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Low Power Trace Cache for Embedded Processor

  • Moon Je-Gil;Jeong Ha-Young;Lee Yong-Surk
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.204-208
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    • 2004
  • Embedded business will be expanded market more and more since customers seek more wearable and ubiquitous systems. Cellular telephones, PDAs, notebooks and portable multimedia devices could bring higher microprocessor revenues and more rewarding improvements in performance and functions. Increasing battery capacity is still creeping along the roadmap. Until a small practical fuel cell becomes available, microprocessor developers must come up with power-reduction methods. According to MPR 2003, the instruction and data caches of ARM920T processor consume $44\%$ of total processor power. The rest of it is split into the power consumptions of the integer core, memory management units, bus interface unit and other essential CPU circuitry. And the relationships among CPU, peripherals and caches may change in the future. The processor working on higher operating frequency will exact larger cache RAM and consume more energy. In this paper, we propose advanced low power trace cache which caches traces of the dynamic instruction stream, and reduces cache access times. And we evaluate the performance of the trace cache and estimate the power of the trace cache, which is compared with conventional cache.

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A Study on the Design of Inaudible Acoustic Signal in Acoustic Communications and Positioning System (음향 통신 및 위치측정 시스템에서의 비가청 음향 신호 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Jongtaek
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.191-197
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    • 2017
  • According to the ubiquitous usage of smartphone, so many smartphone applications have been developed, and especially data communications and position measurement technologies without additional equipments have been developed using acoustic signal. But there is a limitation to select the frequency of the acoustic signal due to the smartphone hardware, and there is non-linearity in the electronic circuits in a sound generation devices, the audible sound generated from the speaker is not avoidable. And it causes critical difficulty to the commercial system deployment. In this paper, a simulation technique to calculate the power of the audible acoustic signal by human is applied to several types of acoustic signals to evaluate the loudness. These could be referred when the acoustic communications or positioning systems are designed, for the purposed of inaudible sounding to human.

Context-Aware Reasoning System for Personalized u-City Services (맞춤형 u-City 서비스 제공을 위한 상황인지 추론 시스템)

  • Lee, Chang-Hun;Kim, Ji-Ho;Song, Oh-Young
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.16C no.1
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2009
  • Recently, there are many researches to realize context-awareness service that recognizes surrounding environments as context and provide the citizens with pervasive convenience based on ubiquitous computing technology. In the u-City, various sensors collect information as context, and citizens will receive various context-awareness service, making use of their wireless and mobile devices and the infrastructures of the u-City. We designed ontology that is useful to structure information of sensor or device that is linked to networks and use OWL (Web Ontology Language) that can express information of mutual relation and partial situation. And we propose a context-aware reasoning system for personalized u-City services based on collected context information and user's intention.

Contents Adaptation in Ubiquitous Environments (유비쿼터스 환경에서 콘텐츠 적응화)

  • Shin, Young-Ok
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.133-141
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    • 2010
  • Contents adaptation is a technology which converts one content to another content used in various devices. Specially, synchronization of inter-media which are included in a document is needed. There are various proposals and solutions for synchronization of inter-media. In the paper, I present "TATS : Temporal Aggregate Tree Strategy" model, which is used for specifying the temporal relationship among media in series of time. In the TATS model, aggregate tree, a sort of a binary tree, is generated from the execution time of those media. Using this aggregate tree, I implemented the inter-media synchronizations.

The Construction and Performance Test of Complex Networks based on Ubiquitous (유비쿼터스 기반의 복합통신망 구축 및 성능시험)

  • Hong, Sung-Taek;Shin, Gang-Wook
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.23-29
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    • 2011
  • We try to build the base for implementation of smart water treatment plant through identifying status by data acquisition such as temperature, humidity, flow, level, pump status and CCTV by using USN terminal such as Zigbee, Wi-Fi, UHF at the center of the flowmeter calibration center in K-water institute. The data obtained from various sensors is transmitted to data processing device through different types of USN network, the processed data is implemented to monitor by smart phone and we try to perform low cost and high efficient USN-based pilot project by implementing remote monitoring system using network performance analysis and mobile devices.

