• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.6
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• pp.30-39
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• 2017

A digital calibration technique based on digital-domain averaging for cyclic ADC is proposed. The proposed calibration compensates for nonlinearity of ADC due to capacitance mismatch of capacitors in 1.5-bit/stage MDAC. A 1.5-bit/stage MDAC with non-matched capacitors has symmetric residue plots with respect to the ideal residue plot. This intrinsic characteristic of residue plot of MDAC is reflected as symmetric A/D transfer functions. A corrected A/D transfer function can be acquired by averaging two transfer functions with non-linearity, which are symmetric with respect to the ideal analog-digital transfer function. In order to implement the aforementioned averaging operation of analog-digital transfer functions, a 12-bit cyclic ADC of this work defines two operational modes of 1.5-bit/stage MDAC. By operating MDAC as the first operational mode, the cyclic ADC acquires 12.5-bits output code with nonlinearity. For the same sampled input analog voltage, the cyclic ADC acquires another 12.5-bits output code with nonlinearity by operating MDAC as the second operational mode. Since analog-digital transfer functions from each of operational mode of 1.5-bits/stage MDAC are symmetric with respect to the ideal analog-digital transfer function, a corrected 12-bits output code can be acquired by averaging two non-ideal 12.5-bits codes. The proposed digital calibration and 12-bit cyclic ADC are implemented by using a $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS process in the form of full custom. The measured SNDR(ENOB) and SFDR are 65.3dB (10.6bits) and 71.7dB, respectively. INL and DNL are measured to be -0.30/-0.33LSB and -0.63/+0.56LSB, respectively.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.303-317
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• 2013

Two novel clocking strategies for a high-speed multi-channel serializer-deserializer (SERDES) are proposed in this paper. Both of the clocking strategies are based on groups, which facilitate flexibility and expansibility of the SERDES. One clocking strategy is applicable to moderate parallel I/O cases, such as high density, short distance, consistent media, high temperature variation, which is used for the serializer array. Each group within the strategy consists of a full-rate phase-locked loop (PLL), a full-rate delay-locked loop (DLL), and two fixed phase alignment (FPA) techniques. The other is applicable to more awful I/O cases such as higher speed, longer distance, inconsistent media, serious crosstalk, which is used for the deserializer array. Each group within the strategy is composed of a PLL and two DLLs. Moreover, a half-rate version is chosen to realize the desired function of 1:2 deserializer. Based on the proposed clocking strategies, two representative ICs for each group of SERDES are designed and fabricated in a standard $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. Measurement results indicate that the two SERDES ICs can work properly accompanied with their corresponding clocking strategies.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.131-143
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• 1996

In this paper, we propose the improved structure of fully interconnected ATM Switch to develop the small sized switch element and represent practical implementation of switch network. As the part II of the full study about structure and implementation of fully interconnected ATM Switch, this paper especially describes the implementation of an ATM switching element with 8 input port and 8 output port at 155 Mbits/sec each. The single board switching element is used as a basic switching block in a small sized ATm switch for ATM LAN Hub and customer access node. This switch has dedicated bus in 12 bit width(8 bit data + 4 bit control signal) at each input and output port, bit addressing and cell filtering scheme. In this paper, we propose a practical switch architecture with fully interconnected buses to implement a small-sized switch and to provide multicast function withoutany difficulty. The design of switching element has become feasible using advanced CMOS technology and Embedded Gate Array technology. And, we also represent Application Specific Integrated Circuit(ASIC) of Switch Output Multiplexing Unit(SOMU) and 12 layered Printed Circuit Board for interconnection network of switch.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.468-472
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• 2004

In this paper a VLSI design for the automatic magnetizing system has been presented. This is the design of a peripheral controller, which magnetizes CRTs and computers monitors and controls the automatic inspection system. We implemented a programmable peripheral interface(PPI) circuit of the control and protocol module for the magnetizer controller by using a O.8um CMOS SOG(Sea of Gate) technology of ETRI. Most of the PPI functions has been confirmed. In the conventional method, the propagation/ramp delay model was used to predict the delay of cells, but used to model on only a single cell. Later, a modified "apos;Linear delay predict model"apos; was suggested in the LODECAP(LOgic Design Capture) by adding some factors to the prior model. But this has not a full model on the delay chain. In this paper a new "apos;delay predict equationapos;" for the design of the timing control block in PPI system has been suggested. We have described the detail method on a design of delay chain block according to the extracted equation and applied this method to the timing control block design.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.2441-2446
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• 2018

