• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.170-183
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• 2013

This paper gives an overview of fractional-N phase-locked loops (PLLs) with practical design perspectives focusing on a ${\Delta}{\Sigma}$ modulation technique and a finite-impulse response (FIR) filtering method. Spur generation and nonlinearity issues in the ${\Delta}{\Sigma}$ fractional-N PLLs are discussed with simulation and hardware results. High-order ${\Delta}{\Sigma}$ modulation with FIR-embedded filtering is considered for low noise frequency generation. Also, various architectures of finite-modulo fractional-N PLLs are reviewed for alternative low cost design, and the FIR filtering technique is shown to be useful for spur reduction in the finite-modulo fractional-N PLL design.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.212-224
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• 2018

For maintaining a reliable and secure power system, this paper describes the design and implement of a single-phase grid-connected inverter with an enhanced phase-locked loop (PLL) and excellent power control performance. For designing the enhanced PLL and power regulator, a full-bridge voltage-controlled inverter (VCI) is investigated. When the grid frequency deviates from its reference values, the output frequency of the VCI is unstable with an oscillation of 2 doubling harmonics. The reason for this oscillation is analyzed mathematically. This oscillation leads to an injection of harmonics into the grid and even causes an output active power oscillation of the VCI. For eliminating the oscillation caused by a PLL, an oscillation compensation method is proposed. With the proposed method, the VCI maintains the original PLL control characteristics and improves the PLL robustness under grid frequency deviations. On the basis of the above analysis, a power regulator with the primary frequency and voltage modulation characteristics is analyzed and designed. Meanwhile, a small-signal model of the power loops is established to determine the control parameters. The VCI can accurately output target power and has primary frequency and voltage modulation characteristics that can provide active and reactive power compensation to the grid. Finally, simulation and experimental results are given to verify the idea.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 V
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• pp.2625-2628
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• 2003

Phase locked loops are widely used in many applications such as frequency synthesis, clock/data recovery and clock generation. In nearly all the PLL applications, low jitter and fast locking time is required. Without using adaptive loop filter, this paper proposes very simple method for improving locking time and jitter reduction simultaneously in charge pump PLL(CPPLL) using Daul Phase/Frequency Detector(Dual PFD). Based on the proposed scheme, the lock time is improved by 23.1％, and the jitter is reduced by 45.2％ compared with typical CPPLL.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.94-97
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• 2004

Step-edge Josephson junctions (SEJ) have been fabricated on sapphire substrates with in situ deposited films of CeO$_2$ buffer layer and YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7}$ films on the low angle steps. Direct coupled SQUID magnetometers with the SEJ were formed on 1 cm X 1 cm R-plane sapphire substrates. Typical 5-${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$-wide Josephson junctions have R$_{N}$ of 3 Ω and I$_{c}$ of 50 $mutextrm{A}$ at 77 K. The direct coupled SQUID magnetometers were designed to have pickup coils of 50-${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$-wide 16 parallel loops on the 1 cm X 1 cm substrates with outer dimension of 8.8 mm X 8.8 mm. The SEJ SQUID magnetometers exhibit relatively low 1/f noise even with dc bias control, and could be stably controlled by flux-locked loops in the magnetically disturbed environment. Field noise of the do SQUID was measured to be 200∼300 fT/Hz$^{1}$2/in the white noise region and about 2 pT/Hz$^{1}$2/ at 1 Hz when measured with dc bias method.hod.d.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1904-1917
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• 2016

The moving average filter (MAF) is widely utilized to improve the disturbance rejection capability of phase-locked loops (PLLs). This is of vital significance for the grid-integration and stable operation of power electronic converters to electric power systems. However, the open-loop bandwidth is drastically reduced after incorporating a MAF into the PLL structure, which makes the dynamic response sluggish. To overcome this shortcoming, some new techniques have recently been proposed to improve the transient response of MAF-based PLLs. In this paper, a comprehensive performance comparison of advanced MAF-based PLL algorithms is presented. This comparison includes HPLL, MPLC-PLL, QT1-PLL, and DMAF-PLL. Various disturbances, such as grid voltage sag, voltage flicker, harmonics distortion, phase-angle and frequency jumps, DC offsets and noise, are considered to experimentally test the dynamic performances of these PLL algorithms. Finally, an improved positive sequence extraction method for a HPLL under the frequency jumps scenario is presented to compensate for the steady-state error caused by non-frequency adaptive DSC, and a satisfactory performance has been achieved.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권2C호
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• pp.191-200
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 이중 루프 PLL을 이용한 IMT-2000용 주파수 합성기를 설계 및 제작하였다. 위상잡음 특성을 개선하기 위해서 기준 루프와 두 개의 루프로 나누고 기준루프에는 변형 클램프 형태의 전압제어 발진기와 루프 필터를 최적화 함으로서 위상잡음을 개선하고 메인 루프에는 동축형 유전체 공진기를 사용한 전압제어 발진기와 위상 검출기로 SPD(Sampling Phase Detector)를 사용함으로서 분주기의 사용을 없애고 개루프 이득을 크게 함으로서 위상잡음 특성을 개선하였다. 이렇게 제작된 주파수 합성기는 1.81GHz의 중심주파수에 가변범위는 158.5MHz이고 위상잡음은 100kHz offset에서 -120..66dB로 우수한 특성을 나타내었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제47권11호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2010

