• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.8-8
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 새로운 interpolation-2 방식의 비교기 구조를 제안하여 칩 면적과 전력 소모를 줄이며 오류정정 회로를 내장하는 6-비트 70㎒ ADC를 설계하였다. Interpolation 비교기를 적용하지 않은 flash ADC의 경우 2n개의 저항과 2n -1개의 비교기가 사용되며 이는 저항의 수와 비교기의 수에 비례하여 많은 전력과 큰 면적을 필요로 하고 있다. 또한, interpolation-4 비교기를 적용한 flash ADC는 면적은 작으나 단조도, SNR, INL, DNL 특성이 떨어진다는 단점이 있었다. 본 논문에서 설계한 interpolation-2 방식의 ADC는 저항, 비교기, 앰프, 래치, 오류정정 회로, 온도계코드 디텍터와 인코더로 구성되며, 32개의 저항과 31개의 비교기를 사용하였다. 제안된 회로는 0.18㎛ CMOS 공정으로 제작되어 3.3V에서 40mW의 전력소모로 interpolation 비교기를 적용하지 않은 flash ADC에 비해 50% 개선되었으며, 칩 면적도 20% 감소되었다. 또한 노이즈에 강한 오류정정 회로가 사용되어 interpolation-4 비교기를 적용한 flash ADC 에 비해 SNR이 75% 개선된 결과를 얻었다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.417-422
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• 2021

In this paper, a ZQ calibration using a time domain comparator is proposed. The proposed comparator is designed based on VCO, and an additional clock generator is used to reduce power consumption. By using the proposed comparator, the reference voltage and the PAD voltage were compared with a low 1 LSB voltage, so that the additional offset cancelation process could be omitted. The proposed time domain comparator-based ZQ calibration circuit was designed with a 65nm CMOS process with 1.05V and 0.5V supply voltages. The proposed clock generator reduces power consumption by 37% compared to a single time domain comparator, and the proposed ZQ calibration increases the mask margin by up to 67.4%.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.278-281
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• 2014

This paper presents the performance comparison of three types of full-wave rectifiers for vibration energy harvesting. The first rectifier is consisted of two active diodes and two MOSFETs, and the comparators of the active diodes are powered from the output of the rectifier. The second one is a 2-stage full-wave rectifier. It comprises the basic rectifier consisted of four MOSFETs and an active diode. The comparator is also powered from the output of the rectifier. The third one is an input powered rectifier. It has the same structure as the second rectifier, but the comparator is powered from the input of the rectifier. These rectifiers have been designed using a 0.35um CMOS process and their performances have been compared through simulations. In terms of efficiency, the first rectifier shows the best performance at heavy loads, but the second one is suitable at light loads. When the power consumption during absence of vibration is more important than efficiency, the input-powered rectifier is proper.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.83-92
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• 2004

In this thesis, a modified interpolation-2 6-bit 70MHz ADC is proposed minimizing chip area and power consumption, which includes an error correction circuit. The conventional flash ADC without interpolation comparators suffers from large chip area and more power consumption due to 2n resistors and 2n-1 comparators. Although the flash ADC with interpolation-4 comparators has small area, SNR, INL and DNL are degraded by comparison with the interpolation -2 comparator. We fabricated the proposed 6-bit ADC with interpolation-2 comparators using 0.18${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS process. The ADC is composed of 32-resistors, 31 comparators, amplifiers, latches, error correction circuit, thermometer code detector and encoder As the results, power consumption is reduced to 40mW at 3.3V which is saving about 50% than a flash ADC without interpolation comparators, and area is reduced by 20%. SNR is increased by 75% in comparison with that of a flash ADC with interpolation-4 comparators.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2009

In this paper proposed a new method which adaptively eliminates comparator offsets using the threshold voltage shift by the Fowler-Nordheim stress. The method evaluates the sign of comparator offset and gives the FN stress to the stronger MOSFETs of the comparator, leading to offset reduction. We have used an appropriate stressing operation, named 'stress-packet', in order to converge the offset value to zero. We applied the method to the latch-type comparator which is prevalently used for DRAM bitline sense amplifier, and verified through experiments that offsets of the latch-type comparators are nearly eliminated with the stress-packet operations. We also discuss about the reliability issues that must be guaranteed for field application of this method.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.787-790
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 비교기의 설계 및 확장에 쉽게 이용할 수 있는 2bit 인코딩방법을 제안한다. 그리고 제안한 인코딩 방법을 이용하여 현재 비교기로 널리 사용하는 74LS85와 새로 설계한 5bit비교기에서의 직/병렬 N-bit로 확장했을 때의 응용방법을 비교한다. 또한 magnitude 비교기를 이용한 디코더 회로를 꾸며 음수 영역까지 확장할 수 있음을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1250-1259
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• 2012

In this paper, a time-domain comparator is proposed for a successive approximation (SA) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a low power and high resolution. The proposed time-domain comparator consists of a voltage-controlled delay converter with a clock feed-through compensation circuit, a time amplifier, and binary phase detector. It has a small input capacitance and compensates the clock feed-through noise. To analyze the performance of the proposed time-domain comparator, two 1V 10-bit 200-kS/s SA ADCs with a different time-domain comparator are implemented by using 0.18-${\mu}m$ 1-poly 6-metal CMOS process. The measured SNDR of the implemented SA ADC is 56.27 dB for the analog input signal of 11.1 kHz, and the clock feed-through compensation circuit and time amplifier of the proposed time-domain comparator enhance the SNDR of about 6 dB. The power consumption and area of the implemented SA ADC are 10.39 ${\mu}W$ and 0.126 mm2, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.928-930
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• 2000

교류전력을 측정하기 위하여 알고 있는 직류전력과 동시에 비교할 수 있는 전력비교기를 개발하였으며 이 비교기를 기본으로 하여 정밀 전력계와 전자식 전력량계를 교정하거나 시험검사 할 수 있는 기준시스템인 전력표준기를 개발하였다. 특히 Push-Pull 기술을 이용한 전력비교기는 간단하며 정확도가 매우 높은 것으로 평가되었으며 전력비교기의 전체 불확도는 30 $\mu$ W/VA로 평가되었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.1A
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• pp.1-8
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• 2004

Viterbi decoders are widely used for communication and high-density storage devices. An add-compare-select(ACS) unit has been an active research area for a long time because it is the most critical component in determining the operation speed and power-consumption of the Viterbi decoder. We propose a new comparator which is faster and consumes less power than existing ones. We also used the new comparator for a Viterbi decoder and our simulations results show the Viterbi decoder outperforms existing ones at least $20\%$ in its operating speed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.74-78
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 고속의 변환속도를 갖는 파이프라인드 방식과 저전력 특성을 갖는 축차 비교 방식 구조를 혼용하여 고속, 저전력 아날로그-디지털 변환기를 설계하였다. 제안 된 구조는 축차 비교 방식의 변환에서 비교기를 파이프라인드 구조로 연결하여 홀드된 주기 에 비교기의 기준 전위를 전 비교기의 출력값에 의해 변환하도록 하여 고속 동작이 가능하 도록 하였다. 제안된 구조에 의해 8비트 아날로그 디지털 변환기를 0.8㎛ CMOS공정으로 HSPICE를 이용하여 시뮬레이션한 결과, INL/DNL은 각각 ±0.5/±1이었으며, 100kHz 사인 입력 신호를 10MS/s로 샘플링 하여 DFT측정 결과 SNR은 41dB를 얻을 수 있었다. 10MS/s의 변환 속도에서 전력 소모는 4.14mW로 측정되었다.