• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.503-506
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• 2015

In accordance with IoT(Internet of Things) commercialization, the need to design SoC-based hardware platform with wireless communication is increasing. This paper therefor proposes an SoC platform architecture with Smart Frame System inter-communicating between devices. Wireless communication functions and high-performance real-time image processing hardware structure was applied to existing digital photo frame. We developed a smart phone application to control the smart frame through Bluetooth communication. The SoC platform hardware consists of CIS controller, Memory controller, ISP(Image Signal Processing) module for image scaling, Bluetooth Interface for inter-communicating between devices, VGA/TFT-LCD controller for displaying video. The Smart Frame System to support the IoT services was implemented and verified using HBE-SoC-IPD test board equipped with Virtex4 XC4VLX80 FPGA. The operating frequency is 54MHz.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.30 no.9
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• pp.59-59
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• 2003

여러기능들이 복합적으로 통합되고 있는 단일칩시스템을 설계하는데 있어 소프트웨어와 하드웨어를 가능한 일찍 통합하여 검증하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. 이러한 조기 통합검증에 필요한 것이 가상프로토타입(Virtual-Prototype) 이다. 본 고에서는 IP(Intellectual Property) 와 단일칩시스템(SoC : System-on-a-Chip) 설계 및 검증에서 가상프로토타입의 필요성과 역할 그리고 이에 관련된 기술들에 대해 정리하고, 프로세싱 코어가 있는 단일칩시스템을 SystemC로 가상프로토타이핑한 사례를 통해 그 유용성을 설명한다.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.30 no.9
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• pp.965-975
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• 2003

여러기능들이 복합적으로 통합되고 있는 단일칩시스템을 설계하는데 있어 소프트웨어와 하드웨어를 가능한 일찍 통합하여 검증하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. 이러한 조기 통합검증에 필요한 것이 가상프로토타입(Virtual-Prototype) 이다. 본 고에서는 IP(Intellectual Property) 와 단일칩시스템(SoC : System-on-a-Chip) 설계 및 검증에서 가상프로토타입의 필요성과 역할 그리고 이에 관련된 기술들에 대해 정리하고, 프로세싱 코어가 있는 단일칩시스템을 SystemC로 가상프로토타이핑한 사례를 통해 그 유용성을 설명한다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.51-58
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• 2013

A clock duty-cycle corrector (DCC) which is an essential device of clocking circuits for high-speed system-on-chip (SoC) design is introduced in this paper. The architectures and operation of conventional analog feedback DCCs and digital feedback DCCs are compared and analyzed. A new mixed-mode feedback DCC that combines the advantages of analog DCCs and digital DCCs to achieve a wider duty-cycle correction range, higher operating frequency, and higher duty-cycle correction accuracy is presented. Especially, the architectures and design of a mixed-mode duty-cycle amplifier (DCA) which is a core unit circuit of a mixed-mode DCC is presented in detail. Two mixed-mode DCCs based on a single-stage DCA and a two-stage DCA were designed in a 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS process, and it is proven that the two-stage DCA-based DCC has a wider duty-cycler correction range and smaller duty-cycle correction error.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.410-415
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• 2002

This paper describes the implementation of a SoC(System-on-a-Chip) and an ISDN communication terminal by the SoC in ISDN network. The SoC has been developed with the functions of 32-bit ARM7TDMI RISC core processor, network connection with S/T interface, TDM--bus interface and voice codec, user interface. And we also review the developed software structure and the ISDN service protocol procedures which are working on the SoC. And finally this paper describers a structure of an ISDN terminal equipment using the implemented SoC and terminal software.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2009

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method. Information such as identification, logistics history, and specification of products are written and stored into the memory of RFID tags (that is, transponders), and retrieved through RF communication between RFID reader device and RFID tags. RFID systems have been applied to many fields of transportation, industry, logistics, environment, etc in order to improve business efficiency and reduce maintenance cost as well. Recently, some research results are announced in which RFID devices are combined with other sensors for mobile robot localization. In this paper, design of multi-protocol baseband for RFID reader device is proposed, and the baseband modem is implemented into SoC (System On a Chip). The baseband modem SoC for multi-protocol RFID reader is composed of several IP (Intellectual Property) blocks such as multi-protocol blocks, CPU, UART(Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter), memory, etc. As a result, the SoC implemented with FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array) is applied to real product. It is shown that the size of RFID Reader module designed with the FPGA becomes smaller, and the SoC chip price for the same function becomes cheap. In addition, operation performance could be the same or better than that of the product with no SoC applied.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.84-89
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• 2007

In order to design and test an SoC modem for high speed communication, the platform with the architecture of such high speed communication is needed. That platform is needed for testing large data in speed of 500Mbps. This paper shows that transmission data can be uploaded and downloaded by 250Mbps between a virtual modem target board and a PC through the AHB-PCI IP and the speed of based on DPRAM and PCI.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.48-55
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• 2000

Recently due to rapid improvement of integrated circuit design environment, size of IC design is to become large to possible design System on Chip(SoC) that one chip with multi function enclosed. Also cause to this rapid change, consumption market is require to spend smallest time for new product development. In this paper to propose a methodology can design a large size IC for save time and applied to design of MPEG Layer 2 decoder to can use audio receiver in digital broadcast system. The digital broadcast audio decoder in this paper is pointed to save hardware size as optimizing algorithm. MPEG Layer 2 decoder algorithm is include MAC to can have an effect on hardware size. So coefficients are using sign digit expression. It is for hardware optimization. If using this method can design MAC without multiplier. The designed audio decoder is using 14,000 gates hardware size and save 22% (4000 gates) hardware usage than using multiplier. Also can design MPEG Layer 2 decoder usable digital broadcast receiver for short time.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.343-350
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• 2016

A secure and effective on-chip bus for detecting and preventing malicious attacks by infected IPs is presented in this paper. Most system inter-connects (on-chip bus) are vulnerable to hardware Trojan (Malware) attack because all data and control signals are routed. A proposed secure bus with modifications in arbitration, address decoding, and wrapping for bus master and slaves is designed using the Advanced High-Performance and Advance Peripheral Bus (AHB and APB Bus). It is implemented with the concept that arbiter checks share of masters and manage infected masters and slaves in every transaction. The proposed hardware is designed with the Xilinx 14.7 ISE and verified using the HBE-SoC-IPD test board equipped with Virtex4 XC4VLX80 FPGA device. The design has a total gate count of 39K at an operating frequency of 313MHz using the $0.13{\mu}m$ TSMC process.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.8A
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• pp.820-829
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• 2006

IP-based design methodology has been popularly employed for SoC design to reduce design complexity and to cope with time-to-market pressure. Due to the request for high performance of current mobile systems, embedded SoC design needs a multi-processor to manage problems of high complexity and the data processing such as multimedia, DMB and image processing in real time. Interface module for communication between system buses and processors are required, since many IPs employ different protocols. High performance processors require interface module to minimize the latency of data transmission during read-write operation and to enhance the performance of a top level system. This paper proposes an automatic interface generation system based on FSM generated from the common protocol description sequence of a bus and an IP. The proposed interface does not use a buffer which stores data temporally causing the data transmission latency. Experimental results show that the area of the interface circuits generated by the proposed system is reduced by 48.5% on the average, when comparing to buffer-based interface circuits. Data transmission latency is reduced by 59.1% for single data transfer and by 13.3% for burst mode data transfer. By using the proposed system, it becomes possible to generate a high performance interface circuit automatically.