• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.37-38
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• 2015

최근 안드로이드 4.0 이상 버전에서 저전력 블루투스(Bluetooth Low Energy) 기능이 지원되면서, 다양한 응용사례가 나타나고 있다. 이러한 BLE 프로토콜을 활용하는 Sensor-Tag IoT 센서노드를 활용하면 스마트홈, 웨어러블, 스마트카, 생활밀착 서비스, 스마트에너지, 산업 및 환경분야에서 다양한 스마트폰 앱을 개발할 수 있다. 또한, BLE-스택(Stack)TM 소프트웨어를 사용하면, 라이센서 걱정없이 펌웨어 소스코드의 개발 및 업데이트가 가능하다. 따라서, 다양한 센서가 장착된 IoT Sensor 노드를 통하여, 습도/온도/가속도/지자기/자이로 등의 데이터를 수집하여 활용할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 "저전력 센서 노드를 사용한 IoT 서비스 설계 프레임워크"를 제안한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.69-76
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• 2008

This work proposes a 12b 1kS/s 65uA 0.35um CMOS algorithmic ADC for sensor interface applications such as accelerometers and gyro sensors requiring high resolution, ultra-low power, and small size simultaneously. The proposed ADC is based on an algorithmic architecture with recycling techniques to optimize sampling rate, resolution, chip area, and power consumption. Two versions of ADCs are fabricated with a conventional open-loop sampling scheme and a closed-loop sampling scheme to investigate the effects of offset and 1/f noise during dynamic operation. Switched bias power-reduction techniques and bias circuit sharing reduce the power consumption of amplifiers in the SHA and MDAC. The current and voltage references are implemented on chip with optional of-chip voltage references for low-power SoC applications. The prototype ADC in a 0.35um 2P4M CMOS technology demonstrates a measured DNL and INL within 0.78LSB and 2.24LSB, and shows a maximum SNDR and SFDR of 60dB and 70dB in versionl, and 63dB and 75dB in version2 at 1kS/s. The versionl and version2 ADCs with an active die area of $0.78mm^2$ and $0.81mm^2$ consume 0.163mW and 0.176mW at 1kS/s and 2.5V, respectively.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.42-54
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• 2008

In recent years, embedded systems have been expanding their application domains from traditional embedded systems such as military weapons, robots, satellites and digital convergence systems such as celluar phones, PMP(Portable Multimedia Player), PDAs(Personal Digital Assistants) to Next Generation Personal Computers(NGPCs) such as eating PCs, wearable computers. The NGPCs are network-based, human-centric digital information devices diverged from the traditional PCs used mainly for document writing, internet searching and database management. Wearable computers with battery capacity and memory size limitations have to use real-time operating systems with small footprints and low power management techniques to provide user's QoS in spite of hardware constraints. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a low-power RTOS (called eRTOS) for wearable computers. The implemented eRTOS has 18KB footprints and the dynamic power management and the device power management schemes are adapted in it. Experimental results with wearable computer applications show that the low power techniques could save energy up to 47 %.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.95-103
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• 2007

Portable multimedia Player (PMP) devices have been gaining in its popularity with the emerging digital convergence of data, video, audio, etc. Since the PMP devices are typically equipped with DSP, a bigger LCD screen, and a hard disk, efficient power management has become more crucial than the other portable devices. This paper builds up a hardware/software-based power measurement system based on data acquisition devices. Subsequently, it measures and analyzes the power consumed in commercial PMP devices under different types of events: the system boot & shutdown, video playback, and the use of different video-coding types. Finally, our analysis of the measured power consumption patterns reveals useful information for the design of low-power PMP devices.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.69-78
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• 2007

In recent years, embedded mobile systems have been expanding their application domains from embedded portable devices which only execute a specialized application such as MP3 player or digital camcoder to digital convergence devices which execute more complicated applications converged various functionalities such as video and audio play, digital dictionary, DMB, games, phone, etc. As it requires the increasing hardware performance such as more faster CPU and more larger RAM, display, disk size, it has brought about a corresponding increase in power consumption. However, coupled with relatively small gains in battery capacity over recent years, the importance of software architecture including intelligent power management has become paramount. In this paper, we have ported UbiFOSTM with energy saving techniques on the ARM9-based MBA2440 platform. For energy savings, we adapted the dynamic power management and the device power management schemes based on monitoring workload. Experimental results with some well-known applications show that proposed low power technique could save energy up to 24 %.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.124-127
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• 2006

