• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2021

The widely used low-cost design methodology for IoT devices is very popular. In such a networked device, memory is composed of flash memory, SRAM, DRAM, etc., and because it processes a large amount of data, memory design is an important factor for system performance. Therefore, each device selects optimized design factors such as function, performance and cost according to market demand. The design of a memory architecture available for low-cost IoT devices is very limited with the configuration of SRAM, flash memory, and DRAM. In order to process as much data as possible in the same space, an architecture that supports parallel processing units is usually provided. Such parallel architecture is a design method that provides high performance at low cost. However, it needs precise software techniques for instruction and data mapping on the parallel architecture. This paper proposes an instruction/data mapping method to support optimized parallel processing performance. The proposed method optimizes system performance by actively using hardware and software parallelism.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.401-408
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 저가 하드웨어 기반의 멀티로터용 비행제어 컴퓨터의 하드웨어 개발과 항법 및 제어 알고리즘의 설계 및 구현, 그리고 실제 비행실험을 통한 검증 과정을 서술하였다. 개발된 비행제어 컴퓨터는 마이크로컨트롤러를 통하여 멀티로터를 안정적으로 제어하며 통합된 Linux 컴퓨터를 활용하여 복잡한 임무에 대응이 가능하도록 설계되었다. 항법 해는 Complementary Filter를 통하여 500 Hz의 속도로 계산을 수행하고, 멀티로터의 운동모델을 기반으로 Observer를 설계, 측정 잡음을 크게 줄였다. 제어 알고리즘은 3차원 Curve Fitting을 통하여 얻은 Feed-forward Term을 사용하여 반응속도를 크게 향상시켰으며, 다수의 비행실험을 통하여 실제 상황에서 효과적으로 동작함을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.22-34
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• 2010

기존의 영상 스케일러(scaler)들은 연산량과 하드웨어 복잡도를 줄이기 위해 선형 보간과 같은 간단한 보간을 적용함으로써 화질을 희생시키거나, 고품질 영상을 얻기 위하여 복잡한 보간 기법을 적용함으로써 전력소모와 크기가 큰 하드웨어 구조를 적용하여 왔다. 그러나 영상기기들의 소형화와 고화질 영상에 대한 사용자들의 욕구 증대로 소형, 저전력이면서 결과 영상의 화질 또한 우수한 스케일러의 개발이 중요시되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문은 실시간, 고화질, 소형, 저전력의 목표를 모두 달성할 수 있는 래스터 스캔(raster scan) 방식의 스케일러 하드웨어 구조를 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 스케일러는 기존의 3차 보간(cubic interpolation) 기법과 룩업테이블(look-up table) 구조를 개선하여 저전력화와 소형화를 달성하였다. 제안하는 스케일러 구조의 특징은 기존의 실시간 스케일러가 포함하던 버퍼를 라인메모리로 대체하여 메모리 접근 횟수를 줄임으로써 저전력을 달성할 수 있도록 했다는 것이며, 또한 기존의 룩업테이블 구조에서 사용하던 3차 보간 수식을 재정리하여 곱셈기 수와 룩업테이블의 크기를 줄임으로써 하드웨어를 소형화하는 방법을 제안하였다. 마지막으로 사용되는 계수의 크기에 따른 결과를 분석하여 영상의 화질과 하드웨어 크기 간의 최적의 타협점을 제시하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 1999년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.25-30
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• 1999

This paper covers the development of a highly portable and low cost SPOT image data receiving system. We followed two design approaches. One is the software-based approach by which most of the real-time processing is handled by software. With the complete software-based design, it is simple to add a function for receiving any additional satellite data. Satellite-specific format handlers including error correction, decompression and decryption can easily be accommodated. On the other approach. we used a general hardware platform, IBM-PC and a low cost SCSI RAID (Redundant Away of Independent Disks), and therefore, we can make a low cost system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.328-336
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• 2003

