• Title/Summary/Keyword: Instruction-set extension

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Construction of an Automatic Instruction-Set Extension System for Efficient ASIP Design (효율적인 ASIP 설계를 위한 자동 인스트럭션 확장 시스템 구축)

  • Hwang, Deok-Ho;Hwang, Sun-Young
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.38B no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2013
  • This thesis proposes an automatic instruction extension system that utilizes retargetable compiler, based on MDL, to design an ASIP optimized for application. The proposed system uses information gathered from the application program to find all possible expandable instruction candidates. Expandable instruction candidates acquire the realization characteristics through hardware library. The system chooses instruction set and optimizes processor structure satisfying constraints on the bases of hardware characteristics and increase in execution speed. To confirm the efficiency of the proposed system, automatic instruction extension system was performed using various benchmark applications. The proposed system acquired optimized instruction set and processor structure, which are expanded from the commercial version of ARM9TDMI. Experimental results show that number of execution cycle has been reduced by 33.5% when compared to conventional version of ARM9TDMI, while area has been slightly increased.

Efficient ARIA Cryptographic Extension to a RISC-V Processor (RISC-V 프로세서상에서의 효율적인 ARIA 암호 확장 명령어)

  • Lee, Jin-jae;Park, Jong-uk;Kim, Min-jae;Kim, Ho-won
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.309-322
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    • 2021
  • In this study, an extension instruction set for high-speed operation of the ARIA block cipher algorithm on RISC-V processor is added to support high-speed cryptographic operation on low performance IoT devices. We propose the efficient ARIA cryptographic instruction set which runs on a conventional 32-bit processor. Compared to the existing software cryptographic operation, there is a significant performance improvement with proposed instruction set.

Parallel Branch Instruction Extension for Thumb-2 Instruction Set Architecture (Thumb-2 명령어 집합 구조의 병렬 분기 명령어 확장)

  • Kim, Dae-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, the parallel branch instruction is proposed which executes a branch instruction and the frequently used instruction simultaneously to improve the performance of Thumb-2 instruction set architecture. In the proposed approach, new 32-bit parallel branch instructions are introduced which combine 16-bit branch instruction with each of the frequently used 16-bit LOAD, ADD, MOV, STORE, and SUB instructions, respectively. To provide the encoding space of the new instructions, the register field in less frequently executed instructions is reduced, and the new instructions are encoded by using the saved bits. Experiments show that the proposed approach improves performance by an average of 8.0% when compared to the conventional approach.

AMEX: Extending Addressing Mode of 16-bit Thumb Instruction Set Architecture (AMEX: 16비트 Thumb 명령어 집합 구조의 주소 지정 방식 확장)

  • Kim, Dae-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.17 no.11
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, the extension of the addressing mode in the 16-bit Thumb instruction set architecture is proposed to improve the performance of 16-bit Thumb code. The key idea of the proposed approach is the introduction of new addressing modes for more frequent instructions by using the saved bits from the reduction of the register fields in less frequently used instructions. The proposed approach adopts efficient addressing modes from the 32-bit ARM architecture, which is the superset of the 16-bit Thumb architecture. To speed up access to a data list, scaled register offset addressing mode and post-indexed addressing mode are introduced for load and store instructions. Experiments show that the proposed approach improves performance by an average of 8.5% when compared to the conventional approach.

The Effect of High School Students' Life-competence Thanks to the Learning Attitudes on the School Library-Assisted Instruction (학교도서관 활용수업에 대한 학습태도가 고등학생의 생애능력에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Seung-Gil
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.5-31
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    • 2008
  • In this study, after Library-Assisted Instruction is set out and executed, it is surveyed and verified the connection between Learning Attitude and Life competence. This study indicates that Learning Attitude and Life skills of Library-Assisted Instruction have close correlation and the extension of Life competence(Communication, Problem Solving. Self-Directed Learning) is under the influence of Learning Attitude. This study suggests that cooperative learning, Information Processing Model and constructivism learning theory have to be adopted as a means of increasing more educational effects and extensions of Library-Assisted Instruction.

A 16 bit FPGA Microprocessor for Embedded Applications (실장제어 16 비트 FPGA 마이크로프로세서)

  • 차영호;조경연;최혁환
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.5 no.7
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    • pp.1332-1339
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    • 2001
  • SoC(System on Chip) technology is widely used in the field of embedded systems by providing high flexibility for a specific application domain. An important aspect of development any new embedded system is verification which usually requires lengthy software and hardware co-design. To reduce development cost of design effort, the instruction set of microprocessor must be suitable for a high level language compiler. And FPGA prototype system could be derived and tested for design verification. In this paper, we propose a 16 bit FPGA microprocessor, which is tentatively-named EISC16, based on an EISC(Extendable Instruction Set Computer) architecture for embedded applications. The proposed EISC16 has a 16 bit fixed length instruction set which has the short length offset and small immediate operand. A 16 bit offset and immediate operand could be extended using by an extension register and an extension flag. We developed a cross C/C++ compiler and development software of the EISC16 by porting GNU on an IBM-PC and SUN workstation and compared the object code size created after compiling a C/C. standard library, concluding that EISC16 exhibits a higher code density than existing 16 microprocessors. The proposed EISC16 requires approximately 6,000 gates when designed and synthesized with RTL level VHDL at Xilinix's Virtex XCV300 FPGA. And we design a test board which consists of EISC16 ROM, RAM, LED/LCD panel, periodic timer, input key pad and RS-232C controller. 11 works normally at 7MHz Clock.

