• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1242-1249
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• 2012

This paper proposes a metastability-free synchronization method and a mesochronous synchronizer for NoC. It uses the clock transmitted from TX as a strobe and solves the metastability problem by selecting one of rising or falling clock edge depending on the sampling value in RX when the phase difference between clocks is under a metastability window. The logic simulation results show that it works without metastability under $0^{\circ}{\sim}360^{\circ}$ phase difference in the synchronizer that a fault is inserted. The mesochronous synchronizer has a simple control logic and is suitable for NoC.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.1123-1130
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• 2015

Network on a chip(NoC) is a communication subsystem between intellectual property(IP) cores in a SoC and improves high performance in the scalability and the power efficiency compared with conventional buses and crossbar switches. NoC needs a synchronizer to overcome the metastability problem between data links. This paper presents a new mesochronous synchronizer(MS) which is composed of selection window generator, selection signal generator, and data buffer. A delay line circuit is used to build selection window in selection window generator based on the delayed clock cycle of transmitted clock and the transmitted clock is compared with local clock to generate a selection signal in the SW(selection window). This MS gets rid of the restriction of metastability by choosing a rising edge or a falling edge of local clock according to the value of selection signal. The simulation results show that the proposed MS operates correctly for all phase differences between a transmitted clock and a local clock.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.254-257
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• 2004

위성신호를 매개로 국가표준에 전국의 모든 노드클럭이 동시에 동기될 수 있는 새로운 형태의 망 동기 클럭 공급 시스템을 제안하였으며 이 방식에 의한 실용화 가능성을 확인하였다. 본 논문에서 새로이 제시하는 방식은 단계적인 물리계층에 의해 동기되던 종래의 방식에 비해 모든 슬레이브 국소들이 동시에 동일한 계위의 품질로 동기 될 수 있는 등의 여러 가지 구조적인 장점을 갖고 있다. 서로 멀리 떨어진 지역에서 같은 위성신호를 동시에 측정하여 얻은 시간차데이터를 활용함으로써 위성을 매개로한 기준클럭과 원격지의 슬레이브클럭과의 위상차를 실시간적으로 측정할 수 있었으며, 컴퓨터 제어에 따라 이들 차이를 보상함으로써 전국의 여러노드에서 멀리 떨어진 기준클럭에 위상동기되는 신개념의 슬레이브 클럭 동기시스템을 설계하고 제작하였다. 이 시스템의 측정결과 $10^{-12}$ 이하의 주파수정확도를 유지하였으며 ITU-T의 권고(G.811)를 충분히 만족하는 MTIE 특성을 보여주었다. 현재 전체적으로 자동화 기능을 갖는 초기모델이 구현되었으며 가까운 시일내에 상용화연구를 통해 디지털 통신망의 동기용 노드클럭으로 사용될 수 있으리라 기대한다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.561-566
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• 1995

In the degraded mode, there is frequency-misalignment between the node clocks in a synchronous network. Therefore the phase differences between node clocks fluctuate greatly. To keep the phase difference under allowable level the pointer adjustment technique is used Unfortunately these processes cause an inherent pointer adjustment jitter, that accumulates in a chain of pointer adjustment systems. To analyze the jitter, computer simulation is carried and the results is compared with experimental jitter values.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.1345-1352
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• 2014

Bus architecture of SoC has been replaced by NoC in recent years. Noc uses the multi-clock domains to transmit and receive data between neighbor network interfaces and they have same frequency, but a phase difference because of clock skew. So a synchronizer is used for a mesochronous frequency in interconnection between network interfaces. In this paper the metastability is defined and analyzed in a D latch and a D flip-flop to search the possibilities that data can be lost in the process of sending and receiving data between interconnects when a local frequency and a transmitted frequency have a phase difference. 180nm CMOS model parameter and 1GHz are used to simulate them in HSpice. The simulation results show that the metastability happens in a latch and a flip-flop when input data change near the clock edges and there are intermediate states for a longer time as input data change closer at the clock edge. And the next stage can lose input data depending on environmental conditions such as temperature, processing variations, power supply, etc. The simulation results are very useful to design a mescochronous synchronizer for NoC.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.49 no.7
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• pp.17-22
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• 2012

