• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.8
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• pp.156-164
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• 2014

In a delay line type of a time-to-digital converter implemented in Field Programmable Gate Array, the timing accuracy decreases for a longer carry chain. In this paper, we propose a structure that has a multi-phase clock and a state machine to check metastability; this would reduce the required length of the carry chain with the same time resolution. To reduce the errors caused by the time difference in the four delay lines associated with a four-phase clock, the proposed TDC generates a single input pulse from four phase clocks and uses a single delay line. Moreover, the state machine is designed to find the phase clock that is used to generate the single input pulse and determine the metastable state without a synchronizer. With the measurement range of 1 ms, the measured resolution was 22 ps, and the non-linearity was 25 ps.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.137-143
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• 2015

A delay-line type time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is most widely owing due to its simple structure and high conversion rate. However, the delay-line type TDC suffers from nonlinearity error caused by the long delay-line because its time interval measurement range is determined by the length of the used delay line. In this study, a new TDC structure with a shorter delay line by taking a pulse train as an input is proposed for improved time accuracy and efficient use of resources. The proposed TDC utilizes a pulse-train with four transitions and a transition state detector that identifies the used transition among four transitions and prevents the meta-stable state without a synchronizer. With 72 delay cells, the measured resolution and maximum non-linearity were 20.53 ps, and 1.46 LSB, respectively, and the time interval measurement range was 5070 ps which was enhanced by approximately 343 % compared to the conventional delay-line type TDC.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 2024

To improve the performance of DRAM, it is essential to reduce sensing failures caused by mismatch in SA. Unlike flip failures, delay failures can be degraded, especially when high-speed operation is required, making it a critical consideration in the design of next-generation memory. While conventional SA operates with all transistors starting amplification simultaneously, SDSA selectively activates only two transistors that output BLB, thus alleviating offset. In this paper, we validate the superior performance of SDSA in mitigating delay failures through simulations. It was confirmed that SDSA exhibits approximately a 90 % reduction in delay failures compared to conventional SA.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.55-59
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• 2004

전파의 특성을 측정하기 위해서 사용되는 디지털 주파수 측정기는 안테나를 통해서 수신기에 입력된 고주파 신호의 주파수를 측정하는 장치로써, 전파 정보 수집 장비의 중요한 구성품 중 하나이다. 이 분야는 고주파 기술이 발달된 미국이나 유럽에서 대부분의 장비를 개발해 왔으나 금번에 설계 제작된 주파수 측정기는 온도보상 등을 고려하여 정밀하게 설계제작 함으로써 수신 감도 -70㏈m에서 펄스폭이 l00㎱ 이상인 펄스 신호와 지속파(CW)신호의 주파수를 정확하게 측정하였다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.1074-1080
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• 2020

This paper proposes a digitally controlled buck converter insensitive to process, voltage and temperature and capable of three modes of operation depending on the state of the output voltage. Conventional digital-controlled buck converters utilized A/D converters, counters and delay line circuits for accurate output voltage control, resulting in increasing the number of counter and delay line bits. This problem can be resolved by employing the 8-bit and 16-bit bidirectional shift registers, and this design technique leads a buck converter to be able to control duty ratio up to 128-bit resolution. The proposed buck converter was designed and fabricated with a CMOS 180 nano-meter 1-poly 6-metal process, generating an output voltage of 0.9 to 1.8V with the input voltage range of 2.7V to 3.6V, a ripple voltage of 30mV, and a power efficiency of up to 92.3%. The transient response speed of the proposed circuit was measured to be 4us.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.608-611
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• 2008