Bluetooth is a specification for short-range wireless communication using the 2.4 GHz ISM band. It emphasizes low complexity, low power, and low cost. This paper describes an area-efficient digital baseband module for wireless technology. For area-efficiency, we carefully consider hardware and software partitioning. We implement complex control tasks of the Bluetooth baseband layer protocols in software running on an embedded microcontroller. Hardware-efficient functions, such as low-level bitstream link control; host controller interfaces (HCIs), such as universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) and universal serial bus (USB)interfaces; and audio Codec are performed by dedicated hardware blocks. Furthermore, we eliminate FIFOs for data buffering between hardware functional units. The design is done using fully synthesizable Verilog HDL to enhance the portability between process technologies so that our module can be easily integrated as an intellectual property core no system-on-a-chip (SoC) ASICs. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) prototype of this module was tested for functional verification and realtime operation of file and bitstream transfers between PCs. The module was fabricated in a $0.25-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, the core size of which was only 2.79 $mm{\times}2.80mm$.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권1B호
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• pp.86-92
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• 2011

본 논문에선 분산 메모리 아키텍처를 사용하는 멀티프로세서 시스템에서 메시지 전달을 지원하는 하드웨어 MPI(Message Passing Interface) 유닛을 설계하였다 데이터 전송 동기화 및 데이터 전송, 완료까지의 과정을 하드웨어 MPI 유닛이 담당하여 동기화에 따른 오버헤드를 경감시켰다. 또한 동기화 메시지를 저장 관리하는 요청 큐(Request Queue), 준비 큐(Ready Queue), 예약 큐(Reserve Queue)를 내장하여 병렬적으로 입력받은 동기화 메시지를 관리하고 비순차적 종료(out of order completion)을 지원한다. BMF(Bus Functional Medel)을 제작해 제안한 구조에서의 전송 대역폭 성능을 확인한 결과 다대다 통신에서 25% 이상의 성능 향상이었음을 확인할 수 있었다. 그 후 HDL로 기술된 하드웨어를 Magnachip 0.18 공정 라이브러리에서 합성하였으며 프로토 타입 chip으로 제작하였다. 제안한 MPI 유닛은 전체 칩 사이즈의 1% 이하의 크기로 높은 성능 향상을 기대할 수 있어, 저비용 설계와 확장성 측면에서 임베디드 MPSoC(Multi-Processor System-on-Chip)의 전체적인 성능을 높이는데 유용하다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2012

Recently automotive software has been more complex and needs to be reduced its development time. Software testing of its functionalities and performance should be conducted in an early development phase to reduce time to market and the development cost. Software functional testing can be performed through simulating the hardware, but it is not guaranteed that evaluation of real-time performance using simulation has enough accuracy. Real-time performance can be precisely evaluated with hardware-in-the-loop simulation, but it costs time and effort to set up hardware for testing. In this paper, we suggest a testing system that can evaluate functional requirements and real time properties with a general-purpose development board in the early development phase. In addition, we improve reusability of the testing system through modularized and layered architecture. With the proposed testing system we can contribute to building reliable testing system at low cost without difficulty.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제29권11호
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• pp.1174-1177
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• 2012

In voltage measurement by using voltage divider with series resistors, error is generated caused by the variation of resistance. In order to reduce these errors, the hardware cost tends to increase in the previous works. In the proposed method, three resistors are used for the voltage divider of which the organization is adjusted by using switches. Three voltages are measured and the ratio of resistance is calculated based on the measured voltages. Since the resistance ratio is calculated by measuring voltages and additional hardware cost is minimal, the voltage can be measured with high accuracy and low cost. Experimental results show that the mean absolute error is 12.1 mV when the input voltage ranges from 5 V to 50 V.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1996년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집(국내학술편); 포항공과대학교, 포항; 24-26 Oct. 1996
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• pp.1107-1112
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• 1996

A semi-active suspension system with continuously variable damper is greatly expected to be mainly used in the future as a high-performance suspension system due to its cost-effectiveness, light weight, and low energy consumption. To develop the suitable control logic for the semi-active suspension system, the hardware-in-the-loop simulation is performed with the experimental continuously variable damper combined with a quarter-car model. The hardware-in-the-loop simulation results are compared for passive, on/off controlled, and continuously controlled dampers in the aspects of ride comfort and driving safety, assuming each damper to be installed on a vehicle.

• 센서학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.299-305
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• 2015

Since the natural disasters such as floods, droughts, heat wave and cold wave are increasing, the need for risk management is necessary to minimize the damage with utilizing IT technology. Also, the monitoring services of disaster response type have been developed and applied. Recently, the open source hardware based on the signal of the sensor, or the monitoring studies have been carried. In this paper, by analyzing a low-cost open source hardware platform such as Beagle board, we examine the utilization of the hardware-based module for sensor monitoring.