• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.23-32
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• 2008

In this paper, we have investigated the education effect of a web-based virtual laboratory for digital logic circuits which consists of multimedia contents about the usages of equipments for logic circuit experiments and the experimental logic circuits. In case of the engineering experiment of the lower grades in universities, preunderstanding about the usages of experimental equipments and the experimental circuits is necessary for the learners to conduct the experiments well. But it is impossible for the learners to have access to the real experimental equipments earlier due to the lack of equipments and the difficulty in management of the equipments. We have implemented the digital logic circuit virtual laboratory which provides the same experimental environment as a real experimental lab, and the learner can conduct the same experiments as the real ones before the real laboratory class. The learners using the laboratory have reduced the experiment completion time by the average of about 8.2% during a term, compared with the learners not using the lab.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2012

Generally, a logic function has many factored forms. The problem of finding more compact factored form is one of the basic operations in logic synthesis. In this paper, we present a new method for factoring Boolean functions to assist in educational logic designs. Our method for factorization is to implement two-cube Boolean division with supports of an expression. The number of literals in a factored form is a good estimate of the complexity of a logic function. Our empirical evaluation shows the improvements in literal counts over previous other factorization methods.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.77-84
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• 2017

This paper proposes a tool that can be used as a logical expression simplification tool that can be used for deepening learning of logic circuits and further utilized as a design automation tool for optimizing semiconductor parts. The simplification method of logical expressions proposed in this paper is to find common subexpressions existing in various logical expressions and reduce the repetitive use. Finally, the goal is to minimize the number of literals used in all logical expressions. These previous studies failed to produce a common subexpression embedded in the logical expressions because they only use division principle. The proposed method uses cubes with a Hamming distance of 3 to find the common subexpression embedded between logical expressions. Experiments using benchmark circuits show that the proposed method reduces the number of literals by as much as 47% when comparing simplifications with other methods.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.185-191
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• 2007

2005년 12월에 개정된 초 중등학교 정보통신기술교육 운영 지침에 의해 초등학교에서도 프로그래밍 교육을 실시해야 하고, 이에 따라 프로그래밍 도구의 도입이 불가피한 실정이다. 그러나 기존의 프로그래밍 도구는 구입 비용, 유지보수, 업그레이드, 학습자가 가정에서 실습을 하기 위해서는 개별적 설치를 해야 하는 등의 문제점이 있고, 영문 명령어 사용으로 인해 학습자가 문제해결력과 논리적 사고력 향상을 위한 알고리즘 작성, 코딩보다 영어 이해, 해석에 더 많은 시간이 소요되어 프로그래밍에 거부감을 느낄 우려가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 초등학교 프로그래밍 교육 목표 달성을 위해 한글 명령어와 영문 명령어 입력이 가능하고 웹을 기반으로 하는 한글 프로그래밍 도구를 설계하고 개발하였다. 본 웹 기반 한글 프로그래밍 도구를 통해 인터넷이 연결된 곳이면 언제, 어디서든 프로그래밍 실습이 가능하고, 한글 명령어 입력이 가능함으로써 영어에 미숙한 초등학생들에게 프로그래밍에 대한 거부감을 줄일 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.5-14
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• 2003

This paper presents a simplified web-based simulator for digital logic circuits with which several important principles related to digital logic circuits can be understood and confirmed. The proposed simulator is implemented to have several simplified functions which are essential to the learning process of digital logic circuits. The learners by themselves simulate several digital logic circuits on the web under specific input conditions and the design/analysis of digital logic circuits can be available. The proposed simulator, combined with multimedia contents, can be used as an auxiliary educational tool and enhance the improved learning efficiency. The results of this paper can be widely used to improve the efficiency of web-based educations in the cyber space. Several simulation results are illustrated as examples to show the validity of the proposed web-based simulator.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.33-41
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• 2015

In this paper, the simplification procedure of Karnaugh Map, which is essential to design digital logic circuits, was implemented as web-based educational Java applets. The learners will be able to experience interesting learning process by executing the proposed Java applets. In addition, since the proposed Java applets were designed to contain educational technologies by step-by-step procedure, the maximization of learning efficiency can be obtained. The learners can make virtual experiments on the simplification of digital logic circuits by clicking on some buttons or filling out some text fields. Furthermore, the Boolean expression and its schematic diagram occurred in the simplification process will be displayed on the separate frame so that the learners can learn effectively. The schematic diagram enables them to check out if the logic circuit is correctly connected or not. Finally, since the simplification algorithm used in the proposed Java applet is based on the modified Quine-McCluskey minimization technique, the proposed Java applets will show more encouraging result in view of learning efficiency if it is used as assistants of the on-campus offline class.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.85-91
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• 2011

Programming training in informatics education have the means that algorithm design and problem solving. However, Because learning and using programming tools that should be done first, elementary school students learning the programming tools that are interested in the process has been reduced. But programming with using an Educational Programming Language(EPL) can show results directly and coding with a drag & drop method that keeps the elementary students' interests for programming. Now that, the students are possible to enhance their creativity and reasoning skills. Therefore, through the result of this study show how to apply the EPL in the elementary information classes and comparing with before this study and after the study, we analyzed to applicate prosperity of EPL.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.17-25
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• 2007

In this paper, the simplification procedure of Karnaugh Map, which is essential to design digital logic circuits, was implemented as a web-based educational tool by Java applet. The learners can make virtual experiments on the simplification of the digital logic circuit by clicking on some buttons or filling out some text fields. The proposed simplification procedure was implemented as a Java applet which is based on the Modified Quine-McCluskey algorithm. Thus, the implemented Java applet will enable the learners to enhance the learning efficiency as a auxiliary educational tool.