• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.1303-1310
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• 2016

In this paper, electrocardiogram (ECG) analog front end with supply voltage of 0.5V has been designed and verified by measurements of fabricated chip. ECG is composed of instrument amplifier, 6th order gm-C low pass filter and variable gain amplifier. The instrument amplifier is designed to have gain of 34.8dB and the 6th order gm-C low pass filter is designed to obtain the cutoff frequency of 400Hz. The operational transconductance amplifier of the low pass filter utilizes body-driven differential input stage for low voltage operation. The variable gain amplifier is designed to have gain of 6.1~26.4dB. The electrocardiogram analog front end are fabricated in TSMC $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process with chip size of $858{\mu}m{\times}580{\mu}m$. Measurements of the fabricated chip is done not to saturate the gain of ECG by changing the external resistor and measured gain of 28.7dB and cutoff frequency of 0.5 - 630Hz are obtained using the supply voltage of 0.5V.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.168-173
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• 2004

A low power CMOS receiver baseband analog circuit based on alternating filter and gain stage is reported. For the given specifications of the baseband analog block, optimum allocation of the gain, IIP3 and NF of the each block was performed to minimize current consumption. The fully integrated receiver BBA chain is fabricated in $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS technology and IIP3 of 30 dBm with a gain of 55 dB and noise figure of 31 dB are obtained at 4.86 mW power consumption.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.114-118
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• 2008

Direct-conversion RF front-end for 5-GHz WLAN is implemented in $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The front-end consists of a low noise amplifier, and low flicker noise down-conversion mixers. For the mixer, an inductor is included to resonate out parasitic tail capacitances in the transconductance stage at the operating frequency, thereby improves the flicker noise performance of the mixer, and the overall noise performance of the front-end. The receiver RF front-end has 6.5 dB noise figure, - 13 dBm input IP3, and voltage conversion gain of 20 dB with the power consumption of 30 mW.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.417-418
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• 2008

A quadrature voltage controlled oscillator(QVCO) with MOS-varactors has been fabricated for X-band applications. The QVCO consists of two cross -coupled differential cores and buffer amplifiers, which has fabricated in TSMC $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The QVCO exhibits a frequency tuning range from 8.38 GHz to 10.62 GHz. The phase noise is -88 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz-offset frequency. The total bias current is 25 mA including four buffer amplifiers.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.459-460
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• 2008

In this paper, a 10Gbps clock and data recovery circuit is designed in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The circuit incorporates a multiphase LC oscillator, a quarter-rate Bang-Bang phase detector, a charge pump and a second order loop filter. The simulation results show that the designed circuit has a peak-to-peak clock jitter of 4.2ps and a peak-to-peak recovered data jitter of 8ps while consuming about 80mW from a 1.8V supply.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.153-159
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• 2009

A CMOS frequency synthesizer for $5{\sim}6$ GHz UNII-band sub-harmonic direct-conversion receiver has been developed. For quadrature down-conversion with sub-harmonic mixing, octa-phase local oscillator (LO) signals are generated by an integer-N type phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer. The complex timing issue of feedback divider of the PLL with large division ratio is solved by using multimodulus prescaler. Phase noise of the local oscillator signal is improved by employing the ring-type LC-tank oscillator and switching its tail current source. Implemented in a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, the phase noise of the LO signal is lower than -80 dBc/Hz and -113 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz and 1MHz offset, respect-tively. The measured reference spur is lower than -70 dBc and the power consumption is 40 m W from a 1.8 V supply voltage.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.617-618
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• 2006

A CMOS quadrature Up-converter for a direct-conversion receiver of 5.15-5.825GHz wireless LAN is described. The Up-converter consists of two sub-harmonic mixers, for I and Q channels, and an LO generation network. In order to decrease the number of inductor, I and Q path are merged. The simulation results including all the parasitics show -17.3dB conversion gain at center and -8 dBv oIP3 while consuming 22.968mW under 1.8V supply. The quadrature Up-converter is under fabrication with the other transmitter blocks in a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.501-503
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• 2008

This paper presents the design of a 2.4 GHz low phase noise fully integrated LC Voltage-Controlled-Oscillator (VCO) in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The VCO is without any tail bias current sources for a low phase noise and, in which differential varactors are adopted for the symmetry of the circuit. At the same time, the use of differential varactors pairs reduces the tuning range, i.e., the frequency range versus VTUNE, so that the phase noise becomes lower. The simulation results show the achieved phase noise of -138.5 dBc/Hz at 3 MHz offset, while the VCO core draws 3.9mA of current from a 1.8V supply. The tuning range is from 2.28GHz to 2.55 GHz.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.197-198
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• 2007

In this paper, a 10Gbps Clock and Data Recovery circuit is designed in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS Technology. The circuit incorporates a multiphase LC oscillator, a quarter-rate Bang-Bang phase detector, a Charge Pump and a second order loop filter. The simulation results show that the designed circuit has a peak-to-peak clock jitter of 4.1ps and a peak-to-peak recovered data jitter of 8ps while consuming about 44mW from a 1.8V supply.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.670-672
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• 2007

An ultra-wideband low-noise amplifier is proposed with operation up to 8.2 GHz. The amplifier is fabricated with a 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS process and adopts a two-stage cascode architecture and a simplified Chebyshev filter for high gain, wide band, input-impedance matching, and low noise. The gain of 19.2 dB and minimum noise figure of 3.3 dB are measured over 3.4 to 8.2 GHz while consuming 17.3 mW of power. The Proposed UWB LNA achieves a measured power-gain bandwidth product of 399.4 GHz.