• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.8B
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• pp.1122-1128
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed and designed a novel SNA protocol which operates in the way of a server and a client in the power control system. The proposed SNA protocol includes the information about the mode switching, the saving position of context information, the user trigger, and so forth, which are needed in the power management devices. We consider the application of the SNA protocol to the home network, where message flows between the SNA server and the SNA client. To verify the operation of the SNA protocol, the state transition diagrams of the server in the home gateway and the client in the network device are shown. Hence, we can conclude the SNA can operate without malfuction.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.24-31
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• 2007

Up to date, a lot of bus protocol and bus architecture are released though most of them are based on the shared bus architecture and inherit the limitation of performance. SNP (SoC Network Protocol), and hence, SNA (SoC Network Architecture) which are high performance on-chip-bus protocol and architecture, respectively, have been proposed to solve the problems of the conventional shared bus. We refine the SNA specification and improve the performance and functionality. The performance of the SNA is improved by supporting simultaneous routing for bus request of multiple masters. The internal routing logic is also improved so that the gate count is decreased. The proposed SNA employs XSNP (extended SNP) that supports almost perfect compatibility with AMBA AHB protocol without performance degradation. The hardware complexity of the improved SNA is not increased much by optimizing the current routing logic. The improved SNA works for IPs with the original SNP at its best performance. In addition, it can also replace the AMBA AHB or interconnect matrix of a system, and it guarantees simultaneous multiple channels. That is, the existing AMBA system can show much improved performance by replacing the AHB or the interconnect matrix with the SNA. Thanks to the small number of interconnection wires, the SNA can be used for the off-chip bus system, too. We verify the performance and function of the proposed SNA and XSNP simulation and emulation.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.8
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• pp.554-561
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• 2006

In recent years, as SoC design research is actively conducted, a large number of IPs are included in a system. Various bus protocols and bus architectures are designed to increase IP reusability. Among them, the AMBA AHB became a de facto standard although it is somewhat inadequate for a large scale SoC. We proposed SNP and SNA, high performance on-chip-bus protocol and architecture, respectively, to solve the problem of the conventional shared buses. However, it seems to be imperative that the new on-chip-bus system support AMBA-compatible IPs for a while since there are a lot of IPs with AMBA interface. In this paper, we propose an extended SNP specification and a corresponding SNA component to support ABMA-compatible IPs used in SNA - based system. We extend the phase of the SNP by 1 bit to add new 8 phases to support communication based on AMBA protocol without penalty of elongated cycle latency. The ARB-to -XSNP converter translates the protocol between AHB and SNP to attach AMBA -compatible IPs to SNA based system. We show that AMBA IPs can communicate through SNP without any degradation of performance using the extended SNP and AHB - to- XSNP converter.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.828-837
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• 1991

본 논문에서는 CCITT에서 채택된 X.2.5 network과 IBM이 채택한 System network architecture(SNA)의 synchronous data link control(SDLC)간의 protocol converter의 성능 분석을 한다. 여기서 protocol converter의 link level map-ping method를 사용하여 구현 되었다고 가정한다. 성능 분석을 통하여 각종 parameter에 대한 throughput과 mean waiting time을 구하며, 다양한 paramerter에 대하여 최적의 값을 조사한다. 특히 converter가 추정한 SDLC frame이 X.25. network packetizing과 규정한 최대 data packet size 보다 더 클 경우에 frame을 분할하게 되는데. 분할방식에 있어서 full and remainder packetzing과 equal packetizing 도입하여 서로간의 성능을 비교한다. message를 분할 할 때 조격으로 나누는 것이 frame의 오류를 줄일 수 있기 때문에 전자보다 후자가 성능면에서 우수함을 알 수 있다.