• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.497-502
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• 2018

An analog to digital converter(: ADC) has been designed to extract video signals of marine X-band radar and convert to digital signals in order to produce rainfall information. X-band weather radars are suitable for high temporal-spatial resolution observations of rainfall over local ranges but they are very expensive and require professional management. The marine radars with 10-2 cost facilitate data collection and management as well as economic benefits. To validate the usefulness of the developed ADC, comparative observations were made with weather radar for short term precipitation cases. The rainfall distribution of marine radar observations are consistent with that of weather radar within a radius of 15 km. This demonstrates the usability of marine radar for rainfall observations.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.16-23
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• 2010

This paper presents 6bit 250MS/s flash A/D converter which can be applied to wireless communication system. To solve the problem of large power consumption in flash A/D converter, control algorithm by input signal level is used in comparator stage. Also, input voltage range detector circuit is used in reference resistor array to minimize the dynamic power consumption in the comparator. Compared with the conventional A/D converter, the proposed A/D converter shows 4.3% increase of power consumption in analog and a seventh power consumption in digital, which leads to a half of power consumption in total. The A/D converter is implemented in a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 1-poly 6-metal technology. The measured results show 106mW power dissipation with 1.8V supply voltage. It shows 4.1bit ENOB at sampling frequency 250MHz and 30.27MHz input frequency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.10
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• pp.45-52
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• 2008

We investigated the design of an RF-powered, wireless temperature sensor tag chip using $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The transponder generates its own power supply from small incident RF signal using Schottky diodes in voltage multiplier. Ambient temperature is measured using a new low-power temperature-to-voltage converter, and an 8-bit single-slope ADC converts the measured voltage to digital data. ASK demodulator and digital control are combined to identify unique transponder (ID) sent by base station for multi-transponder applications. The measurement of the temperature sensor tag chip showed a resolution of $0.64^{\circ}C/LSB$ in the range from $20^{\circ}C$ to $100^{\circ}C$, which is suitable for environmental temperature monitoring. The chip size is $1.1{\times}0.34mm^2$, and operates at clock frequency of 100 kHz while consuming $64{\mu}W$ power. The temperature sensor required a -11 dBm RF input power, supported a conversion rate of 12.5 k-samples/sec, and a maximum error of $0.5^{\circ}C$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.91-94
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• 2019

스케치를 거쳐 생성되는 디지털 자료로 건축도면이나 제품 디자인시안 등은 수요가 많음에도 불구하고 디지털 도면 자동생성에 대한 영상처리는 아직 연구되지 않고 있다. 현행 필기인식에 대한 영상처리 연구는 주로 글자나 숫자에 국한되어 있어 본 연구에서는 선으로 이루어진 필기를 인식하여 도면이라는 이진영상의 특징을 이용해 특징점을 도출하고 디지털 도면을 생성하는 영상처리를 제안한다. 먼저 입력받은 아날로그 스캔이미지를 메디안블러링과 OSTU임계처리로 노이즈가 없는 이진영상으로 변환한 후 해리스코너검출기를 이용하여 특징점을 검출하고 좌표를 추출하고, 좌표값을 활용해 외곽선과 내부윤곽선까지 구현하여 디지털도면을 양산한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.4B
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• pp.613-623
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• 2000

Digital TV tuner for 8-VSB modulation was developed with satisfying the requirements of ATSC. The double frequency conversion and the active tracking filter in the front-end were used to reduce interference of the adjacent channels and multi-channels, which suppress If beat and image band. However, it was impossible to get frequency mapping between tracking filter and first VCO(Voltage Controlled Oscillator) in the double conversion digital TV tuner differing from conventional NTSC tuner. This paper, therefore, suggests the available structure and a new method for automatic frequency selection by obtaining the mapping of frequency characteristic over tracking voltage and the combined hardware which compose of Micro-controller, EEPROM, D/A(Digital-to-Analog Converter), OP amp and switch driver to solve above problems.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.225-229
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• 2019

Magnetic bearings are widely used in vacuum and clean environments or in high-precision applications, because they have no mechanical friction and have stable dynamic characteristics. Despite the aforementioned advantages of magnetic bearings, their applications are generally limited due to the controller complexity. In this paper, we proposed a reduced-complexity digital controller for magnetic bearings. In addition, we analyzed and solved the problems, such as quantization errors in the analog-to-digital conversion and integral windup in a feedback controller, which are known as the main causes of performance degradation. Experiments showed that the proposed digital controller achieves a target magnetic levitation accuracy.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1073-1081
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• 2005

