• Title/Summary/Keyword: Analog-to-digital converter

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A 2.5V 0.25㎛ CMOS Temperature Sensor with 4-bit SA ADC (4-비트 축차근사형 아날로그-디지털 변환기를 내장한 2.5V 0.25㎛ CMOS 온도 센서)

  • Kim, Mungyu;Jang, Young-Chan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.378-384
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, a CMOS temperature sensor is proposed to measure the internal temperature of a chip. The temperature sensor consists of a proportional-to-absolute-temperature (PTAT) circuit for a temperature sensing part and a 4-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for a digital interface. The PTAT circuit with the compact area is designed by using a vertical PNP architecture in the CMOS process. To reduce sensitivity of temperature variation in the digital interface circuit of the proposed temperature sensor, a 4-bit successive approximation (SA) ADC using the minimum analog circuits is used. It uses a capacitor-based digital-to-analog converter and a time-domain comparator to minimize power consumption. The proposed temperature sensor was fabricated by using a $0.25{\mu}m$ 1-poly 6-metal CMOS process with a 2.5V supply, and its operating temperature range is from 50 to $150^{\circ}C$. The area and power consumption of the fabricated temperature sensor are $130{\times}390{\mu}m^2$ and $868{\mu}W$, respectively.

Design of Robust DC-DC Converter by High-Order Approximate 2-Degree-of-Freedom Digital Controller

  • Takegami, E.;Tomioka, S.;Watanabe, K.;Higuchi, K.;Nakano, K.;Kajikawa, T.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.232-237
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    • 2004
  • In many application of DC-DC converters, loads cannot be specified in advance, i.e., their amplitudes are suddenly changed from the zero to the maximum rating. Generally, design conditions are changed for each load and then each controller is re-designed. Then, a so-called robust DC-DC converter which can cover such extensive load changes and also input voltage changes with one controller is needed. Analog control IC is used usually for the controller of DC-DC converter. Simple integral control etc. are performed with the analog control IC. However it is difficult to retain sufficient robustness of DC-DC converter by these techniques. The authors proposed the method of designing an approximate 2-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) controller of DC-AC converter. This controller has an ability to attain sufficient robustness against extensive load and DC power supply changes. For applying this approximate 2DOF controller to DC-DC converter, it is necessary to improve the degree of approximation for better robustness. In this paper, we propose a method of designing good approximate 2DOF digital controller which makes the control bandwidth wider, and at the same time makes a variation of the output voltage very small at a sudden change of resistive load. The proposed good approximate 2DOF digital controller is actually implemented on a DSP and is connected to a DC-DC converter. Experimental studies demonstrate that this type digital controller can satisfy given specifications.

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Converting Analog to Digital Signals on the X-band Radar (X 밴드 레이더의 아날로그 - 디지털 신호 변환)

  • Kim, Park Sa;Kwon, Byung Hyuk;Kim, Min-Seong;Yoon, Hong-Joo
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.497-502
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    • 2018
  • An analog to digital converter(: ADC) has been designed to extract video signals of marine X-band radar and convert to digital signals in order to produce rainfall information. X-band weather radars are suitable for high temporal-spatial resolution observations of rainfall over local ranges but they are very expensive and require professional management. The marine radars with 10-2 cost facilitate data collection and management as well as economic benefits. To validate the usefulness of the developed ADC, comparative observations were made with weather radar for short term precipitation cases. The rainfall distribution of marine radar observations are consistent with that of weather radar within a radius of 15 km. This demonstrates the usability of marine radar for rainfall observations.

Development of the Natural Frequency Analysis System to Examine the Defects of Metal Parts (금속 부품의 결함 판단을 위한 고유 주파수 분석 시스템 개발)

  • Lee, Chung Suk;Kim, Jin Young;Kang, Joonhee
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.169-174
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    • 2015
  • In this study, we developed a system to detect the various defects in the metallic objects using the phenomenon that the defects cause the changes of the natural resonant frequencies. Our system consists of a FFT Amp, an Auto Impact Hammer, a Hammer controller and a PC. Auto Impact Hammer creates vibrations in the metallic objects when tapped on the surface. These vibrational signals are converted to the voltage signals by an acceleration sensor attached to the metallic part surface. These analog voltage signals were fed into an ADC (analog-digital converter) and an FFT (fast fourier transform) conversion in the FFT Amp to obtain the digital data in the frequency domain. Labview graphical program was used to process the digital data from th FFT amp to display the spectrum. We compared those spectra with the standard spectrum to find the shifts in the resonant frequencies of the metal parts, and thus detecting the defects. We used PCB's acceleration sensor and TI's TMS320F28335 DSP (digital signal processor) to obtain the resolution of 2.93 Hz and to analyze the frequencies up to 44 kHz.

