• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.345-353
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• 2011

Recently portable mobile devices such as smart-phones and notebooks have rapidly increasing demands. Those devices consume more power because they are expected to offer more complex functionality including multimedia features. For these reasons engineering efforts are changing to focus on maximizing energy efficiency within a limited battery capacity instead of increasing computational performance. In this paper, we propose a battery management system using event driven programming technique on a embedded processor. We also show that the proposed system satisfies SBS (Smart Battery Specification) v1.1. The proposed system maintains minimum code size and memory size comparing to those of RTOSs. The proposed system can be also easily incorporated in the conventional RTOSs as a form of firmware.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.932-936
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• 2003

AVLS is nowadays pretty considered on one of important parts in telematics service with a computerization of vehicle. However, with an implementation of commercial OS, individual OS and firmware on AVLS terminals, the cost and developing period are significantly increased. In this paper, we present the effective log-file creation methode about automobile status and location information within a restricted memory through designing AVLS terminals based on embedded linux. The proposed method shows 0.8% better performance on bzip2 compressor comparing to gzip compressor in the compressibility. In addition, bzip2 is faster than gzip about 2.14 times in the speed of compression.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.36-43
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• 2008

The OS has the manager of the overall system operation, and has the exact information of the running system. Power management by the OS may have great impact for the optimization of the power consumption. We implement E-ACPI, an extended ACPI which is designed for an advanced power management of embedded systems. In this paper, we address (i) how we extend the exiting ACPI to E-ACPI, (ii) technical challenges to overcome in implementation, and (iii) flow we port our E-ACPI to an embedded linux system in this paper. Experimental results show that our E-ACPI is very useful and effective in practice.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.747-748
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• 2006

In this paper, we describe photonic sensor interface and driver program based on SOPC(System on a programmable chip) platform. This platform uses device that has ARM922T processor and APEX FPGA area on a chip. As for driver program development, three different methods are tried such as simple firmware, real-time OS based program and embedded Linux based program, and results are compared for SoC implementation.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.839-845
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• 2012

This paper deals with the design and development of the remote control and measurement systems by Embedded Web Server. The remote control and measurement systems are implemented by Cortex M-3 ARM micro-controller. The user application software for the control and measurement system user, and the firmware software of device drivers for peripherals such as a digital input/output device, AD/DAC(Analog to Digital/Digital to Analog Converter), LCD, and temperature/humidity sensor are developed in Eclipse environment using Codesourcery C, Java script, and HTML. The experimental result of the proposed control and measurement systems implemented in this paper is evaluated via real-time experiments, which works well as designed.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.103-109
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• 2013

Traditional implementation schemes for automotive electronic control units look simple, but the tradition schemes need so many coarse works to satisfy the user requirements regarding time constraints whenever their microprocessors are changed. Recently, a movement toward using middle-wares, such as OSEK operating system, has risen in automotive industry. In this paper, we describe how to use the features of operating systems to replace traditional firmware based softwares in points of views of services, such as multitask support, preemption, and realtime property. To show an example, we implemented a parking assistance system as a prototype.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.245-251
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• 2014

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) are applied to many monitoring applications. Present sensor nodes can perform many functions at the same time and contain complex software. During the lifetime of sensor nodes, they are required to reprogram their software because of their new functions, software, software bug fixes. The nodes are inaccessible physically or it is very difficult to upgrade their software by one by one. To upgrade the software of sensor nodes in WSNs remotely, this paper presents an energy efficient method by selecting an optimal relay node. The CHR(Cluster Head Relay) method is compared with SPIN and RANDOM method. Three methods are simulated in NS-2 with the same environmental parameters. Simulation results show that CHR shows faster update time and less power consumption compared with other two methods.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.253-258
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• 2021

In this paper, we developed a hardware and software platform of the real-time data logging system to verify radar FEM (Front-end Module) and signal-processing algorithms. We developed a hardware platform based on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and DSP (Digital Signal Processor) and implemented firmware software to verify the various FEMs. Moreover, we designed PC based software platform to control radar logging parameters and save radar data. The developed platform was verified using 24 GHz multiple channel FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) in an environment of stationary and moving targets of chamber room.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.39-47
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• 2009

This paper presents implementation of two types of the 802.11 MAC engine for the next generation WLAN, 802.11n. The first version of MAC engine consists of hardwired logic and embedded firmware. Hardwired logic includes Tx block, Rx block, Backoff block, and ChannelManage block. Embedded firmware contains Protocol Control block, MLME block, and MSDU processing block. The first version has a time-critical fault during the atomic transmission caused by software overhead, so it can not be applied to 802.11n MAC. For that reason, the second version has additional blocks with hardwired logic modules to reduce software overhead of the first version. This enhanced version has 73Mbps throughput and it is expected to be further improved up to 129 Mbps with frame aggregation which is one of the key additional features of 802.11n. As a result, the second version of MAC engine can be applied to 802.11n MAC.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.532-535
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• 2004

Architecture generation is the first step in the design of software systems. Most of the qualities that the final software system possesses are usually decided at the architecture development stage itself. Thus, if the final system should be usable, testable, secure, high performance, mobile and adaptable, then these qualities or non­functional requirements should be engineered into the architecture itself. In particular, adaptability is emerging as an important attribute required by almost all software systems. The machinery and tools in the remote site surveillance and connects intelligence information machinery and tools at Internet. We need the server which uses different embedded operating system to become private use. With the progress of information-oriented society, many device with advanced technologies invented by many companies. However, the current firmware technologies have many problems to meet such high level of new technologies. In this paper, we have successfully ported linux on an embedded system, which is based on intel StrongARM SA-1 1 10 processor, then written several network modules for internet-based network devices.