This paper describes a 3.3 V 10 bit CMOS digital-to-analog converter with a divided architecture of a 7 MSB and a 3 LSB, which uses an optimal Thermal-to-Binary Decoding method. Most of Dfh converters with hiか speed current drive are an architecture choosing current switch cell, column, row decoding method but this decoding circuit is complicated, occupies a large chip area. For these problems, this paper describes a D/A converter using an optimal Thermal-to-Binary Decoding method. The designed D/A converter with an active chip area of $0.953\;mm^2$ is fabricated by using a 0.35um process. The simulation data shows that the rise/fall time, settling time, and INL/DNL are 1.92/2.1 ns, 12.71 ns, and a less than ${\pm}2.3/{\pm}58$ LSB, respectively. The power dissipation of the D/A converter with a single power supply of 3.3 V is about 224 mW.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.691-698
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• 2008

This paper describes a 3.3V 10 bit CMOS digital-to-analog converter with a divided architecture of a 7 MSB and a 3 LSB, which uses an optimal Thermal-to-Binary Decoding method with monotonicity, glitch energy. The output stage utilizes here implements a return-to-zero circuit to obtain the dynamic performance. Most of D/A converters in decoding circuit is complicated, occupies a large chip area. For these problems, this paper describes a D/A converter using an optimal Thermal-to-Binary Decoding method. the designed D/A converter using the CMOS n-well $0.35{\mu}m$ process0. The experimental data shows that the rise/fall time, settling time, and INL/DNL are 1.90ns/2.0ns, 12.79ns, and a less than ${\pm}2.5/{\pm}0.7\;LSB$, respectively. The power dissipation of the D/A converter with a single power supply of 3.3V is about 250mW.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.757-763
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• 2005

A multi-channel seismic system has been developed and applied for bedrock mapping in near shore environment. The system is composed of an analog signal processor and an A/D converter installed on the computer, and a streamer with the group interval of 5 meters. The system is accomplished with a data acquisition program which controls the system and a data processing software. With the PC-based shallow marine seismic survey system high-resolution 2-D marine seismic profiles which have high S/N ratios can be obtained after appropriate data processing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.59-263
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• 2003

정보통신의 비약적인 발전에 힘입어 멀티미디어 데이터는 언제 어디서든 전송 받거나 공유할 수 있게 되었다. 아날로그 형태에서 디지털의 아날로그를 형태로 빠르게 대체되고 있으며, 디지털로 신호를 표현하는 방법은 기존 사용하여 표현하는 방법에 비해 많은 장점을 가지고 있다. 하지만 디지털로 된 데이터는 언제 어디서든 대단위 복제가 가능하다. 즉, 저작권 침해, 불법 복제 및 배포, 손쉽게 위조할 수 있다는 점이 그것이다. 디지털 컨텐츠의 불법 복제와 유통은 저작자의 창작 의욕과 수입원을 차단하는 매우 중요한 문제이며, 이를 방지하기 위해서 멀티미디어 데이터의 저작권을 가진 소유자가 원하는 정보를 삽입함으로써 데이터의 저작권 보호와 복사 방지 및 불법적인 유통을 막고자 하는 기술이 개발되고 있다. 디지털 영상 정보의 보호를 위해 디지털 영상의 불법적인 내용 조작을 막고, 영상의 소유권을 보장할 수 있는 방법으로 디지털 워터마크(Digital Watermark)가 있다. 디지털 워터마크는 공개키 알고리즘이나 방화벽 등으로 해독된 영상에 대하여 부가적인 보호를 제공한다. 디지털 영상에 대한 저작권 정보, 배포자 정보 그리고 사용자 정보를 영상에 삽입함으로써 훗날 법적인 문제가 발생하였을 때 해결책을 제시할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 영상 데이터의 정보 보호를 위해 주파수 영역에서의 웨이브릿 변환(Wavelet Transform)을 이용한 이미지 적응 디지털 워터마킹(Image-Adaptive Digital Watermarking) 방법을 제안한다. 이미지 적응 웨이브릿(Image-Adaptive Wavelet)은 영상을 주파수적으로 분해하면서 각 대역들의 공간 영역에서의 정보를 함께 지니고 JND(Just noticeable difference)을 포함한다. 이미지 적응 웨이브릿의 이러한 특성을 이용하여 다해상도 분해하고, 손실 압축(toss Compression) 이나 필터링(Filtering), 잡음(Noise) 등에 크게 영향받는 저주파 성분과 인간의 시각적으로 큰 의미를 갖는 고주파 성분의 특성을 이용하여 워터마크를 삽입한다.