• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

In this paper, a broadband RF module is designed and tested for 2.4GHz band applications. The RF module is composed of a low noise amplifier (LNA) with a three stage amplifier, a single ended gate mixer, matching circuits, a hairpin line band pass filter and a Chebyshev low pass filter to convert the radio frequency (RF) into the intermediate frequency (IF). The LNA has a high gain and stability, and the single ended gate mixer has a high conversion gain and wide dynamic range. In the analysis of the broadband RF module, the composite harmonic balance technique is used to analyze the operating characteristics of an RF module circuit. The RF module has a 55.2dB conversion gain with a 1.54dB low noise figure, $-120{\sim}-60dBm$ wide RF power dynamic range, -60dBm low harmonic spectrum and a good isolation factor among the RF, IF, and local oscillator (LO) ports.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.7C
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• pp.658-666
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• 2007

In general, the earlier linear-phase MAXFLAT(maximally flat) lowpass FIR filters have the main disadvantage of a gain response in the half frequency band $(0{\leq}w{\leq}{\pi}/2)$ by the closed form transfer functions used in design techniques for realizing them. Moreover, most of them has existent problems as follows : ripple error in the stopband, gentle-cutoff attenuation, phase and group delay and inexact cutoff frequency response. It is due to the approximation algorithms such as Chebyshev norm and Remez exchange which are used to approach MAXFLAT and linear-phase characteristics in frequency domain. In this paper, a new mathematically closed-form transfer function is introduced for the design of MAXFLAT lowpass FIR filters which have the zero-phase and wideband-gain response. In addition, we verify that the closed-form transfer function is easily realized due to our generalized formulas derived newly by using MAXFLAT conditions including an arbitrary cutoff point. This method is, therefore, useful for "simple and quick designs". Conclusively, we propose a technique for the design of new zero-phase wideband MAXFLAT lowpass FIR filters which can achieve sharp-cutoff attenuation exceeding 250 dB almost everywhere.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1942_1943
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• 2009

무선통신 시스템의 소형화와 저가격, 고품질, 다기능 재료 및 첨단 가공 기술과 연계된 필터설계 및 제작 기술에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 그러나 무선통신 시스템은 주파수라는 한정된 자원을 사용하기 때문에 주파수 자원의 효율적 관리를 위한 규제나 방안이 필요하고. 이에 따라서 여러 가지 대책과 방안이 필요로 하고 있다. 그래서 필터의 성능개선을 위한 연구가 본질 적으로 중요하게 되었다. 본 논문은 체비세프(Chebyshev)필터와 버터워스(Butterworth)필터를 이용한 대역통과(band pass) 필터를 제안한다. 이 필터는 안정화된 통과대역과 빠른 주파수 응답을 얻기위해 6차 체비세프필터와 8차 버터워스필터를 결합 하였다. 측정된 대역통과 필터는, 차단 영역을 구분하는 스커트(skirt)특성은 날카롭게(sharp) 되었고 통과대역의 평탄도 또한 개선되어짐을 볼 수 있다. 제안된 필터의 중심주파수는 2.5GHz, 대역폭은 200MHz이고, 대역내 평탄도는 0.5dB, 경사도는 오차가 60dB일때 체비세프는 210MHz, 버터워스는 340MHz, 체비세프-버터워스는 290MHz가 되어 버터워스 보다 좋게 되었으며 극점의 배치도 안정적인 결과를 얻었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.128-132
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• 2017

In this thesis, a BPF(band-pass filter) at the center frequency of 2.14GHz, and bandwidth of 20MHz is designed and implemented using high Q dielectric resonators with ${\varepsilon}_r=38$. The DR(dielectric resonator) is resonated by $TE_{01{\delta}}$-mode and it has a hole in the center of DR. The BPF consists of 6-poles dielectric resonators and the characteristic of elliptic function is obtained by non-adjacent coupling. It has the average insertion loss of 0.97dB and the return loss over 25dB in its passband. In this thesis, the frequency selectivity is more improved by the coupling characteristics between non-adjacent resonators than that of dielectric resonator filters with a Chebyshev response.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.3079-3085
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• 2014

This paper suggests a power level controllable frequency up-converter which is designed and fabricated using both the filtering technology consisted with only passive devices and a multi-level digital attenuator. The suggested frequency up-converter simultaneously realizes the low power consumption and the low cost model. Because of the possibility for controlling power levels, it is possible to use the suggested frequency up-converter for wide spectral range. According to the experimental results, the average gain value of 0.75dB is obtained for the bandwidth of 160MHz at the center frequency of 1,200MHz. Especially, it is confirmed that the power level can be controlled from 10 to -21.5dBm through the digital attenuator.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.685-690
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• 2013

This paper has proposed a multi-channel and wide gain-range baseband circuit blocks for the IEEE 802.15.4g MR-OFDM SUN systems. The proposed baseband circuit blocks consist of two negative-feedback VGAs, an active-RC 5th-order chebyshev low-pass-filter, and a DC-offset cancellation circuit. The proposed baseband circuit blocks provide 1 dB cut-off frequencies of 100 kHz, 200 kHz, 400 kHz, and 600 kHz respectively, and achieve a wide gain-range of +7 dB~+84 dB with 1 dB step. In addition, a DC-offset cancellation circuit has been adopted to mitigate DC-offset problems in direct-conversion receiver. Simulation results show a maximum input differential voltage of $1.5V_{pp}$ and noise figure of 42 dB and 37.6 dB at 5 kHz and 500 kHz, respectively. The proposed I-and Q-path baseband circuits have been implemented in $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology and consume 17 mW from a 1.8 V supply voltage.