정보화 사회가 진행되어감에 따라 카메라 센서, 디지털 카메라, 휴대폰, 영상 관련디지털 기기들이 증가하고 이로 인하여 영상정보 서비스 기술의 중요성이 크게 부각되었다. 특히 멀티미디어 응용서비스 기술에서는 영상 정보가 필수적인데, 그 영상 정보의 양이 너무 방대하여 압축 부호화를 하여 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 정지영상압축 방법 중 JPEG표준에서 제시한 4가지 동작 모드 중 베이스라인을 기반으로 하는 JPEG 알고리즘을 연구하여 Motion JPEG에서 동작 가능한 디코더를 C언어를 통해 시뮬레이션하고 최적화된 결과를 VHDL로 구현하였다. Motion JPEG의 무선전송 환경에 적용 가능한 불규칙한 스트리밍 방식의 입력데이터의 처리가 가능한 파이프라인 구조로 설계하였다. 설계결과 Xilinx XC3S1000 FG676-4 환경에서 66.130MHz의 동작속도를 나타내었고 최초 223클록의 딜레이 이후 매 클록마다 화소데이터를 얻을 수 있었다 Motion JPEG 디코더를 설계하는데 사용된 게이트는 총 54,143개이다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.232-235
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• 2010

A 60GHz active phase shifter with 65nm CMOS is presented by replacing passive switches in switched-line type phase shifter with active ones. Active-switch phase shifter is composed of active-switch blocks and passive delay network blocks. The active-switch phase shifter design is compact compare with the conventional vector-sum phase shifter. Active-switch blocks are designed to accomplish required input and output impedances whose requirements are different whether the switch is on or off. And passive delay network blocks are composed of lumped L,C instead of normal microstrip line to reduce the size of the circuit. An 1-bit phase shifter is fabricated by TSMC 65nm CMOS technology and measurement results present -4dB average insertion loss and 120 degree phase shift at 65GHz.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.892-894
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• 2002

본 논문은 유한 체 GF(/2 sup m/)상에서 A$B^2$연산을 위해 AOP(All One Polynomial)에 기반한 새로운 MSB(Most Significant bit) 유선 알고리즘을 제시하고, 제시한 알고리즘에 기반하여 병렬 입출력 세미시스톨릭 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 구조는 표준기저(standard basis)에 기반하고 모듈라(modoular) 연산을 위해 다항식의 계수가 모두 1인 m차의 기약다항식 AOP를 사용한다. 제안된 구조에서 AND와 XOR게이트의 딜레이(deray)를 각각 /D sub AND$_2$/와/D sub XOR$_2$/라 하면 각 셀 당 임계경로는 /D sub AND$_2$+D sub XOR/이고 지연시간은 m+1이다. 제안된 구조는 기존의 구조보다 임계경로와 지연시간 면에서 보다 효율적이다. 또한 구조 자체가 정규성, 모듈성, 병렬성을 가지기 때문에 VLSI 구현에 효율적이다. 더욱이 제안된 구조는 유한 체상에서 지수 연산을 필요로 하는 Diffie-Hellman 키 교환 방식, 디지털 서명 알고리즘 및 EIGamal 암호화 방식과 같은 알고리즘을 위한 기본 구조로 사용할 수 있다. 이러한 알고리즘을 응용해서 타원 곡선(elliptic curve)에 기초한 암호화 시스템(Cryptosystem)의 구현에 사용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.87-90
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• 2000

This paper describes a register-controlled symmetrical delay-locked-loop (DLL) using hybrid delay line for use in a high frequency double-data-rate DRAM. The proposed DLL uses a hybrid delay line which can cover two-step delays(coarse/fine delay) by one delay element. The DLL dissipate less power than a conventional dual-loop DLL which use a coarse and a fine delay element and control separately. Additionally, this DLL not only achieves small phase resolution compared to the conventional digital DLL's when it is locked but it also has a great simple delay line compared to a complex dual-loop DLL.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.373-377
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• 2016

This paper presents a low power boost converter using offset controlled Zero Current Sensor (ZCS) control for thermoelectric energy harvesting.[1] [5] Offset controlled ZCS uses adjustable pre-offset that is controled by 6bit code each connected gate of NMOS for switching. Offset controlled ZCS demonstrates an efficiency that is higher than using analog comparator ZCS and that is smaller area than using delay line ZCS. Experimentally, the offset controlled ZCS system consumes 10 times less power than analog comparator ZCS based system at similar performance.