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Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation of a Vehicle-to-Vehicle Distance Control System (차간거리제어 Hardware-in-the-Loop 시뮬레이션)

  • Moon, Il-Ki;Lee, Chan-Kyu;Yi, Kyong-Su;Kwon, Young-Do
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06b
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    • pp.741-746
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents an investigation of a vehicle-to-vehicle distance control using a Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation(HiLS) system. Since vehicle tests are costly and time consuming, how to establish a efficient and low cost development tool is an important issue. The HiLS system consists of a stepper motor, an electronic vacuum booster, a controller unit and two computers which are used to form real time simulation and to save vehicle parameters and signals of actuator through a CAN(Controller Area Network). Adoption of a CAN for communication is a trend in the automotive industry. Since this environment is the same as that of a real vehicle, a distance control logic verified in laboratory can be easily transfered to a test vehicle.

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Trend of Edge Machine Learning as-a-Service (서비스형 엣지 머신러닝 기술 동향)

  • Na, J.C.;Jeon, S.H.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.44-53
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    • 2022
  • The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing exponentially, with the number of IoT devices multiplying annually. Accordingly, the paradigm is changing from cloud computing to edge computing and even tiny edge computing because of the low latency and cost reduction. Machine learning is also shifting its role from the cloud to edge or tiny edge according to the paradigm shift. However, the fragmented and resource-constrained features of IoT devices have limited the development of artificial intelligence applications. Edge MLaaS (Machine Learning as-a-Service) has been studied to easily and quickly adopt machine learning to products and overcome the device limitations. This paper briefly summarizes what Edge MLaaS is and what element of research it requires.

Design and Implementation of Firmware for Low-cost Small PCR Devices (저가의 소형 PCR 장치를 위한 펌웨어 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Wan Yeon;Kim, Jong Dae
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we design and implement a firmware for low-cost small PCR devices. To minimize machine code size, the proposed firmware controls real-time tasks simultaneously only with support of the hardware interrupt, but without support of the operating system program. The proposed firmware has the host-local structure in which the firmware receives operation commands from PC and sends operation results to PC through usb communication. We implement a low-cost small PCR device with the proposed firmware loaded on microchip PIC18F4550 chip, and verify that the implemented PCR device significantly reduces cost and volume size of existing commercial PCR devices with a similar performance.

Area-Optimized Multi-Standard AES-CCM Security Engine for IEEE 802.15.4 / 802.15.6

  • Choi, Injun;Kim, Ji-Hoon
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.293-299
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    • 2016
  • Recently, as IoT (Internet of Things) becomes more important, low cost implementation of sensor nodes also becomes critical issues for two well-known standards, IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6 which stands for WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) and WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network), respectively. This paper presents the area-optimized AES-CCM (Advanced Encryption Standard - Counter with CBC-MAC) hardware security engine which can support both IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6 standards. First, for the low cost design, we propose the 8-bit AES encryption core with the S-box that consists of fully combinational logic based on composite field arithmetic. We also exploit the toggle method to reduce the complexity of design further by reusing the AES core for performing two operation mode of AES-CCM. The implementation results show that the total gate count of proposed AES-CCM security engine can be reduced by up to 42.5% compared to the conventional design.

Fully Programmable Memory BIST for Commodity DRAMs

  • Kim, Ilwoong;Jeong, Woosik;Kang, Dongho;Kang, Sungho
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.787-792
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    • 2015
  • To accomplish a high-speed test on low-speed automatic test equipment (ATE), a new instruction-based fully programmable memory built-in self-test (BIST) is proposed. The proposed memory BIST generates a highspeed internal clock signal by multiplying an external low-speed clock signal from an ATE by a clock multiplier embedded in a DRAM. For maximum programmability and small area overhead, the proposed memory BIST stores the unique sets of instructions and corresponding test sequences that are implicit within the test algorithms that it receives from an external ATE. The proposed memory BIST is managed by an external ATE on-the-fly to perform complicated and hard-to-implement functions, such as loop operations and refresh-interrupts. Therefore, the proposed memory BIST has a simple hardware structure compared to conventional memory BIST schemes. The proposed memory BIST is a practical test solution for reducing the overall test cost for the mass production of commodity DDRx SDRAMs.

