• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.24-28
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• 2010

A simulation study of a current-mode direct current (DC)-DC buck converter is presented in this paper. The converter, with a fully integrated power module, is implemented by using sense method metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) and bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (BiCMOS) technology. When the MOSFET is used in a current sensor, the sensed inductor current with an internal ramp signal can be used for feedback control. In addition, the BiCMOS technology is applied in the converter for an accurate current sensing and a low power consumption. The DC-DC converter is designed using the standard $0.35\;{\mu}m$ CMOS process. An off-chip LC filter is designed with an inductance of 1 mH and a capacitance of 12.5 nF. The simulation results show that the error between the sensing signal and the inductor current can be controlled to be within 3%. The characteristics of the error amplification and output ripple are much improved, as compared to converters using conventional CMOS circuits.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제35S권9호
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• pp.19-27
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 E-GSM 단말기용 RF Transceiver 칩의 송신부에 대한 회로설계 및 시뮬레이션, 공정 및 제작, 평가를 수행하였다. AMS社의 0.8${\mu}m$ BiCMOS 공정으로 제작된 RF-IC 칩은 $10 {\times} 10mm$ 크기의 80 pin TQFP로 제작되었으며, 3.3V에서 동작하고 양호한 RF 특성을 보였다. 본 논문에서는 IF/RF 상향변조 주파수 혼합기, IF/RF polyphase, 전치증폭기 등을 포함하는 송신부의 개발 결과를 서술하고자 한다. 송산단의 측정결과 E-GSM RF 송신단 주파수인 880~915MHz에서 양호하게 동작하며, 소비전류는 71mA이고 총출력은 8.2dBm으로 측정되었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 I
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• pp.270-273
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• 2003

The design, fabrication, and measured result of a 4.7 GHz differential VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) for a 5.2 GHz WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) applications is presented. The circuit is designed in a 0.35 mm technology employing three metal layers. The design is based on a fully integrated LC tank using spiral inductors. Measured tuning range is 10% of oscillation frequency with a control voltage from 0 to 3.0 V. Oscillation power of $\square$ 2.3 dBm at 4.63 GHz is measured with 21 mA DC current at 3V supply. The phase noise is $\square$ 104.17 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.211-214
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• 2000

In this paper, a discrete-time S-dimensional chaos circuit (S = 1,2,3,4,...) with array structure is proposed. By employing array structure which consists of 1-dimensional chaos circuits, the proposed circuit can achieve long working-life. This feature is favorable to exploit as a building block of chaos application systems to get into home electric appliances. Further more, the proposed circuit synthesized using switched-current (SI) techniques is suitable for integration. Concerning the proposed circuit, SPICE simulations are performed. SPICE simulations showed that the proposed circuit can generate the chaotic signals in spite of the fault of the building blocks of the proposed circuit. The proposed circuit is integrable by a standard BiCMOS technology.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.198-206
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• 2011

This paper presents a new programmable compensation circuit (PCC) for a System-on-Chip (SoC). The PCC is integrated with $0.18-{\mu}m$ BiCMOS SiGe technology. It consists of RF Design-for-Testability (DFT) circuit, Resistor Array Bank (RAB) and digital signal processor (DSP). To verify performance of the PCC we built a 5-GHz low noise amplifier (LNA) with an on-chip RAB using the same technology. Proposed circuit helps it to provide DC output voltages, hence, making the RF system chain automatic. It automatically adjusts performance of an LNA with the processor in the SoC when it goes out of the normal range of operation. The PCC also compensates abnormal operation due to the unusual PVT (Process, Voltage and Thermal) variations in RF circuits.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제29A권11호
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• pp.97-106
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• 1992

In integrated circuits, protection circuits are required to protect the internal nodes from the harmful ESD(Electrostatic discharge). This paper discusses the characteristics of the circuit components in ESD protection circuitry in order to analyze the ESD phenomina, and the design methodalogy of ESD protection circuits, using test pattern with a variation of the number of diode and transistor. The test devices are fabricated using a 0.8$\mu$m CMOS process. SPICE simulation was also carried out to relate output node voltage and measured ESD voltage. With increasing number of diodes and transistors in protection circuit, the ESD voltage also increases. The ESD voltage of the bi-directional circuit for both input and output was 100-300[V], which in higher than that of only output(uni-directional) circuit. In addition, the ESD protection circuit with the diode under the pad region was useful for the reduction of chip size and parasitic resistance. In this case, ESD voltage was improved to a value about 400[V].

