• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.220-228
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• 2001

Simulation of an instruction set is essential to design and optimize new microprocessors, and to develop application programs. Though many simulation tools are widely used, their low-level description and simulation make users construct simulators difficult and spend a lot of time for simulation. We developed an automatic generator of instruction set simulators that perform register-transfer-level simulation. This automatic generator might be adaptable so as to be suitable for new modification or different conditions in designing microprocessors. In this paper, we describe a structure of automatic generation system and an implementation details.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.558-567
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• 2003

Most digital signal processors provide 4 external interrupt input channels. But these are not sufficient for external interrupts of motor controls. Customized programmable interrupt controller, 8259, has 8 interrupt channels. Therefore, in the case of more external interrupt channels are needed, designers must expand by cascading the 8259. And this, 8259 device, have some inconvenience of interfacing the microprocessor in motor controls. In this paper, the expanded interrupt controller with 14 sufficient interrupt input channels for motor controls is designed using VHDL on the purpose of interfacing the microprocessor to the interrupt controller more compatibly and increasing the device utilization of FPGA/CPLD designed another peripherals. The interrupt controller model and each function blocks is proposed and illustrated. Simulation result are presented to estimate the designed interrupt controller.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.36-47
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• 1985

본 논문에서는 기존의 ICE 기능을 갖춘 사용이 간편하고, 쉽게 이동이 가능한 저가격 범용 8비 트 마이크로프로세서의 실시간 에뮬레이터를 설계, 제작하고자 한다. ICE의 기능을 구현하기 위해서2개 의 보드 즉 에뮬레이션 보드와 콘트롤 보드를 사용하는 구조로 고안하였다. 에뮬레이션 보드에는 CPU 8085를 사용하고, 콘트롤 보드에는 표적시스템의 CPU와 같은 CPU를 사용하였다. 이러한 구조는 표적 CPU가 바뀔 때 콘트롤 보드만 교환하면 된다는 점에서 실용적이다. 에뮬레이션 보드는 범용 8비트 마 이크로프로세서에 대해서, 콘트롤 보드는 표적 CPU가 Z-80인 시스템에 대해서 제작하였다. 또한, 에뮬 레이터의 기능에 의해, 표적 CPU 자체의 기능이 상실됨을 회복시켰다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.31-39
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• 2004

The ARM7 TDMI microprocessor employ a software routine iteration method in order to handle integer division operation, but this method has long execution time and many execution instruction. In this paper, we proposed ARM7 TDMI microprocessor with integer division instruction. To make this, we additionally defined UDIV instruction for unsigned integer division operation and SDIV instruction for signed integer division operation, and proposed ARM7 TDMI microprocessor data Path to apply division algorithm. Applied division algorithm is nonrestoring division algorithm and additive hardware is reduced using existent ARM data path. To verify the proposed method, we designed proposed method on RTL level using HDL, and conducted logic simulation. we estimated the number of execution cycles and the number of execution instructions as compared proposed method with a software routine iteration method, and compared with other published integer divider from the number of execution cycles and hardware size.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.540-551
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• 2008

Today's microprocessor designs are not free from temperature as well as power consumption. As processor technology scales down, an on-chip circuitry increases power density, which incurs excessive temperature (hotspot) problem. To tackle thermal problems cost-effectively, Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) has been suggested: DTM techniques have benefits of thermal reliability and cooling cost. However, they require trade-off between thermal control and performance loss. This paper proposes a dual integer register file structure to minimize the performance degradation due to DTM invocations. In on-chip thermal control, the most important functional unit is an integer register file. It is the hotspot unit because of frequent read and write data accesses. The proposed dual integer register file migrates read data accesses by adding an extra register file, thus reduces per-unit dynamic power dissipation. As a result, the proposed structure completely eliminates localized hotspots in the integer register file, resulting in much less performance degradation by average 13.35% (maximum 18%) improvement compared to the conventional DTM architecture.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.6 s.336
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• pp.67-74
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• 2005

Crypto-systems have difficulties in designing hardware due to the various standards. We propose a programmable and configurable architecture for cryptography coprocessors to accommodate various crypto-systems. The proposed architecture has a 32 bit I/O interface and internal bus width, and consists of a programmable finite field arithmetic unit, an input/output unit, a register file, and a control unit. The crypto-system is determined by the micro-codes in memory of the control unit, and is configured by programming the micro-codes. The coprocessor has a modular structure so that the arithmetic unit can be replaced if a substitute has an appropriate 32 bit I/O interface. It can be used in many crypto-systems by re-programming the micro-codes for corresponding crypto-system or by replacing operation units. We implement an elliptic curve crypto-processor using the proposed architecture and compare it with other crypto-processors

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.56-63
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• 2011

This paper presents the method of giving hysteresis characteristics to the digital input port of microprocessors or micro-controllers and it's design procedures. And this paper shows the example of circuit design and the effect of this method by experiments. Presented method has advantages : By the additional one port and two resistors, input port can have hysteresis characteristics and hysteresis band is larger than TTL, CMOS schmitt trigger gates.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.67-73
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• 2015

Recently in the evaluation of physical properties of a material, its surface friction characteristics is much required. This study treats the development of portable and affordable friction coefficient tester, which includes utensil design and application, measurement circuit design and layout, and microprocessor based firmware building. Also, real applicability of the present portable friction coefficient tester has been shown via performance comparisons with the existing standard tester.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.192-200
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• 2000

8 bit and 16 bit microprocessors are widely used in the small sited control machine. The embedded microprocessors which is integrated on a single chip with the memory and I/O circuit must have simple hardware circuit and high code density. This paper proposes a 16 bit high code density EISC(Extendable Instruction Set Computer) microprocessor. SE1608 has 8 general purpose registers and 16 bit fixed length instruction set which has the short length offset and small immediate operand. By using an extend register and extend flag, the offset and immediate operand in instruction could be extended. SE1608 is implemented with 12,000 gate FPGA and all of its functions have been tested and verified at 8MHz. And the cross assembler, the cross C/C++compiler and the instruction simulator of the SE1608 have been designed and verified. This paper also proves that the code density$.$ of SE1608 shows 140% and 115% higher code density than 16 bit microprocessor H-8300 and MN10200 respectively, which is much higher than traditional microprocessors. As a consequence, the SE1608 is suitable for the embedded microprocessor since it requires less program memory to any other ones, and simple hardware circuit.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.7
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• pp.354-360
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• 2008

Power-related issues have become important considerations in current generation microprocessor design. One of these issues is that of elevated on-chip temperatures. This has an adverse effect on cooling cost and, if not addressed suitably, on chip reliability. In this paper we investigate the general trade-offs between temporal and spatial hot spot mitigation schemes and thermal time constants, workload variations and microprocessor power distributions. By leveraging spatial and temporal heat slacks, our schemes enable lowering of on-chip unit temperatures by changing the workload in a timely manner with Operating System (OS) and existing hardware support.