• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.512-517
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• 2006

In this study, we designed a digital fuzzy logic controller based on FPGA for MPPT of the solar power generation system. A fuzzy algorithm to control the power tracking function of a boost converter has been built into the FPGA, and applied to the small scaled solar power generation system. The embodied controller showed a stable operation characteristic with the small output voltage ripple for the intensity change of solar radiation. This result proves that the implementation of the power tracking controller using FPGA is an effective way compared to the existing one using microprocessors.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.55-61
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• 2013

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing. The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware description language (HDL), similar to that used for an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) (circuit diagrams were previously used to specify the configuration, as they were for ASICs, but this is increasingly rare). Contemporary FPGAs have large resources of logic gates and RAM blocks to implement complex digital computations. In this paper, we implement a system of digital instrumentation using FPGA. This system consists of the trigger part, memory address controller part, control FSM part, Encoder part, LCD controller part. The hardware implement using FPGA and the verification of the operation is done in a PC simulation. The proposed hardware was mapped into Cyclone III EP2C5Q208 from Altera and used 1,700(40%) of Logic Element (LE). The implemented circuit used 24,576-bit memory element with 6-bit input signal. The result from implementing in hardware (FPGA) could operate stably in 140MHz.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.435-442
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• 2018

This study implemented an FPGA-based system to extract PCB defect patterns. The FPGA-based system can perform pattern matching at high speed for vision automation. An image processing library that is used to extract defect patterns was also implemented in IPs to optimize the system. The IPs implemented are Camera Link IP, Histogram IP, VGA IP, Horizontal Projection IP and Vertical Projection IP. In terms of hardware, the FPGA chip from the Vertex-5 of Xilinx was used to receive and handle images that are sent from a digital camera. This system uses MicroBlaze CPU. The image results are sent to PC and displayed on a 7inch TFT-LCD and monitor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.195-198
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• 2008

Recently, with the growth of photovoltaic system, many researchers and companies have concerned about the multi-level inverter which has an efficiency of boosting voltage. This paper implements a multi-level switching function based on the FPGA. It is efficient to implement the switching function based on the FPGA as a program able logic device. In order to implementation the switching function, this paper synchronized with the microprocessor through the clock and synchronous signal from the microprocessor.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.896-903
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• 2011

In this paper, a co-design method for JPEG2000 video compression system using DSP and FPGA is presented. By profiling the complexity of JPEG2000 algorithm, it is noticed that a MQ-coder is the most complex part. Thus, we implement the MQ-coder on FPGA for the parallel processing using VHDL to reduce the complexity. In order to verify the performance of the MQ-coder, JBIG2 standard test vector and images are used. The experimental results show that the proposed MQ-coder enhances the processing time approximately 3 times compared with the previous software MQ-coder.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.105-110
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• 2022

Domestically, we are capable of designing high-end memory semiconductors, but not in processors, resulting in unbalance. Using Vivado as a development enivronment and implementing the processor on a Xilinx FPGA reduces time and cost dramatically. In this paper, the popular language VHDL which is widely used in Europe, universities, and research centers around the world for the digital system design is used for designing a pipelined 32-bit ARM processor, implemented on FPGA and verified by Integrated Logic Analyzer. As a result, the ARM processor implemented on FPGA could execute ARM instructions successfully.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.62-65
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• 2011

