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Engineered Tunnel Barrier Ploy-TFT Memory for System on Panel

  • Yu, Hui-Uk;Lee, Yeong-Hui;Jeong, Hong-Bae;Jo, Won-Ju
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.128-128
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    • 2011
  • Polysilicon thin-film transistors (poly-Si TFTs)는 능동행렬 액정 표시 소자(AMLCD : Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display)와 DRAM과 같은 메모리 분야에 폭넓게 적용이 가능하기 때문에 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 최근 poly-Si TFTs의 우수한 특성으로 인하여 주변 driving circuits에 직접화가 가능하게 되었다. 또한 디스플레이 LCD 패널에 controller와 메모리와 같은 다 기능의 장치을 직접화 하여 비용의 절감과 소자의 소형화가 가능한 SOP (System on panels)에 연구 또한 진행 되고 있다. 이미 잘 알려진 바와 같이 비휘발성 메모리는 낮은 소비전력과 비휘발성이라는 특성 때문에 이동식 디바이스에 데이터 저장 장치로 많이 사용되고 있다. 하지만 플로팅 타입의 비휘발성 메모리는 제작공정의 문제로 인하여 SOP의 적용에 어려움을 가지고 있다. SONOS 타입의 메모리는 빠른 쓰기/지우기 효율과 긴 데이터 유지 특성을 가지고 있으나 소자의 스케일링 따른 누설전류의 증가와 10년의 데이터 보존 특성을 만족 시킬 수 가 없는 문제가 발생한다. 본 연구에서는 SOP 적용을 위하여 ELA 방법을 통하여 결정화한 poly-Si TFT memory를 SiO2/Si3N4/SiO2 Tunnel barrier와 High-k HfO2과 Al2O3을 Trapping layer와 Blocking layer로 적용, 비휘발성 메모리을 제작하여 전기적 특성을 알아보았다.

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A Review of Cognitive Aspects of Air Traffic Controllers from a Psychological Perspective (심리학으로 바라본 항공교통관제사 인지능력)

  • Kwon, Hyuk-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.34-41
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    • 2014
  • Aviation safety issues have drawn much attention from the international community due to the growing demand for air travel. Although it is a widely accepted fact that human-related factors are closely linked to aviation safety, there is lack of understanding what roles those factors play in aviation, in the field of air traffic control in particular. It has been reported that the role of air traffic controllers significantly affects air safety. This review will discuss cognitive aspects of expertise in air traffic control including time perception, working memory, reasoning, perception, attention, scanning/vigilance, decision making, and planning with examples of how each aspect can be dealt with in performing air traffic control duties. The relevant studies in psychology have also been briefly reviewed in the interest of enhancing understanding of characteristics of air traffic control tasks and the related human factors. This review concludes with a call for more in-depth research into cognitive factors in air traffic control.

Design of Main Computer Board for MSC on KOMPSAT-2

  • Heo, H.P.;Kong, J.P.;Yong, S.S.;Kim, Y.S.;Park, J.E.;Youn, H.S.;Paik, H.Y.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.1096-1098
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    • 2003
  • SBC(Single Board Computer) is being developed for MSC(Multi-Spectral Camera) on KOMPSAT-2(Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite). SBC controls all the units of MSC system and gets commands and sends telemetry to and from spacecraft bus via 1553 communication channel. Due to the fact that SBC does very important roles for MSC system operation and SBC operates with 100% duty cycle, SBC is designed to have high reliability. SBC which has Intel 80486 as a main processor includes eight serial communication channels, one mil-std-1553 interface channel and several discrete interfaces. SBC incorporates 2Mbyte radiation hardened SRAM(Static Random Access Memory) and 1Mbyte flash memory. There are also PIC(Programmable Interrupt Controller), counter, WDT(Watch Dog Timer) in the SBC. In this paper, the design result of the SBC is presented.

