• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.143-146
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• 2021

This work presents an automated transistor biasing scheme for analog integrated circuits. In order to effectively bias the transistor at a desired operating point, the proposed method uses a linearized transistor circuit model along with the curve fitted expressions obtained from the pre-simulated I-V characteristics of the actual transistor. As a result, the transistor size that leads to the desired operating point can be easily determined without heavily relying on the circuit simulator, which will lead to significant design time reduction. Furthermore, the proposed method is applied to an actual amplifier circuit where the design time based on the proposed biasing method showed 10× faster than the conventional design approach using the circuit simulator.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.105-107
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• 2017

The self-biasing circuit through a feedback resistor is applied to a gallium nitride (GaN) distributed power amplifier (PA) monolithic microwave circuit (MMIC). The self-biasing circuit is a useful scheme for biasing depletion-mode compound semiconductor devices with a negative gate bias voltage, and is widely used for common source amplifiers. However, the self-biasing circuit is rarely used for PAs, because the large DC power dissipation of the feedback resistor results in the degradation of output power and power efficiency. In this study, the feasibility of applying a self-biasing circuit through a feedback resistor to a GaN PA MMIC is examined by using the high operation voltage of GaN high-electron mobility transistors. The measured results of the proposed GaN PA are the average output power of 41.1 dBm and the average power added efficiency of 12.2% over the 6-16 GHz band.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.1263-1268
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• 2008

In this paper, the low noise power amplifier for GaAs FET ATF-10136 is designed and fabricated with active bias circuit and self bias circuit. To supply most suitable voltage and current, active bias circuit is designed. Active biasing offers the advantage that variations in the pinch-off voltage($V_p$) and saturated drain current($I_{DSS}$) will not necessitate a change in either the source or drain resistor value for a given bias condition. The active bias network automatically sets a gate-source voltage($V_{gs}$) for the desired drain voltage and drain current. Using resistive decoupling circuits, a signal at low frequency is dissipated by a resistor. This design method increases the stability of the LNA, suitable for input stage matching and gate source bias. The LNA is fabricated on FR-4 substrate with active and self bias circuit, and integrated in aluminum housing. As a results, the characteristics of the active and self bias circuit LNA implemented more than 13 dB and 14 dB in gain, lower than 1 dB and 1.1 dB in noise figure, 1.7 and 1.8 input VSWR at normalized frequency $1.4{\sim}1.6$, respectively.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.226-233
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• 2013

This paper presents a two-stage power-efficient class-AB operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) based on an adaptive biasing circuit suited to low-power dissipation and low-voltage operation. The OTA shows significant improvements in driving capability and power dissipation owing to the novel adaptive biasing circuit. The OTA dissipates only $0.4{\mu}W$ from a supply voltage of ${\pm}0.6V$ and exhibits excellent high driving, which results in a slew rate improvement of more than 250 times that of the conventional class-AB amplifier. The design is fabricated using $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.168-172
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a new adaptive biasing scheme for CMOS op-amps. The designed circuit has been used in an Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) with ${\pm}1$ V power supply, and it has improved the positive and negative slew rates from 2.92 V/msec to 1242 V/msec and from 1.56 V/msec to 133 V/msec respectively, while maintaining all the small-signal performance parameter values the same as that without adaptive biasing (as expected), however, there was a marginal decrease of the dynamic range. The most useful features of the proposed circuit are that it uses a very low number of components (thus not creating severe area penalty) and requires only 25 nW of extra stand-by power.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제33A권7호
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• pp.156-161
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• 1996

Accurate equivalent circuit modeling using multi-circuit optimization has been perfomred for detemining small-signal model of AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs. Three equivalent circuits for a cutoff biasing and two active biasing at different curretns are optimized simultaneously to fit gheir S parameters under the physics-based constrain that current-dependent elements for one of active circuits are connected to those for another circit multiplied by the ratio of two currents. The cutoff mode circuit and the physical constrain give the advantage of extracting physically acceptable parameters, because the number of unknown variables. After this optimization, three ses of optimized model S-parameters agree well with their measured S-parameters from 0.045 GHz to 26.5GHz.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2013