FPGA는 대용량의 게이트를 지원하는 하드웨어를 프로그램 할 수 있는 디바이스이다. ASIC을 위해 설계된 로직은 칩으로 제조되기 전에 검증 과정을 거친다. 이 검증 과정에서 시뮬레이션의 한계를 극복하기 위해 FPGA를 사용한 에뮬레이션 방법을 많이 채택한다. 에뮬레이션 과정에서 ASIC의 동작 속도로 검증하는 것이 바람직하지만 FPGA의 특성상 ASIC과 같은 속도로 동작하기는 쉽지 않은 것이 현실이다. 본 논문에서는 HDL 코딩 방법에 따른 FPGA의 성능 민감도를 실험하였다. 실험 및 평가를 위해 다양한 알고리즘을 가진 가산기를 이용하였고 각 가산기 종류와 비트수에 따라 Verilog-HDL을 이용하여 코딩하였으며 대표적인 FPGA 제조사(Altera와 Xilinx)별, 디바이스별로 동작 속도와 자원 사용량을 측정하였다. 실험 결과 FPGA 제조사별로 다른 경향을 보임을 확인하였다. 성능 면에서는 비트별로 다소 차이는 있지만 Altera 디바이스에서는 Ripple Carry, Carry Lookahead 가산기보다 Prefix 가산기의 성능이 우수하게 나왔다. Xilinx 디바이스에서는 예상과 달리 가산기들 사이의 성능 차이가 크게 나지 않았으며 Ripple Carry, Carry Lookahead 가산기가 Prefix 가산기보다 높은 성능을 보이는 경우도 있었다. 비용 면에서는 디바이스별로 큰 차이가 나지 않았으며 ASIC과 비슷한 성능 민감도를 보였다. 그리고 각 제조사에서 제공하는 IP(Intellectual Property) Core를 사용했을 경우는 대부분의 디바이스에서 우수한 성능을 보여 주었다. TSMC 90nm 공정 기술로 제작한 ASIC과 IP Core를 비교했을 때는 ASIC의 성능이 4배 정도 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.601-606
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• 2017

SRAM-based FPGAs mainly used to develop and implement high-performance circuits have SRAM-type configuration memory. Soft errors in memory devices are the main threat from a reliability point of view. Soft errors occurring in the configuration memory of FPGAs cause FPGAs to malfunction. SEM(Soft Error Mitigation) Controllers offered by Xilinx can mitigate the influence of soft errors in configuration memory. SEM Controllers use ECC(Error Correction Code) and CRC(Cyclic Redundancy Code) which are placed around the configuration memory to detect and correct the errors. The correction is done through a partial reconfiguration process. This paper presents the availability analysis of SRAM-based FPGAs against soft errors under the protection of SEM Controllers. Availability functions were derived and compared according to the correction capability of SEM Controllers of several different families of FPGAs. The result may help select an SRAM-based FPGA part and estimate the availability of FPGAs running in an environment where soft errors occur.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.920-930
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• 2012

In this paper, we designed and built a wired temperature controller system which is based on ASIC for a wireless temperature controller system based on FPGA. FPGA devices and wireless controller systems are growing quickly especially for industrial systems for sensing temperature and humidity. FPGA can set up a desired system and a CPU, and directly set up or change a peripheral device based on an IP quickly for an affordable price. This wireless system is easy to install in the field where there are lots of changes and the system is complex. It also has advantages for maintenance. In this study, we are using a 32 bit RISC CPU based on MicroBlaze, with a touch interface, peripheral device, and porting the embedded Linux. Also, we added wireless communication using ZigBee. With this system we provide remote monitoring and control through the web by adding a web server. Compared to the original system, we say not only a performance improvement, but also more efficient development and cheaper costs. In this study, we focused especially on building a better development environment and a more effective user interface.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.1142-1147
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• 2022

The edges of image should be detected first so that the objects in the image can be identified. An hardware-implemented edge detection algorithm outperforms its software version. Sobel operation is the most suitable algorithm for an hardware implementation of edge detection. And lots of works have been done to perform Sobel operations efficiently on FPGA-based hardware. This work proposes how to implement fast edge detection circuit on FPGA, which is based on the conventional circuit for edge detection using Sobel operator. The newly proposed circuit is suitable for processing images when the images are stored in memory devices and outperforms the conventional one with little additional FPGA resources. Both the conventional circuit and the proposed circuit were implemented on an FPGA. And the result showed that the proposed circuit almost doubles the performance in processing images and needs little additional FPGA resources.