플래쉬 메모리는 비휘발성, 저전력, 경량, 내구성 등의 장점으로 인해, PDA가 스마트카드, 휴대폰, 휴대용 음악 재생기 등과 같은 이동 컴퓨팅 장치의 저장소로 많이 사용되고 있다. 최근 들어 대용량의 플래쉬 메모리가 출시되고 랩탑 컴퓨터등 이를 탑재한 컴퓨팅 장치들이 증가하면서 대용량의 데이터를 효율적으로 액세스하기 위한 B-트리와 같은 인덱스 기법이 요구되고 있다. 한편, 현재 사용되고 있는 NAND 플래쉬 메모리는 기존의 하드 디스크와는 액세스 특성들이 상이하다. 뿐만 아니라, B-트리 인덱스는 데이터에 비해 빈번히 액세스되고 갱신되기 때문에, 기존의 하드 디스크 기반 B-트리 인덱스 기법을 플래쉬 메모리에 적용할 경우 심각한 성능상의 문제점이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 shadow 버전을 이용한 플래쉬 메모리 기반의 효율적인 B-트리 인덱스 기법을 제안한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.561-572
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• 2001

Since energy consumption of CMOS circuits has a quadratic dependency on the supply voltage, lowering the supply voltage is the most effective way of reducing energy consumption. We propose an intra-task voltage scheduling algorithm for low-energy hard real-time applications. Based on a static timing analysis technique, the proposed algorithm controls the supply voltage within an individual task boundary. By fully exploiting all the slack times, as scheduled program by the proposed algorithm always complete its execution near the deadline, thus achieving a high energy reduction ratio. In order to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we built a software tool that automatically converts a DVS-unaware program into an equivalent low-energy program. Experimental results show that the low-energy version of an MPEG-4 encoder/decoder (converted by the software tool) consumes less than 7~25% of the original program running on a fixed-voltage system with a power-down mode.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.610-617
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• 2009

An overview of various modes and tools of MPEG Surround is provided Because the binaural mode of MPEG Surround supports the virtual 5.1-channel playback based on HRTFs, it can be played via headphones and earphones for portable audio devices. MPEG Surround also supports the enhanced matrix mode which converts stereo signals to 5.1-channel signals without side information, the 3D stereo mode which deals with 3D-coded signals, the low power version which greatly reduces the computational load in the decoding process. Besides, MPEG Surround provides the arbitrary downmix gains (ADGs) tool which is applied to artistic downmix signals, the matrix compatibility tool which is applied to downmix signals by conventional matrix-based methods, the residual coding tool -which can be used at high bit rates, and the GES tool which is applied to specific sound such as applause. The listening test results by various companies and organizations are also presented for important modes and tools.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.381-384
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• 2006

휴대폰, PMP, PDA와 같은 모바일 기기의 사용은 일상이 되었고 최근 이러한 기기들 간의 컨버전스화가 활발히 진행 중이다. 일반적으로 모바일 기기는 제한적인 배터리를 장착하고 있기 때문에 저전력성은 매우 중요한 기능 중의 하나로 간주되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 기기에 사용할 수 있는 다양한 스토리지 환경에서 대해서 논하고, 동영상 재생 시에 각 장치에서 소모전력을 측정하고 그 패턴을 분석한다. NAND 플래시를 이용할 경우에 Idle 상태에 비해서 33%이상의 추가 전력소모가 발생하였으며, HDD, WLAN을 이용한 NFS기반의 네트워크 스토리지, 그리고 본 연구를 통해 처음 구현된 모바일 기기용 객체기반 IP 스토리지의 경우 NAND 플래시에 비해서 약 3배 이상의 높은 전력이 소모됨을 볼 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.1262-1268
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• 2016

Bluetooth has been developed to be applied over the course of several versions in different environments. Especially low is moving to address the constraints, it gives a high utilization rate is faster than the Zigbee wireless LAN communication. To gather information on children's environmental copper transition to multiple versions. There is one limitation of Bluetooth requirements to effectively apply the information collected by Bluetooth. At the same time need to collect several information actions, Bluetooth can not connect to one of only seven Slave Master. In this paper, in order to take advantage of the many benefits of Bluetooth to gather the information by operating the Bluetooth operates in Beacon deliver packets of 168 bits, and the pairing between the master and slave unnecessarily generate a regular signal a large number of connections simultaneously Information We consider how to apply the effective policy that can be collected.