• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.805-807
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• 2005

H.264/AVC의 프레임내 예측기법은 현 매크로블록의 이웃픽셀들로부터 예측값을 추출함으로써 인트라 픽처의 압축률을 높이는데 크게 기여했다. 그러나 모든 매크로블록에 대해 총 17가지의 후보 모드를 검사해야 하기 때문에, 전체 부호화기의 복잡도를 상당히 상승시키는 요인이기도 하다. 본 논문에서는 이 문제를 해결하기 위해, 기존의 움직임 추정 전용 하드웨어로 주로 사용되는 1차원 시스톨릭 어레이 구조에 부가적인 하드웨어를 장착하여, 움직임 추정뿐만 아니라 프레임 내 예측까지 가능한 하드웨어 구조를 제안한다. 병렬적으로 끊김이 없는 수행을 위해 프레임내 예측 알고리즘을 약간 수정했으나, 이것은 화질이나 비트스트림 크기에 영향을 거의 미치지 않는다. 제안된 구조는 연산에 대한 명령어 개수로 비교할 때, ARM 기반 시스템에서 얻을 수 있는 성능의 10배에서 40배에 달하는 높은 성능을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.77-80
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• 2000

본 논문은 IEEE 802.11a에 의해 규정되어진 데이터 율 12Mbps, 부호화 율 1/2, 구속장이 7인 무선LAN용 비터비 디코더를 설계하고 구현한다. 구현에 앞서 각 구속장에 따른 전달함수를 구하여 각 구속장 별 first event 에러 확률과 비트 에러 확률을 구한다. 4bit연성판정을 위해 입력 심볼을 16단계로 양자화 하였으며 역 추적을 위한 방식으로 메모리를 사용하는 대신 새로운 알고리듬을 적용한 레지스터 교환방식을 사용함으로써 majority voting을 가능하도록 하였다 고속의 데이터를 처리하기 위해 병렬구조를 갖는 설계를 FPGA 칩을 사용하여 구현하였고 AWGN 환경 하에서 성능검증을 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2022

MPEG Immersive Video (MIV) 표준화 기술은 다시점 영상 부호화 시 비디오 코덱의 부담을 최소화하기 위해 각 시점 영상의 차분 정보만을 표현하는 처리 기술을 바탕으로 하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 시점 간 중복성 제거를 진행하는 과정인 프루닝(pruning) 과정에서 복잡도 절감을 위해 병렬처리에 용이하도록 구성되는 프루닝 클러스터 그래프에 대해 서술하고, 각 클러스터 그래프 별 구성 전략에 따른 성능 분석을 진행한다. 클러스터 그래프 내에서 중복성 제거를 진행하지 않고 완전한 정보를 보존하는 바탕 시점(basic view)의 개수가 적게 포함될수록 처리할 전체 픽셀 화소율(pixel rate)은 감소하지만, 복원 화질 역시 감소하며 프루닝 복잡도는 증가하는 경향을 보인다. 실험 결과를 통해 프루닝 클러스터 그래프 구성에 따른 트레이드오프를 탐색하고, 최적화된 그래프 구성 전략에 따라 몰입형 비디오의 효율적인 전송이 가능함을 보인다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.205-216
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• 2010

In this paper, a method of MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) multiplexing for Ultra HDTV (UHDTV) and its design and implementation as a SW tool is described. In practice, UHD video may be divided into several HD videos and each video is encoded in parallel. Therefore, it is necessary to synchronize and multiplex multiple bitstreams encoding each HD video for transmitting and storing UHD video. In this paper, it is assumed that 4 HD videos partitioning a UHD spatially are encoded as H.264/AVC and two 5.0 channel audios are encoded by AC-3. Therefore, 4 H.264/AVC elementary streams (ESs) and 2 AC-3 ESs is mainly considered in the TS multiplexing of UHD. For the carriage of H.264/AVC and AC-3 over MPEG-2 TS, PES packetization and TS multiplexing are designed and implemented based on the extended specification of the MPEG-2 Systems and ATSC (Digital audio compressed standard), respectively. The implemented UHD TS multiplexing tool emulates real time HW operation in the time unit corresponding to the duration of one TS packet transmission in a given TS rate. In particular, in order to satisfy the timing model, the buffers defined in the TS System Target Decoder (T-STD) are monitored and their statuses are considered in the scheduling of TS multiplexing. For UHD multiplexing, two kinds of multiplexing structures, which are UHD re-multiplexing and UHD program multiplexing, are implemented and their strength and weakness are investigated. The developed UHD TS multiplexing tool is tested and verified in terms of the syntax and semantics conformance and functionalities by using a commercial analyzer and real-time presentation tools.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.8 s.338
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• pp.11-16
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• 2005

