• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

The delay-insensitive Null Convention Logic (NCL) asynchronous design as one of innovative asynchronous logic design methodologies has many advantages of inherent robustness, power consumption, and easy design reuses. However, transistor-level structures of conventional NCL gate cells have weakness of low speed, high area overhead or high wire complexity. Therefore, this paper proposes a new high-speed NCL gate cells designed at transistor level for high-speed, low area overhead, and low wire complexity. The proposed NCL gate cells have been compared to the conventional NCL gates in terms of circuit delay, area and power consumption.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.53-59
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• 2017

This Paper Proposes a New High-speed Design Methodology for Delay Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits Combining with a Pseudo-NMOS Structure used for High Performance in Synchronous Circuits. Null Convention Logic(NCL) of Conventional Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Design Methodologies has many Advantages of High Reliability, Low Power Consumption, and Easy Design Reuses not Dependant on Semiconductor Technology. However. the Conventional NCL Gates has a Complicated Stack Structure, so it Suffers from Increased Circuit Delay. Therefore, a New NCL Gates and its Pipeline Structure for High Performance, and the Proposed Methodology has been Designed and Evaluated by a $4{\times}4$ Multiplier Designed using SK-Hynix 0.18 um CMOS Technology. The Experimental Results are Compared with a Conventional NCL in Terms of Power and Delay and shows that the Propagation Delay of the Proposed Multiplier is Reduced by 85% Compared with the Conventional NCL Multiplier.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.112-118
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• 2015

Conventional synchronous circuits cannot keep the circuit performance, and cannot even guarantee correct operations under the influence of PVT variations and aging effects in the nanometer regime. Therefore, in this paper, a DI (delay insensitive) design based NCL (Null Convention Logic) design methodology with a very simple design structure has been used to design digital systems, which is one of well-known asynchronous design methods robust to various variations and does not require any timing analysis. Because circuit-level structures of conventional NCL gates have weakness of low speed, high area overhead or high wire complexity, this paper proposes a new lNCL gates designed at the transistor level for high-speed, low area overhead, and low wire complexity. The proposed NCL gate libraries have been compared to the conventional NCL gates in terms of circuit delay, area and power consumption using a asynchronous multiplier implemented in dongbu 0.11um CMOS technology.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.390-401
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• 1997

In order to investigate the pharmacological properties of New Woohwangchungsimwon Liquid (NCL), effects of Woohwangchungsimwon Liquid (CL) and NCL were compared. In isolated rat aorta, NCL and CL showed the relaxation of blood vessels in maximum contractile response to phenylephrine (10$^{-6}$ M) without regard to intact endothelium or denuded rings of the rat aorta. Furthermore, the presences of the inhibitor of NO synthase and guanylate cyclase did not affect the relaxation of NCL and CL. NCL and CL inhibited the vascular contractions induced by acetylcholine, prostaglandin endoperoxide or peroxide in a dose-dependent manner. In conscious spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), NCL and CL significantly decreased heart rate. NCL and CL, at high doses, had a negative inotropic effect that was a decrease of LVDP and (-dp/dt)/(+dp/dt) in the isolated perfused rat hearts, and also decreased the contractile force and heart rate in the isolated rat right atria. In excised guinea-pig papillary muscle, NCL and CL had no effects on parameters of action potential at low doses, whereas inhibited the cardiac contractility at high doses. These results suggested that NCL and CL have weak cardiovascular effects with relaxation of blood vessels and decrease of heart rate, and that this effect is no significant differences between two preparations.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.402-411
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• 1997

ln order to investigate pharmacological properties of New Woohwangchungsimwon Liquid (NCL) and Woohwangchungsimwon Liquid (CL), effects of NCL and CL on cerebral ischemia and central nervous system were compared. Cerebral ischemia insult was performed using unilateral carotid artery occlusion in Mongolian gerbils. The histological observations showed a preventive effect of NCL and CL treatments with ischemia-induced brain damage. The ATP in brain tissue was decreased in vehicle-treated ischemic gerbils. This decrease was prevented by CL treatment. In contrast to what was seen with ATP, the lactate and lipid peroxide were both elevated in vehicle-treated ischemic gerbils. This elevation was inhibited by NCL and CL treatments. While NCL and CL had no effects on the hexobarbital-induced sleeping time, they prevented the seizures induced by electric shock and pentetrazol. NCL and CL showed sedative effect in rotarod and spontaneous activity test. Respiration rate and depth were increased at the high dose of NCL and CL. Furthermore, NCL and CL showed anti-stress effect. Our findings suggest that the pharmacological profile of NCL on cerebral ischemia and central nervous system are similar to that of CL.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.59-65
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• 2013

