Special Issue on SoC and AI Processors

SOC AND AI PROCESSORS

**Special issue on SoC and AI processors**

Ji‐Hoon Kim, Minjae Lee, Jongsun Park, Ho‐Young Cha

**40‐TFLOPS artificial intelligence processor with function‐safe programmable many‐cores for ISO26262 ASIL‐D**

Jinho Han, Minseok Choi, Youngsu Kwon

**An impulse radio (IR) radar SoC for through‐the‐wall human‐detection applications**

Piljae Park, Sungdo Kim, Bontae Koo

**AB9: A neural processor for inference acceleration**

Yong Cheol Peter Cho, Jaehoon Chung, Jeongmin Yang, Chun‐Gi Lyuh, HyunMi Kim, Chan Kim, Je‐seok Ham, Minseok Choi, Kyoungseon Shin, Jinho Han, Youngsu Kwon

**Automated optimization for memory‐efficient high‐performance deep neural network accelerators**

HyunMi Kim, Chun‐Gi Lyuh, Youngsu Kwon

**Efficient hardware implementation and analysis of true random‐number generator based on beta source**

Seongmo Park, Byoung Gun Choi, Taewook Kang, Kyunghwan Park, Youngsu Kwon, Jongbum Kim

**Function‐level module sharing techniques in high‐level synthesis**

Hiroki Nishikawa, Kenta Shirane, Ryohei Nozaki, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Tomiyama

**Field programmable analog arrays for implementation of generalized nth‐order operational transconductance amplifier‐C elliptic filters**

Maha S. Diab, Soliman A. Mahmoud

**W‐Band MMIC chipset in 0.1‐μm mHEMT technology**

Jong‐Min Lee, Woo‐Jin Chang, Dong Min Kang, Byoung‐Gue Min, Hyung Sup Yoon, Sung‐Jae Chang, Hyun‐Wook Jung, Wansik Kim, Jooyong Jung, Jongpil Kim, Mihui Seo, Sosu Kim

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING

**On the performance of improved quadrature spatial modulation**

Tasnim Holoubi, Sheriff Murtala, Nishal Muchena, Manar Mohaisen

**Exploiting W. Ellison model for seawater communication at gigahertz frequencies based on world ocean atlas data**

Muhammad Tahir, Iftikhar Ali, Piao Yan, Mohsin Raza Jafri, Jiang Zexin, Di Xiaoqiang

**Adaptive algorithm for optimal real‐time pricing in cognitive radio enabled smart grid network**

Deepa Das, Deepak Kumar Rout

HIGH‐PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

*Efficient programmable power‐of‐two scaler for the three‐moduli set {2n+p, 2n − 1, 2n*+1 − 1}**

MohammadReza Taheri, Keivan Navi, Amir Sabbagh Molahosseini

**Accurate and efficient GPU ray‐casting algorithm for volume rendering of unstructured grid data**

Gibeom Gu, Duksu Kim

SECURITY

**Highly dispersive substitution box (S‐box) design using chaos**

Zaid Bin Faheem, Asim Ali, Muhamad Asif Khan, Muhammad Ehatisham Ul‐Haq, Waqar Ahmad