나노크기 MOSFET 공정에서 회로의 신뢰도에 영향을 미치는 음 바이어스 온도 불안정성(NBTI), 핫 캐리어 주입(HCI), 시간 의존 유전체 파손(TDDB) 등과 같은 노화 현상들에 의해서 회로 성능의 심각한 저하를 가져올 수 있다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서는 디지털회로에서 발생할 수 있는 노화를 극복할 수 있는 적응형 보상 회로를 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 보상회로는 노화에 의해 감소하는 회로 성능을 적응적으로 보상해 주기 위해서 노화 정도에 따라 파워스위치 폭을 조절할 수 있고, 순방향 바디 바이어싱 전압을 걸어줄 수 있는 파워 게이팅 구조를 사용하여서 45nm의 공정기술에서 설계되었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.785-793
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• 2007

In this paper, we present an integrated rail-to-rail fully differential operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) working at low-supply voltages (1.5 V) with reduced power consumption and showing high DC gain. An embedded adaptive biasing circuit makes it possible to obtain low stand-by power dissipation (lower than 0.17 mW in the rail-to-rail version), while the high DC gain (over 78 dB) is ensured by positive feedback. The circuit, fabricated in a standard CMOS integrated technology (AMS 0.35 ${\mu}m$), presents a 37 V/${\mu}s$ slew-rate for a capacitive load of 15 pF. Experimental results and high values of two quality factors, or figures of merit, show the validity of the proposed OTA, when compared with other OTA configurations.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.1429-1435
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 DC 바이어스 소자와 정전파괴 보호회로를 MMIC상에 모두 내장한 완전집적화 K/Ka밴드 광대역 증폭기 MMIC를 제작하였으며, 따라서 MMTC의 동작을 위해서는 프린트기판상의 외부소자가 불필요하였다 DC 바이어스 용량성소자로서는, 소형의 SrTiO3 (STO) 커패시터를 MMIC 내부에 집적하였으며, DC feed 소자로서는 소형의 LC병렬공진회로를 집적하였다. 그리고 정전파괴방지를 위해서는 소형의 LC병렬공진 정전파괴 보호회로를 MMIC의 입출력부에 내장하였다. 정전파괴 보호회로에 의해 정전파괴전압은 10 V에서 300 V까지 개선되었다. 광대역에 걸쳐서 양호한 RF특성과 안정도를 보장하기 위해서, 프리매칭 기법과 RC병렬 안정화 회로가 이용되었다. 제작된 MMIC는 K/Ka 밴드의 광대역(17-28 GHz)에 걸쳐서 $20{\pm}2$ dB의 전력이득, $21{\pm}1.5$ dBm의 1dB 이득 압축점 (P1dB)의 양호한 RF특성을 보였다. 그리고 제작된 MMIC로부터 DC에서 동작주파수이상의 광대역에 걸쳐서 안정화 특성을 관찰 할 수 있었다. 제작된 MMIC의 면적은 $1.7{\pm}0.8$ mm2이었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.854-862
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• 1993

CMOS아날로그 및 아날로그 디지탈시스템은 여러 개의 기본회로로 구성되어지며 그중에서도 증폭회로 부분은 시스템의 성능을 결정할 수도 있는 중요한 블럭중에 하나이다. 증폭회로는 시스템에서 사용되어지는 용도에 따라서 여러가지 구조(고이득, 저전력, 고속회로등)를 가지며 이러한 증폭회로를 설계하기 위하여 증폭기내의 입력증폭단의 설계 방법도 다양하다. 본 논문에서는 CMOS 상보형 차동이득 구조를 갖는 새로운 형태의 입력 차동증폭 회로를 제안하였다. 제안된 회로는 CMOS 상보형 회로에 의하여 고이득 특성을 가지며, 바이어스 전류를 내부적으로 공급하여 전체 시스템 구성시, 바이어스회로를 구성하기 위한 트랜지스터의 수를 줄일 수 있다. 이 회로를 표준 $1.5{\mu}m$ 공정파라메타를 이용한 SPICE 시뮬레이션을 통하여 광범위하게 이용되고 있는 CMOS 차동증폭 회로와 비교해 본 결과, 오프셋, 위상마진등의 특성이 그대로 유지된 상태에서 이득이 배가 되었다. 또한 제안된 회로를 이용하여 높은 출력스윙(-4.5V-+4.5V)과 함께 7nsec(CL-1pF) 이하의 세틀링시간을 갖을 수 있는 CMOS비교기를 설계하였다.