• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.75-80
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• 2008

There are many researches to reduce power consumption of battery-operated Transceiver for 2.4 GHz smartRF applications. However, components such as processor, memory and LCD based power managements reach the limit of reducing power consumption. To overcome the limit, this research proposes novel low-power Transceiver and transceiver Hardware Design. Experimental results in the real smartRF Transceiver show that the proposed methods can reduce power consumption additionally than component based power managements.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.442-450
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• 2015

This paper proposes a method for reducing false conflicts in signature-based eager hardware transactional memory (HTM). The method tracks the information on all cache blocks that are accessed by a transaction. If the information provides evidence that there are no conflicts for a given transactional request from another core, the method prevents the occurrence of a false conflict by forcing the HTM to ignore the decision based on the signature. The method is very effective in reducing false conflicts and the associated unnecessary transaction stalls and aborts, and can be used to improve the performance of the multicore processor that implements the signature-based eager HTM. When running the STAMP benchmark on a 16-core processor that implements the LogTM-SE, the increased speed (decrease in execution time) achieved with the use of the method is 20.6% on average.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.11A
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• pp.1167-1175
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• 2006

The ML-DFE(Maximum Likelihood-Decision Feedback Equalization) can be viewed as either a suboptimal signal detection method for reducing hardware complexity of ML or an enhanced detection method for reducing the effect of error propagation of SIC(Successive Interference Cancellation) in spatially multiplexed MIMO systems such as V-BLAST. The ML-DFE can achieve a higher diversity in rich scattering environments as well as reducing the error propagation effect by combing ML decoding with the DFE. In this paper, an MML-DFE(Modified Maximum Likelihood-Decision Feedback Equalization) is proposed to reduce the hardware complexity of the ML-DFE, without compromising performance. It is shown by FPGA implementation that the proposed MML-DFE can achieve the same performance as the ML-DFE with significantly reduced hardware complexity.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 2008

To reduce time-to-market, more and more embedded system developers and system-on-chip designers rely on microprocessor-based design methodology. ARM processor has been a major player in this industry over the last 10 years. However, there are many restrictions on developing embedded software using ARM processor in the early design stage. For those who are not familiar with embedded software development environment or who cannot afford to have an expensive embedded hardware equipment, testing their software on a real ARM hardware platform is a challenging job. To overcome such a problem, we have designed VMA (Virtual ARM Machine), which offers easier testing and debugging environment to ARM based embedded system developers. Major benefits that can be achieved by utilizing a virtual ARM platform are (1) reducing development cost, (2) lowering the entrance barrier for embedded system novices, and (3) making it easier to test and debug embedded software designs. Unlike many other purely software-oriented ARM simulators which are independent of real hardware platforms, VMA is specifically targeted on SYS-Lab 5000 ARM hardware platform, (designed by Libertron, Inc.), which means that VMA imitates behaviors of embedded software as if the software is running on the target embedded hardware as closely as possible. This paper will describe how VMA is designed and how VMA can be used to reduce design time and cost.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.8
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• pp.610-618
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• 2003

Recently, many deterministic built-in self-test schemes to reduce test time have been researched. These schemes can achieve a good quality test by shortening the whole test process, but require complex algorithms or much hardware. In this paper, a new deterministic BIST scheme is provided that reduces the additional hardware requirements, as well as keeping test time to a minimum. The proposed BIST (Built-In Self-Test) methodology brings about the reduction of the hardware requirements for pseudo-random tests as well. Theoretical study demonstrates the possibility of reducing the hardware requirements for both pseudo-random and deterministic tests, with some explanations and examples. Experimental results show that in the proposed test scheme the hardware requirements for the pseudo-random test and deterministic test are less than in previous research.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.26-32
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• 2024

Recently, various video resolution formats have emerged, and digital devices have built in dedicated scaler chips to support them by enlarging or reducing the resolution of input videos. Therefore, the performance and hardware size of scaler chips are important. In this paper, the combinatorial interpolation scaler algorithm proposed by Han is used to design the hardware using the line memory structure with dual-clock proposed by Han and Jung. The proposed hardware is capable of real-time processing in QHD environments, designed using Verilog, and validated using Xilinx's Vivado 2023.1. We also verify the performance of Han's proposed algorithm with a quantitative numerical evaluation of the proposed hardware.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.813-818
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• 2021

This paper proposes an optimized hardware implementation method for existing CIE1931 color gamut control algorithm. Among the post-processing methods of dehazing algorithms, existing algorithm with relatively low computations have the disadvantage of consuming many hardware resources by calculating large bits using Split multiplier in the computation process. The proposed algorithm achieves computational reduction and hardware miniaturization by reducing the predefined two matrix multiplication operations of the existing algorithm to one. And by optimizing the Split multiplier computation, it is implemented more efficient hardware to mount. The hardware was designed in the Verilog HDL language, and the results of logical synthesis using the Xilinx Vivado program were compared to verify real-time processing performance in 4K environments. Furthermore, this paper verifies the performance of the proposed hardware with mounting results on two FPGAs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1502-1506
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• 2016

HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) is a recently proposed video compression standard that has a two times greater coding efficiency than previous video compression standards. The key factors of high compression performance and increasement of computational complexity are the various types of block partitions and modes of intra prediction in HEVC. This paper presents an intra prediction hardware architecture for HEVC utilizing pipelining and interleaving techniques to increase the efficiency and performance while reducing the requirement for hardware resources.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.10
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• pp.168-176
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• 1996

This paper presetns a 2-D DCT architecture adopting accurac y compensator for reducing the hardware complexity and increasing processing speed in VL\ulcornerSI implementation. In the application fields such as moving pictures experts group (MPEG) and joint photographic experts group (JPEG), 2-D DCT processor must be implemented precisely enough to meet the accuracy specifications of the ITU-T H.261. Almost all of 2-D DCT processors have been implemented using many multiplications and accumulations of matrices and vectors. The number of multiplications and accumulations seriously influence on comlexity and speed of 20D DCT processor. In 2-D DCT with fixed-point calculations, the computation bit width must be sufficiently large for the above accuracy specifications. It makes the reduction of hardware complexity hard. This paper proposes the accuracy compensator which compensates the accuracy of the finite word length calculation. 2-D DCT processor with the proposed accuracy compensator shows fairly reduced hardware complexity and improved processing speed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1040-1048
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• 1987

We propose a hardware architecture called Multiring which is applicable for various geometrical operations on rectilinear objects such as design rule checking in VLSI layout and many image processing operations including noise suppression and coutour extraction. It has both a fast execution speed and extremely high flexibility. The whole architecture is mainly divided into four parts` I/O between host and Multiring, ring memory, linear processor array and instruction decoder. Data transmission between host and Multiring is bit serial thereby reducing the bandwidth requirement for teh channel and the number of external pins, while each row data in the bit map stored in ring memory is processed in the corresponding processor in full parallelism. Each processor is simultaneously configured by the instruction decoder/controller to perform one of the 16 basic instructions such as Boolean (AND, OR, NOT, and Copy), geometrical(Expand and Shrink), and I/O operations each ring cycle, which gives Multiring maximal flexibility in terms of design rule change or the instruction set enhancement. Correct functional behavior of Multiring was confirmed by successfully running a software simulator having one-to-one structural correspondence to the Multiring hardware.