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Analysis on the Temperature of Multi-core Processors according to Placement of Functional Units and L2 Cache (코어 내부 구성요소와 L2 캐쉬의 배치 관계에 따른 멀티코어 프로세서의 온도 분석)

  • Son, Dong-Oh;Kim, Jong-Myon;Kim, Cheol-Hong
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2014
  • As cores in multi-core processors are integrated in a single chip, power density increased considerably, resulting in high temperature. For this reason, many research groups have focused on the techniques to solve thermal problems. In general, the approaches using mechanical cooling system or DTM(Dynamic Thermal Management) have been used to reduce the temperature in the microprocessors. However, existing approaches cannot solve thermal problems due to high cost and performance degradation. However, floorplan scheme does not require extra cooling cost and performance degradation. In this paper, we propose the diverse floorplan schemes in order to alleviate the thermal problem caused by the hottest unit in multi-core processors. Simulation results show that the peak temperature can be reduced efficiently when the hottest unit is located near to L2 cache. Compared to baseline floorplan, the peak temperature of core-central and core-edge are decreased by $8.04^{\circ}C$, $8.05^{\circ}C$ on average, respectively.

A Study on the Establishment of Quality Control Standards for Accuracy Improvement of DSRC Traffic Information System (DSRC 교통정보 정확도 개선을 위한 품질관리 기준수립 연구)

  • Hwang, Taehyun;Won, Insu;Kwon, Jangwoo
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.44-57
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    • 2020
  • A dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) traffic information system is a detection system for a section of road using communication between roadside equipment and on-board High-Pass units to collect road traffic information and provide reliable traffic information to drivers. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport announced that a DSRC system must be supported to pass the performance evaluation of an intelligent transportation system (ITS), and the performance evaluation for DSRC systems installed in expressways and national highways is started. Currently, DSRC traffic information systems are only managed for maintenance and functional-monitoring purposes, which means that detailed criteria for the operation of a DSRC traffic information system, such as communication range, the direction of the antenna, and the power of the radio wave, etc., need to be established. In this paper, the criteria of the performance evaluation of a DSRC traffic information system are presented for different road types and road environments. The proposed performance evaluation criteria included the communication range and communication power of roadside equipment. In addition, installation criteria, such as the direction of the antenna, and the height and angle of the installed system, are presented for different road types and road environments. The criteria presented were evaluated for DSRC roadside equipment and documented to improve system maintenance and quality control of the communication system.

Control Unit Design and Implementation for SIMD Programmable Unified Shader (SIMD 프로그래머블 통합 셰이더를 위한 제어 유닛 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Kyeong-Seob;Lee, Yun-Sub;Yu, Byung-Cheol;Jung, Jin-Ha;Choi, Sang-Bang
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.48 no.7
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    • pp.37-47
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    • 2011
  • Real picture like high quality computer graphic is widely used in various fields and shader processor, a key part of a graphic processor, has been advanced to programmable unified shader. However, The existing graphic processors have been optimized to commercial algorithms, so development of an algorithm which is not based on it requires an independent shader processor. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a control unit to support high quality 3 dimensional computer graphic image on programmable integrated shader processor. We have done evaluation through functional level simulation of designed control unit. Hardware resource usage rate are measured by implementing directly on FPGA Virtex-4 and execution speed are verified by applying ASIC library. the result of an evaluation shows that the control unit has the commands more about 1.5 times compared to the other shader processors that is a behavior similar to the control unit and with a number of processing units used in a shader processor, compared with the other processors, overall performance of the control unit is improved about 3.1 GFLOPS.

Design of a Low Power Reconfigurable DSP with Fine-Grained Clock Gating (정교한 클럭 게이팅을 이용한 저전력 재구성 가능한 DSP 설계)

  • Jung, Chan-Min;Lee, Young-Geun;Chung, Ki-Seok
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.82-92
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    • 2008
  • Recently, many digital signal processing(DSP) applications such as H.264, CDMA and MP3 are predominant tasks for modern high-performance portable devices. These applications are generally computation-intensive, and therefore, require quite complicated accelerator units to improve performance. Designing such specialized, yet fixed DSP accelerators takes lots of effort. Therefore, DSPs with multiple accelerators often have a very poor time-to-market and an unacceptable area overhead. To avoid such long time-to-market and high-area overhead, dynamically reconfigurable DSP architectures have attracted a lot of attention lately. Dynamically reconfigurable DSPs typically employ a multi-functional DSP accelerator which executes similar, yet different multiple kinds of computations for DSP applications. With this type of dynamically reconfigurable DSP accelerators, the time to market reduces significantly. However, integrating multiple functionalities into a single IP often results in excessive control and area overhead. Therefore, delay and power consumption often turn out to be quite excessive. In this thesis, to reduce power consumption of dynamically reconfigurable IPs, we propose a novel fine-grained clock gating scheme, and to reduce size of dynamically reconfigurable IPs, we propose a compact multiplier-less multiplication unit where shifters and adders carry out constant multiplications.