Research on Digital Complex-Correlator of Synthetic Aperture Radiometer: theory and simulation result

  • Jingye, Yan;Ji, Wu;Yunhua, Zhang;Jiang, Changhong;Tao, Wang;Jianhua, Ren;Jingshan, Jiang
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.587-592
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    • 2002
  • A new digital correlator fur an airborne synthetic aperture radiometer was designed in order to replace the conventional analog correlator unit which will become very complicated while the number of channels is increasing. The digital correlator uses digital IQ demodulator instead of the intermediate frequency (IF) phase shifter to make the correlation processing performed digitally at base band instead of analogly at IF. This technique has been applied to the digital receiver in softradio. The down-converted IF signals from each pair of receiver channels become low rate base-band digital signals after under-sampled, Digitally Down-Converted (DDC), decimated and filtered by FIR filters. The digital signals are further processed by two digital multipliers (complex correlation), the products are integrated by the integrators and finally the outputs from the integrators compose of the real part and the imaginary part of a sample of the visibility function. This design is tested by comparing the results from digital correlators and that from analog correlators. They are agreed with each other very well. Due to the fact that the digital correlators are realized with the help of Analog-Digital Converter (ADC) chips and the FPGA technology, the realized volume, mass, power consumption and complexity turned out to be greatly reduced compared with that of the analog correlators. Simulations show that the resolution of ADC has an influence on the synthesized antenna patterns, but this can be neglected if more than 2bit is used.

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Realization of Readout Circuit Through Integrator to Average MCT Photodetector Signals of Noncontact Chemical Agent Detector (비접촉 화학작용제 검출기의 MCT 광검출기를 위한 적분기 기반의 리드아웃 회로 구현)

  • Park, Jae-Hyoun
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.115-119
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    • 2022
  • A readout circuit for a mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT)-amplified mid-wave infrared (IR) photodetector was realized and applied to noncontact chemical agent detectors based on a quantum cascade laser (QCL). The QCL emitted 250 times for each wavelength in 0.2-㎛ steps from 8 to 12 ㎛ with a frequency of 100 kHz and duty ratio of 10%. Because of the nonconstant QCL emission power during on-duty, averaging the photodetector signals is essential. Averaging can be performed in digital back-end processing through a high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) or in analog front-end processing through an integrator circuit. In addition, it should be considered that the 250 IR data points should be completely transferred to a PC during each wavelength tuning period of the QCL. To average and minimize the IR data, we designed a readout circuit using the analog front-end processing method. The proposed readout circuit consisted of a switched-capacitor integrator, voltage level shifter, relatively low-speed analog-to-digital converter, and micro-control unit. We confirmed that the MCT photodetector signal according to the QCL source can be accurately read and transferred to the PC without omissions.

Development of Surface EMG Sensor Prototype and Its Application for Human Elbow Joint Angle Extraction (표면 근전도 센서 프로토타입 개발 및 인간의 팔꿈치 관절 각도 추출 응용)

  • Yu, Hyeon-Jae;Lee, Hyun-Chul;Choi, Young-Jin
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.205-211
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, the prototype of surface EMG (ElectroMyoGram) sensor is developed for the robotic rehabilitation applications, and the developed sensor is composed of the electrodes, analog signal amplifiers, analog filters, ADC (analog to digital converter), and DSP (digital signal processor) for coding the application example. Since the raw EMG signal is very low voltage, it is amplified by about one thousand times. The artifacts of amplified EMG signal are removed by using the band-pass filter. Also, the processed analog EMG signal is converted into the digital form by using ADC embedded in DSP. The developed sensor shows approximately the linear characteristics between the amplitude values of the sensor signals measured from the biceps brachii of human upper arm and the joint angles of human elbow. Finally, to show the performance of the developed EMG sensor, we suggest the application example about the real-time human elbow motion acquisition by using the developed sensor.

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The Implementation of Sigma-Delta ADC/DAC Digital Block

  • Park, Sang-Bong;Lee, Young Dae;Watanabe, Koki
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.11-14
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    • 2013
  • This paper describes the sigma-delta ADC/DAC digital block with two channels. The ADC block has comb filter and three half band filters. And the DAC block has 5th Cascaded-of-Integrators Feedback DSM. The ADC and DAC support I2S, RJ, LJ and selectable input data modes of 24bit, 20bit, and 16bit. It is fabricated with 0.35um Hynix standard CMOS cell library. The chip size is 3700*3700um. It has been verified using NC Verilog Simulator and Matlab Tool.

A New Ripple Analog - to - Digital Converter (새로운 리플 아나로그-디지틀 변환기)

  • Chung, Won-Sup
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1988.07a
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    • pp.571-573
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    • 1988
  • A new ripple analog-to-digital converter(ADC) has been developed. It consists of two parallel ADCs and a switching network. The circuit operates on the input signal in two serial steps. First a coarse conversion is made to determine the most significant bits by the first parallel ADC. The results control a switching network to connect the series resistor segment, the analog signal is contained within, to the second parallel ADC. At second step, a fine conversion is made to determine the least signification bits by the second parallel ADC. The circuit requires 2(2$\frac{N}{2}$) comparators, 2(2$\frac{N}{2}$) resistors, and 2(2$\frac{N}{2}$) switches for N-bit resolution.

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Noise Automatic Gain Control to Stabilize Radar Performance (레이다 성능 안정화를 위한 잡음 AGC)

  • Kim, Kwan-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.132-137
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    • 2007
  • The dynamic range of the radar which uses digital signal processors is limited by ADC(Analog-to-Digital Converter). That parameter and ADC loss depend on the noise level of radar receiver. In order to stabilize the performance of radar systems, it is necessary to maintain the noise level constantly. This paper presents the noise AGC(Automatic Gain Control) concept that can keep the noise level constantly and proves that the concept is acceptable through the hardware test and evaluation.