• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2015

This paper proposes a 2.4 GHz RF oscillator with a very low close-in phase noise performance. This is composed of a low frequency crystal oscillator and three frequency multipliers such as two doubler (X2) and one tripler (X3). The proposed oscillator is implemented as a hybrid type circuit design using a discrete silicon bipolar transistor. The measurement results of the proposed oscillator structure show -115 dBc/Hz close-in phase noise at 10 kHz offset frequency, while only dissipating 5 mW from a 1-V supply. Its close-in phase noise level is very close to that of a low frequency crystal oscillator with little degradation of noise performance. The proposed structure which is consisted of a low frequency crystal oscillator and a frequency multiplier provides new method to implement a low power low close-in phase noise RF local oscillator.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.559-562
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• 2000

The problem of noise generation due to PWM switched-mode power converter has been widely noticed from the viewpoint of Electromagnetic Interference(EMI). Many kings of topologies for resonant converters have been developed both to overcome this noise problem and to attain high power efficiency. It is reported in references that resonant converters which are derived from PWM converter using resonant switch show much lower noise characteristics than PWM converter, and that current-mode resonant converter is more sensitive to stored charge in rectifying diode than voltage-mode counterpart concerning surge generation at diode’s turn-off. On the other hand, above mentioned resonant converters have defect of high-voltage stress on semiconductor switch and complicated circuit configuration. Hence, the simplified Forward-type resonant converter has been proposed and investigated due to its prominent features of simplicity of circuit configuration, low voltage stress and high stability. However, its noise characteristics still remain unknown. The purpose of this paper is to study quantitatively the noise characteristics of this simplified Forward-type resonant converter by experiment and analysis. The influence of parasitic elements and stored charge in rectifying diode on noise generation has been clarified.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2003년도 추계학술대회 논문집(III)
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• pp.628-633
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• 2003

Recently, the electronic circuit with microprocessor based control system instead of conventional analog circuit is widely used for rolling stock, and also these circuits are widely adopted for train control and monitoring in modem rapid transit system. Noise, distortion and attenuation are always present in electronic equipments and strictly limit performance. The purpose of this paper is to propose noise reduction technology for electronic equipments in rolling stock.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.397-404
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• 2010

The use of equivalent circuit models of piezoelectric energy harvesters is inevitable when power circuitry including rectifying and smoothing circuit elements is connected to them for evaluating DC electrical outputs. This is because it is difficult to incorporate the electro-mechanical coupling resulting from the additional circuitry into the conventional finite element analysis. Motivated by this observation, we propose a method to accurately extract the equivalent circuit parameters by using commercially available FEM software such as ANSYS which provides three-dimensional AC piezoelectric analysis. Then the equivalent circuit can be analyzed by circuit simulators such as $SimPowerSystems^{TM}$ of MATLAB. While the previous works have estimated the circuit parameters by experimental measurements or by analytical solutions developed only for limited geometries and boundary conditions, the proposed method has no such limitation because piezoelectric energy harvesters of any shapes and boundary conditions can be treated in FEM software. For the verification of the proposed method, multi-modal AC electrical power output by using a corresponding equivalent circuit is compared with that by ANSYS. The proposed method is then shown to be very useful in the subsequent evaluation of DC electrical output which is obtained by attaching a bridge diode and a storage capacitor to a piezoelectric energy harvester.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2009

