• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.44-52
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a DFD (Digital Frequency Discriminator) design that has better frequency discrimination and a smaller size. Electronic warfare equipment can analyze different types of radar signal such as those based on Frequency, Pulse Width, Time Of Arrival, Pulse Amplitude, Angle Of Arrival and Modulation On Pulse. In order for electronic warfare equipment to analyze radar signals with a narrow pulse width (less than 100ns), they need to have a special receiver structure called IFM (Instantaneous Frequency Measurement). The DFD (Digital Frequency Discriminator) is usually used for the IFM. Because the existing DFDs are composed of separate circuit devices, they are bulky, heavy, and expensive. To remedy these shortcomings, we use a three delay line ($1{\lambda}$, $4{\lambda}$, $16{\lambda}$) in the DFD, instead of the four delay line ($1{\lambda}$, $4{\lambda}$, $16{\lambda}$, $64{\lambda}$) generally used in the existing DFDs, and apply the microwave integrated circuit method. To enhance the frequency discrimination, we detect the pulse amplitude and perform temperature correction. The proposed DFD has a frequency discrimination error of less than 1.5MHz, affording it better performance than imported DFDs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.707-714
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• 2016

Active driving safety systems for vehicle, such as the front collision avoidance, lane departure warning, and lane change assistance, have been popular to be adopted to the compact car. For improving performance and competitive cost, FMCW radar has been researched to adopt a phased array or a multi-beam antenna, and to integrate the front and the side radar. In this paper we propose several efficient methods to implement the signal processing module of FMCW radar system using low cost DSP. The pulse width modulation (PWM) based analog conversion, the approximation of time-eating functions, and the adoption of vector-based computation, etc, are proposed and implemented. The implemented signal processing board shows the real-time performance of 1.4ms pulse repetition interval (PRI) with 1024pt-FFT. In real road we verify the radar performance under real-time constraints of 10Hz update time.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.959-962
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• 1999

예전에 일반적인 DC모터제어 또는 전류 량 제어 분야에만 사용되던 펄스 폭 변조기 형태의 부품이 근래에는 멀티미디어 단말장치의 한 부품으로 사용되고 있는데 본 논문에서는 비디오 신호처리 및 영상보드에서 간편하게 사용될 수 있는 PWM 모듈을 설계하였다. 단말장치의 주변 칩에서 사용되는 일반적인 내장형 모듈을 사용하게 되면, 멀티채널을 요하는 시스템에서 채널의 부족으로 인해 여러 개일 마이크로 콘트롤러를 사용해야 하는 단점이 있다. 이 때문에 내장형으로 사용될 수도 있으며, 독립적으로도 동작할 수 있는 구조가 필요하며 정적으로 동작해야 하는 시스템에도 이식될 수 있는 기능도 동시에 가지고 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 기능을 만족시키기 위한 진보된 PMW 모듈의 구조를 제안하였으며, 이를 VHDL로 기술하여 기능을 검증하고, XC4010XL-PC84 FPGA로 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.349-352
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• 2000

디지털 앰프, 흑은 D급 앰프에서는 기존의 앰프와 달리 펄스 폭 변조(PWM) 방식을 사용한 스위칭을 이용하므로 $90\%$를 상회하는 고효율을 달성한다고 알려져 있다. 하지만, 입력 레벨이 작은 신호가 많은 일반적인 경우에도 전원 전압에 해당하는 큰 전압으로 스위칭하게 되므로 작은 입력 시의 효율은 상당히 떨어진다. 본 논문에서는 기존 앰프보다 효율을 높일 수 있는 4, 5-State PWM 방법을 제시하였으며, 시뮬레이션 결과 기존 PWM 사용 앰프에 비하여 대략 효율이 $40\%$ 상승하여 방열판과 앰프의 크기를 줄일 수 있다. 또한 스위칭 주파수가 기폰 방법 대비 1/2로 감소하므로 디지털 앰프의 실용화에 가장 큰 걸림돌이었던 전자파 방출의 양도 크게 감소한다.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.47-52
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• 2016

This paper presents a control method for the performance improvement of a proportional solenoid actuator using a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal. It is very difficult to obtain excellent response performance from a proportional solenoid actuator using a simple proportional controller with no PWM signal or dither because the mass and structure of a proportional solenoid actuator changes according to the application target, friction force in the proportional solenoid tube, operating force and displacement range. To solve the above problems, first, a controller with a PWM function for experimenting with attraction force characteristics was designed and manufactured. Secondly, an experimental setup for solenoid performance measurement with a force sensor and a displacement sensor was also manufactured. The attraction force characteristics according to the frequency and duty ratio variations of a PWM signal were tested and the relationships among the frequency, duty ratio, plunger mass and friction characteristics were analyzed. Finally, response characteristics improvements for proportional solenoid actuators are discussed.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.64-70
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• 2011