Conventional synchronous design circuits cannot only satisfy the timing requirement of the low voltage digital systems, but also they may generate wrong outputs under the influence of PVT variations and aging effects. Therefore, in this paper, a NCL (Null Convention Logic) design as an asynchronous design method has been proposed, where the NCL method doesn't require any timing analysis, and it has a very simple design methodology. Base on the NCL method, a new low power reliable ALU has been designed and implemented using MagnaChip-SKhynix 0.18um CMOS technology. The experimental results of the proposed NCL ALU have been compared to those of a conventional pipelined ALU in terms of power consumption and speed.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.17-23
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• 2012

Ultra low-power design and energy harvesting applications require digital systems to operate under extremely low voltages approaching the point of balance between dynamic and static power consumption which is attained in the sub-threshold operation mode. Delay variations are extremely large in this mode. Therefore, in this paper, a new low-power logic design methodology using asynchronous NCL circuits is proposed to reduce power consumption and not to be affected by various technology variations in nanoscale MOSFET technology. The proposed NCL is evaluated using various benchmark circuits at 0.4V supply voltage, which are designed using 45nm MOSFET predictive technology model. The simulation results are compared to those of conventional synchrouns logic circuits in terms of power consumption and speed.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.367-376
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose self-organizing schemes for the initial configuration of the neighbor cell list (NCL), maintenance of the NCL, and physical cell identifier (PCI) allocation in heterogeneous networks such as long term evolution systems where lower transmission power nodes are additionally deployed in macrocell networks. Accurate NCL maintenance is required for efficient PCI allocation and for avoiding handover delay and redundantly increased system overhead. Proposed self-organizing schemes for the initial NCL configuration and PCI allocation are based on evolved universal terrestrial radio access network NodeB (eNB) scanning that measures reference signal to interference and noise ratio and reference symbol received power, respectively, transmitted from adjacent eNBs. On the other hand, the maintenance of the NCL is managed by adding or removing cells based on periodic user equipment measurements. We provide performance analysis of the proposed schemes under various scenarios in the respects of NCL detection probability, NCL false alarm rate, handover delay area ratio, PCI conflict ratio, etc.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.209-213
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• 2017

The delay-insensitive Null Convention Logic (NCL) asynchronous design as one of innovative asynchronous logic design methodologies has many advantages of inherent robustness, power consumption, and easy design reuses. However, transistor-level structures of conventional NCL gate cells have weakness of high area overhead and high power consumption. This paper proposes a new NCL gate based on power gating structure. The proposed $4{\times}4$ NCL multiplier based on power gating structure is compared to the conventional NCL $4{\times}4$ multiplier and MTNCL(Multi-Threshold NCL) $4{\times}4$ multiplier in terms of speed, power consumption, energy and size using PTM 45 nm technology.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.95-105
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• 1971

The apparent molal volumes ${\phi}_v$ of a series of homologous tetraalkylammonium chlorides, $Me_4NCl, Et_4NCl, Pr_4NCl,\;and\;Bu_4NCl$, in a series of isopropanol-water mixtures have been determined at $30^{\circ}C$ from precision density measurements using pycnometers. The values of ${\phi}_v$ extrapolated to infinite dilution give partial molal volumes $\={V}^{\circ}$s which are almost additive for successive homologues and enable one to determine the absolute individual ionic partial molal volumes. The experimental results are discussed in terrns of the varying size and surface charge of the ions and the structure of the binary solvent mixtures. The results indicate that at 0.1 mole fraction isopropanol the maximum structuredness of water causes a minimum in the tetraalkylammonium-cation partial molal volumes, while at 0.2 mole fraction the solvent structure is such that the free volumes is a minimum and the electrostrictive effect of chloride ion is a maximum.