This paper proposes a bit manipulation accelerator (BMA) having application specific instructions, which efficiently supports scrambling, convolutional encoding, puncturing, and interleaving. Conventional DSPs cannot effectively perform bit manipulation functions since かey have multiply accumulate (MAC) oriented data paths and word-based functions. However, the proposed accelerator can efficiently process bit manipulation functions using parallel shift and Exclusive-OR (XOR) operations and bit jnsertion/extraction operations on multiple data. The proposed BMA has been modeled by VHDL and synthesized using the SEC $0.18\mu m$ standard cell library and the gate count of the BMA is only about 1,700 gates. Performance comparisons show that the number of clock cycles can be reduced about $40\%\sim80\%$ for scrambling, convolutional encoding and interleaving compared with existing DSPs.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.422-425
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• 2012

This paper proposes the CU-based approach for merge candidate list construction for providing reduced complexity and improved parallelism compared to the PU-based one. In the proposed method, a CU can have only one merge candidate list. So, Only one common merge candidate list is used for all PUs in a CU regardless of the PU partition type. The simulation results of proposed method showed that the encoder computational complexity was decreased by 3% to 6% and the decoder computational complexity was negligible change with the penalty of roughly 0.2% - 0.5% coding loss. The proposed method has several advantages: it provides simpler design, reduced complexity, and improved parallelism.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.774-780
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• 2017

This paper proposes an efficient binary arithmetic encoder hardware architecture for CABAC encoding, which is an entropy coding method of HEVC. CABAC is an entropy coding method that is used in HEVC standard. Entropy coding removes statistical redundancy and supports a high compression ratio of images. However, the binary arithmetic encoder causes a delay in real time processing and parallel processing is difficult because of the high dependency between data. The operation of the proposed CABAC BAE hardware structure is to separate the renormalization and process the conventional iterative algorithm in parallel. The new scheme was designed as a four-stage pipeline structure that can reduce critical path optimally. The proposed CABAC BAE hardware architecture was designed with Verilog HDL and implemented in 65nm technology. Its gate count is 8.07K and maximum operating speed of 769MHz. It processes the four bin per clock cycle. Maximum processing speed increased by 26% from existing hardware architectures.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.7
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• pp.63-70
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• 2004

This paper describes the link layer and physical layer of the Serial ATA which is the next generation for parallel ATA specification that defines data transfer between PC and peripheral storage devices. The link layer consists of CRC generation/error detection, 8b/10b decoding/encoding, primitive generation/detection block. For the physical layer, it includes CDR(Cock Data Recovery), transmission PLL, serializer/de-serializer. It also includes generation and receipt of OOB(Out-Of-Band) signal, impedance calibration, squelch circuit and comma detection/generation. Additionally, this chip includes TCB(Test Control Block) and BIST(Built-In Selt Test) block to ease debugging and verification. It is fabricated with 0.18${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ standard CMOS cell library. All the function of the link layer operate properly. For the physical layer, all the blocks operate properly but the data transfer is limited to the 1.28Gbps. This is doe to the affection or parasitic elements and is verified with SPICE simulation.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.10 no.2 s.19
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• pp.128-133
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• 2006

This paper describes a high speed interface circuit using redundant multi-valued logic for high speed communication ICs. This circuit is composed of encoding circuit that serial binary data are received and converted into parallel redundant multi-valued data, and decoding circuit that converts redundant multi-valued data to parallel binary data. Because of the multi-valued data conversion, this circuit makes it possible to achieve higher operating speeds than that of a conventional binary logic. Using this logic, the proposed 1:4 DEMUX (demultiplexer, serial-parallel converter), was designed using a 0.35um standard CMOS technology. Proposed DEMUX is achieved an operating speed of 4.5Gb/s with a supply voltage of 3.3V and with power consumption of 53mW. The operating speed of this circuit is limited by the maximum frequency which the 0.35um process has. Therefore, this circuit is to achieve CMOS communication ICs with an operating speed greater than 10Gb/s in submicron process of high operating frequency.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.816-822
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• 2013

The latest video coding standard HEVC was developed by the joint work of JCT-VC(Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding) from ITU-T VCEG and ISO/IEC MPEG. The HEVC standard reduces the BD-Bitrate of about 50% compared with the H.264/AVC standard. However, using the various methods for obtaining the coding gains has increased complexity problems. The proposed method reduces the complexity of HEVC by using both CPU parallel processing and GPU-accelerated processing. The experiment result for UHD($3840{\times}2144$) video sequences achieves 15fps encoding/decoding performance by applying the proposed method. Sooner or later, we expect that the H/W speedup of data transfer rates between CPU and GPU will result in reducing the encoding/decoding times much more.