• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.52 no.10
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• pp.425-430
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• 2003

A CMOS Voltage-Controlled Oscillator(VCO) for application at temperature stable system is designed. The VCO consists of bandgap voltage reference circuit, comparator, and voltage-to-current converter and the VCO has a temperature stable characteristics. The difference between simulated and calculated values is less than about 5% in output characteristics when the input voltage range is from 1V to 3.25V. The CMOS VCO has error less than about $\pm$0.85% in the temperature range from $-25^{\circ}C$ to $75^{\circ}C$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.785-788
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• 2007

The newly proposed badgap reference voltage generator is insensible to PVT(process, voltage, temperature) variation and has a lower minimum supply voltage, which is required for stable operation. The simulation result is that the bandgap reference voltage generator starts operation at 1.0V of supply voltage. The layout of the bandgap reference voltage generator is designed using Magnachip $0.18{\mu}m$ DDI process, and the size is $409.36{\mu}m$ ${\times}$ $435.46{\mu}m$.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.251-256
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• 2004

A stable reference voltage generator is necessary to the infrared image signal readout circuit(ROIC) to improve noise characteristics in comparison with signals originated from infrared devices, that is, to gain good images. In this study, bandgap reference circuit operating at cryogenic temperature of 77K for Infrared image ROIC(readout integrated circuit) was propose. Most of bandgap reference circuits which are presented so far operate at room temperature, and they are not suitable for infrared image ROIC operating at liquid nitrogen temperature, 77K. To design bandgap reference circuit operating at cryogenic temperature, the parameter characteristics of used devices as temperature change are seen, and then bandgap reference circuit is proposed with considering such characteristics. It demonstrates practical use possibility through taking measurements and estimations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.1552-1557
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• 2007

In this work, temperature stable pulse width modulation controller using bandgap reference voltage is proposed. Two bandgap reference voltages are designed by using BiCMOS technology which are temperature dependent and independent voltage references. PWM controller is designed by using 3.3 volt supply voltage and the output frequency is 1MHz. From simulation results, the variation of output pulse width is less than form +0.86% to -0.38% in the temperature range $0^{\circ}C\;to\;70^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.1544-1551
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• 2007

A start-up circuit of the bandgap reference voltage generator of cascode current mirror type with wide operating voltage range and enhanced power-up characteristics is proposed in the paper. It is confirmed by simulation that the newly proposed start-up circuit does not affect the operation of the bandgap reference voltage generatory even though the supply voltage(VDDA) is higher and has more stable power-up characteristic than the conventional start-up circuit. Test chips are designed and fabricated with $0.18{\mu}m$ tripple well CMOS process and their test has been completed. The mean value of measured the reference voltage(Vref) is 738mV and The three sigma value($3{\sigma}$) is 29.88mV.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.137-142
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• 2008

The band-gap reference voltage generator which can be operated by low voltage is proposed in this paper. The proposed BGR circuit can be realized in logic process by using parasitic NPN BJTs because a $Low-V_T$ transistors are not necessary. The proposed BGR circuit is designed and fabricated using $0.18{\mu}m$ triple-well process. The mean voltage of measured VREF is 0.72V and the three sigma$(3{\sigma})$ is 45.69mv.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.12
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• pp.59-65
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• 2004

A stable reference voltage generator is necessary to the infrared image signal readout circuit(ROIC) to improve noise characteristics of signal originated from infrared devices, that is, to gain good images. In this paper, bandgap circuit operating at cryogenic temperature of 77K for Infrared image ROIC(readout integrated circuit) was first made. It demonstrates practical use possibility through taking measurements and estimations. Bandgap circuit is a representative voltage reference circuit. Most of bandgap reference circuits which are presented so far operate at room temperature, and their characteristic are not suitable for infrared image ROIC operating at liquid nitrogen temperature, 77K. To design bandgap circuit operating at cryogenic temperature, suitable circuit is selected and the parameter characteristics of used devices as temperature change are seen by a theoretical study and fitted at liquid temperature with considering such characteristics. This circuit has been fabricated in the Hynix 0.6um standard CMOS process, and the output voltage measured shows that the stability is 1.042±0.0015V over the temperature range of 60K to 110K and is better than bandgap circuits operated at room temperature.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1020-1021
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 상용전압 AC 220V를 인가전압으로 사용하여 PMIC(Power Management IC)의 구동에 적합한 전압을 인가해주는 Pre-Regulator를 설계하였다. 설계된 Pre-Regulator는 상용전압을 사용하기 때문에 Device의 내압이 700V인 Magnachip $0.35{\mu}m$ BCD 공정을 이용하여 설계되었으며, 회로의 구성은 저전압 입력 보호 기능 및 JFET의 구동 제어를 위한 Under Voltage Lock Out(UVLO)회로, 전압조정기(Regulator)의 기준전압을 생성해주는 밴드갭 기준전압 발생(Bandgap Reference)회로, LDO(Low Drop Out)회로로 구성되어있다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.105-108
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• 2003

In this work, a Voltage-to-Frequency Converter(VFC) in which the output frequency is proportional to the input voltage is proposed. To obtain the temperature stable characteristics of the VFC circuit is designed by BiCMOS technology. The output frequency range is 24KHz to 65KHz and the difference between simulated and calculated values is less than about 5% for this range of output frequency. The temperature variation of sample output frequencies is less than $\pm$0.5% in the temperature range $-25^{\circ}C$ to 75$^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.9-9
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• 2001

반도체 소자가 소형화 되면서 소자의 신뢰성을 유지하고 전력 소모를 줄이기 위해 기가-비트 DRAM의 동작 전압은 1.5V 이하로 줄어들 것으로 기대된다. 따라서 기가-비트 DRAM을 구현하기 위해 저전압 회로 설계 기술이 요구된다. 이 연구에서는 지금까지 발표된 저전압 DRAM 회로 설계 기술에 대한 조사결과를 기술하였고, 기가-비트 DRAM을 위해 4가지 종류의 저전압 회로 설계 기술을 새로이 제안하였다. 이 4가지 저전압 회로 설계 기술은 subthreshold 누설 전류를 줄이는 계층적 negative-voltage word-line 구동기, two-phase VBB(Back-Bias Voltage) 발생기, two-phase VPP(Boosted Voltage) 발생기와 밴드갭 기준전압 발생기에 대한 것인데, 이에 대한 테스트 칩의 측정 결과와 SPICE 시뮬레이션 결과를 제시하였다.