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.106-111
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• 2015

일반적으로 기준전압 생성기는 쌍안정성을 가지므로 이를 올바른 상태에서 동작시키기 위해서는 적절한 시동회로가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 저전압 기준전압 발생기를 위한 새로운 시동회로를 제안한다. 제안한 시동회로는 기준전압발생기의 상태를 결정하기 위하여 기준전압 발생기의 BJT에 흐르는 전류를 측정한다. 기준전압발생기가 올바른 상태에 있을 때 이 전류가 가지는 값은 잘 정의되므로 이를 통하여 회로의 상태를 신뢰성 있게 결정할 수 있다. 전류는 내부에 오프셋 전압을 갖는 비교기를 이용하여 측정하였다. 130nm CMOS 공정을 이용하여 설계를 하였으며, 레이아웃에서 추출한 기생 성분을 포함하는 Monte-Carlo 시뮬레이션을 통해 회로의 성능을 검증 하였다. 제안된 시동회로를 사용하는 기준전압발생기에 850mV 이상의 전원 전압이 가해질 경우, 소자에 미스매치가 있더라도 안정적으로 기준전압 생성기가 시동하는 것을 확인하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.269-274
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• 2004

Current delivery system, in which the analog current produced by a unique DAC circuit is stored into a current-memory circuit and delivered in a time-divided sequence, shows variation of output current as low as 4% in a current source data-driver IC for AM-OLED driven by a current-programmed method without any fuse repairing after fabrication. This driver IC has 54 outputs and can sink constant current as low as 3 ${\mu}A$ with 6-bit analog levels. Such a low current level without variation can hardly be obtained by an ordinary MOS transistor because the current level is in the sub-threshold region and changes exponentially with threshold voltage variation. Thus we adopted a current mirror circuit composed of bipolar transistors to supply well-controlled current within a nano-ampere range.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권12호
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• pp.1644-1651
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• 1995

A data and clock recovery integrated circuit for MAC (Multiplexed Analog Component) TV standard is described. The chip performs the recovery of a system clock from a digitally encoded voice signal, clamping of a video signal for DC-level restoration, and precise gain control of a video signal in the presence of a large amplitude variation. A PLL (Phase Locked Loop) is used for timing recovery and a new gain control circuit is proposed which enhances its accuracy and dynamic range by employing two identical four-quadrant analog multipliers. The chip is designed in full custom with 1.5um BiCMOS technology, and layout verification is completed by post-simulation with the extracted circuit.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.875-880
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• 2018

This paper proposes a novel combined compensation structure in the infrared receiver chip. For the infrared communication chip, the current-voltage (I-V) convert circuit is crucial and important. The circuit is composed by the transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and the combined compensation structures. The TIA converts the incited photons into photocurrent. In order to amplify the photocurrent and avoid the saturation, the TIA uses the combined compensation circuit. This novel compensation structure has the low frequency compensation and high frequency compensation circuit. The low frequency compensation circuit rejects the low frequency photocurrent in the ambient light preventing the saturation. The high frequency compensation circuit raises the high frequency input impedance preserving the sensitivity to the signal of interest. This circuit was implemented in a $0.6{\mu}m$ BiCMOS process. Simulation of the proposed circuit is carried out in the Cadence software, with the 3V power supply, it achieves a low frequency photocurrent rejection and the gain keeps 109dB ranging from 10nA to $300{\mu}A$. The test result fits the simulation and all the results exploit the validity of the circuit.