• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.230-235
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• 2004

This paper describes FPGA implementation of a pointer interpreter which can support a synchronization of SDH(or SONET)-based transmission network. The pointer interpreter consists of a pointer-word extractor and a pointer-word interpreter The pointer-word extractor which is composed of mod-6480 counter, shift register and pointer synchronizing block, finds out the H1 and H2 pointer word from a 51.84 Mb/s AU-3/STS-1 data frame and then performs the synchronizing with a 6.48 Mb/s by dividing them in 8. Based on the extracted pointer word, pointer-word interpreter analyzes pointer states such LOP, AIS and NORM according to pointer state-transition algorithm. It consists of a majority vote, a pointer word valid/invalid check, a pointer justification, and a pointer state check. The simulation results of Xilinx Virtex XCV200PQ240 FPGA chip shows the exact pointer word extraction and correct decision of pointer status based on extracted pointer word. The proposed pointer interpreter is suitable for pointer interpretation of 155 Mb/s STM-1/STS-3 frame.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.938-941
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• 2010

Though a compiler checks memory errors, it is difficult for the compiler to detect function pointer errors in code level. Thus, in this paper, we propose a method for effectively detecting Invalid function pointer access errors, by analyzing assembly codes that are obtained by disassembling an executable file. To detect the errors, assembly codes in disassembled files are checked out based on the instruction transition diagrams which are constructed through analyzing normal usage patterns of function pointer access. When applying the proposed method to various programs having no compilation error, a total of about 500 potential errors including the ones of well-known open source programs such as Apache web server and PHP script interpreter are detected among 1 million lines of assembly codes corresponding to a total of about 10 thousand functions.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.18D no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2011

Memory errors can cause not only program malfunctions but also even unexpected system halt. Though a programmer checks memory errors, some memory errors with low occurrence frequency are missed to detect. In this paper, we propose a method for effectively detecting such memory errors using instruction transition diagrams through analyzing assembly codes obtained by disassembling an executable file. Out of various memory errors, local memory return errors, null pointer access errors and uninitialized pointer access errors are targeted for detection. When applying the proposed method to various programs including well-known open source programs such as Apache web server and PHP script interpreter, some potential memory errors are detected.