This paper presents a radio frequency-to-direct current (RF-to-DC) converter for special RF power harvesting application at 915 MHz. The major featured components of the proposed RF-to-DC converter is the combination of a cross-coupled rectifier and an active diode: first, the cross-coupled rectifier boosts the input voltage to desired level, and an active diode blocks the reverse current, respectively. A prototype was implemented using $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, and the performance was proven from the fact that the targeted RF harvesting system's full-operation with higher power efficiency; even if the system's input power gets lower (e.g., from nominal 0 to min. -12 dBm), the proposed RF-to-DC converter constantly provides 1.47 V, which is exactly the voltage level to drive follow up system components like DC-to-DC converter and so on. And, maximum power conversion efficiency is 82 % calculated from the 0 dBm input power, 2.3 mA load current.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.16-21
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• 2007

A Dual-Path Voltage Multiplier for passive RFID Tags was proposed and fabricated by using a 0.25um CMOS process with additional steps for schottky diodes. The proposed circuit needs only 4 additional diodes, and the area increment compared to conventional one is negligible in multi-stage voltage multipliers. The simulation and measurement results show that the output power capability of proposed multiplier are about two times larger than the conventional half-wave multiplier.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.274-281
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• 2005

A new resonant pulse converter for energy harvesting is proposed. The converter transfers energy from a low-voltage AC current to a battery. The low-voltage AC current source is an equivalent of the piezoelectric generator, which converts the mechanical energy to the electric energy. The converter consists of a full-bridge rectifier having four N-type MOSFETs and a boost converter haying N-type MOSFET and P-type MOSFET instead of diode. Switching of MOSFETs utilizes the capability of the $3^{rd}$ regional operation. The operational principles and switching method for the power control of the converter are investigated with the consideration of effects of the parasitic capacitances of MOSFETs. Simulation and experiment are performed to prove the analysis of the converter operation and to show the possibility of the $\mu$W energy harvesting.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.36C no.3
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• pp.35-46
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• 1999

A derotator VLSI which compensates for the frequency and phase errors of a received signal in digital communication systems was developed employing a CORDIC algorithm. The CORDIC circuit directly rotates the input signal according to the phase error information, thus is much simpler than the conventional derotator architecture which consists of a DDFS (Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer) and a complex multiplier. Since a derotator needs only small phase error accumulation, a fast direction sequence generation method which exploits the linearity of the arctangent function in small angles is utilized in order to enhance the operating speed. The chip was designed and implemented using a $0.6\mu\textrm{m}$ triple metal CMOS process by the full custom layout method. The whole chip size is $6.8\textrm{mm}^2$ and the maximum operating frequency is 25 MHz.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.20-29
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a design of video and audio single chip encoder/decoder for portable multimedia application. The single-chip called as video audio signal processor (VASP) consists of a video signal processing block and an audio single processing block. This chip has mixed hardware/software architecture to combine performance and flexibility. We designed the chip by partitioning between video and audio block. The video signal processing block was designed to implement hardware solution of pixel input/output, full pixel motion estimation, half pixel motion estimation, discrete cosine transform, quantization, run length coding, host interface, and 16 bits RISC type internal controller. The audio signal processing block is implemented with software solution using a 16 bits fixed point DSP. This chip contains 142,300 gates, 22 Kbits FIFO, 107 kbits SRAM, and 556 kbits ROM, and the chip size is $9.02mm{\times}9.06mm$ which is fabricated using 0.5 micron 3-layer metal CMOS technology.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.436-439
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• 2011

본 논문은 클록 보정회로를 가진 1V 2.56-GS/s 6-bit flash analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 제안한다. 제안하는 ADC 구조에서 아날로그 블록은 단일 T/H와 2단의 프리앰프, 그리고 비교기를 사용된다. 2단의 프리앰프와 비교기의 출력에 옵셋의 크기를 줄이기 위하여 저항 평균화 기법을 적용하였다. 디지털 블록은 quasi-gray rom base 구조를 사용한다. 3입력 voting 회로로 flash ADC에서 발생하기 쉬운 bubble error를 제거하였으며, 고속 동작을 위해 단일 클록을 사용하는 TSPC F/F로 구현한다. 제안하는 flash ADC는 클록 듀티 비를 조절할 수 있는 클록 보정회로를 사용한다. 클록 보정 회로는 비교기 클록 듀티 비를 조절하여 리셋 시간과 evaluation 시간의 비율을 최적화함으로 dynamic 특성을 확보한다. 제안한 flash ADC는 1V 90nm의 CMOS 공정에서 설계되었다. Full power bandwidth인 1.2 GHz 입력에 대하여 ADC 성능을 시뮬레이션을 통해 확인하였다. 설계된 flash ADC의 면적과 전력소모는 각각 $800{\times}400\;{\mu}m^2$와 193.02mW 이다.