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2024
[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.
[Jul. 2024] Prof. Kong has given a Special Lecture on "SoC Design and Implementation" at the IC Design Education Center (IDEC).
[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.
[Jun. 2024] 11 students have joined as Undergraduate Research Interns.
[Apr. 2024] Our proposal for "Efficient VLSI Architectures for 6G and Beyond Telecommunications" has won a Research Grant from Kongju National University.
[Mar. 2024] Prof. Kong has given an Invited Talk on "VLSI Signal Processing for IDMA Multiuser Detection" at Kumoh National Institute of Technology.
[Mar. 2024] Prof. Kong has given a Special Lecture on "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification" at the IC Design Education Center (IDEC).
[Jan. 2024] Prof. Kong has served on the System LSI Design Subcommittee at the 2024 Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Gyeongju, South Korea, Jan. 2024.
[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.
2023
[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 Student Paper Contest, 2023 KIIT Fall Conference, Jeju, South Korea, Nov. 2023.
[Nov. 2023] Kyungeun Kim has won the Bronze Prize at the Undergraduate Student 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] Prof. Kong has served on the Technical Program Committee at the 2023 International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), Jeju, South Korea, Oct. 2023.
[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.
[Aug. 2023] Prof. Kong has given a Special Lecture on "Advanced SoC Design" at the Korea Institute of Human Resources Development in Science and Technology (KIRD).
[Jul. 2023] Prof. Kong has given a Special Lecture on "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification" at the IC Design Education Center (IDEC).
[Jul. 2023] Our proposal for "Laboratory Specializing in Cultivation of System Semiconductor Designers for Fabless Industry" has won a Research Grant from the National University Development Project.
[Jun. 2023] Our paper entitled "Conversion-Less Algebraic Interleaver Architecture for Low-Latency IDMA Systems" has been accepted for publication in Electronics Letters.
[Jun. 2023] 4 students have joined as Undergraduate Research Interns.
[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), Phoenix, AZ, USA, Aug. 2023.
[May 2023] Eunjin Jung, Sojeong Kim, and Dawoon Kim have won the Encouragement Prize at the 2023 Devicemart ICT Convergence Project Contest.
[Apr. 2023] Prof. Kong has been invited as an Associate Editor of the IDEC Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
[Mar. 2023] Our proposal for "Efficient VLSI Architectures for eMBB, URLLC, and mMTC" has won a Research Grant from Kongju National University.
[Mar. 2023] Prof. Kong has given a Special Lecture on "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification" at the IC Design Education Center (IDEC).
[Mar. 2023] 1 student has joined as an Undergraduate Research Intern.
[Feb. 2023] Prof. Kong has given a Special Lecture on "Basic Digital Circuit Design" at Chungnam National University.
[Feb. 2023] Prof. Kong has served on the System LSI Design Subcommittee at the 2023 Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Jeongseon, South Korea, Feb. 2023.
[Feb. 2023] Prof. Kong has given an Invited Talk on "VLSI Architectures for Metric Sorting in List Polar Decoding" at the 2023 Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Jeongseon, South Korea, Feb. 2023.
[Feb. 2023] Prof. Kong has served as a Session Chair at the 2023 Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Jeongseon, South Korea, Feb. 2023.
[Feb. 2023] Prof. Kong has given a Special Lecture on "Utilizing Verilog HDL for AI Semiconductor Design" at the ETRI SW-SoC Convergence Academy.
[Jan. 2023] Prof. Kong has given an Invited Talk on "Low-Latency Multi-Touch Detector Based on Concurrent Processing of Redesigned Overlap Split and CCA" at HiDeep.
2022
[Dec. 2022] 2 students have joined as Undergraduate Research Interns.
[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 Prize at the Undergraduate Student 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.
[Oct. 2022] Prof. Kong has given a Special Lecture on "ARM Cortex-M0-Based Source-Level SoC Design and Verification" at the IC Design Education Center (IDEC).
[Oct. 2022] Prof. Kong has served as a Session Chair at the 2022 International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), Gangneung, South Korea, Oct. 2022.
[Sep. 2022] 10 students have joined as Undergraduate Research Interns.
[Sep. 2022] Prof. Kong has given a Special Lecture on "Utilizing Verilog HDL for AI Semiconductor Design" at the ETRI SW-SoC Convergence Academy.
[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 Electronics Letters.
[Jun. 2022] 23 students have joined as Undergraduate Research Interns.
[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.
[Feb. 2022] Prof. Kong has given an Invited Talk on "Digital Circuit Design: From Transistor to VLSI" at Chungnam National University.
[Jan. 2022] Prof. Kong has served on the System LSI Design Subcommittee at the 2022 Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Jeongseon, South Korea, Jan. 2022.
[Jan. 2022] Prof. Kong has given an Invited Talk on "Algorithms and VLSI Architectures for IDMA Multiuser Detection" at the 2022 Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), Jeongseon, South Korea, Jan. 2022.
2021
[Dec. 2021] Minkyu Kim and Junghyun Cho have won the Gold Prize at the 2021 Future Creative Talent Capstone Design Contest.
[Nov. 2021] Prof. Kong has given an Invited Talk on "Digital Circuit Design: From Transistor to VLSI" at Kumoh National Institute of Technology.
[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.
[Jun. 2021] 2 students have joined as Undergraduate Research Interns.
[Apr. 2021] Prof. Kong has given an Invited Talk on "Digital Circuit Design for Multiuser Detection in 5G IDMA" at Hanyang University ERICA.
[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 won 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.
2020
[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 Highlighted Article in 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 Electronics Letters.
[Apr. 2020] Our proposal for "Efficient VLSI Architectures for Baseband Signal Processing" has won a Research Grant from Kongju National University.
[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.
2019
[Dec. 2019] Prof. Kong has given an Invited Talk on "Latest Multiuser Detector Architectures for IDMA Systems" at the 2019 ISE Conference, Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 2019.
[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] Prof. Kong has served as a Session Chair at the 2019 International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), Jeju, South Korea, Oct. 2019.
[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.