[Aug. 2025] Our paper entitled "Low-Latency PAPR Reduction Architecture for Discrete Multitone Based on Approximate Midrange" has been accepted for presentation at the 2025 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2025.
[Jul. 2025] Prof. Kong has received the 2025 Outstanding Lecturer Award from the IC Design Education Center (IDEC).
[Jun. 2025] Jeongin Yoon and Hyang Ju have won the Grand Prize at the Semiconductor-Specialized University Capstone Design Contest, 2025 KIEEME Summer Conference, Busan, South Korea, Jun. 2025.
[Jun. 2025] Chanhyeok Song, Jiyoon Choi, and Sihyeon Eom have won the Excellence Award at the Semiconductor-Specialized University Capstone Design Contest, 2025 KIEEME Summer Conference, Busan, South Korea, Jun. 2025.
[May 2025] Jeongin Yoon and Hyang Ju have won the Bronze Prize at the 2025 SeMI Capstone Design Contest.
[May 2025] Chanhyeok Song, Jiyoon Choi, and Sihyeon Eom have won the Bronze Prize at the 2025 SeMI Capstone Design Contest.
[May 2025] Minsu Jeong and Min Ju Bae have won the Encouragement Award at the 2025 SeMI Capstone Design Contest.
[May 2025] Minkyu Kim and Changhyeon Lee have won the Encouragement Award at the 2025 SeMI Capstone Design Contest.
[Feb. 2025] Jeong Yun Han, Hyeong Gyu Han, and Hyeon Jong Kim have won the Excellence Award at the 2024 Capstone Design Result Evaluation.
[Feb. 2025] Hyeon Jong Kim and Dong Jun Ji have won the Excellence Award at the 2024 Capstone Design Result Evaluation.
[Jan. 2025] Our paper entitled "Generalized Shifting-Based PAPR Reduction Architecture for Discrete Multitone Systems" has been accepted for presentation at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), London, UK, May 2025.
[Jan. 2025] Our paper entitled "Fault-Tolerant Algebraic Interleaver Architecture for IDMA Systems in Harsh Environments" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science.
[Dec. 2024] Jeong Yun Han, Hyeong Gyu Han, and Hyeon Jong Kim have won the Top Prize at the 2024 DSC Platform University Autonomous Vehicle Contest.
[Nov. 2024] Hyeon Jong Kim and Dong Jun Ji have won the Bronze Prize at the Undergraduate Paper Contest, 2024 KIIT Fall Conference, Jeju, South Korea, Nov. 2024.
[Nov. 2024] Hyeong Gyu Han, Hyeon Jong Kim, and Jeong Yun Han have won the Bronze Prize at the Undergraduate Paper Contest, 2024 KIIT Fall Conference, Jeju, South Korea, Nov. 2024.
[Nov. 2024] Hyeon Jong Kim and Dong Jun Ji have won the KIAT President Award at the 2024 Creative Capstone Design Contest Finals.
[Nov. 2024] Our paper entitled "FPGA Implementation of a Pattern Guessing Game for Complexity Comparison of SoC and ASIC Architectures" has received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2024 KIPEE Conference, Cheonan, South Korea, Nov. 2024.
[Nov. 2024] Our paper entitled "Scalable VLSI Architectures for Pattern Matching in Serial Data Stream" has been accepted for presentation at the 2025 International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC), Osaka, Japan, Jan. 2025.
[Nov. 2024] Hyeon Jong Kim and Dong Jun Ji have won the Gold Prize at the 2024 Creative Capstone Design Contest Preliminaries.
[Oct. 2024] Hyeon Jong Kim and Dong Jun Ji have won the Grand Prize at the 2024 e-Brain Contest.
[Oct. 2024] Yejun Cho and Taeho Ji have won the Encouragement Award at the 2024 e-Brain Contest.
[Jul. 2024] Our paper entitled "Low-Latency PAPR Reduction Architecture for Discrete Multitone Based on Approximate Midrange" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems.
[Jun. 2024] Our paper entitled "A Design Framework for Cost-Efficient Sorters with Arbitrary Input/Output Constraints" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers.
[Jan. 2024] Our paper entitled "Constrained Sorter Design Using Zero-One Principle" has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Singapore, May 2024.
[Dec. 2023] Eunjin Jung, Dawoon Kim, and Sojeong Kim have won the Silver Prize at the 2023 DSC Platform University Mobility Idea Design Hackathon.
[Nov. 2023] Eunjin Jung and Dawoon Kim have won the Bronze Prize at the Undergraduate Paper Contest, 2023 KIIT Fall Conference, Jeju, South Korea, Nov. 2023.
[Nov. 2023] Kyungeun Kim has won the Bronze Prize at the Undergraduate Paper Contest, 2023 KIIT Fall Conference, Jeju, South Korea, Nov. 2023.
[Nov. 2023] Seung Woo Han, Eunhae Lee, and Hun Hwan Choi have won the Bronze Prize at the 2023 IEIE IT Creative Challenge.
[Nov. 2023] Our paper entitled "Statistical Analysis of Bitwise Early Termination for Iterative Multiuser Detection in IDMA Systems" has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC), Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 2024.
[Oct. 2023] Eunjin Jung and Dawoon Kim have won the Silver Prize at the 2023 e-Brain Festival.
[Sep. 2023] Prof. Kong has been promoted to an Associate Professor.
[Jun. 2023] Our paper entitled "Conversion-Less Algebraic Interleaver Architecture for Low-Latency IDMA Systems" has been accepted for publication in the Electronics Letters.
[Jun. 2023] Our paper entitled "A 97-mW Bitwise-Early-Terminating Multiuser Detector for IDMA Systems" has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Tempe, AZ, USA, Aug. 2023.
