• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.182-185
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• 2019

This paper analyzes performances of modules in implementing a programmable multi-format video decoder. The goal of the proposed platform is the high-end Full High Definition (FHD) video decoder. The proposed multi-format video decoder consists of a reconfigurable processor, dedicated bit-stream co-processor, memory controller, cache for motion compensation, and flexible hardware accelerators. The experiments suggest performance baseline of modules for the proposed architecture operating at 300 MHz clock with capability of decoding HEVC bit-streams of FHD 30 frames per second.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.718-720
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• 2000

Turbo Code is one of the most useful and powerful channel coding technique. It is adopted in radio transmission of IMT-2000, both CDMA2000 and W-CDMA system. The performance of this code depends on many parameters such as encoder memory size, free distance of codewords, interleaver size, number of decoding iteration, and so on. This paper describes a Multi-Stage Interleaver which is used in Turbo Codes for W-CDMA channel coding. We compare the performance of a Multi-Stage Interleaver with that of Mother Interleaver. The simulation results show that Multi-Stage Interleaver performs better than Mother Interleaver in bit error rate from $10^{-3}$ to $10^{-6}$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.148-148
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• 2009

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.120-131
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• 2016

In this paper, a 512b MTP memory IP is designed by using MTP memory cells which are written by the FN (Fowler-Nordheim) tunneling method with only MV (medium voltage) devices of 5V which uses the back-gate bias, that is VNN (negative voltage). The used MTP cell consists of a CG (control gate) capacitor, a TG (tunnel gate) transistor, and a select transistor. To reduce the size of the MTP memory cell, just two PWs (P-wells) are used: one for the TG and the select transistors; and the other for the CG capacitor. In addition, just one DNW (deep N-well) is used for the entire 512b memory cell array. VPP and VNN generators supplying pumping voltages of ${\pm}8V$ which are insensitive to PVT variations since VPP and VNN level detectors are designed by a regulated voltage, V1V (=1V), provided by a BGR voltage generator.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.11
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• pp.18-26
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• 2011

This paper describes a multi-mode LDPC decoder which supports three block lengths(648, 1296, 1944) and four code rates(1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6) of IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN standard. To minimize hardware complexity, it adopts a block-serial (partially parallel) architecture based on the layered decoding scheme. A novel memory reduction technique devised using the min-sum decoding algorithm reduces the size of check-node memory by 47% as compared to conventional method. From fixed-point modeling and Matlab simulations for various bit-widths, decoding performance and optimal hardware parameters such as fixed-point bit-width are analyzed. The designed LDPC decoder is verified by FPGA implementation, and synthesized with a 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS cell library. It has 219,100 gates and 45,036 bits RAM, and the estimated throughput is about 164~212 Mbps at 50 MHz@2.5v.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.572-580
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• 2007

Wireless sensor networks are sensing, computing and communication infrastructures that allow us to monitor, instrument, observe, and respond to phenomena in the harsh environment. Generally, the wireless sensor networks are composed of many deployed sensor nodes that were designed to be very cost-efficient in terms of production cost. For example, UC Berkeley's MICA motes have only 8-bit CPU, 4KB RAM, and 128KB FLASH memory space. Therefore, sensor operating systems that run on the sensor nodes should be able to operate efficiently in terms of the resource management. In this paper, we present a dynamic threads stack management scheme for space-constrained and multi-threaded sensor operating systems. In this scheme, the necessary stack space of each function is measured on compile-time. Then, the information is used to dynamically allocate and release each function's stack space on run-time. It was implemented in Nano-Qplus sensor operating system. Our experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the existing fixed-size stack allocation mechanism.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.895-900
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• 2020

In this paper, BSPE replaced the existing multiplication algorithm that consumes a lot of power. Hardware resources are reduced by using a bit-serial multiplier, and variable integer data is used to reduce memory usage. In addition, MOA resource usage and power usage were reduced by applying LOA (Lower-part OR Approximation) to MOA (Multi Operand Adder) used to add partial sums. Therefore, compared to the existing MBS (Multiplication by Barrel Shifter), hardware resource reduction of 44% and power consumption of 42% were reduced. Also, we propose a hardware architecture design for BSPE Core.

• MALSORI
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• no.65
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• pp.143-152
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• 2008

This paper focuses on the real time implementation of an adaptive multi-rate (AMR) speech codec, that is a standard speech codec of IMT-2000, using the TMS320VC5510. The series of TMS320VC55x is a 16-bit fixed-point digital signal processor (DSP) having low power consumption for the use of mobile communications by Texas Instruments (TI) corporation. After we analyze the AMR algorithm and source code as well as the structure and I/O of 7MS320VC55x, we carry out optimizing the programs for real time implementation. The implemented AMR speech codec uses 55.2 kbyte for the program memory and 98.3 kbyte for the data memory, and it requires 709,878 clocks, i.e. about 3.5 ms, for processing a frame of 20 ms speech signal.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.328-331
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• 2011

Here, we describe a dual spin valve structure with distinct switching fields for two pinned layers. A device with this structure has a staircase of three distinct magnetoresistive states. The multiple resistance states are achieved by controlling the exchange coupling between two ferromagnetic pinned layers and two adjacent anti-ferromagnetic pinning layers. The maximum magnetoresistance ratio is 7.9% for the current-perpendicular-to-plane and 7.2% for the current-in-plane geometries, with intermediate magnetoresistance ratios of 3.9% and 3.3%, respectively. The requirements for using this exchange-biased stack as a three-state memory device are also discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.617-620
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 single bank와 multi bank FIFO를 지원하는 CMOS FIFO memory compiler를 개발 검증하였다. 이 컴파일러를 사용해서 설계자는 구현하고자 하는 어플리케이션에 적합한 high speed, high density, low power를 갖는 on-chip memory를 빠른 시간에 만들어 낼 수 있으므로 설계 시간을 절약할 수 있다. 이와 더불어 설계된 FIFO 의 시뮬레이션을 지원하기위한 Verilog 시뮬레이션 모델을 제공하였다. 현재 FIFO를 구성하는 단위 셀들은 0.6um 3-metal 공정을 이용하여 설계하였으며 공정의 변화에 따라 대상 공정에 맞도록 단지 몇 개의 단위 셀만을 재 설계하고 그에 대한 정보를 갱신해줌으로써 공정의 변화에 대처 할 수 있도록 하였다. 설계된 컴파일러를 이용해 생성된 FIFO 는 표준 셀 라이브러리를 이용한 합성 가능한 FIFO에 대하여 $16bit{\times}16word$ FIFO에서 면적면에서 93%, 속도면에서 70%의 향상을 보였다.