이 논문에서는 혼성 신호 집적회로 상의 온칩 전원전압 잡음을 측정하는 회로에 대해 기술하였다. 온칩 상의 전원전압 잡음을 측정함으로서 잡음이 아날로그 회로에 미치는 영향을 확인하고 이를 보상하는 정보로도 사용할 수 있다. 이 회로는 동일하지만 독립적인 두 개의 채널로 구성되어 있다. 각 채널은 샘플 앤 홀드와 전압 제어 발진기를 포함한 주파수-디지털 변환 블록으로 구성되어 있다. 간단한 아날로그-디지털 변환 방법을 사용해서 시간 기준 전압 정보와 주파수 기준 전력 스펙트럼 밀도를 얻을 수 있다. 버퍼는 넓은 대역폭을 갖는 유닛 게인 버퍼로 동작하고, 전압 제어 발진기는 해상도를 높이기 위한 높은 증폭도를 가지고 있다. 이 회로는 0.18um CMOS 공정으로 설계되었으며 측정된 해상도는 2.06mV/count 이다. 전원잡음 측정회로는 15mW의 전력을 소모하며 $0.768mm^2$의 면적을 차지한다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.190-195
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 IMT-2000(International Mobile Telecommunication-2000) 휴대용 단말기 수신 주파수인 2.13 - 2.16 GHz 대역의 저잡음 중폭기(LNA ; Low Noise Amplifier)를 직렬 피드백과 저항결합 회로룰 이용하여 설계.구현하였다. 소스 리드에에 부가된 직렬 피드백은 중폭기의 저잡음 특성을 유지하면서 동시에 입력 반사계수를 작게 하고, 또한 대역내의 안정성을 향상시키는 역할을 하였다. 사용된 저항 결합회로는 저주파 영역의 신호를 정합 회로내의 저항을 통해 소모시킴으로써 저잡음 중폭기의 설계시 입력단 정함에 용이하였다. 저잡음 중폭기의 설계.제작에서 저잡음 증폭단에는 HP사의 GaAs FET인 ATF-10136을, 이득 증폭단에는 Mini-Circuit사의 내부 정합된 MMIC인 VNA-25를 사용하였다. 전원회로는 자기 바이어스(Self-bias) 회로를 사용하였고, 유전율 3.5인 테프론 기판 상에 장착하였다. 이렇게 제작된 저잡음 증폭기는 대역 내에서 30 dB 이상의 이득과 0.7 dB 이하의 잡음지수, $P_{ldB}$ 17 dB 이상, 그리고 입.출력 정재파비가 1.5 이하인 특성을 나타내었다.다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.300-308
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• 2010

This paper describes the development of a low-power electrocardiogram (ECG) touch sensor intended for the use with two dry metal electrodes. An equivalent ECG extraction circuit model encountered in a ground-free two-electrode configuration is investigated for an optimal sensor read-out circuit design criteria. From the equivalent circuit model, (1) maximum sensor resolution is derived based on the electrode's background thermal noise, which originates from high electrode-skin contact impedance, together with the input referred noise of instrumentation amplifier (IA), (2) 60 Hz electrostatic coupling from mains and motion artifact are also considered to determine minimum requirement of common mode rejection ratio (CMRR) and input impedance of IA. A dedicated ECG read-out front end incorporating chopping scheme is introduced to provide an input referred circuit noise of 1.3 ${\mu}V_{rms}$ over 0.5 Hz ~ 200 Hz, CMRR of IA > 100 dB, sensor resolution of 7 bits, and dissipating only 36 ${\mu}W$. Together with 8 bits synchronous successive approximation register (SAR) ADC, the sensor IC chip is implemented in 0.18 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology and integrated on a 5 cm $\times$ 8 cm PCB with two copper patterned electrodes. With the help of proposed touch sensor, ECG signal containing QRS complex and P, T waves are successfully extracted by simply touching the electrodes with two thumbs.

• 정보통신설비학회논문지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2010

In this paper, bandgap reference PTAT(Proportional to Absolute Temperature) circuit and flexible gain control of LNA(Low Noise Amplifier) which is usable in Zigbee system of 2.4GHz band are designed by TSMC $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS library. PTAT bandgap reference circuit is proposed to minimize the instability of CMOS circuit which may be unstable in temperature changes. This circuit is designed such that output voltage remains within 1.3V even when the temperature varies from $-40^{\circ}C$ to $-50^{\circ}C$ when applied to the gate bias voltage of LNA. In addition, the LNA is designed to be operated on 2.4GHz which is applicable to Zigbee system and able to select gains by changing output impedance using 4 NMOS operated switches. The simulation result shows that achieved gain is 14.3~17.6dB and NF (Noise Figure) 1.008~1.032dB.

• 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.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.180-185
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• 2003

The equivalent electroacoustic circuit approach has been conventionally used for the analysis of the multiple layer perforated plate system. However, it is found that an analogy error has been involved in the equivalent electroacoustic approach proposed by previous researchers for the element of straight pipe. Although the pipe between the perforated layers is a distributed element in the analogy, it has been treated as a parallel element by previous investigators. The analogy error is demonstrated by comparing the calculated absorption coefficients based on the parallel circuit and the distributed circuit, respectively, with the measured values by the two-microphone impedance tube method.