• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.431-441
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• 2003

This paper presents the design of 32 bit microprocessor for a sequence control using a field programmable gate array(FPGA). The microprocessor was designed by a VHDL with top down method, the program memory was separated from the data memory for high speed execution of sequence instructions. Therefore it was possible that sequence instructions could be operated at the same time during the instruction fetch cycle. In order to reduce the instruction decoding time and the interface time of the data memory interface, an instruction code size was implemented by 32 bits. And the real time debug operation was implemented for easeful debugging the designed processor with a single step run, PC break point run, data memory break point run. Also in this designed microprocessor, pulse instructions, step controllers, master controllers, BM and BCD type arithmetic instructions, barrel shift instructions were implemented for sequence logic control. The FPGA was synthesized under a Xilinx's Foundation 4.2i Project Manager using a V600EHQ240 which contains 600,000 gates. Finally simulation and experiment were successfully performed respectively. For showing good performance, the designed microprocessor for the sequence logic control was compared with the H8S/2148 microprocessor which contained many bit instructions for sequence logic control. The designed processor for the sequence logic showed good performance.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.5
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• pp.11-20
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• 1999

The data transfer width between the mocroprocessor and the memory comes to a critical part that limits system performance since the data transfer width has been as it was while the performance of a microprocessor is getting higher due to its continuous development in speed. And it is important that the memory should be in small size for the reduction of embedded microprocessor's price which is integrated on a single chip with the memory and IO circuit. In this paper, a mocroprocessor tentatively named as Extendable Instruction Set Computer(EISC) is proposed as the high code density 32 bit mocroprocessor architecture. The 32 bit EISC has 16 general purpose registers and 16 bit fixed length instruction which has the short length offset and small immediate operand. By using and extend register and extend flag, the offset and immediate operand could be extended. The proposed 32 bit EISC is implemented with an FPGA and all of its functions have been tested and verified at 1.8432MHz. And the cross assembler, the cross C/C++ compiler and the instruction simulator of the 32 bit EISC shows 140-220% and 120-140% higher code density than RISC and CISC respectively, which is much higher than any other traditional architectures. As a consequence, the EISC is suitable for the next generation computer architecture since it requires less data transfer width compared to any other ones. And its lower memory requirement will embedded microprocessor more useful.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.18A no.6
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• pp.265-270
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• 2011

Even though 32-bit ISA based microprocessors are widely used more and more, 16-bit ISA based processors are still being frequently employed for embedded systems. Intel 8086, 80286, Motorola 68000, and ADChips AE32000 are the representatives of the 16-bit ISA based processors. However, due to less expressiveness of the 16-bit ISA from its narrow bit width, we need to execute more 16-bit instructions for the same implementation compared to 32-bit instructions. Because the number of executed instructions is a very important factor in performance, we have to resolve the problem by improving the expressiveness of the 16-bit ISA. In this paper, we propose a new pair register allocation algorithm to enhance an original graph-coloring based register allocation algorithm. Also, we explain about both the performance result and further research directions.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.345-348
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 내장형 응용에 적합한 RISC 마이크로프로세서와 DSP 프로세서의 기능을 유기적으로 결합한 구조를 연구하고 이를 설계한다. 프로그램의 크기를 줄이기 위해 RISC 명령어는 16비트 명령어 집합을 설계하고 분기 명령어로 인한 손실을 줄이기 위해 한 개의 지연 슬롯을 갖고 있다. DSP 명령어는 32비트 길이를 갖고 한 명령어로 곱셈, 덧셈(뺄셈), 두 가지 데이터 이동을 할 수 있어서 한 사이클에 최대 네 가지 동작을 할 수 있다 파이프라인 단계는 IF, ID, EX, MA, WB/DSP의 다섯 단계로 구성된다. DSP 기능을 지원하기 위해 내부 루프 버퍼를 갖고 정수 실행부에서는 주소 발생을 위한 전용 하드웨어와 DSP 유닛에서는 곱셈 및 누적 기능을 지원하기 위한 17 × 17 비트 곱셈기가 내장된다. 제안된 구조의 설계는 Verilog-HDL을 이용하여 top-down 설계 방식으로 설계되었고 각 기능 검증을 마친 후 3.3V, 0.6㎛ CMOS triple metal single poly 공정을 이용하여 합성하고 레이아웃 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.700-702
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• 2002