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Performance Evaluation of HMB-Supported DRAM-Less NVMe SSDs (HMB를 지원하는 DRAM-Less NVMe SSD의 성능 평가)

  • Kim, Kyu Sik;Kim, Tae Seok
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.8 no.7
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    • pp.159-166
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    • 2019
  • Unlike modern Solid-State Drives with DRAM, DRAM-less SSDs do not have DRAM because they are cheap and consume less power. Obviously, they have performance degradation problem due to lack of DRAM in the controller and this problem can be alleviated by utilizing host memory buffer(HMB) feature of NVMe, which allows SSDs to utilize the DRAM of host. In this paper, we show that commercial DRAM-less SSDs surely exhibit lower I/O performance than other SSDs with DRAM, but they can be improved by utilizing the HMB feature. Through various experiments and analysis, we also show that DRAM-less SSDs mainly exploit the DRAM of host as mapping table cache rather than read cache or write buffer to improve I/O performance.

Design of Electronic Control Unit for Parking Assist System (주차 보조 시스템을 위한 ECU 설계)

  • Choi, Jin-Hyuk;Lee, Seongsoo
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.1172-1175
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    • 2020
  • Automotive ECU integrates CPU core, IVN controller, memory interface, sensor interface, I/O interface, and so on. Current automotive ECUs are often developed with proprietary processor architectures. However, demends for standard processors such as ARM and RISC-V increase rapidly for saftware compatibility in autonomous vehicles and connected cars. In this paper, an automotive ECU is designed for parking assist system based on RISC-V with open instruction set architecture. It includes 32b RISC-V CPU core, IVN controllers such as CAN and LIN, memory interfaces such as ROM and SRAM, and I/O interfaces such as SPI, UART, and I2C. Fabricated in 65nm CMOS technology, its operating frequency, area, and gate count are 50MHz, 0.37㎟, and 55,310 gates, respectively.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE READOUT CONTROLLER FOR INFRARED ARRAY (적외선검출기 READOUT CONTROLLER 개발)

  • Cho, Seoung-Hyun;Jin, Ho;Nam, Uk-Won;Cha, Sang-Mok;Lee, Sung-Ho;Yuk, In-Soo;Park, Young-Sik;Pak, Soo-Jong;Han, Won-Yong;Kim, Sung-Soo
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.67-74
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    • 2006
  • We have developed a control electronics system for an infrared detector array of KASINICS (KASI Near Infrared Camera System), which is a new ground-based instrument of the Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI). Equipped with a $512{\times}512$ InSb array (ALADDIN III Quadrant, manufactured by Raytheon) sensitive from 1 to $5{\mu}m$, KASINICS will be used at J, H, Ks, and L-bands. The controller consists of DSP(Digital Signal Processor), Bias, Clock, and Video boards which are installed on a single VME-bus backplane. TMS320C6713DSP, FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array), and 384-MB SDRAM(Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) are included in the DSP board. DSP board manages entire electronics system, generates digital clock patterns and communicates with a PC using USB 2.0 interface. The clock patterns are downloaded from a PC and stored on the FPGA. UART is used for the communication with peripherals. Video board has 4 channel ADC which converts video signal into 16-bit digital numbers. Two video boards are installed on the controller for ALADDIN array. The Bias board provides 16 dc bias voltages and the Clock board has 15 clock channels. We have also coded a DSP firmware and a test version of control software in C-language. The controller is flexible enough to operate a wide range of IR array and CCD. Operational tests of the controller have been successfully finished using a test ROIC (Read-Out Integrated Circuit).