[May 2023] Eunjin Jung, Sojeong Kim, and Dawoon Kim have won the Encouragement Award at the 2023 Device Mart ICT Convergence Project Contest.
[Apr. 2023] Prof. Kong has been invited as an Associate Editor of the IDEC Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
[Dec. 2022] Our paper entitled "Low-Latency SCL Polar Decoder Architecture Using Overlapped Pruning Operations" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers.
[Nov. 2022] Sojeong Kim, Dawoon Kim, and Eunjin Jung have won the Silver Prize at the 2022 IEIE IT Creative Challenge.
[Nov. 2022] Hun Hwan Choi, Seung Woo Han, and Chae Hyun Kang have won the Encouragement Award at the Undergraduate Paper Contest, 2022 IEIE Fall Conference, Gwangju, South Korea, Nov. 2022.
[Oct. 2022] Our paper entitled "An Automated Synthesis Framework for Fast Evaluation of Maximum Operating Frequency" has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC), Singapore, Feb. 2023.
[Sep. 2022] Our paper entitled "Fixed-Latency Architecture for Multi-Stage Algebraic Interleavers in Interleave Division Multiple Access Systems" has been accepted for publication in the Electronics Letters.
[May 2022] Our proposal for "Energy-Efficient Self-Interference-Cancelling Multiuser Detector Enabling In-Band Full-Duplex UAV Surveillance" has won a Research Grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education.
[Apr. 2022] Our paper entitled "A 97-mW Bitwise-Early-Terminating Multiuser Detector for IDMA Systems" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Express Briefs.
[Apr. 2022] Our paper entitled "A 1.1μs 1.56Gb/s/mm² Cost-Efficient Large-List SCL Polar Decoder Using Fully-Reusable LLR Buffers in 28nm CMOS Technology" has been accepted for presentation at the 2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI), Honolulu, HI, USA, Jun. 2022.
[Dec. 2021] Minkyu Kim and Junghyun Cho have won the Gold Prize at the 2021 Future Creative Talent Capstone Design Contest.
[Nov. 2021] Minkyu Kim and Junghyun Cho have won the Silver Prize at the 2021 e-Brain Festival.
[Oct. 2021] Our paper entitled "On the Hardware Complexity of Tree Expansion in MIMO Detection" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Semiconductor Engineering.
[Sep. 2021] Our paper entitled "Area- and Energy-Efficient LDPC Decoder Using Mixed-Resolution Check-Node Processing" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Express Briefs.
[Jun. 2021] Our paper entitled "Bitwise Early Termination of Multiuser Detection for IDMA Systems" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Letters.
[Mar. 2021] Our paper entitled "Real-Time SSDLite Object Detection on FPGA" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems.
[Jan. 2021] Prof. Kong has received the 2020 Electronics Outstanding Reviewer Award.
[Jan. 2021] Our paper entitled "Low-Latency Polar Decoder Using Overlapped SCL Processing" has been accepted for presentation at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toronto, ON, Canada, Jun. 2021.
[Dec. 2020] Seongeun Hwang and Daedo Choe have won the Bronze Prize at the 2020 Future Creative Talent Capstone Design Contest.
[Dec. 2020] Our paper entitled "Low-Complexity Address Generation for Multiuser Detectors in IDMA Systems" has been accepted for publication in Electronics.
[Nov. 2020] Chanwoo Sung and Geajin Ahn have won the Silver Prize at the 2020 e-Brain Festival.
[Sep. 2020] Our proposal for "Fault-Tolerant Programmable Low-Power Multiuser Detector for Hyperconnected-UAVs-Based Surveillance" has won a Research Grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
[Jul. 2020] Our paper entitled "Multi-Touch Detector Architecture Based on Efficient Buffering of Intensities and Labels" has been selected as a Featured Article in the Electronics Letters.
[Apr. 2020] Our paper entitled "Multi-Touch Detector Architecture Based on Efficient Buffering of Intensities and Labels" has been accepted for publication in the Electronics Letters.
[Jan. 2020] Our paper entitled "Area-Efficient Error Detection Structure for Linear Feedback Shift Registers" has been accepted for publication in Electronics.
[Jan. 2020] Our paper entitled "Improved Parallel-IDMA Architecture with Low-Complexity Elementary Signal Estimators" has been accepted for presentation at the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seville, Spain, Oct. 2020.
[Jan. 2020] Our paper entitled "Ultra-Low-Latency LDPC Decoding Architecture Using Reweighted Offset Min-Sum Algorithm" has been accepted for presentation at the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seville, Spain, Oct. 2020.
[Jan. 2020] Our paper entitled "A 120-mW 0.16-ms-Latency Connectivity-Scalable Multiuser Detector for Interleave Division Multiple Access" has been accepted for presentation at the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seville, Spain, Oct. 2020.
[Jan. 2020] Our paper entitled "A Low-Latency Multi-Touch Detector Based on Concurrent Processing of Redesigned Overlap Split and Connected Component Analysis" has been accepted for presentation at the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seville, Spain, Oct. 2020.
[Nov. 2019] Seongjong Tak and Kihyeon Kwon have won the Bronze Prize at the 2019 e-Brain Festival.
[Oct. 2019] Our paper entitled "Retrain-Less Weight Quantization for Multiplier-Less Convolutional Neural Networks" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers.
[Oct. 2019] Our paper entitled "A Low-Latency Multi-Touch Detector Based on Concurrent Processing of Redesigned Overlap Split and Connected Component Analysis" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers.
[Sep. 2019] DiCALab has been founded in the Division of Electrical, Electronic, and Control Engineering, Kongju National University, Cheonan, South Korea.