• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.36-41
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• 1986

A new microwave wideband frequency discdriminator is described, which is based on the theory of transmission line frequency discriminator known as having the widest bandwidth. It has been realized with microstrip lines and slot lines. It is experimentally verified that the discriminator is linear in a 1.6 GHz bandwidth centered at frequency of 3.2 GHz and has return loss of 20dB or more in that bandwidth.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.49-56
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• 1979

A new microwave frequency disriminator in MIC is described which was developed using realization theory appropriate to a transmission line frequency discriminator designed to be used in the VHF range. It is experimentally verified that the discriminator is linear in a 600 MHz bandwith and has VSWR less than 1.2 in that range in agreement with the theoretical model.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.248-253
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• 2013

Frequency detector is a circuit that converts the frequency to a digital representation and finds its application in various fields such as modulator and synchronization circuitry. In this paper, a couple of first-order and second-order frequency discriminator structures are modeled and analyzed with their quantization noise sources. Also a delta-sigma frequency detector architecture is proposed. Through theoretical analysis and derived equations, the output noise is obtained, which is validated by simulation. The proposed all-digital frequency discriminator may be applied in the feedback path of the all-digital phase-locked loop.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.649-654
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• 2009

In this paper, an frequency tracking algorithm for weak signal tracking is proposed. The proposed frequency tracking algorithm uses a FMS (Fast Minus Slow) discriminator for frequency error estimation. This frequency tracking algorithm shows good frequency estimation performance under weak signal condition and is a computationally efficient for embedded software GNSS receiver. The software GNSS receiver implementing the proposed weak signal tracking algorithms could track GPS signal down to - 159dBm signal strength in the signal generator test and real GPS signal under dense urban condition.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.912-918
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• 2014

In this paper, a VHF band multi channel phase discriminator for direction finding equipment using tripple baseline interferometer technique is proposed. In order to measure simultaneously phase difference between IF(Intermediate Frequency) signals of the direction finding equipment, phase discriminator was designed to have parallel structure with multi channel, the phase correlator of phase discriminator was designed with I, Q mixer for reducing number of components. And digital LUT(Look Up Table) was applied for compensating error of phase discriminator due to phase unbalance of RF components. The measured phase accuracy of fabricated phase discriminator was 2 degree RMS(Root Mean Square) at 30 dB SNR condition, which is superior to the phase accuracy of conventional product.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.97-102
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• 1985

A new microwave transmission line frequency discriminator in MIC is described, which is composed of a branch-line hybrid 3dB coupler, a λ/2-short stub and a λ/4-opcn stub. It is experimentally verified that the discriminator is linear in a 400 MHz bandwidth at center frequency 4.94 GHz and has return loss more than 15dB in that range.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.42-48
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• 1979

In this paper, it is shown that a microwave frequency discriminator can be realized by use of a simple ring resonator. Its characteristics have been analyzed by employing Green's function and verified experimentally. The maximum frequency bandwidth obtained from the experiments is 45MHz at S-band(center frequency 50=3GHz).

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.246-253
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• 2013

Based on the conventional 2-6GHz digital frequency discriminator (DFD) using the phase unwrapping and least-squares techniques, we propose a new 2-18GHz DFD. To compensate for lowered-precision frequency estimation due to the expanded bandwidth, the proposed DFD design employs more delay lines, accordingly accompanying high complexity. Thus, a new computationally efficient frequency estimation algorithm is also presented to overcome such high computational burden. More specifically, the proposed frequency estimation algorithm is basically based on the conventional phase unwrapping technique, along with a new candidates selection for the unwrapped phases under the condition that the phase margin is known. As a result, the computational burden required for the least-squares technique can be reduced. Finally, simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, compared with those of the conventional DFD's.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.512-515
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• 2010

SIGINT(SIGnal INTelligence) includes several parameters intercepted by measurement and analysis of the RF(Radio frequency) signal from free space. One of the important parameters is frequency information. Expecially, in order to perform instantaneous frequency measurement of Radar and Missile seeker's RF signals, we use dedicated RF modules as a DFD(Digital Frequency Discriminator) to provide frequency information by measurement of the relative phase difference between signals via intended RF delay lines. It must measure and provide realtime based frequency information on short pulsed RF signal up to 100 nSec or less. This document proposes Ultra wideband DFD consisted of a RF input section of Wideband 4 channel RF delay line and correlator, a digital processing section to measure and provide frequency information from I/Q signal, and a frequency calibration section. Also, it will show design suitability based on test results measured under test condition of very short input pulse signals.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.341-346
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• 2014

This paper has presented the design and fabrication of phase correlator for wideband digital frequency discriminator (DFD) operating over the 6.0 to 18.0 GHz frequency range. Fabricated DFD phase correlator has been measured I or Q output signal, and analyzed frequency discrimination error. The operation of the proposed mixer type correlator has been analyzed by deriving some analytic equations. To design the phase correlator, this paper has modeled and simulated IQ mixer and 8-way power divider by using RF simulation tool. Designed phase correlator has fabricated and measured. The phase error and frequency discrimination error have been presented using by measured I and Q output signal. Over the 6.0~18.0 GHz range, the root mean square(RMS) phase error is $4.81^{\circ}$, RMS and frequency discrimination error is 1.49 MHz, RMS.