A study on the hybrid communication system to remove the communication shadow area for controller system of navigational aids (전파 음영지역 해소를 위한 항로표지관리용 하이브리드 통신 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Jeon, Joong Sung
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.409-417
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    • 2013
  • Mu-communication board supported by multi-communication is designed with Atxmega 128A1 which is a low power energy consuming of 8-bit microcontroller. ATxmega128A1 microcontroller consists of 8 UART(Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter) ports which can be setting appropriate user interface having command line interpreter(CLI) program with each port, 2 kbytes EEPROM, 128 kbytes flash memory, 8 kbytes SRAM. 8 URAT ports are used for the multi communication modem, GPS module, etc. and EEPROM is used for saving a configuration for program running, and flash memory of 128 kbytes is used for storing a Firm Ware, and 8 kbytes SRAM is used for stack, storing memory of global variables while program running. If we uses the hybrid communication of path optimization of VHF, TRS and CDMA to remote control AtoN(aid to navigation), it is able to remove the communication shadow area. Even though there is a shadow area for individual communication method, we can select an optimum communication method. The compatibility of data has been enhanced as using of same data frame per communication devices. For the test, 8640 of data has been collected from the each buoy during 30 days in every 5 minutes and the receiving rate of the data has shown more than 99.4 %.

Efficient Policy for ECC Parity Storing of NAND Flash Memory (낸드플래시 메모리의 효율적인 ECC 패리티 저장 방법)

  • Kim, Seokman;Oh, Minseok;Cho, Kyoungrok
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.477-482
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents a new method of parity storing for ECC(error correcting code) in SSD (solid-state drive) and suitable structure of the controller. In general usage of NAND flash memory, we partition a page into data and spare area. ECC parity is stored in the spare area. The method has overhead on area and timing due to access of the page memory discontinuously. This paper proposes a new parity policy storing method that reduces overhead and R(read)/W(write) timing by using whole page area continuously without partitioning. We analyzed overhead and R/W timing. As a result, the proposed parity storing has 13.6% less read access time than the conventional parity policy with 16KB page size. For 4GB video file transfer, it has about a minute less than the conventional parity policy. It will enhance the system performance because the read operation is key function in SSD.

CMAC (Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Controller)

  • Hwang, Heon;Choi, Dong-Y.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1989.10a
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    • pp.675-681
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    • 1989
  • As an adaptive control function generator, the CMAC (Cerebellar Model Arithmetic or Articulated Controller) based learning control has drawn a great attention to realize a rather robust real-time manipulator control under the various uncertainties. There remain, however, inherent problems to be solved in the CMAC application to robot motion control or perception of sensory information. To apply the CMAC to the various unmodeled or modeled systems more efficiently, It is necessary to analyze the effects of the CMAC control parameters an the trained net. Although the CMAC control parameters such as size of the quantizing block, learning gain, input offset, and ranges of input variables play a key role in the learning performance and system memory requirement, these have not been fully investigated yet. These parameters should be determined, of course, considering the shape of the desired function to be trained and learning algorithms applied. In this paper, the interrelation of these parameters with learning performance is investigated under the basic learning schemes presented by authors. Since an analytic approach only seems to be very difficult and even impossible for this purpose, various simulations have been performed with prespecified functions and their results were analyzed. A general step following design guide was set up according to the various simulation results.

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A Study on Multi-Vehicle Control of Electro Active Polymer Actuator based on Embedded System using Adaptive Fuzzy Controller (Adaptive Fuzzy 제어기를 이용한 Embedded 시스템 기반의 기능성 고분자 구동체의 이중제어에 관한 연구)

  • 김태형;김훈모
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.307-310
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    • 1997
  • In case of environment requiring safety such as human body and requiring flexible shape, a conventional mechanical actuator system does not satisfy requirement. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, a research of various smart material such as EAP (Electro Active Polymer), EAC (Electro Active Ceramic) and SMA (Shape Memory Alloy) is in progress. Recently, the highest preferring material among various smart material is EP (Electrostictive Polymer), because it has very fast response time, poerful force and large displacement. The previous researches have been studied properties of polymer and simple control, but present researches are studied a polymer actuator. An EP (Electostrictive Polymer) actuator has properties which change variably as shape and environmental condition. Therefore, in order to coincide with a user's purpose, it is important not only to decide a shape of actuator and mechanical design but also to investigate a efficient controller. In this paper, we constructed the control logic with an adaptive fuvy algorithm which depends on the physical properties of EP that has a dielectric constant depending on time.

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