본 논문은 16-비트 고정된 명령어 형식을 갖는 32-비트 EISC(Extendable Instruction Set Computer) 코어 구현에 대하여 기술하였다. EISC구조는 코드 밀도가 높은 확장 오퍼랜드(operand) 형식을 사용하여 메모리 크기를 줄일 수 있으므로 ASIC 구현시 저전력 시스템 및 소형화된 임베디드 시스템을 위한 프로세서 구현을 가능하게 한다. 설계된 프로세서는 AE32000 명령어 셋과 호환이 가능하도록 설계되었으며 5단 파이프라인을 적용하여 프로세서의 성능을 높였다. 또한 BTB(Branch Target Buffer)를 사용하여 분기 지연을 줄여 낮은 CPI(Clock Per Instruction)을 유지하게 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.101-108
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• 1990

The processing efficiency of the special purpose hardware which is designed and implemented for the FFT caculation was investigated in this paper. This hardware equipment was consisted of LSI chips of four high speed multiplier and adde $r_stractor, and was interfaced with the 16bit microcomputer(NEC PC-9801E). The FFT processing time by this hardware equipment was improved approximately 4.8 times by the co-processor(Intel C8087-3).3).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1990.06a
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• pp.535-538
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• 1990

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.7
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• pp.1332-1339
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• 2001

SoC(System on Chip) technology is widely used in the field of embedded systems by providing high flexibility for a specific application domain. An important aspect of development any new embedded system is verification which usually requires lengthy software and hardware co-design. To reduce development cost of design effort, the instruction set of microprocessor must be suitable for a high level language compiler. And FPGA prototype system could be derived and tested for design verification. In this paper, we propose a 16 bit FPGA microprocessor, which is tentatively-named EISC16, based on an EISC(Extendable Instruction Set Computer) architecture for embedded applications. The proposed EISC16 has a 16 bit fixed length instruction set which has the short length offset and small immediate operand. A 16 bit offset and immediate operand could be extended using by an extension register and an extension flag. We developed a cross C/C++ compiler and development software of the EISC16 by porting GNU on an IBM-PC and SUN workstation and compared the object code size created after compiling a C/C. standard library, concluding that EISC16 exhibits a higher code density than existing 16 microprocessors. The proposed EISC16 requires approximately 6,000 gates when designed and synthesized with RTL level VHDL at Xilinix's Virtex XCV300 FPGA. And we design a test board which consists of EISC16 ROM, RAM, LED/LCD panel, periodic timer, input key pad and RS-232C controller. 11 works normally at 7MHz Clock.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.9-23
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• 1988

반도체 기술의 급격한 발전으로 마이크로프로세서를 이용하여 수퍼미니급의 컴퓨터를 개발하는 것이 가능하게 되었다. 따라서 프로세서 칩 개발노력이 증대되었으며 컴퓨터 구조 또는 프로세서 구조에 관한 연구도 여러 곳에서 진행되고 있다. 우리나라의 경우 독자적인 명령어를 갖는 컴퓨터를 개발하겠다는 노력은 미미하였으며 외부로 발표된 것은 전무한 상태이다. 본 논문은 한국전자통신연구소에서 개발하고 있는 독자적인 명령어 세트를 가지는 RISC 형태의 32 비트 마이크로프로세서인 HARP의 구조설계에 관한 것으로서 기본구조 설계를 위하여 1980년대 이후에 개발된 RISC 프로세서들에 대한 사례연구를 하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 HARP의 명령어 및 데이터 형식, 레지스터의 구성, 48비트의 가상 어드레스 사용방법, load/store 및 분기 명령어에서 사용되는 어드레싱 모드 그리고 HARP에서 정의한 39개의 명령어들에 대해 기술한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.66-71
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• 1987

Computer is the best versatile machine of the human creatures. Computers are not only applicated in mathematics but also in operation part of control mechanism and measuring system. Commercial computers have many sophisticated pheripherals, therefore they have many restrictions in practical applications such as control or measurement. The author designed a new simple computer that has essentially required component.