• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1406-1421
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• 2019

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has been deployed in almost every facet of our day to day activities. This is made possible because sensing and data collection devices have been given computing and communication capabilities. The devices implement System-on-Chips (SoCs) that incorporate a lot of functionalities, yet they are severely constrained in terms of memory capacitance, hardware area, and power consumption. With the increase in the functionalities of sensing devices, there is a need for low-cost synthesizable processors to handle control, interfacing, and error processing. The first step in selecting a synthesizable processor core for low-cost devices is to examine the hardware resource utilization to make sure that it fulfills the requirements of the device. This paper gives an analysis of the hardware resource usage of ten synthesizable processors that implement the Reduced Instruction Set Computer Five (RISC-V) Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). All the ten processors are synthesized using Vivado v2018.02. The maximum frequency, area, and power reports are extracted and a comparison is made to determine which processor is ideal for low-cost hardware devices.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.313-320
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• 2019

Nowadays, as the availability of tiny, low-cost microcomputer increases at a high level, mobile robots are experiencing remarkable enhancements in hardware design, software performance, and connectivity advancements. In order to control Turtlebot 2, several algorithms have been developed using the Robot Operating System(ROS). However, ROS requires to be run on a high-cost computer which increases the hardware cost and the power consumption to the robot. Therefore, design an algorithm based on low-cost hardware is the most innovative way to reduce the unnecessary costs of the hardware, to increase the performance, and to decrease the power consumed by the computer on the robot. In this paper, we present a path-finding algorithm for TurtleBot 2 based on low-cost hardware. We implemented the algorithm using Raspberry pi, Windows 10 IoT core, and RPLIDAR A2. Firstly, we used Raspberry pi as the alternative to the computer employed to handle ROS and to control the robot. Raspberry pi has the advantages of reducing the hardware cost and the energy consumed by the computer on the robot. Secondly, using RPLIDAR A2 and Windows 10 IoT core which is running on Raspberry pi, we implemented the path-finding algorithm which allows TurtleBot 2 to navigate from the starting point to the destination using the map of the area. In addition, we used C# and Universal Windows Platform to implement the proposed algorithm.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.1742-1745
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• 2019

Hidden flame detection after allegedly extinguishing a fire cannot be emphasized enough. There are a few commercial hidden fire detection equipments which are imported, but the cost is relatively high. In this contribution, we propose a development of a low-cost, high-performance hidden flame detector using open-source hardware/software. We use Raspberry-pi based hardware board equipped with a TFT touch-screen LCD, a 3G modem, and an attachable battery device altogether integrated in a plastic case fabricated with a 3D printer. The proposed hidden flame detector shows the same performance of a commercial product FLIR E5 while consuming less than a half of the cost.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권10호
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• pp.1314-1325
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• 1995

In this paper, we describe hardware implementation of VSB (Vestigial SideBand) mo-dulation equalization systems for HDTV (High Definition TeleVision). By modifying an adaptive equalization algorithm, we propose a hardware architecture with a low hardware cost and the performance close to floating-point operations. We also employ the pipeline concept to reduce the hardware cost. The effectiveness of the proposed hardware architecture is de- monstrated through computer simulation and the optimization result of VHDL circuit descriptions.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.249-257
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• 2023

This paper discusses the increasing need for autonomous delivery robots due to the current growth in the delivery market, rising delivery fees, high costs of hiring delivery personnel, and the need for contactless services. Additionally, the cost of hardware and complex software systems required to build and operate autonomous delivery robots is high. To provide a low-cost alternative to this, this paper proposes a autonomous delivery robot platform using a low-cost sensor combination of 2D LIDAR, depth camera and tracking camera to replace the existing expensive 3D LIDAR. The proposed robot was developed using the RTAB-Map SLAM open source package for 2D mapping and overcomes the limitations of low-cost sensors by using the convex hull algorithm. The paper details the hardware and software configuration of the robot and presents the results of driving experiments. The proposed platform has significant potential for various industries, including the delivery and other industries.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.475-480
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• 2018

