• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.898-903
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• 2010

Popularity of smartphones such as Google Android phones and Apple iphones, is increasing the demand on more reliable high performance file system for flash memory. In this paper, we propose two techniques to improve the performance of YAFFS (Yet Another Flash File System), while enhancing the reliability of the system. Specifically, we first propose to manage metadata and user data separately on segregated blocks and indexing information piggy-back technique for reducing mount time and also enhancing performance. Second, we tailor the wear-leveling to the segregated metadata and user data blocks. Performance evaluation results based on real hardware system with 1GB NAND flash memory show that the YAFFS with our proposed techniques realized outperforms the original YAFFS by six times in terms of mount speed and five times in terms of benchmark performance, while reducing the average erase count of blocks by 14%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.61-63
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• 2002

컴퓨터 및 네트워크 기술의 눈부신 성장은 PDA, MP3 플레이어, 디지털 카메라와 같은 임베디드 시스템의 급성장을 가져왔다. 이러한 임베디드 시스템에는 그 시스템의 목적에 맞도록 특화된 실시간 운영체제가 탑재되게 되고, 그에 맞게 각 저장 장치들을 제어할 수 있는 파일 시스템도 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 삼성전자에서 개발한 CalmRISC16 마이크로 프로세서 코어를 사용하는 임베디드 시스템에 탑재될 실시간 운영체제를 위한 임베디드 파일 시스템을 구현하였다. 부 논문에서 구현된 임베디드 파일 시스템은 가상 과인 시스템으로 동작하며 In-memory 파일 시스템과 FAT를 사용하는 SmartMedia를 지원한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.178-180
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• 2003

최근에 PDA 나 디지털 TV 셋탑박스, 디지털 카메라, DVD 플레이어, IA(Internet Appliance)제품 등 일반 소비자 제품에도 임베디드 시스템이 탑재되면서 임베디드 시스템 시장이 급속도로 발전하고 있다. 이런 임베디드 시스템의 핵심은 실시간 운영체제(RTOS)와 시스템의 특성에 맞는 파일시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 임베디스 시스템에 탑재된 실시간 운영체제에서 동작할 수 있는 파일시스템 중에서 가상 파일 시스템과 통합하여 동작하는 ISO-9660 파일 시스템을 구현하였다. 본 논문에서 구현한ISO-9660 파일 시스템은 ISO-9660과 RRIP(Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol), Joliet 표준을 지원한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.172-174
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• 2003

멀티미디어에 대한 사회적 욕구가 한층 커져감에 따라, 보다 고용량 고효율의 매체에 대한 연구도 활기차게 진행되어 왔다. 그리고 그 미디어에 적합한 파일시스템을 개발 하는 일 또한 꾸준히 진행되어 온 일이다. 여러 파일 시스템 중 하나인 UDF 는 DVD 매체를 위한 파일 시스템으로 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 DVD 플래이어에 탑재하기 위해 삼성전자에서 개발한 ARM920T 마이크로 프로세서 코어를 사용하는 임베디드 시스템에 탑재될 실시간 운영체제를 위한 UDF 파일 시스템을 구현하였다. 이 UDF 파일 시스템은 가상 파일 시스템과 연동한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2005

Embedded systems have a set of tasks to execute. These tasks can be implemented either on application specific hardware or as software running on a specific processor. The design of an embedded system involves the selection of hardware software resources, Partition of tasks into hardware and software, and performance evaluation. An accurate estimation of execution time for extreme cases (best and worst case) is important for hardware/software codesign. A tighter estimation of the execution time bound nay allow the use of a slower processor to execute the code and may help lower the system cost. In this paper, we consider an ARM-based embedded system and developed a tool to estimate the tight boundary of execution time of a task with loop bounds and any additional program path information. The tool we developed is based on an exiting timing analysis tool named 'Cinderella' which currently supports i960 and m68k architectures. We add a module to handle ARM ELF object file, which extracts control flow and debugging information, and a module to handle ARM instruction set so that the new tool can support ARM processor. We validate the tool by comparing the estimated bound of execution time with the run-time execution time measured by ARMulator for a selected bechmark programs.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.169-175
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• 2005

