of 0.2 nm $\leq$ t $\leq$ 1 m, however, weak FM-coupling, patch domains and $360^{\circ}$-walls occur for the spacer thickness of t = 2.5 nm. At a spacer thickness of t $\geq$ 5 nm transition takes place from weak FM-coupling to the decoupled state where complex interlayer interactions and different types of the domain walls were observed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1988.11a
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• pp.159-163
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• 1988

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of alpha particles on the memory circuits such as a sense amplifier and bit lines. Sense amplifiers column alpha particle hits have been simulated for a mega bit DRAM using SPICE, a circuit simulation program. The energy of alpha particle and the substrate concentration are found to strongly influence the likehood of soft errors. Our results may be useful for the designing of alpha particle immune sense amplifiers.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.1-1
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• 2001

DRAM에서 셀 캐패시터의 누설 전류 영향을 고려하여 소프트 에러율을 예측하였다. DRAM의 동작 과정에서 누설 전류의 영향으로 셀 캐패시터는 전하량이 감소하고, 이에 따른 소프트 에러율을 DRAM의 각 동작 모드에 대하여 계산하였다. 누설 전류가 작을 경우에는 /bit mode가 소프트 에러에 취약했지만, 누설전류가 커질수록 memory 모드가 소프트 에러에 가장 취약함을 보였다. 실제 256M급 DRAM의 구조에 적용하여, 셀 캐패시턴스, bit line 캐패시턴스, sense amplifier의 입력 전압 감도들이 변화할 때 소프트 에러에 미치는 영향을 예측하였고, 이 결과들은 차세대 DARM 연구의 최적 셀 설계에 이용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2022

본 논문은 고차 계층 변조, 즉 계층 64QAM의 연판정 비트 검출을 위한 단순화된 연산 방법을 다룬다. 이는 기존 계층 변조의 연판정 비트, 즉 LLR(Log-Likelihood Ratio)값의 근사를 통해 불필요한 연산을 줄여 이에 필요한 지연시간을 줄일 수 있다. 또한 제안된 기법은 기존의 연판정 비트 검출 기법과 매우 유사한 비트 오류율(BER: Bit Error Rate) 성능을 유지하기 때문에 연판정 비트를 활용하는 방송 및 통신 시스템에 폭넓게 적용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2003

This paper introduces an efficient iterative decoding method for high-dimensional block turbo codes. To improve the decoding performance, we modified the soft decision Viterbi decoding algorithm, which is a trellis-based method. The iteration number can be significantly reduced in the soft output decoding process by applying multiple usage of extrinsic reliability information from all available axes and appropriately normalizing them. Our simulation results reveal that the proposed decoding process needs only about 30% of the iterations required to obtain the same performance with the conventional method at a bit error rate range of $10^{-5}\;to\;10^{-6}$.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.663-666
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• 2004

In this paper, a modified-SOYA (soft output viterbi algorithm) of turbo codes is proposed for quantized channel receiver filter outputs. We derive optimum branch values for the Viterbi algorithm. Here we assume that received filter outputs are quantized and the channel is additive white Gaussian noise. The optimum non-uniform quantizer is used to quantize channel receiver filter outputs. To compare the BER (bit error rate) performance we perform simulations for the modified SOYA algorithm and the general SOYA

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.241-243
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• 2020

The high computational complexity of deep learning algorithms has led to the development of specialized hardware architectures. However, soft errors (bit flip) may occur in these hardware systems due to voltage variation and high energy particles. Many error correction methods have been proposed to counter this problem. In this work, we analyze an error correction mechanism based on repetition codes and an activation function. We test this method by injecting errors into weight filters and define an ideal error rate range in which the proposed method complements the accuracy of the model in the presence of error.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.3
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• pp.19-28
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• 1998

This paper is concerned with the implementation of the equalization technique in a DCS 1800 system employing the soft-decision output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA), which makes the hardware complexity comparable to the hard decision MLSE and gives reliable performance. Also, the channel estimation technique with enhances the perfdormance of the soft-decision output equalizer is proposed, and the Viterbi decoder which operates effectively with the soft-decision output of the qualizer is implemented using the Very High Speed ICs Hardware Description Language (VHDL). From the simulation results, it is shown that the implemented Viterbi decoder operates effectively and the SOVA outperforms the hard-decision MLSE in terms of the frame erasure rate (FER) and bit error rate (BER).