• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.191-200
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• 2002

In this paper, we present the method transforming the interval functions into the truncated difference functions for multi-variable multi-valued functions and implementing the truncated difference functions to the multiple valued logic circuits with uniform patterns using the current mirror circuits and the inhibit circuits by current-mode CMOS. Also, we apply the presented methods to the implementation of circuits for additive truth table of 2-variable 4-valued MOD(4) and multiplicative truth table of 2-variable 4-valued finite fields GF(4). These circuits are simulated under 2${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS standard technology, 15$mutextrm{A}$ unit current, and 3.3V power supply voltage using PSpice. The simulation results have shown the satisfying current characteristics. Both implemented circuits using current-mode CMOS have the uniform Patterns and the regularity of interconnection. Also, it is expansible for the variables of multiple valued logic functions and are suitable for VLSI implementation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.509-517
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• 2001

Full-search algorithm requires large amount of computation which causes time delay or very complex hardware architecture for real time implementation. In this paper, we propose a fast motion estimator based on bit-plane matching, which reduce the computational complexity and the hardware cost. In the proposed motion estimator, the conventional motion estimation algorithms are applied to the binary images directly extracted from the video sequence. Furthermore, in the proposed VLSI motion estimator, we employ a Pair of processing cores that calculate the motion vector continuously By controlling the data flow in a systolic fashion using the internal shift registers in the processing cores, we avoid using SRAM (local memory) so that we remove the time overhead for accessing the local memory and adopt lower-cost fabrication technology. We modeled and tested the proposed motion estimator in VHDL, and then synthesized the whole system which has been integrated in a 0.6-$\mu$m triple-metal CMOS chip of size 8.15 X 10.84$\textrm{mm}^2$.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.36C no.3
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• pp.8-16
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• 1999

This paper describes a VLSI design of Reed-Solomon(RS) decoder using the modified Euclid algorithm, with the main theme focused on the $\textit{GF}(2^8)$. To get area-efficient design, a number of new architectures have been devised with maximal register and Euclidean ALU unit sharing. One ALU is shared to replace 18 ALUs which computes an error locator polynomial and an error evaluation polynomial. Also, 18 registers are shared to replace 24 registers which stores coefficients of those polynomials. The validity and efficiency of the proposed architecture have been verified by simulation and by FLEX$^TM$ FPGA implementation in hardware description language VHDL. The proposed Reed-Solomon decoder, which has the capability of decoding RS(208,192,17) and RS(182,172,11) for Digital Versatile Disc(DVD), has been designed by using O.6$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS TLM Compass$^TM$ technology library, which contains totally 17k gates with a core area of 2.299$\times$2.284 (5.25$\textrm{mm}^2$). The chip can run at 20MHz while the DVD requirement is 3.74MHz.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.369-378
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• 2003

This paper presents design and VLSI implementations of a reassembly processor for ATM/AAL. The assembly processor is responsible for processing ATM cells from the receive physical interface. It controls the transfer of the AAL payload to host memory and performs all necessary SAR and CPCS checks. We propose the improved structure of cell identification algorithm and smart scatter method for host memory management. The proposed cell identification algorithm quickly locates the appropriate reassembly VC table based on the received VPI./VCI channel value in the ATM header. The cell identification algorithm also allow complete freedom in assignment of VCI/VPI values. The reassembly processor uses a smart scatter method to write cell payload data to host memory. It maintains the scatter operation and controls the incoming DMA block during scatter DMA to host memory. The proposed reassembly processor can perform reassembly checks on AAL. OAM cell. For an AAL5 connection, only CPCS checks, including the CRC32, are performed. In this paper, we proposed a practical reassembly architecture. The design of reassembly processor has become feasible using 0.6${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS gate array technology.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.58-70
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• 1990