A novel Clock Generator with jitter suppressed delay-locked loop (DLL) has been proposed to generate highly accurate output signals. The proposed Clock Generator has a VCDL which can suppress its jitter by generating control signals proportional to phase differences among delay stages. It has been designed to generate 1GHz output at 100MHz input with 1.8V $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The simulation result demonstrates a 3.24ps of peak-to-peak jitter.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.5
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• pp.637-644
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• 2009

A study about performance analysis of synchronization clock using measured clock noises is required. Therefore this paper executed the study for performance analysis of synchronization clock and acquirement of maximum number of network node with various clock states using measured clock noises in NG-SDH networks. Also this paper generated a suitable clock model using measured clock noises, and carried out simulations with various clock states. Through the simulation results, maximum numbers were 80 or more network nodes in normal state, and were below 37 nodes in short-term phase transient(SPT) state, and were 50 or more in long-term phase transient(LPT) state. Accordingly this study showed that maximum numbers to meet ITU-T specification were below 37 network nodes in three clock states. Also this study showed that when SPT or LPT states occur from NE network before DOTS system, synchronization source must change with other stable synchronization source of normal state.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.74-84
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• 2007

This paper presents a new dual-loop Delay Locked Loop(DLL) to expand the delay lock range of a conventional DLL. The proposed dual-loop DLL contains a Coarse_loop and a Fine_loop, and its operation utilizes one of the loops selected by comparing the initial time-difference among the reference clock and 2 internal clocks. The 2 internal clock signals are taken, respectively, at the midpoint and endpoint of a VCDL and thus are $180^{\circ}$ separated in phase. When the proposed DLL is out of the conventional lock range, the Coarse_loop is selected to push the DLL in the conventional lock range and then the Fine_loop is used to complete the locking process. Therefore, the proposed DLL is always stably locked in unless it is harmonically false-locked. Since the VCDL employed in the proposed DLL needs two control voltages to adjust the delay time, it uses TG-based inverters, instead of conventional, multi-stacked, current-starved inverters, to compose the delay line. The new VCDL provides a wider delay range than a conventional VCDL In overall, the proposed DLL demonstrates a more than 2 times wider lock range than a conventional DLL. The proposed DLL circuits have been designed, simulated and proved using 0.18um, 1.8V TSMC CMOS library and its operation frequency range is 100MHz${\sim}$1GHz. Finally, the maximum phase error of the DLL locked in at 1GHz is less than 11.2ps showing a high resolution and the simulated power consumption is 11.5mW.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.343-345
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• 2013

This paper describes a phase-locked loop (PLL) that generates a 51-phase clock with the operating frequency of 125MHz. To generate 51-phase clock with a frequency of 125 MHz, the proposed PLL uses three voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) which are connected by resistors. Each VCO consists of 17 delay-cells. An resistor averaging scheme, which makes three VCOs to connect with each other, makes it possible to generates 51-phase clock of the same phase difference. The proposed PLL is designed by using 65 nm CMOS process with a 1.0 V supply. At the operating frequency of 125 MHz, the simulated DNL and peak-to-peak jitter are +0.0016/-0.0020 LSB and 1.07 ps, respectively. The area and power consumption of the implemented PLL are $290{\times}260{\mu}m^2$ and 2.5 mW, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.1103-1108
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• 2010

In this paper, Frequency Synthesizer which is widely used for FH-SS system is proposed and the experimental results are analyzed. The performance of the DPLL(Digital Phase-Locked-Loop), which is the main part of the Synthesizer is analyzed by the computer program. Using Maxplus-II tool provided by altera. co., ltd, each part of the DPLL is designed and all of them is integrated into EPM7064SLC44-10 chip. And the simulation results are compared with the characteristics of the implemented circuits for analysis. And the experiential results show that the N value of the loop filter is toggled to adjacent N value, which result in phase jitter of the output. It can be resolved by increasing DCO(Digital Controlled oscillator) clock rate.