In recent, implementation of the embedded system is gradually in the spotlight of world-wide by information technology(IT) engineers. By this time, an implementation of real time system is limited on image acquisition and processing system in practical. In this paper, the USB camera interface system based on the embedded linux OS is implemented using USB 2.0 camera with low cost. This system can obtain image signals into the memory via X-hyper255B processor from USB camera. It is need to initialize USB camera by the Video4Linux for the kernel device driver. From the system image capturing and image processing can be performed. It is confirmed that the image data can be transformed to packet of Network File System(NFS) and connected to the internetwork, then the data can be monitored from the client computer connected to the internetwork.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.589-593
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• 2008

These days, as a side effect of the growth of the mobile devices, malwares for the mobile devices also tend to increase and become more dangerous. Because embedded Linux is one of the advanced OSes on mobile devices, a solution to preventing malwares from infecting and destroying embedded Linux will be needed. We present a scheme using signature verification for embedded Linux that prevents executallle-Infecting malwares. The proposed scheme works under collaboration between mobile devices and a server. Malware detection is delegated to the server. In a mobile device, only integrity of all executables and dynamic libraries is checked at kernel level every time by kernel modules using LSM hooks just prior to loading of executables and dynamic libraries. All procedures in the mobile devices are performed only at kernel level. In experiments with a mobile embedded device, we confirmed that the scheme is able to prevent all executable-Infecting malwares while minimizing damage caused by execution of malwares or infected files, power consumption and performance overheads caused by malware check routines.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.129-132
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• 2003

In this paper, which sees the Strong-ARM SA1110 it used the main CPU and RTP in VoIP system. It will be able to apply the information communication field it embodied. It used the Tynux_box2 with the hardware side and it composed a VOIP system. And it used the RTP which is a real-time protocol in software control portion. The development environment of the paper that used the Target board and a Linux PC for connection used the RS-232C, USB connection, Ethernet LAN. The VoIP the environment for a communication used the wave file in the substitution which changes analog signal with the digital signal. And For the communication of the both sides it used the socket. This paper explained the fact that against a general technique from the operation of VoIP system. Using the Embedded linux development board which explained an operational process of the RTP protocol.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.171-180
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• 2009

Slowly, but surely, we are seeing the emergence of a variety of embedded systems that are employing Storage Class RAM (SCRAM) such as FeRAM, MRAM and PRAM, SCRAM not only has DRAM-characteristic, that is, random byte-unit access capability, but also Disk-characteristic, that is, non-volatility. In this paper, we propose a new software architecture that allows SCRAM to be used both for main memory and for secondary storage simultaneously- The proposed software architecture has two core modules, one is a SCRAM driver and the other is a SCRAM manager. The SCRAM driver takes care of SCRAM directly and exports low level interfaces required for upper layer software modules including traditional file systems, buddy systems and our SCRAM manager. The SCRAM manager treats file objects and memory objects as a single object and deals with them in a unified way so that they can be interchanged without copy overheads. Experiments conducted on real embedded board with FeRAM have shown that the SCRAM driver indeed supports both the traditional F AT file system and buddy system seamlessly. The results also have revealed that the SCRAM manager makes effective use of both characteristics of SCRAM and performs an order of magnitude better than the traditional file system and buddy system.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.7
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• pp.243-254
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• 2014

When building a testing environment with a testing platform, the configuration of test executor and its interface should be built to be appropriate for the system under test (SUT). That is, it is necessary to build the test executor and interface environment that can properly handle the input and output signals of SUT. If the testing platform is not extendable, it should be modified significantly whenever new SUTs and models are tested. It is a serious drawback that the test executor and interface configuration need to be modified depending on testing targets. To overcome the drawback, this paper proposes TEM(test Execution Machine), which allows for test executor to reconfigure its environment suitable to new SUTs by modifying the configuration file. The proposed TEM is verified through testing two real systems.