• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권7호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 LED 백라이트를 위한 고속 스위칭 전류-펄스 드라이버(Current-Pulse Driver)를 제안하였다. 제안한 전류-펄스 드라이버는 드레인 정규화 전류미러(Regulated Drain Current Mirror : RD-CM)[1]와 고전압 NMOS 트랜지스터(High-Voltage NMOS Transistor : HV-NMOS)로 구성되었다. 동적 gain-boosting 앰프(Dynamic Gain-Boosting Amplifier : DGB-AMP)를 사용하여 전류-펄스 스위칭 응답속도를 향상시켰다. 출력 전류-펄스 스위치가 꺼졌을 때, RD-CM의 HV-NMOS 게이트 커패시턴스에 충전된 전하가 방전되지 않기 때문에 스위치가 다시 켜졌을 때, HV-NMOS 게이트 커패시턴스를 다시 충전할 필요가 없다. 제안한 전류-펄스 드라이버에서는 게이트 커패시턴스의 반복적인 충 방전 시간을 제거함으로써 전류-펄스 스위칭 동작을 고속으로 하도록 하였다. 검증을 위하여 SV/40V 0.5um BCD 공정으로 칩을 제작하였다. 제안한 전류-펄스 드라이버의 스위칭 지연시간을 기존 드라이버에서의 700ns에서 360ns로 줄일 수 있었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2007

A low-power compact driver for multistandard physical layer is presented. The proposed driver achieves low power and small area through the voltage-mode driver with trans-impedance configuration and the novel hybrid driver,. In the voltage-mode driver, a trans-impedance configuration alleviates the problem of limited common-mode range of error amplifiers and the area and power overhead due to pre-amplifier. For a standard with extended output swing, only current sources are added in parallel with the voltage-mode driver, which is named a 'hybrid driver'. The hybrid architecture not only increases output swing but reduces overall driver area. The overall driver occupies $0.14mm^2$. Power consumptions under 3.3-V supply are 24.5 mW for the voltage-mode driver and 44.5 mW for the hybrid driver.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.133-139
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• 2005

A monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) chip set consisting of a power amplifier, a driver amplifier, and a frequency doubler has been developed for automotive radar systems at 77 GHz. The chip set was fabricated using a 0.15 ${\mu}$ gate-length InGaAs/InAlAs/GaAs metamorphic high electron mobility transistor (mHEMT) process based on a 4-inch substrate. The power amplifier demonstrated a measured small signal gain of over 20 dB from 76 to 77 GHz with 15.5 dBm output power. The chip size is 2mm${\times}$ 2mm. The driver amplifier exhibited a gain of 23 dB over a 76 to 77 GHz band with an output power of 13 dBm. The chip size is 2.1mm${\times}$ 2mm. The frequency doubler achieved an output power of -6 dBm at 76.5 GHz with a conversion gain of -16 dB for an input power of 10 dBm and a 38.25 GHz input frequency. The chip size is 1.2mm ${\times}$ 1.2mm. This MMIC chip set is suitable for the 77 GHz automotive radar systems and related applications in a W-band.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.773-780
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• 2020

A 40 nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor carrier-aggregated drive amplifier with high linearity is presented for sub-GHz Internet of Things applications. The proposed drive amplifier consists of two high linear amplifiers, which are composed of five differential cascode cells. Carrier aggregation can be achieved by switching on both the driver amplifiers simultaneously and combining the two independent signals in the current mode. The common gate bias of the cascode cells is selected to maximize the output 1 dB compression point (P1dB) to support high-linear wideband applications, and is used for the local supply voltage of digital circuitry for gain control. The proposed circuit achieved an output P1dB of 10.7 dBm with over 22.8 dBm of output 3rd-order intercept point up to 0.9 GHz and demonstrated a 55 dBc adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) for the 802.11af with -5 dBm channel power. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the wideband carrier-aggregated drive amplifier that achieves the highest ACLR performance.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.213-216
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• 2008