A Comparison of Household Workspace Between Traditional Waga and Choga in Jeju - Focused on the Housing Authorized as Historical Preservation Units - (제주도 전통 와가(瓦家)와 초가(草家)의 가사노동공간에 관한 비교 연구 - 민속자료로 지정된 가옥을 중심으로 -)

  • 이정림;김봉애
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.25-37
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to give basic information in comparison of workspace of traditional housing between traditional Waga and Choga in Jeju. The subjects of this study are six Waga (roofing tee system), authorized as Jeju Folklore Materials and five Choga (roofing thatch system), authorized as National Major Folklore Materials. The results of this study were as follows. 1. Household workspaces in Waga were separated by three places: Jungji, Chatbang, and Gopang. In Choga, it was separated by two places, Jungji and Gopang. 2 As a number of Jungji, Waga had one, which meant that two or more generations shared the kitchen facilities. Choga, it had one or two Jungji, which meant that each generation used different kitchen facilities. 3. functional space of division Waga was specific. So, meal preparation was done in Jungji, and dining was done in Chatpang. However, in Choga, both meal preparation and dining were done in Jungji. 4. The sequence of space, in the JungjiGeriBulDong style, which Jungji was located in the detached building, showed that the circulation directs: Gopang->Sangbang->Chatbang->Madang->Jungji. AnGeriJungji style, which Jungji was located in the main building, showed that the circulation directs: Gopang->Sangbang(->Chatbang)->Jungji. 5. In the size ratio of household workspace to whole size of the house, Waga occupied 30%, and Choga occupied 21%.

Effects of By-Products of Herbal Medicine on Performance, Intestinal Microbial Population, Blood Biochemical Profiles and Immunological Parameters in Broiler Chicks (한방생약부산물 급여가 육계의 생산성, 장관 미생물 균총, 혈액 생화학적 성상 및 면역학적 지표에 미치는 영향)

  • Jang, In-Surk
    • Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.307-314
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    • 2015
  • The study was carried out to investigate the effects of by-products of herbal medicines on performance, enteric microflora and blood biochemical profiles and immunological parameters in broiler chicks. A total of ninety-six, 3-d-old birds were assigned to a basal diet (CON) or a basal diet supplemented with 0.15 % (HM1), 0.3% (HM2) or 0.5% (HM3) by-products of herbal medicines. There was a significantly (p<0.05) improved feed conversion ratio (FCR) in birds fed diet supplemented with 0.15% by-products of herbal medicines (HM1) compared with the control birds during starter period (3~21 days). However, no difference in body weight, feed intake, total gain and FCR among treatment groups was observed during the entire feeding period (3~35 days). The colony forming units (CFU) of E. coli and Lactobacilli in the digesta of ileo-cecum was not also affected by dietary treatment. Serum AST (aspartate aminotransferase) and glucose decreased (p<0.05) in birds fed diets supplemented with herbal medicines compared with those fed the basal diet. In particular, the birds fed diets supplemented with herbal medicines showed a significant (p<0.05) increase in blood mean corpuscular volume (MCV) level compared with the control birds. However, the most of blood biochemical and hematological parameters and immunoglobulins (IgG and IgA) were not affected by the dietary treatment. In conclusion, the low level of dietary herbal medicines showed beneficial effects on FCR during starter period and liver functions, suggesting that by-products of herbal medicines may be applicable as functional feed additives in birds.

Performance Analysis of Optimal Neural Network structural BPN based on character value of Hidden node (은닉노드의 특징 값을 기반으로 한 최적신경망 구조의 BPN성능분석)

  • 강경아;이기준;정채영
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.30-36
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    • 2000
  • The hidden node plays a role of the functional units that classifies the features of input pattern in the given question. Therefore, a neural network that consists of the number of a suitable optimum hidden node has be on the rise as a factor that has an important effect upon a result. However there is a problem that decides the number of hidden nodes based on back-propagation learning algorithm. If the number of hidden nodes is designated very small perfect learning is not done because the input pattern given cannot be classified enough. On the other hand, if designated a lot, overfitting occurs due to the unnecessary execution of operation and extravagance of memory point. So, the recognition rate is been law and the generality is fallen. Therefore, this paper suggests a method that decides the number of neural network node with feature information consisted of the parameter of learning algorithm. It excludes a node in the Pruning target, that has a maximum value among the feature value obtained and compares the average of the rest of hidden node feature value with the feature value of each hidden node, and then would like to improve the learning speed of neural network deciding the optimum structure of the multi-layer neural network as pruning the hidden node that has the feature value smaller than the average.

