• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1058-1067
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• 2004

Java virtual machine provides code compactness, simple execution engines, and platform-independence which are important features for small devices such as mobile or embedded device, but it has a big problem, such as low throughput due to stack-oriented operation. In this paper hardware lava accelerator targeted for mobile or embedded application is designed to eliminate the slow speed problem of lava virtual machine. The designed lava accelerator can execute 81 instructions of Java virtual machine(JVM)'s opcodes and be used as Java coprocessor of conventional 32-bit RISC processor with efficient coprocessor interface and instruction buffer. It consists of about 14,300 gates and its maximum operating frequency is about 50 Mhz under 0.35um CMOS technology.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.17-25
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• 2003

In this paper, a processor architecture is proposed based on the state space implementation technique for real time processing of 2-D discrete wavelet transform(DWT). It conducts 2-D DWT operations in consideration of row and column direction simultaneously, thus can reduce latency due to memory access for storing intermediate results. It is a VLSI architecture suitable for real time processing. The proposed architecture includes only four multipliers and four adders, and NK-N internal memory storage, where K denotes the length of filter. It has a small hardware complexity. Therefore it is very suitable architecture for real time, embedded applications such as web camera server. Since the processor is easily extended to array structure, it can be applied to various image processing applications.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1211-1217
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• 2005

Current generation embedded systems are built around only a small number of SOCs, which are again based on general-purpose embedded micro-processors, such as ARM and MIPS. These RISC-based processors are not, however, designed for specific functions such as networking and multimedia processing, whose importances have increased dramatically in recent years. Network devices for small business and home networks, are especially dependent upon such SOCs based on general processors. Except for PHY and MAC layer functions, which are built with hardware, all the network functions are processed by the embedded micro-processor. Enabling technologies such as VDSL and FTTH promise Internet access with a much higher speed, while at the same time explore the limitations of general purpose microprocessors. In this paper we design a network processor, embed it into an SOC for Home gateway, evaluate the performance rigorously, and gauge a possibility for commercialization.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2005

Embedded systems have a set of tasks to execute. These tasks can be implemented either on application specific hardware or as software running on a specific processor. The design of an embedded system involves the selection of hardware software resources, Partition of tasks into hardware and software, and performance evaluation. An accurate estimation of execution time for extreme cases (best and worst case) is important for hardware/software codesign. A tighter estimation of the execution time bound nay allow the use of a slower processor to execute the code and may help lower the system cost. In this paper, we consider an ARM-based embedded system and developed a tool to estimate the tight boundary of execution time of a task with loop bounds and any additional program path information. The tool we developed is based on an exiting timing analysis tool named 'Cinderella' which currently supports i960 and m68k architectures. We add a module to handle ARM ELF object file, which extracts control flow and debugging information, and a module to handle ARM instruction set so that the new tool can support ARM processor. We validate the tool by comparing the estimated bound of execution time with the run-time execution time measured by ARMulator for a selected bechmark programs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.25-31
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• 2008

본논문에서는이동형통신시스템의프로세서에대한최소전력소모를위한주파수선택알고리즘을제안하였다. 제안한 방법은 클럭 게이팅 방법을 이용하여 저전력 프로세서를 설계한다. 클럭 게이팅 방법은 내장된 클럭 블록을 이용하여 주 클럭을 제어함으로서 전력 낭비를 개선시킨다. 설계 방법은 프로세서에 대해 동적 전력을 고려하여 소모 전력을 비교하고, 설계된 프로세서에 대해 에너지 이득과 소모를 고려하여 주파수를 결정한다. 또한, 슬랙시간을 이용하여 프로세서의 속도를 낮추어 소모 전력을 감소시킨다. 이러한 기술은 클럭 게이팅 방법과 에너지, 슬랙 시간을 이용하여 이동형 시스템의사용 시간이 개선하였다. 실험결과 제안한 알고리즘은 알고리즘을 적용하지 않은 이동형 시스템의 프로세서에 비해 평균 전력이 4% 감소되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

As processor platforms are continuously moving toward wireless mobile systems, embedded mobile processors are expected to perform more and more powerful, and therefore the development of an efficient power management algorithm for these battery-operated mobile and handheld systems has become a critical challenge. It is well known that a memory system is a main performance limiter in the processor point of view. Although many DVFS studies have been considered for the efficient utilization of limited battery resources, recent works do not explicitly show the interaction between the processor and the memory. In this research, to properly reflect short/long-term memory access patterns of the embedded workloads in wireless mobile processors, we propose a memory buffer utilization as a new index of DVFS level prediction. The simulation results show that our solution provides 5.86% energy saving compared to the existing DVFS policy in case of memory intensive applications, and it provides 3.60% energy saving on average.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.4C
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• pp.388-397
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• 2002

We designed a SIMD-DSP/FPU that can efficiently improve multimedia processing performance when integrated into high-performance embedded microprocessors. We proposed partitioned architectures and new schemes for several functional units to reduce chip area. Sharing functional units reduces the area of FPU significantly. The proposed architecture is modeled in HDL and synthesized with a 0.35$\mu\textrm{m}$ standard cell library. The chip area is estimated to be about 100,000 equivalent gates. The designed unit can run at higher than 50MHz clock frequency of CPU core under the worst-case operating conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.685-687
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• 2004

실시간 운영체제는 그 특성상 범용 운영체제와는 달리 시간 결정성(determinism)을 보장하는 안정된 스케줄링 기능을 갖춘 운영체제이다. 현재 실시간 운영체제를 필요로 하는 내장형 시스템들은 비싼 사용료를 지불하며 외국의 상용 실시간 운영체제를 도입하여 제품 개발에 활용하고 있다. 상용 실시간 운영체제를 사용할 경우, 운영체제 자체는 블랙 박스(바이너리 소스)이기 때문에 세밀한 제어가 불가능하고 불필요한 기능들을 포함하고 있다. 그러므로 독자적인 운영체제 개발 및 확보가 중요하다 본 논문은 MPC750 프로세서에 기반 한 실시간 운영체제를 개발함에 목적이 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.2136-2149
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• 1997

This paper describes RISC core that has been designed for embedded and protable applications such as PDA or PCS. This RISC processor offers low power consumption and fast context switching. Processor performance is improved by using conditional instruction execution, block data transfer instruction, and multiplication instruction. This architecture is based on RISC principles. The processor adopts 3-stage instruction execution pipeline and has achieved single cycle execution using a 2-phase 40MHz clock. This results in a high instruction throughput and real-time interrupt response. This chip is implemented with $0.6{\mu}m$ triple metal CMOS technology and consists of about 88K transistors. The estimated power dissipation is 179mW.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.367-369
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• 2001

논리 회로는 하드웨어로 직접 구현할 수도 있으나, 설계된 디지털 논리를 프로그램으로 구현하고 이를 내장형 프로세서가 실행하게 하는 방식으로 구현할 수 있다. 이러한 구현은 내장형 시스템에 적합하도록 코드 크기와 실행 속도가 효율적이어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 복사 전파, 데드코드 삭제, 위상 정렬등의 컴파일러 최적화 기술과 함수 단위 모듈 개념을 도입하여 신호 흐름 분석 기법의 C 코드 자동 발생기를 구현하였다. 회로 시뮬레이션 구현 기법 중 유한 상태 천이 모델 기법으로 코드를 발생하는 Esterel 시스템과 성능 비교 실험을 한 결과, 코드 크기는 평균 84.17%로 감소되었으며 실행 속도는 평균 4.68배로 향상되었다.