The voltages for pixel electrodes on LCD panels are supplied with analog voltages from LCD Driver ICs (LDIs). The latest LDI developed for large LCD TV's has suffered from the degradation of analog output characteristics (target voltage: AVO and output voltage deviation: dVO). By the failure analysis, humps in $I_D-V_G$ curves have been observed in high voltage (HV) NMOS devices for input transistors in amplifiers. The hump is investigated to be the main cause of the deviation for the driving current in HV NMOS transistors. It also makes the matching between two input transistors worse and consequently aggravates the analog output characteristics. By simply modifying the active layout of HV NMOS transistors, this hump was removed and the analog characteristics (AVO &dVO) were improved significantly. In the help of the improved analog characteristics, it also became possible to reduce the size of the input transistors less than a half of conventional transistors and significantly improve the integration density of LDIs.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 II
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• pp.979-982
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• 2003

Due to the differential transmission technique and low voltage swing, LVDS has been widely used for high speed transmission with low power consumption. This paper presents the design and implementation of interface circuits for 1.5Gb/s operation in 0.35um CMOS technology. The interface circuit ate fully compatible with the low-voltage differential signaling(LVDS) standard. The LVDS proposed in this paper utilizes a sense amplifiers instead of the conventional differential pre-amplifier, which provides a 1.5Gb/s transmission speed with further reduced driver output voltage. Furthermore, the reduced driver output voltage results in reducing the power consumption.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제44권10호
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• pp.61-66
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• 2007

본 논문에서는LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) source driver IC에서 사용되는 고전압 op-amp의 출력 편차를 개선하기 위하여 전압 이득을 향상한 CMOS rail-to-rail 입/출력 op-amp를 제안하였다. 제안된 op-amp는 15 V 이상의 고전압 MOSFET의 과도한 channel length modulation에 의한 전압 이득의 감소로 offset 전압이 커지는 문제를 해결하기 위하여 cascode 구조를 갖는 floating current source 및 class-AB control단을 채용하고 있다. 제안된 op-amp는 HSPICE 시뮬레이션을 통하여 전압 이득이 기존 대비 30 dB 향상됨을 확인하였으며, onset 전압은 기존 6.84 mV에서 $400\;{\mu}V$ 이하로 개선됨을 확인하였다. 또한, 제안된 op-amp가 적용된 LCD source driver IC의 실측 결과 출력 편차는 기존 대비 2 mV 향상됨을 확인하였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.409-412
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• 2000

A high performance EEG signal measurement system is fabricated. It consists of high precision pre-amplifier and auto identification bandwidth unit. High precision pre-amplifier is composed of signal generator, signal amplifier with a impedance converter, body driver and isolation amplifier. The pre-amplifier is designed for low noise characteristics, high CMRR, high input impedance, high IMRR and safety, Auto identification bandwidth unit is composed of AD-converter and PIC micro-controller for real time processing EEG signal. The performance of EEG signal measurement system has been shown the classified bandwidth through the clinical demonstrations.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1163-1166
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• 1999

In this paper, A CMOS power amplifier for PCS is designed with 0.65-$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS technology. Differential cascode structure is used which has good reverse isolation and wide voltage swing. This amplifier circuits consist of three stages which are power amplification stage, driver stage and power control stage. We obtain output power of 30 ㏈m, IMD3 of -31㏈c and efficiency of 30 % at input power of 4 ㏈m.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권10호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2009

본 논문은 전력선 통신용(PLC) SoC ASIC으로 내장된 Analog Front-end(AFE)를 바탕으로 낮은 소비 전력과 저 가격을 달성할 수 있었으며, CMOS공정으로 구현된 AFE와, 1.8V동작의 Core Logic구동용 LDO, ADC, DAC와 IO pad를 구동하기 위한 LDO로 구성되어 있다. AFE는 Pre-amplifier, Programmable gain Amplifier와 10bit ADC의 수신 단으로 구성되며, 송신 단은 10bit differential DAC, Line Driver로 구성되어 있다. 본 ASIC은 0.18 um 1 Poly 5 Metal CMOS로 구현 되었으며, 동작전압은 3.3 V단일 전원만 사용하였고, 이때 소모 전력은 대기 시에 30mA이며, 동작 시 전력은 300mA으로 에코 디자인 요구를 만족하게 하였다. 본 칩의 Chip size는 $3.686\;{\times}\;2.633\;mm^2$ 이다.