• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06b
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• pp.161-164
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• 2000

The architecture of microprocessor for a embedded system should be one that can perform more tasks with fewer instruction codes. The machine codes that high-level language compiler produces are mainly composed of specific ones, and codes that have small size are more frequently used. Extended Instruction Set Architecture (EISC) was proposed for that reason. We have designed pipe-line system for 64 bit EISC microprocessor. function level simulator was made for verification of design and instruction set architecture was also verified by that simulator. The behavioral function of synthesized logic was verified by comparison with the results of cycle-based simulator.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.357-360
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• 2001

As SOC design methodology becomes popular, processors, the essential core in embedded system are required to be designed fast and supported to customers with expansive behavior description. This paper presents new methodology to meet such goals with designer configurable instruction set simulator for processors. This paper proposes new language called PML(Processor Modeling Language), which is based on microprogramming scheme and is also successful in most behavior of processors. By using this, we can describe scalar processor very efficiently with by-far faster simulation speed in compared with HDL model.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.51-58
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• 2006

Debugging embedded softwares is very different from debugging general softwares. For examples, debugging embedded software requires more information, such as information on power consumption, information on the distribution of executed instructions, information on the distribution of used registers, and information on the amount of clocks consumed during the execution of a program, that is not needed in debugging general softwares. In this paper, we propose more effective method fer debugging embedded softwares using an instruction set simulator for the microprocessor that is executing embedded softwares. In this research, we develop a debugger based on an instruction set simulator for a domestic embedded microprocessor called SE1608 and we shows an effective debugging method using a MiBench program which is widely used to benchmark embedded softwares. The debugging method proposed in this paper is relatively easy to implement and shows many advantages compared with existing debugging methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.9A
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• pp.931-939
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• 2007

This paper describes the system which automatically generates instruction-set simulators cores using the SMDL. SMDL describes structure and instruction-set information of a target DSP machine. Analyzing behavioral information of each pipeline stage of all instructions on a target ASIPS, the proposed system automatically generates a cycle-accurate instruction set simulator in C++ for a target processor. The proposed system has been tested by generating instruction-set simulators for ARM9E-S, ADSP-TS20x, and TMS320C2x architectures. Experiments were performed by checking the functions of the $4{\times}4$ matrix multiplication, 16-bit IIR filter, 32-bit multiplication, and the FFT using the generated simulators. Experimental results show the functional accuracy of the generated simulators.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06c
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• pp.55-58
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• 2000

To achieve high performance by exploiting instruction level parallelism(ILP) aggressively in superscalar processors, value prediction is used. Value prediction is a technique that breaks data dependences by predicting the outcome of an instruction and executes speculatively it's data dependent instruction based on the predicted outcome. In this paper, the performance of a hybrid value prediction scheme with dynamic classification mechanism is measured and analyzed by using execution-driven simulator for SPECint95 benchmark set.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.3
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• pp.11-23
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• 1995

In this paper, a parallel pipelined processor model which acts as a small VLIW processor architecture and a scheduling algorithm for extracting instruction-level parallelism on this architecture are proposed. The proposed model has a dual-instruction mode which has maximum 4 basic operations being executed in parallel. By combining these basic operations, variable instruction set can be designed for various applications. The scheduling algorithm schedules basic operations for parallel execution and removes pipeline hazards by examining data dependency and resource conflict relations. In order to examine operation and evaluate the performance,a C compiler and a simulator are developed. By simulating various test programs with the compiler and the simulator, the characteristics and the performance result of the proposed architecture are measured.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.462-470
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• 2011

Retargetability is typically achieved by providing target machine information, ADL, as input. The ADL are used to specify processor and memory architectures and generate software toolkit including compiler, simulator, etc. Simulator are critical components of the exploration and software design toolkit for the system designer. They can be used to perform diverse tasks such as verifying the functionality and/or timing behavior of the system, and generating quantitative measurements(e.g., power energy consumption) which can be used to aid the design process. In this paper, we generate the energy consumption estimation simulator through ADL. For this goal, firstly, we describes the energy consumption estimation and monitoring informations on the ADL based on EXPRESSION. Secondly, we generate the energy estimation and monitoring simulation library and then constructs the simulator, RenergySim. Lastly, we represent the energy estimations results for MIPS R4000 ADL description. From this subjects, we contribute to the efficient architecture developments and prompt SDK generation through programmable experiments in the field of mobile software development.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.83-90
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• 2004

In this paper, we proposed a new instruction set(X32Y ISA) with 3 different types of instruction mode. The proposed instruction set organizes 32-bit, 24-bit, 16-bit instruction in order to solves a problem of memory size limitation in an embedded microprocessor. We designed a 32-bit 5 stage pipeline RISC microprocessor based on the X32V ISA. To verify the proposed the X32V ISA and a microprocessor, we estimated a program code size of multimedia application programs using a X32V simulator. In result, we verified that the Light mode and the Ultra Light mode obtains 8%, 27% reduction of a program code size through comparison with the Default mode. The proposed microprocessor was verified all X32V instructions execution at Xilinx FPGA with 33MHz operating frequency,

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.117-120
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• 2001

This paper presents a HW/SW co-design environments and its validation for development of virtual component on the 32-bit RISC core which is used in the design of Information-Appliance-On-a-Chip. For the experimental environment, we developed the cycle-accurate instruction set simulator based on SE3208 RISC core of ADChips. To verify the function of RISC core at the cycle level, we implemented the verification environment by grafting this simulator on the Seamless CVE which is a commercial co-verification environment.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.221-228
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• 2005

In this work, our goal is to develop a fast and accurate power model of the ARM926EJ-S processor in the industrial design environment. Compared with existing work on processor power modeling which focuses on the power states of processor core, our model mostly focuses on the cache power model. It gives more than 93% accuracy and 1600 times speedup compared with post-layout gate-level power estimation. We also address two practical issues in applying the processor power model to the real design environment. One is to incorporate the power model into an existing commercial instruction set simulator. The other is the re-characterization of power model parameters to cope with different gate-level netlists of the processor obtained from different design teams and different fabrication technology.