• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.8
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• pp.56-63
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• 2010

This work proposes a 12b 100MS/s 0.13um CMOS pipeline ADC for battery-powered mobile video applications such as DVB-Handheld (DVB-H), DVB-Terrestrial (DVB-T), Satellite DMB (SDMB), and Terrestrial DMB (TDMB) requiring high resolution, low power, and small size at high speed. The proposed ADC employs a three-step pipeline architecture to optimize power consumption and chip area at the target resolution and sampling rate. A single shared and switched op-amp for two MDACs removes a memory effect and a switching time delay, resulting in a fast signal settling. A two-step reference selection scheme for the last-stage 6b FLASH ADC reduces power consumption and chip area by 50%. The prototype ADC in a 0.13um 1P7M CMOS technology demonstrates a measured DNL and INL within 0.40LSB and 1.79LSB, respectively. The ADC shows a maximum SNDR of 60.0dB and a maximum SFDR of 72.4dB at 100MS/s, respectively. The ADC with an active die area of 0.92 $mm^2$ consumes 24mW at 1.0V and 100MS/s. The FOM, power/($f_s{\times}2^{ENOB}$), of 0.29pJ/conv. is the lowest of ever reported 12b 100MS/s ADCs.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.21 no.4 s.100
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• pp.22-33
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• 2006

방송의 디지털 전환은 기존의 아날로그 방송에 비해 획기적으로 새로운 HD 화질과 3D입체음향의 방송 서비스가 가능하게 하였을 뿐만 아니라, 아날로그 방송에서는 불가능하였던 이동멀티미디어 방송이라는 새로운 서비스가 출현하게 하였다. 이동멀티미디어방송은 TV를 집 밖으로 이끌어내어 차를 타고 갈 때, 걸어갈 때 및 자리를 옮겨 다닐때도 휴대단말기를 통해서 언제 어디서나 원하는 TV 시청 및 음악 청취를 할 수 있는방송 서비스를 실현함으로써, 방송과 통신의 컨버전스를 유도하는 역할 및 나아가서 유비쿼터스 방송망 구성에 적용성을 제시하는 등 우리의 삶에 새로운 시대를 열어가고 있다. 현재 지상파 이동멀티미디어 방송 시스템은 세계적으로 매우 활발하게 연구 및 서비스가 추진중이며, 대표적인 예로는 크게 World DAB를 중심으로 한 T-DMB, DVB를 중심으로 한 DVB-H 그리고 Qualcomm을 중심으로 한 Media FLO 등이 있다. 본고에서는 지상파 이동멀티미디어 방송시스템에 대한 소개와 각 시스템의 표준화 및 서비스 추진 현황에 대해 소개한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.614-621
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• 2011

This paper presents design of a wide tuning range digitally controlled oscillator(DCO) for Mobile-DTV applications. DCO is the key element of the ADPLL block that generates oscillation frequencies. We proposed a binary delay chain(BDC) structure, for wide tuning range DCO, modifying conventional fixed delay chain. The proposed structure generates oscillation frequencies by delay cell combination which has a variable delay time of $2^i$ in the range of $0{\leq}i{\leq}n-1$. The BOC structure can reduce the number of delay cells because it make possible to select delay cell and resolution. We simulated the proposed DCO by Cadence's Spectre RF tool in 1.8V chartered $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. The simulation results showed 77MHz~2.07GHz frequency range and 3ps resolution. The phase noise yields -101dBc/Hz@1MHz at Mobile-DTV maximum frequency 1675MHz and the power consumption is 5.87mW. The proposed DCO satisfies Mobile-DTV standards such as ATSC-M/H, DVB-H, ISDB-T, T-DMB.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.124-128
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• 2009

This raper proposes a dual-bandstop filter, which is based on a metamaterial transmission line using the composite right/left-handed (CRLH) and dual composite right/left-handed (D-CRLH) structures. The metamaterial structure is used for miniaturization and dual-bandstop operation at the TDMB frequency range (195 MHz) and DVB-T/H frequency range (670 MHz). The size of the proposed filter is $30{\times}15\;mm$, and the -10 dB bandstop fractional bandwidth is approximately 73 % and 50 % at each frequency, respectively.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.287-297
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose an efficient variable-length radix-8/4/2 FFT architecture for OFDM systems. The FFT processor is based on radix-8 FFT algorithm and also supports radix-4 or radix-2 FFT computation. We are using efficient "In-place" memory access method to maintain conflict-free data access and minimize memory size. Also we replace a very large lookup table with a twiddle factor generator which consumes less area then a ROM-based lookup table. The proposed FFT processor performs variable-length FFT including 64, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 and 8192 points which cover all the required FFT lengths used in 802.11a, 802.16a, DAB, DVB-T, VDSL and ADSL.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.15-26
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• 2008