Design and Test Flash-based Storage for Small Earth Observation Satellites (소형 지구 관측 위성용 플래시 기반 저장장치 설계 및 시험)

  • Baek, Inchul;Park, Hyoungsic;Hwang, Kiseon
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.253-259
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    • 2018
  • Recently, small satellite industries are rapidly changing. Demand for high performance small satellites is increasing with the expansion of Earth Observation Satellite market. A next-generation small satellites require a higher resolution image storage capacity than before. However, there is a problem that the HW configuration of the existing small satellite image storage device could not meet these requirements. The conventional data storing system uses SDRAM to store image data taken from satellites. When SDRAM is used in small satellite platform of a next generation, there is a problem that the cost of physical space is eight times higher and satellite price is two times higher than NAND Flash. Using the same satellite hardware configuration for next-generation satellites will increase the satellite volume to meet hardware requirements. Additional cost is required for structural design, environmental testing, and satellite launch due to increasing volume. Therefore, in order to construct a low-cost, high-efficiency system. This paper shows a next-generation solid state recorder unit (SSRU) using MRAM and NAND Flash instead of SDRAM. As a result of this research, next generation small satellite retain a storage size and weight and improves the data storage space by 15 times and the storage speed by 4.5 times compare to conventional design. Also reduced energy consumption by 96% compared to SDRAM based storage devices.

Implementation of a modem for home network power line communication based on improved LonWorks technology (향상된 론웍 기반의 홈 네트워크용 전력선 모뎀 구현)

  • 마낙원;김녹원;김우섭;이창은;문경덕;김석기
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.06a
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    • pp.367-370
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, we propose a new node architecture LonWorh control Network for home network system environmint using power line communications. Using conventional Lon Work technology is a many disputable points for home network. LonWork network system needs high-cost development equipment. Moreover, conventional Lon Work system can not implement high-grade algorithms and variety application operation. because of the limitation of processing ability in Neuron chip. For that reason, the proposed structure is applicable to low-cost and more complex applications which are impossible in home network using conventional Lonworks structure. The proposed structure is implemented with some hardware and かone software for power line home network. The physical layer and the MAC layer of the LonTalk protocol within ton Work are implemented in hardware, which decreases the development costs communication processor. The upper of link layer of the LonTalk protocol is implemented with software, which decreases the development costs of software and increases the flexibility of tile system and increases the extension of the system. We verified the commercial feasibility of the proposed system through the power line tests with the existing LonWorks network in home network. As a result, it is concluded that the proposed architecture provides increasing flexibility and decreasing cost of the system.

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Design and Fabrication of Low Power Sensor Network Platform for Ubiquitous Health Care

  • Lee, Young-Dong;Jeong, Do-Un;Chung, Wan-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1826-1829
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    • 2005
  • Recent advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low power sensor network. Wireless sensor network are often used in remote monitoring control applications, health care, security and environmental monitoring. Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology consisting of small, low-power, and low-cost devices that integrate limited computation, sensing, and radio communication capabilities. Sensor network platform for health care has been designed, fabricated and tested. This system consists of an embedded micro-controller, Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver, power management, I/O expansion, and serial communication (RS-232). The hardware platform uses Atmel ATmega128L 8-bit ultra low power RISC processor with 128KB flash memory as the program memory and 4KB SRAM as the data memory. The radio transceiver (Chipcon CC1000) operates in the ISM band at 433MHz or 916MHz with a maximum data rate of 76.8kbps. Also, the indoor radio range is approximately 20-30m. When many sensors have to communicate with the controller, standard communication interfaces such as Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) or Integrated Circuit ($I^{2}C$) allow sharing a single communication bus. With its low power, the smallest and low cost design, the wireless sensor network system and wireless sensing electronics to collect health-related information of human vitality and main physiological parameters (ECG, Temperature, Perspiration, Blood Pressure and some more vitality parameters, etc.)

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Low-cost Single-Phase Half-bridge Active Power Filter with One Current Sensor (단일 전류센서를 갖는 저가의 단상 반브릿지 능동전력필터)

  • 김희중;한병문;박용식
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.342-348
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    • 1999
  • This paper describes a low-cost single-phase active power filter, which consists of a half-bridge P\A미1 inverter with a s simple control circuit. In order to verify the performance of proposed active power filter, many computer simulations w with EMTP codes and experimental works with a hardware prototype were done. Both results confirm that the p proposed active power filter shows excellent performance to eliminate the harmonics generated in the single-phase non l linear‘ load. The active power filter has advantage of low implementation cost and compact size. using a half-bridge i inverter and a simple control circuit with only one current sensor. So. it can be fabricated as a plug-in type.

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Development of Low Cost Cloud Server System using Node-Red based on Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi기반 Node-Red를 이용한 Low Cost 클라우드 서버 시스템 구현)

  • Lin, Zhi-Ming;Lee, Yang-weon;Kim, Chul-won
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2018.10a
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    • pp.261-264
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    • 2018
  • As the application of IoT has diversified, there is a growing need to store information of sensors on servers in real time. However, building servers and collecting data requires a lot of money to secure existing PCs and storage space. This paper presents an easy way to build a cloud system at a low cost. This system presents the process of simply proposing and implementing a cloud system using Raspberry which is open hardware and Node-Red which is open software.

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