• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.43-50
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• 2016

In this paper, new automatic LC calibrator is proposed for realizing a passive LC filter with almost constant frequency characteristic regardless of the PVT variations. The SAW-less GPS RX front-end is implemented using a 65nm CMOS process using the proposed LC calibrator. Also, new dual-mode low noise amplifier (LNA) structure is proposed to generate the RF signal required for the LC calibrator. The characteristics of the implemented GPS RX front-end show the voltage gain of about 42.5 dB, noise figure of below 1.35 dB, the blocker input P1dB of -24 dBm in case of the worst blocker signal at 1710 MHz frequency, while it consumes 7 mA current at 1.2 V power supply voltage.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.1143-1150
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• 2001

In this paper, we designed a downconverter for K-band satellite multipoint distribution service(SMDS). The designed downconverter consists of a low noise amplifiers, bandpass filter, stable local oscillator, drain mixer and If Amplifiers. Low noise amplifiers show 28㏈ gain and 1.5㏈ noise figure in the frequency range of 19.2㎓~20.2㎓, and a band pass filter has a -l㏈ insertion loss, and 18.25㎓ Stable local oscillator which is dielectric resonant oscillation, We obtained that the output power of the 18.25㎓ oscillation frequency is 0.5㏈m and the phase noise is the -84.67㏈c at 10KHz offset frequency. With the input RF signal the 19.2㎓~20.2㎓, conversion gain of the drain mixer shows 5㏈ at the Intermediate frequency range of 950MHz~1950MHz. We have proved that the designed downconverter satisfied the specification of a K-band satellite multipoint distribution service and it can be applied to the satellite internet receiver.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1279-1280
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• 2015

본 논문은 저전력 센서를 위한 무선 전력 수신 시스템을 설계하여 Wake-up 회로에 응용함으로써, 유효 신호의 입사 시에만 동작되는 수신기 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안 된 시스템은 기존 여파기를 DGS(Defected Ground Structure) 형태로 설계하여 소형화에 기여하였으며 여파기는 다이오드에 의해 생성되는 고조파 신호의 제거와 DC 통과의 역할을 수행하게 된다. 설계된 Rectenna의 변활 전력을 이용하여 수신기 시스템 스위치의 온, 오프를 조절함으로써 저전력 센서 수신 시스템의 동작 여부를 평가하였다. 제안된 시스템은 신호 수신 여부에 따른 저 잡음 증폭기와 데이터 복조의 동작 여부로 성능이 평가되었으며 우수한 동작 성능을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.443-447
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• 2003

In this work. using 0.2 GaAs modulation doped FET(MODFET), a high performance DBS downconverter MMIC was developed for direct broadcasting satellite (DBS) application. Without LNA, the downconverter MMIC showed a very low noise of 4.8 dB, which is lower by 3 dB than conventional ones. A low LO power of -10 dBm was required for the normal DBS operation of the downconverter MMIC. which reduced the power consumption via a removal of LO amplifier on MMIC. It required only a low power consumption of 175 mW, which is lower than 70 percent of conventional ones. The LO leakage power at IF output was suppressed to a lower level than 30 dBm, which removes a bulky LO rejection filter on a board. The fabricated chip, which include a mixer, If amplifiers. LO rejection filter, and active balun, exhibited a small size of $0.84{\times}0.9\textrm{mm}^2$.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.138-143
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• 2016

The designed and fabricated millimeter-wave security screening system receives radiation energy from an object and a human body. The imaging system consist of sixteen array antennas, sixteen four-stage LNAs, sixteen detectors, an infrared camera, a CCD camera, reflector, and a focusing lens. This system requires high sensitivity and wide bandwidth to detect the input thermal noise. The LNA module of the system has been measured to have 65.8 dB in average linear gain and 82 GHz~102 GHz in bandwidth to enhance the sensitivity for thermal noise, and to receive it over a wide bandwidth. The detector is used for direct current (DC) output translation of millimeter-wave signals with a zero bias Schottky diode. The lens and front-end of the millimeter-wave sensor are important in the system to detect the input thermal noise signal. The frequency range in the receiving sensitivity of the detectors was 350 to 400 mV/mW at 0 dBm (1 mW) input power. The developed W-band imaging system is effective for detecting and identifying concealed objects such as metal or plastic.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.443-451
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• 2010

This paper describes a fully integrated CMOS low-IF mobile-TV RF tuner for Band-III T-DMB/DAB applications. All functional blocks such as low noise amplifier, mixers, variable gain amplifiers, channel filter, phase locked loop, voltage controlled oscillator and PLL loop filter are integrated. The gain of LNA can be controlled from -10 dB to +15 dB with 4-step resolutions. This provides a high signal-to-noise ratio and high linearity performance at a certain power level of RF input because LNA has a small gain variance. For further improving the linearity and noise performance we have proposed the RF VGA exploiting Schmoock's technique and the mixer with current bleeding, which injects directly the charges to the transconductance stage. The chip is fabricated in a 0.18 um mixed signal CMOS process. The measured gain range of the receiver is -25~+88 dB, the overall noise figure(NF) is 4.02~5.13 dB over the whole T-DMB band of 174~240 MHz, and the measured IIP3 is +2.3 dBm at low gain mode. The tuner rejects the image signal over maximum 63.4 dB. The power consumption is 54 mW at 1.8 V supply voltage. The chip area is $3.0{\times}2.5mm^2$.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.381-384
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• 2000

In this paper, we designed and fabricated a low noise amplifier which can be used in W-CDMA. For improving input VSWR and stability an emitter inductance series feedback was used, and for acquiring higer linearity at low current DC bais by-passing method was used. Fabricated low noise amplifier had 15.33 ㏈ power gain, 2.17 ㏈ NF, -9.53 ㏈ $S_{11}$ and -35.91 ㏈ $S_{22}$ at 2.16 GHz, and +5.34 ㏈m II $P_{ 3}$ at 10 MHz channel spacing.g.g.g.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.323-326
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• 1998

A LNA(Low Nosise Amplifer) module for the Ka-band satellite transponder has been developed, which is composed of developed two MMIC chips and 50$\Omega$ line. This LNA exhibited noise figure less than 3.12dB, linear gain higher than 32dB from 30.085GHz to 30.885GHz frequency range. Temperature test from $20^{\circ}to$ $60^{\circ}C$ of the LNA Module showed very small noise figure and linear gain variation of 0.2 dB and 0.4dB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.941-942
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• 2010

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.6-11
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• 1982

지난 20년 동안 디지털통신은 괄목할만한 발전을 해왔다. 이는 컴퓨터, 집적회로, 디지털 신호처리기술의 급격한 발전으로부터 직접적으로 크게 영향을 받았기 때문이다. 디지털통신은 잡음, 타신호와의 간섭, 비선형증폭기사용에 의한 성능저하등의 아날로그 통신에서의 문제점들을 해결하고 또한 대형집적회로 또는 마이크로프로세서를 사용함으로써의 이점 즉 타임셰어링(time sharing) 기기 유지관리의 용이성, 경제적인 점 등 여러 가지 장점이 있기 때문에 앞으로 그 발전은 가속화되어 결국 아날로그통신과 대체될 전망이다. 여기에서는 현재 디지털통신의 주종을 이루고 있는 PCM을 중심으로 하여 통신시스템인 전자교환기(ESS)와 광통신 그리고 data 통신을 논하여 음성과 data의 종합적인 디지털통신망의 전망에 관하여 검토하였다.