• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.5
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• pp.180-187
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• 1996

This paper describes a post-layout simulation method using VHDL and C for verifying the architecture of antifuse-based FPGAs and the dedicated CAD system. An antifuse-based FPGA consists of programming circuitry including decoding logic, logic modules, segmented tracks, antifuses and I/O pads. The VHDL model which includes all these elements is used for logic verification and programming verification of the implemented circuit by reconstructing the logic circuit from the bit-stream generated from layout tool. The implemented circuit comprises of logic modules and routing networks. Since the routing delay of the complex networks is comparable to the delay of the logic module in the FPGA, the accurate post-layout simulation is essential to the FPGA system. In this paper, the C program calculates the delay of the routing netowrks using SPICE, elmore or horowitz delay models and the results feedback to the VHDL simulation. Critical path anc be found from this post-layout simulation results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07d
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• pp.2628-2630
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• 2002

This paper describes the design and implementation of the OFDM Modem using FPGA. The proposed OFDM method is based on IEEE 802.11a high-speed wireless LAN standard. The proposed and designed Pipeline FFT processor adopt the Radix-$2^2$SDF scheme. This method has a simple architecture and highly increases the calculation speed. And also it decreases the required number of registers. Therefore the proposed OFDM Modem reduces hardware size and improves the calculation speed. The OFDM Modem is implemented using $FLEX^{TM}$ FPGA.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.129-139
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• 2013

In this paper, we proposed a new hardware architecture for calculating digital holograms at high speed, and verified it with field programmable gate array (FPGA). First, we rearranged memory scheduling and algorithm of computer generated hologram (CGH), and then introduced pipeline technique into CGH process. Finally we proposed a high-performance CGH processor. The hardware was implemented for the target of FPGA, which calculates a unit region of holograms, and it was verified using a hardware environment of NI Inc. and a FPGA of Xilinx Inc. It can generate a hologram of $16{\times}16$ size, and it takes about 4 sec for generating a hologram of a $1,024{\times}1,024$ size, using 6K point sources.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.287-290
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• 2002

This paper rotates to tile FPGA that is reffered to as the UTOSPI. The design goal of the FPGA is to convert the UTOPIA-3 bus interface to the SPI-3 bus interface, so that the SAR chips on the ATM interface board can be interfaced to the packet processor through this FPGA. We Propose a new architecture that has two Dual Port RAMs and flow control signals. To buffer data, the UTOSPI has a Dual port RAM in the receive direction and the same size of that in the transmit direction. This design has been implemented, compiled, and tested using a Xilinx Virtex-I XCV-300E FPGA.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.45-56
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose ATM switch architecture including ALL type 2 switch which can efficiently transmit low-bit rate data, even if the network has many endpoints. We simulate the architecture of ATM switch fabric that is modeled in computer program and analyze the performance according to offered loads. ATM switch proposed in this paper can support cell switching for all types of m cells which consist of ALL type 1. ALL type 2, ALL type 3/4 and ALL type 5 cells. We propose two switch fabric methods; One supports the ALL type 2 cell processing per input port, the other global ALL type 2 cell processing for every input port. The simulation results show that the latter is superior to the former. But the former has a merit for easy implementation and extensibility. In this paper, the AAL Type 2 switch module which adapts the former method is designed using VHDL language and implemented in FPGA chip. The designed AAL Type 2 switch module operates at 52MHz. The proposed ATM switch fabric is widely applicable to mobile communication, narrow band services over ATM network and wireless ATM as well as general ATM switching fabric.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.483-492
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• 2013

SURF is an algorithm which extracts feature points and generates their descriptors from input images, and it is being used for many applications such as object recognition, tracking, and constructing panorama pictures. Although SURF is known to be robust to changes of scale, rotation, and view points, it is hard to implement it in real time due to its complex and repetitive computations. Using 3.3 GHz Pentium, in our experiment, it takes 240ms to extract feature points and create descriptors in a VGA image containing about 1,000 feature points, which means that software implementation cannot meet the real time requirement, especially in embedded systems. In this paper, we present a hardware architecture that can compute the SURF algorithm very fast while consuming minimum hardware resources. Two key concepts of our architecture are parallelism (for repetitive computations) and efficient line memory usage (obtained by analyzing memory access patterns). As a result of FPGA synthesis using Xilinx Virtex5LX330, it occupies 101,348 LUTs and 1,367 KB on-chip memory, giving performance of 30 frames per second at 100 MHz clock.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.633-637
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• 2005

In this contribution, we developed and improved an existing GF (Galois field) dividing algorithm by suggesting a novel architecture for a finite field divider, which is frequently required for the error correction applications and the security-related applications such as the Reed-Solomon code, elliptic curve encryption/ decryption, is proposed. We utilized the VHDL language to verify the design methodology, and implemented the architecture on an FPGA chip. We suggested the n-bit lookup table method to obtain the throughput of 2m/n cycles, where m is the order of the division polynomial and n is the number of the most significant lookup-bits. By doing this, we extracted the advantages in achieving both high-throughput and less cost of the gate areaon the chip. A pilot FPGA chip was implemented with the case of m=4, n=2. We successfully utilized the Altera's EP20K30ETC144-1 to exhibit the maximum operating clock frequency of 77 MHz.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.1424-1433
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a hardware architecture to generate digital hologram using the modified CGH (Computer Generated Hologram) algorithm for hardware implementation and design to FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) platform. After analyzing the CGH algorithm, we propose an architecture of CGH cell which efficiently products digital hologram, and design CGH Kernel from configuring CGH Cell. Finally we implement CGH Processor using CGH Kernel, SDRAM Controller, DMA, etc. Performance of the proposed hardware can be proportionally increased through simply addition of CGH Cell in CGH Kernel, since a CGH Cell has operational independency. The proposed hardware was implemented using XC2VP70 FPGA of Xilinx and was stably operated in 200MHz clock frequency. It take 0.205 second for generating $1,280{\times}1,024$ digital hologram from 3 dimensional object which has 40,000 light sources.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.97-104
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• 2004

This paper proposes an efficient VLSI architecture of 9-7/5-3 Lifting DWT filters that is used by lossy or lossless compression of JPEG2000. The proposed architecture uses only internal line memories to compute Lifting-DWT operations and its PE(Processing Element) has critical path with 1 multiplier and 1 adder. To reduce the number of PE, we make the vertical filter that is responsible for the column operations of the first level perform both the row and column operations of the second and following levels. As a result, the architecture has smaller hardware cost compared to that of other architectures. It was modeled in RTL level using VHDL and implemented on Altera APEX 20K FPGA.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.293-296
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose the systolic array architecture for the vector median filter. In the color image processing, the vector signal (i.e. the color) consists of three elements, red, green and blue. The vector median filter is very effective to utilize the correlation among red, green and blue elements. The computational complexity of the proposed architecture for computing the vector median of N vector signals is (N+2) clock periods compared to the (3N+1) clock periods in the previous method. In addition to, the input vector signals can be loaded in serial in the proposed architecture. In the previous method, N input vector signals should be loaded to the vector median filter in parallel at the first clock. The proposed architecture is implemented with FPGA.