Design of Mobile Phone Middleware based on Integrated Context Provisioning Strategy (통합 상황 프로비저닝 전략을 기반으로 한 모바일 폰 미들웨어의 설계)

  • Jeong, Hyun-Jin;Won, You-Hun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.12 no.1 s.45
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    • pp.89-98
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    • 2007
  • In these days, the use of context in application running on mobile devices such as PDAs and smart Phone has become a crucial requirement for several research areas, including ubiquitous computing. mobile computing. Previous middlewares which support context provisioning uses single strategy. But, this paper proposed middleware integrated multiple strategies for context provisioning, namely internal sensors-based, external infrastructure-based, and distributed provisioning in ad hoc networks. Applications can query needed context items using SQL like context query language and require context information to use different provisioning mechanisms depending on resource availability and presence of external infrastructures.

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K Partition-Based Even Wear-Leveling Policy for Flash Memory (K 분할 기반 플래시 메모리 균등소거 방법론)

  • Park Je-Ho
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.13D no.3 s.106
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    • pp.377-382
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    • 2006
  • Advantageous features of flash memory are stimulating its exploitation in mobile and ubiquitous related devices. The hardware characteristics of flash memory however place restrictions upon this current trend. In this paper, a cleaning policy for flash memory is proposed in order to decrease the necessary penally for recycling of memory minimizing the degradation of performance at the same time. The proposed cleaning algorithm is based on partitioning of candidate memory regions, to be reclaimed as free, into a number of groups. In addition, in order to improve the balanced utilization of the entire flash memory space in terms of 'wearing-out', a free segment selection algorithm is discussed. The impact of the proposed algorithms is evaluated through a number of experiments. Moreover, the composition of the optimal configuration featuring the proposed methods is tested through experiments.

A study for implementation of wireless sensor network to optimize building environment (건물 환경 최적화를 위한 무선 센서 네트워크 구현에 대한 연구)

  • Chung, Sung-Boo;Kim, Joo-Woong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.13 no.10
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    • pp.2235-2241
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    • 2009
  • RFID and USN are major technology in Ubiquitous. RFID is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders through RFID reader. USN is wireless sense network and monitoring environment conditions that is temperature, noise, pressure, oscillation. In this paper, we propose wireless sensor network system that is monitoring to optimize environment conditions.

Development of Mobile Healthcare System Using ECG Measurement (심전도 측정을 이용한 모바일 헬스케어 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Seong-Woo;Shin, Seung-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.2008-2016
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    • 2014
  • With the increased attention about health care and management of heart diseases, ubiquitous healthcare services and related devices have been actively developed recently. In this paper we developed a mobile healthcare system which consists of smartphone and patch-type ECG measuring device. This system is capable of monitoring, storing, and sending bio signals such as ECG, heart rate, heart rate variability as well as exercise management functions through heart rate zones. With monitoring bio signal continuously by mobile healthcare system and wearable device like us, people can prevent chronic disease and maintain good health. Here we report our implementation results on real platforms.

Bendable Photoelectrodes by Blending of Polymers with $TiO_2$ For Low Temperature Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

  • Yu, Gi-Cheon;;Lee, Do-Gwon;Kim, Gyeong-Gon;Go, Min-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.02a
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    • pp.319-319
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    • 2010
  • Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on plastic substrates have attracted much attention mainly due to extensive applications such as ubiquitous powers, as well as the practical reasons such as light weight, flexibility and roll-to-roll process. However, conventional high temperature fabrication technology for glass based DSSCs, cannot be applied to flexible devices because polymer substrates cannot withstand the heat more than $150^{\circ}C$. Therefore, low temperature fabrication process, without using a polymer binder or thermal sintering, was required to fabricate necked $TiO_2$. In this presentation, we proposed polymer-inorganic composite photoelectrode, which can be fabricated at low temperature. The concept of composite electrode takes an advantage of utilizing elastic properties of polymers, such as good impact strength. As an elastic material, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is selected because of its optical transparency and good adhesive properties. In this work, a polymer-inorganic composite electrode was constructed on FTO/glass substrate under low temperature sintering condition, from the mixture of PMMA and $TiO_2$ colloidal solution. The effect of PMMA composition on the photovoltaic property was investigated. Then, the enhanced mechanical stability of this composite electrode on ITO/PEN substrate was also demonstrated from bending test.

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