This paper describes a VLSI implementation of real-time two dimensional DCT processor for the subprimary rate video codec system. The proposed architecture exploits the parallelism and concurrency of the distributes architecture for vector inner product operation of DCT and meets the CCITT performance requirements of video codec for full CSIF 30 frames/sec. It is also shown that this architecture satisfies all the CCITT IDCT accuracy specification by simulating the suggested architecture in bit level. The efficient VLSI disign methodology to design suggested architecture is considered and the module generator oriented design environments are constructed based on SUN 3/150C workstation. Using the constructed design environments. the suggensted architecture have been designed by double metal 2micron CMOS technology. The chip area fo designed 8x8 2-D DA-DCT (Distributed Arithmetic DCT) processor is about 3.9mmx4.8mm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1605-1614
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• 2008

This paper proposed a new VLSI architecture of motion estimation (ME) and compensation (MC) for efficient video compression and implemented it to hardware. ME is generally calculated using SAD result. So we proposed a new arithmetic method for SAD. The proposed SAD calculation method increases arithmetic efficiency and decreases external memory usage. Finally it increases performance of ME/MC. The proposed ME/MC hardware was implemented to ASIC with TSMC 90nm HVT CMOS library. The implemented hardware occupies about 330K gates and stably operates the clock frequency of 143MHz.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.11 s.353
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• pp.26-36
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a cost-effective color filter may (CFA) demosaicing method for digital still cameras in which a single CCD or CMOS image sensor is used. Since a CFA is adopted, we must interpolate missing color values in the red, green and blue channels at each pixel location. While most state-of-the-art algorithms invest a great deal of computational effort in the enhancement of the reconstructed image to overcome the color artifacts, we focus on eliminating the color artifacts with low computational complexity. Using spatial correlation of the adjacent pixels, the edge-directional information of the neighbor pixels is used for determining the edge direction of the current pixel. We apply our method to the state-of-the-art algorithms which use edge-directed methods to interpolate the missing color channels. The experiment results show that the proposed method enhances the demosaiced image qualify from $0.09{\sim}0.47dB$ in PSNR depending on the basis algorithm by removing most of the color artifacts. The proposed method was implemented and verified successfully using verilog HDL and FPGA. It was synthesized to gate-level circuits using 0.25um CMOS standard cell library. The total logic gate count is 12K, and five line memories are used.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.298-310
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• 1997

Most of the available delay fault simulators for scan environments rely on the use of enhanced scan flip-flops and exclusively consider circuits composed of only discrete gates. In this research, a new path delay fault simulation algorithm using new logic values is devised to enlarge the scope to the VLSI circuits which consist of CMOS elements. Based on the proposed algorithm, a high speed path delay fault simulator for standard scan environments is developed. The experimental results show the new simulator is efficient and accurate.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.46-54
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• 1984

A silicon-gate n-well CMOS process with 3 $\mu$m gate length was developed and its possibility for the applications was discussed,. Threshold voltage was easily controlled by ion implantation and 3-$\mu$m gate length with 650 $\AA$ oxide shows ignorable short channel effect. Large value of Al-n+ contact resistance is one of the problems in fabrications of VLSI circuits. Transfer characteristics of CMOS inverter is fairly good and the propagation delay time per stage in ring oscillator with layout of (W/L) PMOS /(W/L) NMOS =(10/5)/(5/5) is about 3.4 nsec. catch-up occurs on substrate current of 3-5 mA in this process and critically dependent on the well doping density and nt-source to n-well space. Therefore, research, more on latch-up characteristics as a function of n-well profile and design rule, especially n+-source to n-well space, is required.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.826-832
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• 2004

A CMOS 8 bit folding and interpolating ADC for an embedded system inside VLSI is presented in this paper. This folding ADC uses the 2 stage architecture for improving of nonlinearity. repeating the folding and interpolating twice. At a proposed structure, a transistor differential pair operates on the second folder. A ADC with 2 stage architecture reduces the number of comparators and resisters. So it is possible to provide small chip size, low power consumption and high operating speed. The design technology is based on fully standard 0.25m double-Poly 2 metal n-well CMOS Process. The simulated Power consumption is 45mW with an applied voltage of 2.5V and sampling frequency of 250MHz. The INL and DNL are within <ㅆㄸㅌ>$\pm$0.2LSB, respectively. The SNDR is approximately 45dB for input frequency of 10MHz.