• 센서학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.121-126
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• 2019

The voltage-controlled oscillator is one of the fundamental building blocks that determine the signal quality and power consumption in RF transceivers for wireless sensor networks. Ring oscillators are attractive owing to their small form factor and multi-phase capability despite the relatively poor phase noise performance in comparison with LC oscillators. The phase noise of a ring oscillator can be improved by using a coupled structure that works at a lower frequency. This paper introduces a 2.4 GHz low-noise ring oscillator that consists of two 3-stage coupled ring oscillators. Each sub-oscillator operates at 800 MHz, and the multi-phase signals are combined to generate a 2.4 GHz quadrature output. The voltage-controlled ring oscillator designed in a 65-nm standard CMOS technology has a tuning range of 800 MHz and exhibits the phase noise of -104 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset. The power consumption is 13.3 mW from a 1.2 V supply voltage.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.184-186
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• 2005

The effect of power supply noise on the phase noise of a ring oscillator is studied. The power supply noise source in series with DC power supply voltage is applied to a 3 stage CMOS ring oscillator. The phase noise due to the power supply noise is modeled by the narrow band phase modulation. The model is verified by the fact that the spectrum of output of ring oscillator has two side bands at the frequencies offset from the frequency of the ring oscillator by the frequency of the power supply noise source. Simulations at several different frequency of the power supply noise reveals that the ring oscillator acts as a low pass filter to the power supply noise. This study, as a result, shows that the phase noise generated by the power supply noise is inversely proportional to the frequency offset from the carrier frequency.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.212-215
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 사용하여 5.08 GHz에서 동작하는 링 전압 제어 발진기(Ring Voltage Controlled Oscillator, Ring VCO)를 제작하였다. Ring VCO는 3단 구조로 각 단의 트랜지스터 크기 비율을 다르게 하여 전류 변화에 따른 소모 전력이 달라짐을 확인하였다. Core의 양단 위, 아래에는 Current Mirror로 전류를 제어하도록 구성하였고, 주파수 조절을 위해 제어 전압을 추가하였다. Ring VCO 측정 결과, 주파수 범위는 65.5 %(1.88~5.45 GHz), 출력 전력 -0.30 dBm, 5.08 GHz 중심주파수에서 -87.50 dBc/Hz @1 MHz의 위상잡음을 갖는다. 또한, 2.4 V 전원에서 31.2 mW 소모 전력을 확인하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.149-151
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• 2015

Coupling with a ring of capacitors introduces in-phase coupling current in multi-stage LC oscillators, increasing coupling strength and phase spacing accuracy. Capacitive coupling is effective at high-frequency applications because it increases coupling strength with the operating frequency. However, capacitive loading from the ring lowers operating frequency and reduces the tuning range. Mathematical expressions of phase noise and phase spacing accuracy with capacitive coupling are examined here, and transistor-level simulations confirm the effectiveness of the capacitive coupling.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권7호
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• pp.71-81
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 삼차원 소자 시뮬레이터(Sentaurus)를 이용하여 tri-gate FinFET의 fin과 소스/드레인 구조의 변화에 따른 소자의 성능을 분석하였다. Fin의 구조가 사각형 구조에서 삼각형 구조로 변함에 따라, fin 단면의 전위 분포의 차이로 문턱 전압이 늘어나고, off-current가 72.23% 감소하고 gate 커패시턴스는 16.01% 감소하였다. 소스/드레인 epitaxy(epi) 구조 변화에 따른 성능을 분석하기 위해, epi를 fin 위에 성장시킨 경우(grown-on-fin)와 fin을 etch 시키고 성장시킨 경우(etched-fin)의 소자 성능을 비교했다. Fin과 소스/드레인 구조의 변화가 회로에 미치는 영향을 살펴보기 위해 Sentaurus의 mixed-mode 시뮬레이션 기능을 사용하여 3단 ring oscillator를 구현하여 시뮬레이션 하였고, energy-delay product를 계산하여 비교하였다. 삼각형 fin에 etched 소스/드레인 epi 구조의 소자가 가장 작은 ring oscillator delay와 energy-delay product을 보였다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2011