This paper presents a zero-transient current control method for PWM dimming of LED. Since the proposed LED current control method has no transient state, it features a high resolution, high linearity, and no current overshoot through LED along a wide dimming range. The operational principles of the proposed LED current control circuit are presented. To confirm the validity of the proposed method experimental results from a prototype circuit of the 46-inch LCD TV are given.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.93-99
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• 2007

We investigated analytically and numerically the occurrence of modulation instability in fibers with periodic changes both in dispersion and gain. Previously, it has been known that the modulation instability is suppressed in dispersion managed solitons where dispersion is managed in such a way that the local dispersion alternates between the normal and the anomalous regimes. In this work, we enhanced the advantage of the dispersion management scheme by additionally introducing proper gain/loss profiles in fibers. The gain/loss profile is given by $\Gamma(z)=0.5/D(z)*(dD/dz)$, where D(z) represents the dispersion profile. The fundamental gain spectra of the modulation instability in the dispersion and gain managed fibers have been derived analytically and confirmed by numerical calculation. Our investigation reveals that in the dispersion and gain fibers the modulation instabilities are always much more suppressed compared to the case with only dispersion managed. In practical dispersion management schemes, dispersion profiles show discontinuity. and thus. the corresponding gain/loss profiles tend to be finite. In these cases, the gain/loss profiles were approximated by lumped gains/losses of finite values. Our numerical calculations confirm that this approximation also works well.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.98-105
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a timing detector using suboptimal maximum likelihood method. The proposed method has an simple reference signal generator. Additionally, timing detector's gain of the proposed method is the same to Early-Late gate and ML method. We reveal that tracking range of time tracker is narrow because of using data-decision, that is, tracking range is ${\pm}0.06ns$ for the 4-order Gaussian monocycle with 0.7ns pulse width. Therefore we can find that searcher must have very accurate acquisition procedure. When estimating a performance of time tracker, we consider a jitter in transmitter and receiver's pulse generation process as well as background noise. By using computer simulation, we propose mean/variance of timing detector and tracking process. Also we consider a mobility in tracking process, i.e., timing error modeled ramp function. In order to propose a performance of time tracker, we consider only one correlation demodulator.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.28-34
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• 2010

The pulse width modulation(PWM) method has been generally used as conventional method controlling luminance of LED(light emitting diode). PWM method as analog method with a relation that duty ratio of LED be proportional to luminance has weak point that it is not compatible with digital method of communication etc. In this paper, a experiment is conducted which the luminance of RGB LED be controlled by digital method. For this, the LED digital control system is developed which consist of LED driving circuits and digital logic circuits. By controlling the number of pluses on RGB LED versus digital input, various lighting colors is implemented and digital codes are optimized in order that measured x, y chromaticity coordinates of lighting colors are comprised in the CIE chromaticity coordinates area of targeted lighting colors. The result of this study can be utilized usefully in research on implementing full color by using remote control of LED lamp with digital communication.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.11B
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• pp.1501-1509
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• 2001

Recently, the use of wireless communication systems has been rapidly increasing, which results in a difficult problem in efficient control of limited frequency resources. As a way of solving this problem, the ultra wideband time hopping impulse radio system attracts much attention. The impulse radio system communicates pulse position modulated data using Gaussian monocycle pulses of very short duration less than 1 nsec. Thus the transmitted signal has very low power spectral density and ultra wide bandwidth from near D.C. to a few GHz. It is blown that it hardly interferes with the existing communication systems because of its very low power spectral density. The purpose of this paper is to characterize multipath propagation of the impulse radio signal and to evaluate the performance of the correlator-based receiver for the multipath environments. In this paper, we consider the deterministic two-path model and the statistical indoor multipath model of Saleh and Valenzuela. For the two-path model the output of the correlator with the ideal reference waveform varies according to the relative difference between the indirect path delay and the time interval of PPM, and to the indirect path gains. In addition, the characteristics of bit error rates is measured for the two models through computer simulation. The simulation results indicate that the performance of the impulse radio system depends both on the relative difference between the indirect path delay and the time interval of PPM, and on the indirect path gains. Furthermore, it is observed that the reference signal designed for the AWGN channel can not be applied to the multipath channels.