본 논문은 입력 클록의 고주파 위상 잡음 억제와 정확한 듀티 사이클을 갖는 체배 주파수 생성을 위하여 Voltage-Controlled Oscillator(VCO)/Voltage-Controlled Delay Line(VCDL) 혼용기반의 다중 위상 Delay-Locked Loop(DLL)를 제시한다. 이 제안된 구조에서, 다중 위상 DLL은 혼용 VCO/VCDL의 입력 단에 nMOS 소스 결합 회로 기반의 이중 입력 차동 버퍼를 사용한다. 이것은 고주파 입력 위상 잡음 억제를 위하여 전 대역 통과 필터 특성을 갖는 기존 DLL의 입/출력 위상 전달을 저주파 통과 필터 특성을 갖는 PLL의 입/출력 위상 전달로 쉽게 변환시킬 수 있다. 또한, 제안된 DLL은 추가적인 보정 제어 루프 없이 단지 듀티 사이클 보정 회로와 위상 추적 루프를 이용하여 체배 주파수의 듀티 사이클 에러를 보정할 수 있다. $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 이용한 시뮬레이션 결과에서, 제안된 DLL의 출력 위상 잡음은 800MHz의 입력 위상 잡음을 갖는 1GHz 입력 클록에 대하여 -13dB 이하로 개선된다. 또한, 40%~60%의 듀티 사이클 에러를 갖는 1GHz 동작 주파수에서, 체배 주파수의 듀티 사이클 에러는 2GHz 체배 주파수에서 $50{\pm}1%$이하로 보정된다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.1133-1138
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• 2007

DLLs(Delay Locked Loops) have widely been used in many systems in order to achieve the clock synchronization. A SMD (Synchronous Mirror Delay) structure is used both for skew reduction and for DCC (Duty Cycle Correction). In this paper, a SMD based DLL with DCC using Reduced Delay Lines is proposed in order to reduce the clock skew and correct the duty cycle. The merged structure allows the forward delay array to be shared between the DLL and the DCC, and yields a 25% saving in the number of the required delay cells. The designed chip was fabricated using a $0.25{\mu}m$ 1-poly, 4-metal CMOS process. Measurement results showed the 3% duty cycle error when the input signal ranges from 80% to 20% and the clock frequency ranges from 400MHz to 600MHz. The locking operation needs 3 clock and duty correction requires only 5 clock cycles as feature with SMD structure.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.48-55
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• 2017

This paper proposes a new link structure that transmits power, clock, and data through a single optical fiber for a future automotive network. A pulse-position modulation (PPM) technique is adopted to guarantee a DC-balanced signal for robust power transmission regardless of transmitted data pattern. Further, circuit implementations and theoretical analyses for the proposed PPM transceiver are described in this paper. A prototype transceiver fabricated in 65-nm CMOS technology, is used to verify the PPM signaling part of the proposed system. The prototype achieves a $10^{-13}$ bit-error rate and 0.188-UI high frequency jitter tolerance while consuming 14 mW at 800 Mb/s.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.131-139
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• 2000

A design of CPS attitude determination system is described in this paper. The designed system is a low cost high precision 24 channel single frequency GPS(Global Positioning System) receiver which provides a precise absolute heading and pitch (or roll) as well as a position. It uses commercial chip-set and consists of two RF parts, two signal-tracking parts, a processor, memory parts and I/Os. In order to determine precise attitude, accurate carrier phase measurements and an efficient integer ambiguity resolution method are required. To meet these requirements, a PLL (Phase Locked Loops) is designed, and an algorithm called ARCE (Ambiguity Resolution with Constraint Equation) is adopted. The hardware and software structure of the system will be described, and the performance evaluated under various conditions will be presented. The test results will promise that more reliable navigation system be possible because the system provides all navigational information such as position, velocity, time and attitude.