A complementary inverter was fabricated using pentacene and N-N -dioctyl-3,4,9,10-perylene tetracarboxylic diimide-C (PTCDI-C8) for p- and n-type transistors on a poly(ether sulfone) substrate, respectively. The mobilities of the p- and n-type transistors were 0.056 and 0.013 $cm^2$/Vs, respectively. The inverter, which was composed of p- and n-type transistors, showed a gain of 48.6 when $V_{DD}$ = -40V and at the maximum noise margin of $V_{DD}$/2. A ring oscillator was also fabricated by cascading five inverters. The five-stage ring oscillator showed the maximum output frequency of 10 kHz when $V_{DD}$ = -170 V.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.139-142
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• 2018

This work presents a novel architecture of phase locked loop (PLL) with the current compensating scheme to improve phase noise characteristic. The proposed PLL has two charge pumps (CP), main-CP (MCP) and sub-CP (SCP). The smaller SCP current with same time duration but opposite direction of UP/DN MCP current is injected to the loop filter (LF). It suppresses the voltage fluctuation of LF. The PLL has a novel voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) consisting of a voltage controlled resistor (VCR) and the three-stage ring oscillator with latch type delay cells. The VCR linearly converts voltage into current, and the latch type delay cell has short active on-time of transistors. As a result, it improves phase noise characteristic. The proposed PLL has been fabricated with $0.35{\mu}m$ 3.3 V CMOS process. Measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset is -103 dBc/Hz resulting in 3 dBc/Hz phase noise improvement compared to the conventional PLL.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.353-356
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• 1999

A 3.3V PLL(Phase Locked loop) is designed for a high frequency, low voltage, and low power applications. This paper proposes a new PLL architecture to improve voltage to frequency linearity of VCO(Voltage controlled oscillator) with new delay cell. The proposed VCO operates at a wide frequency range of 30MHz~1㎓ with a good linearity. The DC-DC voltage up/down converter is utilized to regulate the control voltage of the two-stage VCO. The designed PLL architecture is implemented on a 0.6${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ n-well CMOS process. The simulation results show a locking time of 2.6$\mu$sec at 1Hz, Lock in range of 100MHz~1㎓, and a power dissipation of 112㎽.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 주파수 배가 방법을 사용한 초고속 전압 제어 링 발진기를 제안하였다. 제안한 전압 제어 발진기는 TSMC 0.18um 1.8V CMOS 공정을 사용하여 설계하였다. 제안한 주파수 배가 방법은 한 주기 안에서 $90^{\circ}$의 위상차를 가지는 4개의 신호를 AND-OR 연산하여 기본 신호의 두 배 주파수를 가지는 신호를 얻어내는 방법이다. 제안한 발진기는 차동 4단 링 발진기와 NAND 게이트를 사용하여 구성하였다. 전압 제어 링 발진기는 완전 차동 형태로 설계하여 정확하게 $90^{\circ}$의 위상차를 가지는 4개의 신호를 얻을 수 있었으며 공통 모드 잡음에 대해 우수한 잡음 성능을 가지게 되었다. 주파수 배가회로는 AND나 OR 게이트에 비해 집적도가 뛰어난 NAND 게이트를 사용하여 AND-OR 연산을 구현하였다. 설계된 전압 제어 링 발진기는 컨트롤 전압에 따라 3.72GHz에서 8GHz의 출력 주파수를 가지며 4GHz에서 4.7mW의 소비 전력과 1MHz 오프셋 주파수에서 -86.79dBc/Hz의 위상잡음 성능을 가짐을 검증하였다. 기존의 고속 전압 제어 링 발진기와의 비교에서도 모든 면에서 가장 뛰어난 성능을 보였고 저렴한 고속 주파수 합성기와 위상 고정 루프 등에 응용될 수 있음을 보였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.439-440
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• 2008

A high-speed DCO is proposed that uses the negative-skewed delay scheme. The DCO consists of a ring of inverters with each PMOS transistor driven from the output of 3 earlier stage through a set of minimum-sized pass-transistors. The digitization of negative-skewed delay is achieved by selecting pass-transistors turned on and digitizing the gate voltages of the selected pass-transistors. The proposed 7-stage DCO has been simulated using 1.8V, $0.18\;{\mu}m$ TSMC CMOS process to obtain a resolution of 3ps and an operation range of 2.88-5.03GHz.