• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.2387-2394
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• 2013

A low spur phase-locked loop (PLL) with FVCO-sampled feedforward loop-filter has been proposed. Conventional PLL has loop filter made of a resistor and capacitors. The proposed PLL is working stably with the filter consisted of capacitors and a switch. It has been designed with a 1.8V $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and proved by simulation with HSPICE.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.12
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• pp.2273-2277
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• 2010

In this paper a 2.4GHz CMOS colpitts type microwave oscillator was designed and fabricated using H-spice and Cadence Spetre. There are 140MHz difference between the oscillation frequency and the resonance frequency of a tank circuit of the designed oscillator. The difference is seemed to be due to the parasitic component of the transistor. The inductors used in this design are the spiral inductors proposed in other papers. Cascode current source was used as a bias circuit of a oscillator and the output transistor of the current source is used as the oscillation transistor. A common drain buffer amplifier was used at the output of the oscillator. The measured oscillation frequency and output power of the oscillator are 2.173GHz and -5.53dBm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10B
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• pp.1464-1469
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 디지털 하이브리드 위상고정루프(Digital Hybrid Phase-Locked Loop, DHPLL) 주파수 합성기 구조에서 고 순도 스펙트럼과 초고속 스위칭 속도를 위한 설계기술을 제안한다. D/A 변환기 출력으로 전압제어발진기(Voltage Controlled Oscillator, VCO)를 구동하는 개 루프(open-loop) 구성 방식과 기존 위상고정루프(Phase Locked Loop, PLL)의 폐 루프(closed-loop) 구성 방식을 혼합한 하이브리드 구조의 주파수 합성기를 고려하여, 시스템 변수(개 루프 대역과 위상 여유)와 성능 파라미터(정착시간, 위상 잡음, 그리고 최대 오버슈트(Max. overshoot)의 관계를 연구하였다. 그리고 이 관계를 통해 스펙트럼 순도와 스위칭 속도를 향상시키기 위한 최적의 3가지 설계방안을 제시한다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과, 주파수 스위칭 과정에서 발생하는 최대 오버슈트가 0.0991%이고 완전 정상상태 도달시간은 0.288msec이다. offset 주파수 10KHz에서 위상 잡음은 -128.15dBc이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10B
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• pp.1353-1359
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 위상획득과정과 동기과정에서 trade-off 현상을 향상시킨 듀얼 위상 주파수 검출기를 제안하여 차지펌프 PLL을 설계하였다. 듀얼 위상 주파수 검출기는 상승에지에서 동작하는 POSITIVE 위상 주파수 검출기와 하강에지에서 동작하는 NEGATIVE 위상 주파수 검출기로 구성되어 있다. 제안한 차지펌프는 전류뺄셈회로를 이용하여 전류 부정합을 감소시켰으며, reference spurs와 전압제어발진기의 변동을 감소시킬 수 있도록 구현하였다. 제안한 차지펌프 PLL은 0.25$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS 공정을 사용하여 SPICE로 시뮬레이션 하였으며, 그 결과 1.6~1.85GHz의 넓은 동기범위를 나타내었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.7
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• pp.121-126
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• 1996

In this paper an MMIC VCO which can be used in a double conversion TV tuner is designed, fabricated and measured. The VCO is designed using the small signal method and fabricated using ETRI GaAs MMIC foundry. The 3x200$\mu$m gate width MESFET with 1$\mu$m gate length is used for an active device and MIM capacitors, spiral inductors, thin film resitors are used as passive elements. The VCO has output power of 10.95dBm at 1955 MHz with 5V bias voltage and 4V tuning voltage. The oscillation frequency change form 1947 MHz to 1964 MHz is obtaine dby an external varactor diode connected to the gate with a tuning voltage from 0 V to 6V.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.154-156
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• 2016

In this paper, the proposed small size PLL works stable with the discrete loop filter which is controlled by voltage controlled oscillator's output signal. Sampling and a small size capacitor functioned negative feedback with switch does make it possible to integrate the PLL into a single chip. The proposed PLL is designed by 1.8V 0.18um CMOS process.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.7A
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• pp.935-942
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• 2000

In this paper, miniature voltage-controlled oscillator(VCO) for 1.6GHz PCS band is designed and implemented. Colpitts type LC resonating oscillator is designed with multilayer PCB and circuit parameters are optimized using the circuit simulator. Using the optimized design parameters, miniature VCO with 6X6X1.8mm3 (0.065cc)dimensions is fabricated and experimented. Developed VCO has -1.67dBm $\pm$0.5dBm output power level in52.5MHz tunung range, and has -99.33dBc/Hz phase noise performance at 10 KHz frequency offset.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.145-151
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• 2004

This paper presents a fully integrated 5 GHz band low phase noise LC tank VCO. The implemented VCO is tuned by integrated PN diodes and tuning rage is 5.01∼5.30 GHz with 0∼3 V control voltage. For improved phase noise performance, a LC filtering technique is adapted. The measured phase noise is -87.8 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset frequency and -111.4 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency which is excellent performance. Moreover phase noise is improved by 5 dB after employing the LC filter. It is the first experimental result in field of InGaP/GaAs HBT VCOs. The figure of merit of the fabricated VCO with LC filter is -172.1 dBc/Hz. It is the best result among 5 GHz InGaP HBT VCOs. Moreover this work shows lower DC power consumption, higher output power and more fixed output power compared with previous 4, 5 GHz band InGaP HBT VCOs.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.12 s.91
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• pp.1184-1189
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• 2004

A new schematic of quadrature voltage controlled oscillator(QVCO) is designed and fabricated. To obtain quadrature characteristic and low phase noise simultaneously, two differential VCOs are forced to un in quadrature mode by using coupling amplifier with a source degeneration resistor, which is optimized to obtain quadrature accuracy with minimum phase noise degradation. The designed QVCO was fabricated in standard CMOS technology. The measured performance showed the phase noise of below -120 dBc/Hz at 1 MHEz frequency offset, tuning bandwidth of 210 MHz from 2.34 GHz to 2.55 GHz with a tuning voltage varying form 0 to 1.8 V Quadrature error of 0.5 degree and amplitude error of 0.2 dB was measured with conjunction with low-lF mixer. The fabricated QVCO requires 19 mA including 5 mA in the VCO core part fiom a 1.8 V supply.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.2326-2332
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• 2016

In this paper, the proposed small size PLL works stable with the discrete loop filter which is controlled by voltage controlled oscillator's output signal. A switch controlled loop filter is introduced into the proposed PLL instead of a conventional $2^{nd}$-order loop filter. Those three switches are controlled by the very high frequency output signal of voltage controlled oscillator. The switches are also controlled by UP/DN signals and 'on/off' depending the presence of UP/DN signals. A negative feedback functioned capacitor with a switch does make it possible to integrate the PLL into a single chip. The proposed PLL works stably even though a total of small 180pF capacitor used in the discrete loop filter. The proposed PLL has been designed with a 1.8V supply voltage, 0.18um multi - metal and multi - poly layer CMOS process and proved by Hspice simulation.