• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.8
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• pp.80-88
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• 2007

High adaptability and scalability are two critical issues in implementing a very complex system in a single chip. To obtain high adaptability and scalability, novel system design methodology known as communication-based system design has gained large attention from SoC designers. NoC (Network-on-Chip) is such an on-chip communication-based design approach for the next generation SoC design. To provide high adaptability and scalability, NoCs employ network interfaces and routers as their main communication structures and transmit and receive packetized data over such structures. However, data packetization, and routing overhead in terms of run time and area may cost too much compared with conventional SoC communication structure. Therefore, in this research, we propose a novel methodology which automatically generates a hybrid communication structure. In this work, we map traditional pin-to-pin wiring structure for frequent and timing critical communication, and map flexible and scalable structure for infrequent, or highly variable communication patterns. Even though, we simplify the communication structure significantly through our algorithm the connectivity or the scalability of the communication modules are almost maintained as the original NoC design. Using this method, we could improve the timing performance by 49.19%, and the area taken by the communication structure has been reduced by 24.03%.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.1015-1020
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• 2023

A multi-layer design is applied to mitigate single event effect (SEE) in a 28 nm System-on-Chip (SoC). It depends on asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP), redundancy and system watchdog. Irradiation tests utilized 70 and 90 MeV proton beams to examine its performance through comparative analysis. Via examining SEEs in on-chip memory (OCM), compared with the trial without applying the multi-layer design, the test results demonstrate that the adopted multi-layer design can effectively mitigate SEEs in the SoC.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1089-1095
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• 2005

This paper presents a new low-cost Built-In Self-Test (BIST) circuit for 50Hz low noise amplifier (LNA). The BIST circuit is designed for system-on-chip (SoC) transceiver environment. The proposed BIST circuit measures the LNA specifications such as input impedance, voltage gaih, noise figure, and input return loss all in a single SoC environment.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.56-61
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• 2000

Silicon semiconductor technology agrees that the number of transistors on a chip will keep growing exponentially, and it is pushing technology toward the System-On-Chip. In SoC Design, Specification at system level is key of success. Executable Specification reduces verification time. This Paper describes the design of IMDCT for MPEG Audio Decoder employing system-level design methodology and Executable Specification Methodology in the VHDL simulator with FLI environment.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.449-450
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• 2008

In this paper, we present the design of a system on a chip(SoC) based on Powerline Communication for Power-IT. The SoC deals with power information obtained from analog to digital converter and transmits this data via powerline. We integrate main processor, ADC and PLC function into a chip. Also a FPGA-based emulation system is introduced to evaluate a proposed SoC architecture.

• IT SoC Magazine
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• s.16
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• pp.10-11
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• 2006

정보통신부가 주최하고 정보통신연구진흥원, IT-SoC협회, 한국전자통신연구원이 주관하는 ‘IT-SoC Fair 2006’이 지난 11월 1일~2일 양일간 COEX 인도양홀에서 개최되었다. 이 행사는 Fabless 반도체업체들이 중심이 되는 SoC(System on Chip)/IP(Silicon Intellectual Property)전문 전시회로 IT 핵심부품산업을 진흥하고자 하는 취지로 매년 개최되는 행사이다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.440-445
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• 2004

The design and implementation of a Network Processor using System-on-a-chip(SoC) technology is presented. The proposed network processor can handle several protocols as well as various types of traffics simultaneously. The proposed SoC consists of ARM processor core, ATM block, AAL processing block, Ethernet block and a scheduler. The scheduler guarantees QoS of the voice traffic and supports multiple AAL2 packet. The SoC is manufactured on the 0.35 micron fabrication line of HYNIX semiconductor, the total number of gates is about 312,000, for a maximum operating frequency of over to 50㎒.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.465-474
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• 2005

For high density SoC design, on-chip communication based on bus interconnection encounters bandwidth limitation while an NoC(Network-on-Chip) approach suffers from unacceptable complexity in its Implementation. This paper introduces a new on-chip communication protocol, SNP (SoC Network Protocol) to overcome these problems. In SNP, conventional on-chip bus signals are categorized into three groups, control, address, and data and only one set of wires is used to transmit all three groups of signals, resulting in the dramatic decrease of the number of wires. SNP efficiently supports master-master communication as well as master-slave communication with symmetric channels. A sequencing rule of signal groups is defined as a part of SNP specification and a phase-restoration feature is proposed to avoid redundant signals transmitted repeatedly over back-to-back transactions. Simulation results show that SNP provides about the same bandwidth with only $54\%$ of wires when compared with AMBA AHB.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.365-369
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• 2002

In this paper, DC motor controller has been designed by using SoC. SoC is short for System on a chip. This is a methodology that both a processor and some applications are integrated in a chip. In order to design this system based on SoC, PIC 16C57 has been selected as a processor because it has not too many instruction sets and simple data path named a harvard structure. And motor control module has been programmed by using VHDL. The advantages of the design based on SoC are as follows: simple structure, high speed working, easily verifying and simulating the system.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.284-292
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• 2008

The density of Memory has been increased by great challenge for memory technology; therefore, elements of memory become more smaller than before and the sensitivity to faults increases. As a result of these changes, memory testing becomes more complex. In addition, as the number of storage elements per chip increases, the test cost becomes more remarkable as the cost per transistor drops. Recent development in system-on-chip(SoC) technology makes it possible to incorporate large embedded memories into a chip. However, it also complicates the test process, since usually the embedded memories cannot be controlled from the external environment. We present a ARM processor-programmable built-in self-test(BIST) scheme suitable for embedded memory testing in the SoC environment. The proposed BIST circuit can be programmed vis an on-chip microprocessor.