• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.247-252
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• 2009

This paper presents an Integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer using a novel prescaler based on a charge pump and clock triggering circuit. A quadrature VCO has been designed for the 900MHz UHF RFID application. In this circuit, a voltage-controlled oscillator(VCO), a novel Prescaler, phase frequency detector(PFD), charge pump(CP), and analog lock detector(ALD) have been integrated with 0.35-${\mu}m$CMOS process. The integer divider has been developed with a verilog-HDL module, and the PLL mixed mode simulation has been performed with Spectre-Verilog co-simulator. The sweep range of VCO is designed from 828 to 960 MHz and the VCO generates four phase quadrature signals. The simulation results show that the phase noise of VCO is -102dBc/Hz at 100 KHz offset frequency, and the maximum lock-in time is about 4us with 32MHz step change (from 896 to 928 MHz).

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.15-22
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• 2012

A low power consumption scan driver using depletion-mode n-type InGaZnO thin-film transistors is proposed. The proposed circuit uses 2 clock signals and generates the non-overlap output signals without the additional masking signals and circuits. The power consumption of the proposed circuit is decreased by reducing the number of the clock signals and short circuit current. The simulation results show that the proposed circuit operates successfully when the threshold voltage of TFT is varied from -3.0V to 1.0V. The proposed scan driver consumes 4.89mW when the positive and negative supply voltage is 15V and -5V, respectively, and the operating frequency is 46KHz on the XGA resolution panel.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.522-531
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• 2018

A public-key cryptography processor EC-RSA was designed, which integrates a 224-bit prime field elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) defined in the FIPS 186-2 as well as RSA with 2048-bit key length into a single hardware structure. A finite field arithmetic core used in both scalar multiplication for ECC and exponentiation for RSA was designed with 32-bit data-path. A lightweight implementation was achieved by an efficient hardware sharing of the finite field arithmetic core and internal memory for ECC and RSA operations. The EC-RSA processor was verified by FPGA implementation. It occupied 11,779 gate equivalents (GEs) and 14 kbit RAM synthesized with a 180-nm CMOS cell library and the estimated maximum clock frequency was 133 MHz. It takes 867,746 clock cycles for ECC scalar multiplication resulting in the estimated throughput of 34.3 kbps, and takes 26,149,013 clock cycles for RSA decryption resulting in the estimated throughput of 10.4 kbps.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2015

In this paper, a receiver has been developed in a $0.11-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology for 900 MHz RFID communication system applications. The receiver is composed of an envelope detector, a low-pass-filter, a comparator, D flip-flops, as well as an oscillator to provide the clock for digital blocks. The receiver is designed for low power consumption, which would be suitable for passive RFID tags. In this circuit, a digital data slicer was employed instead of the conventional analog data slicer in order to reduce the power consumption. The clock frequency is 1.68 MHz and the circuit operates with a power consumption as small as $5{\mu}W$. The chip size is $325{\mu}m{\times}290{\mu}m$ excluding the probing pads.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.174-179
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• 2021

An Edwards curve cryptography (EdCC) core supporting point scalar multiplication (PSM) on Edwards curves of Edwards25519 and Edwards448 was designed. For area-efficient implementation, finite field multiplier based on word-based Montgomery multiplication algorithm was designed, and the extended twisted Edwards coordinates system was adopted to implement point operations without division operation. As a result of synthesizing the EdCC core with 100 MHz clock, it was implemented with 24,073 equivalent gates and 11 kbits RAM, and the maximum operating frequency was estimated to be 285 MHz. The evaluation results show that the EdCC core can compute 299 and 66 PSMs per second on Edwards25519 and Edwards448 curves, respectively. Compared to the ECC core with similar structure, the number of clock cycles required for 256-bit PSM was reduced by about 60%, resulting in 7.3 times improvement in computational performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.736-743
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• 2020