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SIMD Instruction-based Fast HEVC RExt Decoder (SIMD 명령어 기반 HEVC RExt 복호화기 고속화)

  • Mok, Jung-Soo;Ahn, Yong-Jo;Ryu, Hochan;Sim, Donggyu
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.224-237
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we introduce the fast decoding method with the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions for HEVC RExt (High Efficiency Video Coding Range Extensions). Several tools of HEVC RExt such as intra prediction, interpolation, inverse-quantization, inverse-transform, and clipping modules can be classified as the proper modules for applying the SIMD instructions. In consideration of bit-depth increasement of RExt, intra prediction, interpolation, inverse-quantization, inverse-transform, and clipping modules are accelerated by SSE (Streaming SIMD Extension) instructions. In addition, we propose effective implementations for interpolation filter, inverse-quantization, and clipping modules by utilizing a set of AVX2 (Advanced Vector eXtension 2) instructions that can use 256 bits register. The evaluation of the proposed methods were performed on the private HEVC RExt decoder developed based on HM 16.0. The experimental results show that the developed RExt decoder reduces 12% average decoding time, compared with the conventional sequential method.

Accelerating Symmetric and Asymmetric Cryptographic Algorithms with Register File Extension for Multi-words or Long-word Operation (다수 혹은 긴 워드 연산을 위한 레지스터 파일 확장을 통한 대칭 및 비대칭 암호화 알고리즘의 가속화)

  • Lee Sang-Hoon;Choi Lynn
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.43 no.2 s.308
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we propose a new register file architecture called the Register File Extension for Multi-words or Long-word Operation (RFEMLO) to accelerate both symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms. Based on the idea that most of cryptographic algorithms heavily use multi-words or long-word operations, RFEMLO allows multiple contiguous registers to be specified as a single operand. Thus, a single instruction can specify a SIMD-style multi-word operation or a long-word operation. RFEMLO can be applied to general purpose processors by adding instruction set for multi-words or long-word operands and functional units for additional instruction set. To evaluate the performance of RFEMLO, we use Simplescalar/ARM 3.0 (with gcc 2.95.2) and run detailed simulations on various symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms. By applying RFEMLO, we could get maximum 62% and 70% reductions in the total instruction count of symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms respectively. Also, performance results show that a speedup of 1.4 to 2.6 can be obtained in symmetric cryptographic algorithms and a speedup of 2.5 to 3.3 can be obtained for asymmetric cryptographic algorithms when we apply RFEMLO to a processor with an in-order pipeline. We also found that RFEMLO can effectively improve the performance of these cryptographic algorithms with much less cost compared to issue-width increase available in Superscalar implementations. Moreover, the RFEMLO can also be applied to Superscalar processor, leading to additional 83% and 138% performance gain in symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms.

A Hermeneutical Analysis of the Program Development for Extension Education in Korea (농촌지도사업 교육프로그램 개발에 대한 해석학적 분석)

  • Kim, Jin-Hwa;Joeng, Ji-Woong
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.247-264
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    • 1996
  • The objective of this study was to analyze the reality of the program development process in detail accomplished by the organizations of extension education in through the hermeneutical approach. To achieve this purpose, this study tried to find answers to the following three questions : (1) how the organization of extension education develop their programs for farmers? (2) what is the programmers' awareness to the process of program development? and what is the reason for their thought and action to do so. (3) can be discussed integrally the findings for drawing some implications? The qualitative data were mainly gathered through participation observation and unstructured interview. And the qualitative data were analyzed by (1) noting pattern and themes, (2) seeing plausibility, (3) clustering, (4) making metaphors, (5) factoring, and (6) building a logical chain of evidence which hermeneutical techniques far drawing the meaning from the gathered data. The findings of this study were as follows: The programmers of this organization carried out the developing program in the technical training division at the national level and the section of fostering farm manager at the county level for the purpose of delivering the agricultural new technology and the agricultural policy. The term used formly in this organization was `curriculum development for former', and the reality of program was `instruction profile` which signified the set of the educational manin contents. At county level, Educational planning was stressed on the implement of educational administration.

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Design and Evaluation of 32-Bit RISC-V Processor Using FPGA (FPGA를 이용한 32-Bit RISC-V 프로세서 설계 및 평가)

  • Jang, Sungyeong;Park, Sangwoo;Kwon, Guyun;Suh, Taeweon
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2022
  • RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture which has a simple base structure and can be extensible depending on the purpose. In this paper, we designed a small and low-power 32-bit RISC-V processor to establish the base for research on RISC-V embedded systems. We designed a 2-stage pipelined processor which supports RISC-V base integer instruction set except for FENCE and EBREAK instructions. The processor also supports privileged ISA for trap handling. It used 1895 LUTs and 1195 flip-flops, and consumed 0.001W on Xilinx Zynq-7000 FPGA when synthesized using Vivado Design Suite. GPIO, UART, and timer peripherals are additionally used to compose the system. We verified the operation of the processor on FPGA with FreeRTOS at 16MHz. We used Dhrystone and Coremark benchmarks to measure the performance of the processor. This study aims to provide a low-power, high-efficiency microprocessor for future extension.