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Provided is a direct memory access (DMA) controller. The DMA controller includes a plurality of channel groups and a channel group controller. Each of the channel groups has a plurality of DMA channels, and the channel group controller controls enablement of the DMA channels in units of channel groups. Herein, the channel group controller enables the DMA channels of at least one of the channel groups in data transmission.
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Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing an image. In the apparatus and method for recognizing an image, various features can be extracted by a Haar-like filter using 1st to nth order gradients of the x- and y-axis of an input image, and the input image is correctly classified as a true or false image using, in stages, the extracted features of the input image, multiple threshold values for a true image and multiple threshold values for a false image. Accordingly, the apparatus and method achieve a high recognition rate by performing a small amount of computation. Consequently, it is possible to rapidly and correctly recognize an image, enabling real-time image recognition.
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Provided is an apparatus for calculating an absolute difference capable of efficiently performing an absolute difference using an adder. The apparatus for calculating an absolute difference includes a comparator comparing values of two integers, first and second selectors each selecting and outputting one of the two integers according to the comparison results of the comparator, an inverter complementing the result value selected by the second selector; and an adder adding up the result value selected by the first selector, the value complemented by the inverter, and 1.
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Provided is a parallel processor for supporting a floating-point operation. The parallel processor has a flexible structure for easy development of a parallel algorithm involving multimedia computing, requires low hardware cost, and consumes low power. To support floating-point operations, the parallel processor uses floating-point accumulators and a flag for floating-point multiplication. Using the parallel processor, it is possible to process a geometric transformation operation in a 3-dimensional (3D) graphics process at low cost. Also, the cost of a bus width for instructions can be minimized by a partitioned Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD) method and a method of conditionally executing instructions.
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Provided are a dual structure FinFET and a method of fabricating the same. The FinFET includes: a lower device including a lower silicon layer formed on a substrate and a gate electrode vertically formed on the substrate; an upper device including an upper silicon layer formed on the lower device and the vertically formed gate electrode; and a first solid source material layer, a solid source material interlayer insulating layer, and a second solid source material layer sequentially formed between the lower silicon layer and the upper silicon layer. Therefore, the FinFET can be provided which enhances the density of integration of a circuit, suppresses thin film damages due to ion implantation using solid phase material layers, and has a stabilized characteristic by a simple and low-cost process. Also, mobility of an upper device can be improved to enhance current drivability of the upper device, isolation can be implemented through a buried oxide layer to reduce an effect due to a field oxide layer, and raised source and drain can be implemented to reduce serial resistance components of the source and drain to increase current drivability.
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Provided are high voltage metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (HVMOSFET) having a Si/SiGe heterojunction structure and method of manufacturing the same. In this method, a substrate on which a Si layer, a relaxed SiGe epitaxial layer, a SiGe epitaxial layer, and a Si epitaxial layer are stacked or a substrate on which a Si layer having a well region, a SiGe epitaxial layer, and a Si epitaxial layer are stacked is formed. For the device having the heterojunction structure, the number of conduction carriers through a potential well and the mobility of the carriers increase to reduce an on resistance, thus increasing saturation current. Also, an intensity of vertical electric field decreases so that a breakdown voltage can be maintained at a very high level. Further, a reduction in vertical electric field due to the heterojunction structure leads to a gain in transconductance (Gm), with the results that a hot electron effect is inhibited and the reliability of the device is enhanced.
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Provided is a parallel data path architecture for high energy efficiency. In this architecture, a plurality of parallel process units and a plurality of function units of the process units are controlled by instructions and processed in parallel to improve performance. Also, since only necessary process units and function units are enabled, power dissipation is reduced to enhance energy efficiency. Further, by use of a simple instruction format, hardware can be programmed as the parallel data path architecture for high energy efficiency, which satisfies both excellent performance and low power dissipation, thus elevating hardware flexibility.
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A high-reliability, multi-threshold complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) latch circuit is presented that uses both low and high threshold inverters. The multi-threshold latch circuit includes: a low threshold forward clock inverter inverting an input-terminal logic state and applying the inverted logic state to an output-terminal logic state when a clock is in a first logic state; and a high threshold backward clock inverter forming a circular latch structure together with the forward clock inverter, and inverting an input-terminal logic state and applying the inverted logic state to an output logic state when the clock is in a second logic state.
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Provided are a multi-gate MOS transistor and a method of manufacturing the same. Two silicon fins are vertically stacked on a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate, and four side surfaces of an upper silicon fin and three side surfaces of a lower silicon fin are used as a channel. Therefore, a channel width is increased, so that current driving capability of a device is improved, and high performance nano-level semiconductor IC and highly integrated memory IC can be manufactured through the optimization and stability of a process.
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Provided is a multiple-gate metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor and a method for manufacturing the same, in which a channel is implemented in a streamline shape, an expansion region is implemented in a gradually increased form, and source and drain regions is implemented in an elevated structure by using a difference of a thermal oxidation rate depending on a crystal orientation of silicon and a geographical shape of the single-crystal silicon pattern. As the channel is formed in a streamline shape, it is possible to prevent the degradation of reliability due to concentration of an electric field and current driving capability by the gate voltage is improved because the upper portion and both sides of the channel are surrounded by the gate electrodes. In addition, a current crowding effect is prevented due to the expansion region increased in size and source and drain series resistance is reduced by elevated source and drain structures, thereby increasing the current driving capability.