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Effects of Inoculation of Bacillus subtilis Cells on the Fermentation of Korean Traditional Soy Paste(Doenjang) (메주 제조 시 Bacillus subtilis의 첨가가 재래식 된장의 발효에 미치는 영향)

  • Rhee, Chang-Ho;Kim, Won-Chan;Rhee, In-Koo;Park, Heui-Dong
    • Food Science and Preservation
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.598-605
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    • 2008
  • Korean traditional soy paste(Doenjang) was fermented for 90 days using, as a starter, a Meju prepared by inoculation of Bacillus subtilis cells. Changes in physiochemical and functional properties were investigated during fermentation. Amylase and protease activities increased and showed maximal levels(4.11 and 7.75 units/mL, respectively) after 60 days of fermentation. Both enzyme activities then fell. Inhibitory activities of the soy paste against tyrosinase and angiotensin converting enzyme(ACE) increased during the fermentation period. Antimutagenic activities during fermentation were determined using the S. enterica serovar Typhimurium TA100 and TA98 analysis system. No significant differences in activity were observed in soy pastes prepared with or without B. subtilis. Antimutagenic activities against the activities of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine(MNNG) and 4-nitro-O-phenylenediamine (NPD) increased and reached 70.33% and 60.22%, respectively, after 90 days of fermentation, as assessed using the tester strain TA100. Against the actions of NPD and 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide(NQO), antimutagenic activities also increased during fermentation and reached 50.84% and 47.01%, respectively, as assessed using the tester strain TA98. The genistin content was much higher(187.48 g/g) in soy paste prepared using B. subtilis inoculation than the level(31.30 g/g) seen in soy paste prepared without bacterial inoculation, although the contents of daidzein and genistein were slightly reduced under such circumstances.

Cloning, Expression, and Characterization of a Novel GH-16 β-Agarase from Agarivorans sp. JA-1 (Agarivorans sp. JA-1 유래 신규 GH-16 β-agarase의 클로닝, 발현 및 특성)

  • Jeon, Myong Je;Kim, A-Ram;Lee, Dong-Geun;Lee, Sang-Hyeon
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.1545-1551
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    • 2012
  • Authors report the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 16 ${\beta}$-agarase from the strain of Agarivorans sp. JA-1, which authors previously stated as recombinant expression and characterization of GH-50 and GH-118 ${\beta}$-agarase. It comprised an open reading frame of 1,362 base pairs, which encodes a protein of 49,830 daltons consisting of 453 amino acid residues. Valuation of the total sequence showed that the enzyme has 98% nucleotide and 99% amino acid sequence similarities to those of GH-16 ${\beta}$-agarase from Pseudoalteromonas sp. CY24. The gene corresponding to a mature protein of 429 amino acids was recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli, and the enzyme was purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography. It showed maximal activity at $40^{\circ}C$ and pH 5.0, representing 67.6 units/mg. Thin layer chromatography revealed that mainly neoagarohexaose and neoagarotetraose were produced from agarose. The enzyme would be valuable for the industrial production of functional neoagarooligosaccharides.

EFFECTS OF DENTAL THERAPEUTIC AGENTS ON THE RESPONSE OF THE PULP NERVE (치과치료용 약물이 치수신경의 반응에 미치는 영향)

  • Kwon, Oh-Yang;Yoon, Soo-Han;Lee, Jong-Heun
    • Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 1990
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of dental therapeutic agent on conduction velocity and threshold current of intradental A- and C-fibers in the cat. Inferior alveolar nerve of cat anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital was exposed and dissected until response of functional single pulp nerve until could be evoked by monopolar electrical stimulation of the crown of the lower left canine teeth. 10ms rectangular pulse was used to determine the threshold current and 1ms rectangular pulse was used to determine conduction velocity. After application of calcium chloride (1, 2, 6M), calcium hydroxide mixed with saline, potassium chloride (0.2, 0.8, 1.6M), eugenol, zinc oxide eugenol to the cavity on the labial surface, conduction velocity and threshold current of single pulp nerve unit were compared with the control. In 10 cats, 24 $A{\delta}$- and 11 C- pulp nerve units were recorded. The mean conduction velocities of $A{\delta}$- and C-fibers were 7.5m/sec (SD=5.8) and 1.2m/sec (SD=0.4), respectively. The mean threshold current was $12.3{\mu}A$ (SD=5.3) for $A{\delta}$-fibers and $24.9{\mu}A$ (SD=8.1) for C-fibers. 1, 2, 6M calcium chloride caused decrease of conduction velocity and remarkable increase of threshold current in $A{\delta}$- and C-fibers. The effect of calcium hydroxide mixed with saline was similar but smaller than calcium chloride solution. 0.2M potassium chloride had insignificant effect. In 0.8M potassium chloride, the threshold current was increased although conduction velocity was not affected. In 1.6M potassium chloride, the threshold current was increased and the conduction velocity was slowed down. Spontaneous activity was recorded frequently for first 5 min but gradually reduced both in $A{\delta}$- and C-fibers. Eugenol had irreversible effect on pulp nerve in that initially there were not certain changes in the conduction velocity and threshold current of $A{\delta}$- and C-fibers, but the responses to electrical stimulation were abruptly disappeared after sustained application and were not recovered. Contrary to eugenol, zinc oxide eugenol did not caused significant increase of the threhold current and caused time dependent decrease of the conduction velocity, and did not show any irreversible change.

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