T-DMB, DVB-H, MediaFLO, ISDB-T와 같은 1세대 휴대 이동 방송 기술 개발 및 표준화가 완료된 후 본격적인 서비스가 도입되고 있으며, T-DMB에서는 다채널 및 고품질 AV 서비스, 3D와 같은 신규 미디어 서비스 제공을 위한 기술 개발이 추진되고 있다. 본고 에서는 T-DMB의 신규 기술 개발 동향과 향후의 방송 통신 융합 환경에 대비한 차세대 휴대 이동 방송 기술 개발에 대한 현황을 소개한다. 그리고 해외 휴대 방송 기술 동향을 함께 살펴본다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.48-51
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• 2008

우리나라는 Eureka-147 방식의 디지털 라디오를 이동 멀티미디어로 확장하기로 하고 지상파 DMB로 불리는 비디오규격을 개발하였다. 지상파 DMB의 국제표준화를 위해 우리나라가 2004년 3월에 시스템 개요와 필드 테스트 결과를 ITU-R에 기고함에 따라 ITU-R 내에서 본격적인 이동 멀티미디어 표준화 논의가 시작되었고 우리나라 지상파 DMB 외에 일본의 ISDB-T, 노키아의 DVB-H와 퀄컴의 FLO 등을 대상으로 이동 멀티미디어 시스템 표준으로 개발하게 되었다. 3년여에 걸쳐 각 국간의 첨예한 이해관계에 의한 의견충돌과 합의를 거쳐 표준안이 작성되었으며, 표준화 방식은 휴대수신용으로 한정하고 각 시스템들을 알파벳에 따른 멀티미디어 시스템으로 명명하였다. 우리나라 지상파 DMB는 유럽 진출을 염두에 두고 디지털 음성방식 A인 Eureka-147 과의 호환성을 강조하기 위해 멀티미디어 시스템 A로 이름을 붙이기로 하였다. 지난 4월에 열린 ITU-R SG 6 회의에서 이동 멀티미디어의 표준화를 최종적으로 결정되었고 이후 회원국의 동의회신 절차를 거쳐 2007년 12월에 지상파 DMB가 ITU에서 휴대이동방송 시스템 중 하나로서 승인되었다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.63-69
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• 2008

Reconfigurable RF one-chip solutions have been researched with the objective of designing for smaller-sized and more economical RF transceiver and it can be applied to a vehicular wireless terminal. The proposed voltage-controlled oscillator satisfies the targeted frequency range ($4.2{\sim}5.4\;GHz$) and the frequency planning which correspond to the standards such as CDMA(IS-95), PCS, GSM850, EGSM, WCDMA, WLAN, Bluetooth, WiBro, S-DMB, DSRC, GPS, and DVB-H/DMB-H/L(L Band). In order to improve phase noise performance, PMOS is adopted in the cross-coupled pair, the tail current source and MOS varactor in this VCO and differential-typed switching is proposed in capacitor array. Based on the measurement results, a total power dissipation is $5.3{\sim}6.0\;mW$ at 1.8 V power supply voltage. The oscillator is tuned from 4.05 to 5.62 GHz; The tuning range is 33%. The phase noise is -117.16 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency and the FOM (Figure Of Merit) is $-180.84{\sim}-180.5$.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.499-504
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• 2017

A UHF CMOS variable gain low-noise amplifier (LNA) is designed for mobile digital TV tuners. The proposed LNA adopts a feedback topology to cover a wide frequency range from 474 to 868 MHz, and it supports the notch filter function for the interoperability with the GSM terminal. In order to handle harmonic distortion by strong interferers, the gain of the proposed LNA is step-controlled while keeping almost the same input impedance. The proposed LNA is implemented in a $0.11{\mu}m$ CMOS process and consumes 6 mA at a 1.5 V supply voltage. In the measurement, it shows the power gain of greater than 16 dB, NF of less than 1.7 dB, and IIP3 of greater than -1.7 dBm for the UHF band.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.496-503
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• 2013

In an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system, conventional interpolation techniques cannot correctly balance performance and overhead when estimating dynamic long-delay channels in single frequency networks (SFNs). In this study, classical filter analysis and design methods are employed to derive a complex interpolator for maximizing the resistible echo delay in a channel estimator on the basis of the correlation between frequency domain interpolating and time domain windowing. The coefficient computation of the complex interpolator requires a key parameter, i.e., channel length, which is obtained in the frequency domain with a tentative estimation scheme having low implementation complexity. The proposed complex adaptive interpolator is verified in a simulated digital video broadcasting for terrestrial/handheld receiver. The simulation results indicate that the designed channel estimator can not only handle SFN echoes with more than $200{\mu}s$ delay but also achieve a bit-error rate performance close to the optimum minimum mean square error method, which significantly outperforms conventional channel estimation methods, while preserving a low implementation cost in a short-delay channel.