• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 하드웨어 기반의 영상 신호 윤곽선 검출을 위한 하드웨어기반의 알고리즘으로 CMOS 이미지 센서의 인접픽셀과 아날로그 상관기로 구성되는 윤곽선 검출기를 제안한다. 제안하는 이미지 윤곽 검출기는 각 열(column)마다 비교기를 공유하고, 비교기는 기준전압과 비교를 통해 대상 픽셀의 윤곽선 여부를 판별한다. 이미지 센서와 직접적으로 연결된 윤곽선 검출 회로는 기존의 연구와 비교하여 면적은 4배, 그리고 전력소모는 20 % 감소하는 결과를 보였다. 또한 외부에서 기준전압을 제어할 수 있어, 윤곽선 검출의 민감도를 조절하기에 유용한 장점을 가진다. 0.18 ${\mu}m$ CMOS 공정에서 제작된 칩은 34%의 fill factor를 가지며, 픽셀 당 0.9 ${\mu}W$의 전력소모를 가진다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.586-592
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 DT-CMOS(Dynamic Threshold voltage Complementary MOSFET) 스위칭 소자를 사용한 DC-DC Buck 컨버터를 제안하였다. 높은 효율을 얻기 위하여 PWM 제어방식을 사용하였으며, 낮은 온 저항을 갖는 DT-CMOS 스위치 소자를 설계하여 도통 손실을 감소시켰다. 제안한 Buck 컨버터는 밴드갭 기준 전압 회로, 삼각파 발생기, 오차 증폭기, 비교기, 보상 회로, PWM 제어 블록으로 구성되어 있다. 삼각파 발생기는 전원전압(3.3V)부터 접지까지 출력 진폭의 범위를 갖는 1.2MHz의 주파수를 생성하며, 비교기는 2단 증폭기로 설계되었다. 그리고 오차 증폭기는 70dB의 이득과 $64^{\circ}$의 위상여유를 갖도록 설계하였다. 또한 제안한 Buck 컨버터는 current-mode PWM 제어회로와 낮은 온 저항을 갖는 스위치를 사용하여 100mA의 출력 전류에서 최대 95%의 효율을 구현하였으며, 1mA 이하의 대기모드에도 높은 효율을 구현하기 위하여 LDO 레귤레이터를 설계하였으며, 또한 2개의 IC 보호 회로를 내장하여 신뢰성을 확보하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2007

This paper presents two novel compensation circuits for leakage current and power supply noise (PSN) in phase locked loop (PLL) using a nanometer CMOS technology. The leakage compensation circuit reduces the leakage current of the charge pump circuit which becomes more serious problem due to the thin gate oxide and small threshold voltage in nanometer CMOS technology and the PSN compensation circuit decreases the effect of power supply variation on the output frequency of VCO. The PLL design is based on a 32nm predictive CMOS technology and uses a 0.9V power supply voltage. The simulation results show that the proposed PLL achieves a 88% jitter reduction at 440MHz output frequency compared to the PLL without leakage compensator and its output frequency drift is little to 20% power supply voltage variations. The PLL has an output frequency range of $40M{\sim}725MHz$ with a multiplication range of 11023, and the RMS and peak-to-peak jitter are 5ps and 42.7ps, respectively.

• 센서학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.326-332
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• 2016

A novel CMOS temperature sensor with binary output is implemented by using fully differential switched-capacitor circuits for resistorless implementation of the temperature sensor core. Temperature sensing is based on the temperature characteristics of the pn diodes implemented by substrate pnp transistors fabricated using standard CMOS processes. The binary outputs are generated by using the charge-balance principle that eliminates the division operation of the PTAT voltage by the bandgap reference voltage. The chip was designed in a MagnaChip $0.35-{\mu}m$ CMOS process, and the designed circuit was verified using Spectre circuit simulations. The verified circuit was laid out in an area of $950{\mu}m{\times}557 {\mu}m$ and is currently under fabrication.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2007