In OFDM-based systems, FFT is a critical component since it occupies large area and consumes more power. In this paper, we present a low hardware-cost and low power 512-point pipelined FFT design method for OFDM applications. To reduce the number of twiddle factors and to choose simple design architecture, the radix-$2^4-2^3$ algorithm are exploited. For twiddle factor multiplication, we propose a new canonical signed digit (CSD) complex multiplier design method to minimize the hardware-cost. In hardware implementation with Intel FPGA, the proposed FFT design achieves more than about 28% reduction in gate count and 18% reduction in power consumption compared to the previous approaches.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.1109-1112
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• 2020

This paper presents a low cost hardware message passing engine of enhanced atomic pipelined broadcast based on processing node status. In this algorithm, the previous atomic pipelined broadcast algorithm is modified to reduce the waiting time until next broadcast communication. For this, the processor change the transmission order of processing nodes based on the nodes' communication channel. Also, the hardware message passing engine architecture of the proposed algorithm is modified to be adopted to multi-core processor. The synthesized logic area of the proposed hardware message passing engine was reduced by about 16%, compared by the pre-existing hardware message passing engine.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 저비용, 저전력 카메라 폰 구현을 위한 하드웨어 자원 공유가 가능한 구조의 카메라 제어 프로세서를 제안한다. 제안한 카메라 제어 프로세서의 구조는 내부에 직접 접근 경로를 내장함으로써 베이스 밴드 프로세서가 카메라 제어 프로세서의 하드웨어 자원을 직접 활용할 수 있도록 하여 베이스 밴드 프로세서의 기능 확장과 성능 향상을 도모하는데 그 목적이 있다. 또한, 제안한 구조와 결합하여 블록 단위 클럭 차단 기법을 적용하여 저전력 소비를 구현한 결과를 기술하였다. 따라서 제안한 카메라 제어 프로세서는 시스템의 하드웨어 자원 효율성을 향상시켜 저전력, 저비용 카메라 폰 시스템 구현을 가능하게 한다. 제안한 카메라 제어 프로세서는 0.18um CMOS 공정을 사용하여 제작되었으며 면적은 $3.8mm\;{\times}\;3.8mm$이다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.72-80
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 무선 센서 노드에 사용 가능한 저가형 플래시 메모리를 위한 하드웨어 추상화 구조(Hardware Abstraction Architecture: HAA)를 제안한다. 제안된 HAA는 3개 의 계층으로 이루어져 있으며, 세 개의 계층은 HIL(Hardware Interlace Layer), HAL(Hardware Adaption Layer), HPL(Hardware Presentation Layer)로 구성된다. 여기서 HIL은 상위 계층의 어플리케이션에 대해 플랫폼 독립적인 인터페이스를 제공하고, HAL은 하드웨어 추상계층에서 가장 핵심적인 부분으로서 하드웨어 자원 제어, 상태관리,논리적 명령어를 생성하며, HPL은 하드웨어 초기화 및 플래시 메모리와의 통신 부분을 담당한다. 제안된 HAA는 무선 센서노드에 가장 많이 사용되고 있는 Atmel사의 AT45DB 계열의 플래시 메모리에 적용되었으며, 4,384 바이트의 프로그램 메모리와 195 바이트의 데이터 메모리를 사용한다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제안된 HAA 구조는 3계층으로 설계되었기 때문에 소프트왜어 개발 측면에서 높은 유연성, 확장성, 재사용성을 제공하며, 낮은 메모리를 시용하기 때문에 무선 센서 노드용으로 적합하다 할 수 있다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2020

This paper proposes a fast-processing and low-cost hardware multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channel emulator. The channel emulator is an important component of hardware-based simulation systems. The novelty of this work is the use of sharing and pipelining functions to reduce hardware resource utilization while maintaining a high sample rate. In our proposed emulator, the samples are created sequentially and interpolated to ensure the sample rate is equal to the base band rate. The proposed 4 × 4 MIMO requires low-cost hardware resource so that it can be implemented on a single field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chip. An implementation on Xilinx Virtex-7 VX980T was found to occupy 10.47% of the available configurable slice registers and 12.58% of the FPGA's slice lookup tables. The maximum frequency of the proposed emulator is 758.064 MHz, so up to 560 different paths can be processed simultaneously to generate 560 × 758 million × 2 × 32 bit complex-valued fading samples per second.