• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.69-78
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• 2007

In recent years, embedded mobile systems have been expanding their application domains from embedded portable devices which only execute a specialized application such as MP3 player or digital camcoder to digital convergence devices which execute more complicated applications converged various functionalities such as video and audio play, digital dictionary, DMB, games, phone, etc. As it requires the increasing hardware performance such as more faster CPU and more larger RAM, display, disk size, it has brought about a corresponding increase in power consumption. However, coupled with relatively small gains in battery capacity over recent years, the importance of software architecture including intelligent power management has become paramount. In this paper, we have ported UbiFOSTM with energy saving techniques on the ARM9-based MBA2440 platform. For energy savings, we adapted the dynamic power management and the device power management schemes based on monitoring workload. Experimental results with some well-known applications show that proposed low power technique could save energy up to 24 %.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.119-122
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• 2005

RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) is appearing by point technology by Ubiquitous environment of new paradigm and Logistics' application. But, RFID chip of this is high price and short bandwidth, low power and interference etc. can become technological problem. This is getting into obstacle in common use. Reader and tag, Embedded software etc.. that is accomplishing standardization is imported paying most expensive Royalty. This paper is RFID cognition system that use PDA in Ubiquitous environment to apply to Logistics system. RFID cognition system processes input/output of fundamental information attaching tag to Logistics of products. And RFID cognition system supports quick and correct and safe synthetic Logistics managerial system through construction of database. This can prove minimization and customer service of Logistics expense. RFID cognition system is advantage that can widen range of application to area that cognition system of existent fixing style can not do. Also, It can expect economical effect through inexpensive system construction.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.542-558
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• 2023

A digital focus index (DFI) is a value used to determine image focus in scientific apparatus and smart devices. Automatic focus (AF) is an iterative and time-consuming procedure; however, its processing time can be reduced using a general processing unit (GPU) and a multi-core processor (MCP). In this study, parallel architectures of a minimax search algorithm (MSA) are applied to two DFIs: range algorithm (RA) and image contrast (CT). The DFIs are based on a histogram; however, the parallel computation of the histogram is conventionally inefficient because of the bank conflict in shared memory. The parallel architectures of RA and CT are constructed using parallel reduction for MSA, which is performed through parallel relative rating of the image pixel pairs and halved the rating in every step. The array size is then decreased to one, and the minimax is determined at the final reduction. Kernels for the architectures are constructed using open source software to make it relatively platform independent. The kernels are tested in a hexa-core PC and an embedded device using Lenna images of various sizes based on the resolutions of industrial cameras. The performance of the kernels for the DFIs was investigated in terms of processing speed and computational acceleration; the maximum acceleration was 32.6× in the best case and the MCP exhibited a higher performance.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.9
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• pp.39-48
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• 2009

Human face tracking has gradually become an important issue in applications for portable multimedia devices such as digital camcorder, digital still camera and cell phone. Current embedded face tracking software implementations lack the processing abilities to track faces in real time mobile video processing. In this paper, we propose a power efficient hardware-based face tracking architecture operating in real time. The proposed system was verified by FPGA prototyping and ASIC implementation using Samsung 65nm CMOS process. The implementation result shows that tracking speed is less than 8.4 msec with 150K gates and 20 mW average power consumption. Consequently it is validated that the proposed system is adequate for portable multimedia device.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.3
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• pp.109-114
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• 2004

Increasing popularity of WLAN and advancement of WPAN allow user to connect to the Internet easily today. The increasing of number of networking mobile device such as laptop and PDA requires computing devices to share high speed Internet line or work on networks in most cases. This has stimulated the demand of access point that supports multiple network interfaces. This paper describes the process of design, implementation and test of the wired/wireless integrated access point that supports multiple network interfaces such as wired LAN, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and Broadband network. We designed and developed the hardware system and protocol software to integrate heterogeneous network. The system has shown compatibility with standard specification and good performance through testing with various network devices.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.229-235
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• 2018

As of in the year of 2016, 40 million ARM processors are being shipped everyday and more than 86 billion ARM processors are mounted in mobile communications, consumer electronics, enterprises, and embedded systems. Nationally, we are capable of designing high-end memory semiconductors, but not in processors, resulting in unbalance. Generally, highly expensive software programs are necessary for designing processors which makes it difficult to set up proper environments. However, ModelSim simulator provided by Altera is free and everybody can use it. In this paper, the VHDL language which is widely used in Europe, universities, and research centers around the world for the ASIC design is selected for designing 32-bit ARM processor and simulated by ModelSim. As a result, 37 instructions of ARMv4 has been successfully executed.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.546-549
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• 2008

