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Gyu-Cheol HWANG In-Cheol PARK Yun-Tae LEE Tae-Hyung LEE Jong-Hong BAE Chong-Min KYUNG
Translation of the scalable outline font data as represented by a set of control points of the cubic Bezier curve, etc. into the bitmap data for desk-top publishing (DTP) applications requires a significant amount of computation. In this paper, we propose a special purpose chip called KAFOG for the high-speed generation of bitmap font from the Hangul PostScript file for screen display as well as LBP (Laser Beam Printer) output. KAFOG chip was implemented in 1.5 µm CMOS gate array using 17 K gates. The computation throughput of the KAFOG chip is 250 K cubic Bezier curve segments (each curve segment is composed of four control points) per second at the clock frequency of 40 MHz.