Modular multiplication is one of the most important arithmetic operations in public-key cryptography such as elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and RSA, and the performance of modular multiplier is a key factor influencing the performance of public-key cryptographic hardware. An efficient hardware implementation of word-based Montgomery modular multiplication algorithm is described in this paper. Our modular multiplier was designed to support eleven field sizes for prime field GF(p) and binary field GF(2k) as defined by SEC2 standard for ECC, making it suitable for lightweight hardware implementations of ECC processors. The proposed architecture employs pipeline scheme between the partial product generation and addition operation and the modular reduction operation to reduce the clock cycles required to compute modular multiplication by 50%. The hardware operation of our modular multiplier was demonstrated by FPGA verification. When synthesized with a 65-nm CMOS cell library, it was realized with 33,635 gate equivalents, and the maximum operating clock frequency was estimated at 147 MHz.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.506-509
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• 2018

Recently, number of components and operation frequency rapidly increase in automotive systems. This often leads to EMI (electromagnetic interference) where automotive systems suffer from malfunctions induced by electromagnetic wave. This paper surveys various EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) compliance technologies such as EMI filter, EMI shielding materials, and spread spectrum clock generator. Their pros and cons are also explained.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.119-122
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• 2012

이종 멀티코어 프로세서는 각기 상이한 마이크로아키텍처, 캐시 사이즈, 클록 주파수를 갖는 다수의 코어 또는 프로세싱 유닛으로 이루어진 마이크로프로세서이다. 저에너지 소비가 산업계의 키워드로 부상하고 있는 이 시기에 이종 멀티코어는 동종 멀티코어보다 더 낮은 전력을 소비하고 성능면에서도 더 나은 프로세서로 주목받고 있다. 하지만, 동종 멀티코어에서의 동작을 가정하는 현재의 운영체제의 작업 스케줄러로는 이종 멀티코어의 이종적인 특성을 잘 활용할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 이종 멀티코어 프로세서 작업 스케줄링에 관한 연구를 다면적으로 분석하여 각 방법의 장점과 단점을 개략적으로 정리하고 관련된 이슈들을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.158-160
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• 2016

전자서명(ECDSA), 키 교환(ECDH) 등에 사용되는 233-비트 타원곡선 암호(Elliptic Curve Cryptography; ECC) 프로세서의 설계에 대해 기술한다. $GF(2^{333})$ 상의 덧셈, 곱셈, 나눗셈 등의 유한체 연산을 지원하며, 하드웨어 자원 소모가 적은 쉬프트 연산과 XOR 연산만을 이용하여 구현하였다. 스칼라 곱셈은 modified montgomery ladder 알고리듬을 이용하여 구현하였으며, 정수 k의 정보를 노출하지 않고, 단순 전력분석에 보다 안전하다. 스칼라 곱셈 연산은 최대 490,699 클록 사이클이 소요된다. 설계된 ECC 프로세서는 Xilinx ISim을 이용한 시뮬레이션 결과값과 한국인터넷진흥원(KISA)의 참조 구현 값을 비교하여 정상 동작함을 확인하였다. Xilinx Virtex5 XC5VSX95T FPGA 디바이스 합성결과 1,576 슬라이스로 구현되었으며, 189 MHz의 최대 동작주파수를 갖는다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.795-803
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• 2017

This paper describes a dual-standard cryptographic processor that efficiently integrates two block ciphers ARIA and AES into a unified hardware. The ARIA-AES crypto-processor was designed to support 128-b and 256-b key sizes, as well as four modes of operation including ECB, CBC, OFB, and CTR. Based on the common characteristics of ARIA and AES algorithms, our design was optimized by sharing hardware resources in substitution layer and in diffusion layer. It has on-the-fly key scheduler to process consecutive blocks of plaintext/ciphertext without reloading key. The ARIA-AES crypto-processor that was implemented with a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS cell library occupies 54,658 gate equivalents (GEs), and it can operate up to 95 MHz clock frequency. The estimated throughputs at 80 MHz clock frequency are 787 Mbps, 602 Mbps for ARIA with key size of 128-b, 256-b, respectively. In AES mode, it has throughputs of 930 Mbps, 682 Mbps for key size of 128-b, 256-b, respectively. The dual-standard crypto-processor was verified by FPGA implementation using Virtex5 device.