최근 모바일·임베디드 시스템의 품질 향상 노력의 일환으로 하드웨어보다 소프트웨어 개발에 더 관심을 가지며 비중 또한 증가하고 있다. 모바일·임베디드 소프트웨어는 특정 목적을 위해 개발되는 특성으로 인하여 표준화된 개발 프로세스 없이 개발되는 경우가 많다. 또는 기업 자체 개발 방법론으로 개발하거나 알려진 임베디드 소프트웨어 개발방법론으로 개발하기도 한다. 하지만 잦은 요구사항 변경과 시스템의 결함 등 프로젝트의 실패는 줄어들지 않고, 이에 대한 해결책으로 본 논문에서는 모바일·임베디드 개발 프로세스의 개선으로 품질향상이 필요하다고 주장한다. 소프트웨어 프로세스에 있어서 대기업에서는 CMMI 수준 달성을 위한 노력을 꾀하고 있다. 하지만 이 모델은 일반 중소규모 기업에 적용하기에는 부담이 너무 크다는 단점이 있고 비용 또한 만만치 않다. 이에 본 논문에서는 XP의 실천사항을 바탕으로 모바일 임베디드 소프트웨어 개발 프로세스 개선을 위한 프레임워크를 제안한다. 이를 통해 모바일·임베디드 소프트웨어 개발 기업은 제품 품질 향상과 함께 CMMI 수준 달성에 기여·활용하게 된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.623-628
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• 2009

The emergence of compact and low-power wireless communication sensors and actuators in the technology supporting the ongoing miniaturization of processing and storage allows for entirely the new kinds of embedded systems. These systems are distributed and deployed in environments where they may have been designed into a particular control method, and are often very dynamic. Collection of devices can communicate to achieve a higher level of coordinated behavior. Wireless sensor nodes deposited in various places provide light, temperature, and activity measurements. Wireless sensor nodes attached to circuits or appliances sense the current or control the usage. Together they form a dynamic and multi-hop routing network connecting each node to more powerful networks and processing resources. Wireless sensor networks are a specific-application and therefore they have to involve both software and hardware. They also use protocols that relate to both applications and the wireless network. Wireless sensor networks are consumer devices supporting multimedia applications such as personal digital assistants, network computers, and mobile communication devices. Wireless sensor networks are becoming an important part of industrial and military applications. The characteristics of modem embedded systems are the capable of communicating adapting the different operating environments. In this paper, We designed and implemented sensor network system which shows through host PC sensing temperature and humidity data transmitted for wireless sensor nodes composed wireless temperature and humidity sensor and designs sensor nodes using embedded system with the intention of studying USN.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.580-587
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• 2006

As PDA, IMT-2000, and e-Book are developed and popular in these days, the number of users who use these products has been increasing. However, available memory size of these machines is still smaller than that of desktop PCs. In these products, TrueType fonts have been increased in demand because the number of users who want to use good quality fonts has increased, and TrueType fonts are of great use in Windows CE products. However, TrueType fonts take a large portion of available device memory, considering the small memory sizes of mobile devices. Therefore, it is required to reduce the size of TrueType fonts. In this paper, two-phase compression techniques are presented for the purpose of reducing the sire of hangul bitmap data embedded in TrueType fonts. In the first step, each character in bitmap is divided into initial consonant, medial vowel, and final consonant, respectively, then the character is recomposed into the composite bitmap. In the second phase, if any two consonants or vowels are determined to be the same, one of them is removed. The TrueType embedded bitmaps in Hangeul Wanseong (pre-composed) and Hangul Johab (pre-combined) are used in compression. By using our compression techniques, the compression rates of embedded bitmap data for TrueType fonts can be reduced around 35% in Wanseong font, and 7% in Johab font. Consequently, the compression rate of total TrueType Wanseong font is about 9.26%.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.4
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• pp.539-544
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• 2004

This paper presents the implementation of the bluetooth headset and the audio gateway connected to the mobile Phone in the embedded environment. The bluetooth module includes the BC02 processor chip, the BCSP02 firmware and the bluelab software Including bluetooth protocol stack. The above components in the bluetooth module developed at CSR company are used as the development environment. The application program using API functions supported by bluelab is coded by C language and loaded on the flash ROM of the bluetooth module. The cail processing capacity measuring the call setup time and the clearing time between the audio gateway and the headset is considered as the performance parameter of the developed systems. As a call setup and clearing time between the audio gateway and the headset is about 88.8ms, the call processing capacity is about 11 calls per second. Therefore the performance result is satisfied in the aspect of the call processing time.