In a high-speed flash style or a pipelining style analog-to-digital converter (A/D converter), the DC reference fluctuation caused by external noises becomes serious, as the sampling frequency is increased. To reduce the fluctuations in conventional A/D converters, capacitors have been simply used, but the layout area was large. Instead of capacitors, a low-noise and small-size DC reference circuit based on transmission gate (TG) is proposed in this paper. In order to verify the proposed technique, we designed and manufactured a 6-bit 2GSPS CMOS A/D converter. The A/D converter is designed with a 0.18um 1-poly 6-metal n-well CMOS technology, and it consumes 145mW at 1.8V power supply. It occupies the chip area of 977um by 1040um. The measured result shows that SNDR is 36.25 dB and INL/DNL is within 0.5LSB, even though the DC reference fluctuation is serious.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권12호
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• pp.2257-2261
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• 2007

A new CMOS transresistance amplifier for low-voltage analog integrated circuit design applications is presented. The proposed transresistance amplifier circuit based on common-source and negative feedback topology is compared with other recent reported transresistance amplifier. The proposed transresistance amplifier achieves high transresistance gain, gain-bandwidth with the same input/output impedance and the minimum supply voltage $2V_{DSAT}+V_T$. Hspice simulation using 1.8V TSMC $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology was performed and achieved $59dB{\Omega}$ transresistance gain which is above the maximum about $18dB{\Omega}$ compared to transresistance gain of the reported circuit.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1005-1008
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• 2000

This paper presents a simple method to estimate short-circuit power dissipation and propagation delay for static CMOS logic circuits. Short-circuit current expression is derived by accurately interpolating peak points of actual current curves which is influenced by the gate-to-drain coupling capacitance. The macro model and its expressions estimating the delay of CMOS circuits, which is based on the current modeling expression, are also proposed after investigating the voltage waveforms at transistor output modes. It is shown through simulations that the proposed technique yields better accuracy than previous methods when signal transition time and/or load capacitance decreases, which is a characteristic of the present technological evolution.

• 센서학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a block-based low-power complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor (CIS) with a simple pixel structure for power efficiency. This method, which uses an additional computation circuit, makes it possible to reduce the power consumption of the pixel array. In addition, the computation circuit for a block-based CIS is very flexible for various types of pixel structures. The proposed CIS was designed and fabricated using a standard CMOS 0.18 ${\mu}m$ process, and the performance of the fabricated chip was evaluated. From a resultant image, the proposed block-based CIS can calculate a differing contrast in the block and control the operating voltage of the unit blocks. Finally, we confirmed that the power consumption in the proposed CIS with a simple pixel structure can be reduced.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.174-179
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• 2017

We designed the CMOS analog integrate and fire (I&F) neuron circuit for driving memristor based on resistive-switching random access memory (RRAM). And we fabricated the RRAM device that have $HfO_2$ switching layer using atomic layer deposition (ALD). The RRAM device has gradual set and reset characteristics. By spice modeling of the synaptic device, we performed circuit simulation of synaptic device and CMOS neuron circuit. The neuron circuit consists of a current mirror for spatial integration, a capacitor for temporal integration, two inverters for pulse generation, a refractory part, and finally a feedback part for learning of the RRAM. We emulated the spike-timing-dependent-plasticity (STDP) characteristic that is performed automatically by pre-synaptic pulse and feedback signal of the neuron circuit. By STDP characteristics, the synaptic weight, conductance of the RRAM, is changed without additional control circuit.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제25권12호
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• pp.1236-1242
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 65-nm CMOS 공정을 이용하여 D-밴드 주파수 대역(110~170 GHz)의 전압 제어 발진기(voltage controlled oscillator)를 제작 및 측정을 수행하였다. 발진기의 구조는 푸쉬-푸쉬(push-push) 방식에 기반을 두고 있다. 제작된 전압 제어 발진기의 동작 주파수의 범위는 152.7~165.8 GHz로 측정되었으며 이때의 출력 전력은 -17.3 dBm에서 -8.7 dBm까지의 값을 보였다. 이 회로의 위상잡음(phase noise)은 10 MHz 오프셋에서 -90.9 dBc/Hz로 측정되었고, 측정용 패드를 포함한 제작된 칩의 크기는 $470{\mu}m{\times}360{\mu}m$이다.