• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2016

Microcontrollers (MCUs) for endpoint smart sensor devices of internet-of-thing (IoT) are being implemented as system-on-chip (SoC) with on-chip instruction flash memory, in which user firmware is embedded. MCUs directly fetch binary code-based instructions through bit-line sense amplifier (S/A) integrated with on-chip flash memory. The S/A compares bit cell current with reference current to identify which data are programmed. The S/A in reading '0' (erased) cell data consumes a large sink current, which is greater than off-current for '1' (programmed) cell data. The main motivation of our approach is to reduce the number of accesses of erased cells by binary code level transformation. This paper proposes a built-in write/read path architecture using binary code inversion method based on hot-spot region detection of instruction code access to reduce sensing current in S/A. From the profiling result of instruction access patterns, hot-spot region of an original compiled binary code is conditionally inverted with the proposed bit-inversion techniques. The de-inversion hardware only consumes small logic current instead of analog sink current in S/A and it is integrated with the conventional S/A to restore original binary instructions. The proposed techniques are applied to the fully-custom designed MCU with ARM Cortex-M0$^{TM}$ using 0.18um Magnachip Flash-embedded CMOS process and the benefits in terms of power consumption reduction are evaluated for Dhrystone$^{TM}$ benchmark. The profiling environment of instruction code executions is implemented by extending commercial ARM KEIL$^{TM}$ MDK (MCU Development Kit) with our custom-designed access analyzer.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.509-514
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 DDR-1 메모리와 PCI-e 인터페이스를 이용하는 256 GB DRAM 기반의 SSD 스토리지를 설계 분석하였다. SSD는 주 저장매체로써 DRAM 이나 NAND Flash 를 사용하는 스토리지로써 메모리칩으로부터 직접 데이터를 처리할 수 있기 때문에 종래의 HDD의 기계적인 처리속도보다 매우 고속인 장점이 있다. 설계된 DRAM 기반 SSD 시스템은 복수 개의 RAM 디스크를 데이터 저장매체로 사용하며, PCI-e 인터페이스 버스를 각 메모리디스크의 통신 경로로 사용하여 고속의 데이터 처리가 가능한 구조이다. 실험을 위하여 UNIX 및 Windows/Linux 서버, SAN Switch, Ethernet Switch를 이용한 실험시스템을 구성하고 IOmeter 를 이용하여 IOPS(Input output Per Second)와 대역폭 성능을 측정하였으며 측정결과에서 DDR-1 SSD는 470,000의 IOPS와 800MB/sec로 HDD 나 Flash-based SSD 에 비하여 높은 대역폭이 나타남을 확인하였다.