• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.207-215
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a Micro Real-Time Control System (MRTCS) for decreasing the delay during interrupts processing and data transfer on sensor nodes. The MRTCS consists of a control, sensor nodes based on Controller Area Network (CAN) device. The control node was designed with Real Time Operating System (RTOS) on top of the small Micro Control Unit (sMCU). Sensor nodes have the CAN device without sMCU, which have multiple Digital Inputs, Outputs (DI/DO) and the CAN controller. We have evaluated with OCTAVE v3.6.4 from open source for system performance. Simulation results show that the system performance was increased through the delay reducing for interrupt processing and internal data transfer. We verify that a proposed MRTCS approach will be adapted to various real-time control system.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.403-410
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• 2016

Materials made of metals have their own manifest resonant frequencies. Using this property, the quality test of products from the factory can be performed. An impact is applied to the product and the frequencies of the sound and/or vibration are measured using high-end equipments. They use a general purpose computer or a DSP(: Digital Signal Processor)-based stand-alone system which is usually too large in-size to carry and expensive to build. In this paper, we introduce a system that is developed based on a MSP430 MCU(:Micro-Controller Unit) from TI(: Texas Instruments). The ultra-low power MSP430 MCUs make it possible to make a frequency analyzer in a very small size without the need of using a large-size battery. The proposed system can be used in situations where the frequency analyzer should be carried easily with an investigator and should be built at low cost sacrificing some accuracy. We implemented the system using a launchpad supplied by TI and could confirm that the proposed system could identify with a high-accuracy the frequencies of various artificial and natural sounds.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.11-18
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• 2020

Since the end devices of the Internet of Things (IoT) are battery operated products, careful consideration for ultra-low power (ULP) is required. The Micro Controller Unit (MCU) industry has developed very effective functions to save energy, but developers have difficulty in selecting the MCU because various operating modes are applied to reduce energy consumption by manufacturers. Therefore, this paper introduces ULPMark benchmark, a standardized benchmark method that can compare MCUs of various vendors and feature sets, and provides hardware functions for ultra-low-power operation of the two platforms that received the high evaluation scores from ULPMark. In addition, we investigated and analyzed how developers can utilize the functions for ultra low power consumption through driver APIs and detailed register control.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.66-72
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• 2002

VLSI 기술의 발전은 보다 많은 양의 로직을 단일 칩에 집적 가능하게 했고, 이는 System-on-a-chip 시대의 도래를 가능하게 했다. System-on-a-chip을 가능하게 하기 위해서는 많은 종류의 IP (Intellectual Property)가 필요하고, 공정 변환을 쉽게 하기 위해서는 합성이 가능한 RTL 설계가 절실히 요구된다. 본 논문은 이러한 요구에 부응하기 위해서 hard macro 형태의 기존의 IP로 부터 합성 가능한 IP를 자동 생성해 주는 ART(Automatic RTL Translation)로 명명된 기법에 관한 것이다. 제안된 ART 기법을 이용하여 80C52 호환의 8-bit MCU(Micro-controller Unit)의 합성 가능한 RTL model을 자동 생성하였고, 개발된 Soft IP를 이용하여 TCP/IP 전용 MCU를 표함해서 다양한 제품들을 개발하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.567-574
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• 2015

In this paper, a 50ns 256-kb EEPROM IP for MCU (micro controller unit) ICs is designed. The speed of data sensing is increased in the read mode by using a proposed DB sensing circuit of differential amplifier type which uses the reference voltage, and the switching speed is also increased by reducing the total DB parasitic capacitance as a distributed DB structure is separated into eight. Also, the access time is reduced reducing a precharging time of BL in the read mode removing a 5V NMOS transistor in the conventional RD switch, and the reliability of output data can be secured by obtaining the differential voltage (${\Delta}V$) between the DB and the reference voltages as 0.2*VDD. The access time of the designed 256-kb EEPROM IP is 45.8ns and the layout size is $1571.625{\mu}m{\times}798.540{\mu}m$ based on MagnaChip's $0.18{\mu}m$ EEPROM process.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.93-97
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• 2005

We have developed the FDSS (Fine Digital Sun Sensor) for the space technology of the STSAT-2 (Seience & Technology Satellite 2). The FDSS is firstly developed by using CMOS image sensor(CIS) in South Korea. The FDSS consists of the optics part, FPGA(Field Programable Gate Array) part, and MCU(Micro controller unit)part. This paper will focus on the optical characteristics of the optics part and describe the configuration of FDSS with the design of aperture. We also analyze the characteristic of optics about the pixel of the CMOS image sensor.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.93-97
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• 2018

In this paper, it proposes a method that uses an air pump to inject oxygen to water directly to prevent the growth of algae and cyanobacterium using MCU(Micro Controller Unit). MCU can control itself with modules of GPS, a sonic sensor, camera, conveyer belt and water pump to remove and prevent growths of algae. It can also be connected to the smart phone application software to track the system where it is and it can be controlled by the user interfaced with the smart phone application.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1015_1016
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• 2009

최근 대체조명으로 Power LED가 각광받고 있다. 그러나 반도체 소자인 Power LED의 특성에 의해 기존의 정전압 제어방식으로는 적절한 제어에 어려움이 있다. 이러한 문제의 해결책으로 본 연구에서는 Power LED를 MCU(Micro Controller Unit)를 이용한 디지털 정전류 제어방법에 대하여 서술하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.213-219
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• 2010

MCU(Micro Controller Unit) used for the automobiles has been required for improving of the safety and high reliability. Also, the necessity of high performance MCU equipped with high fuel-efficiency has been risen according to increased requests of high fuel-efficiency and improving the occupants safety with the development of intelligent vehicles and future vehicles. The MPC5554 32-bit embedded controller, made by Freescale Semiconductor, specialized in the part of the power train provides the high reliability, fast interrupt process and real-time control. In This paper, the investigation on IPMSM using MPC5554 has been performed. Also SVPWM(Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation) is implemented to the servo system.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.25-32
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• 2019

This paper proposes the method of an in-vehicle gateway to reduce the reprogramming time for the ECU (Electronic Control Unit). In order to reduce the reprogramming time, the gateway must prohibit transmitting messages, that are not related to reprogramming, to the destination CAN network, and no ECU should diagnose the DTC(Diagnostic Trouble Code) that indicates CAN communication error caused by prohibiting CAN messages by the gateway. Moreover, STmin, which are the minimum time between two consecutive CAN messages, should be minimized. In order to do this, this paper proposes the method that uses the link control command specified in UDS(Unified Diagnostic Services) and hardware based gateway functionality that are supported by the latest MCU(Micro Controller Unit). The proposed method is developed using TC275 based embedded system, and its results are presented.