• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.67-74
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• 2004

In this paper, a 3.3V 8-bit 500MSPS based on an interpolation architecture CMOS A/D converter is designed. In order to overcome the problems of high speed operation, a novel pre-amplifier, a circuit for the Reference Fluctuation, and an Averaging Resistor are proposed. The proposed Interpolation A/D Converter consists of Track ＆ Hold, four resistive ladders with 256 taps, 128 comparators, and digital blocks. The proposed A/D Converter is based on 0.35um 2-poly 4-metal N-well CMOS technology. The A/D Converter dissipates 440 mW at a 3.3 Volt single power supply and occupies a chip area of 2250um x 3080um.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.5 s.347
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• pp.1-10
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• 2006

In this paper, an 1.8V 8-bit 500MSPS CMOS A/D Converter is proposed. In order to obtain the resolution of 8bits and high-speed operation, a Cascaded-Folding Cascaded-Interpolation type architecture is chosen. For the purpose of improving SNR, Cascaded-folding Cascaded-interpolation technique, distributed track and hold are included [1]. A novel folding circuit, a novel Digital Encoder, a circuit to reduce the Reference Fluctuation are proposed. The chip has been fabricated with a $0.18{\mu}m$ 1-poly 5-metal n-well CMOS technology. The effective chip area is $1050{\mu}m{\times}820{\mu}m$ and it dissipates about 146mW at 1.8V power supply. The INL and DNL are within ${\pm}1LSB$, respectively. The SNDR is about 43.72dB at 500MHz sampling frequency.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.85-102
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• 1994

The purpose of this study was to analyze students' physics problem solving processes and to find the patterns of their problem spaces when high school and university students solved the physics problems. A total of 51 students in a high school and in two universities participated in this study. Their thinking processes in solving 5 physics problems on electric circuit were recorded by using 'thinking aloud' method and were transferal into protocols. 'The protocols were analyzed by the coding system of problem solving process. One of the major theoretical contributions of the computer simulation approach to problem solving is the idea of problem space. Such a concept of problem space was applied to physics problems on electric circuit in this study, and students' protocols were analyzed by the basic problem spaces which were made up from the item analysis by the researcher. The results are as follows: 1) On the average 4.0 test items among 5 ones were solved successfully by all subjects, and all of the items were solved correctly by only 19 persons among all of them. 2) In regard to the general steps of problem solving process, there was little difference for each item between the good solvers and the poor ones. But according to the degree of difficulty of task there was a good deal of difference. For a complex problem all of 4 steps were used by most of students, but for a simple one only 3 steps except evaluating step were used by most of them. 3) It was found in this study that most of students used mainly the microscopic approach, that is, a method of applying Ohm's law on electric circuit simply and immediately, not using the properties of electric circuits. And also it was observed that most of students used the soloing tom below, that is, a solving path in which they were the first to calculate physical Quantities of circuit elements, before they caught hold of the meaning of the given problem regardless of the degree of difficulty.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.173-176
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• 1999

In this work, a A/D converter is implemented to obtain 8bit resolution at a conversion rate of 10Msample/s for video applications. Proposed architecture is designed low power A/D converter that pipelined architecture consists of flash A/D converter. This architecture consists of two identical stages that consist of sample/hold circuit, low power comparator, voltage reference circuit and MDAC of binary weighted capacitor array. Proposed A/D converter is designed using $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS technology The SNR is 76.3dB at a sampling rate of 10MHz with 3.9MHz sine input signal. When an 8bit 10Msample/s A/D converter is simulated, the Differential Nonlinearity / Integral Nonlinearity (DNL/ INL) error are ${\pm}0.5/{\pm}2$ LSB, respectively. The power consumption is 13mW at 10Msample/s.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 1988

For the purpose of making the detection range of fish detection system more longer and computerizing the system a parametric sound source, a timer and a digitizing circuit for the Apple II computer have been studied. The parametric sound of 5 KHz generated by passing AND gate two signals from carrier signal generator of 200KHz with modulator of 5KHz. This parametric acoustic source of 5KHz difference frequency had more higher directional resolution of 10 degrees than single frequency sound of 200KHz. Peripheral interface adaptor MC 6821 was adopted for interfacing to the Apple II personal computer. The timer consisted of six decade binary coded decimal counters (74 LS 190), and the digitizing circuit consisted of a sample and hold (LF 398) and an A/D converter(ADC 0808). The timer with 10KHz clock pulse had the measuring time from 0.1msec to 100sec. This time measuring range was satisfactory for the aim of the fish finding acoustic system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.148-158
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• 2012

This paper presents the design of the incremental delta-sigma ADC. The proposed circuit consists of pre-amplifier, S & H circuit, MUX, delta-sigma modulator, and decimation filter. Third-order discrete-time delta-sigma modulator with 1-bit quantization were fabricated by a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The designed circuit show that the modulator achieves 87.8 dB signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) over a 5 kHz signal bandwidth and differential nonlinearity (DNL) of ${\pm}0.25$ LSB, integral nonlinearity (INL) of ${\pm}0.2$ LSB. Power consumption of delta-sigma modulator is $941.6{\mu}W$. It was decided that N cycles are 200 clock for 16-bits output.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.800-807
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• 2006

To enhance the conversion speed more fast, we separate the determination process of MSB and LSB with the two independent ADC circuits of the Incremental Sigma Delta ADC. After the 1st Incremental Sigma Delta ADC conversion finished, the 2nd Incremental Sigma Delta ADC conversion start while the 1st Incremental Sigma Delta ADC work on the next input. By determining the MSB and the LSB independently, the ADC conversion speed is improved by two times better than the conventional Extended Counting Incremental Sigma Delta ADC. In processing the 2nd Incremental Sigma Delta ADC, the inverting sample/hold circuit inverts the input the 2nd Incremental Sigma Delta ADC, which is the output of switched capacitor integrator within the 1st Incremental Sigma Delta ADC block. The increased active area is relatively small by the added analog circuit, because the digital circuit area is more large than analog. In this paper, a 14 bit Extended Counting Incremental Sigma-Delta ADC is implemented in $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS process with a single 2.5 V supply voltage. The conversion speed is about 150 Ksamples/sec at a clock rate of 25 MHz. The 1 MSB is 0.02 V. The active area is $0.50\;x\;0.35mm^{2}$. The averaged power consumption is 1.7 mW.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.187-194
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• 2003

Delay testing has become an area of focus in the field of digital circuits as the speed and density of circuits have greatly improved. This paper proposes a new scan flip-flop and test algorithm to overcome some of the problems in delay testing. In the proposed test algorithm, the second test pattern is generated by scan justification, and the first test pattern is processed by functional justification. In the conventional functional justification, it is hard to generate the proper second test pattern because it uses a combinational circuit for the pattern. The proposed scan justification has the advantage of easily generating the second test pattern by direct justification from the scan. To implement our scheme, we devised a new scan in which the slave latch is bypassed by an additional latch to allow the slave to hold its state while a new pattern is scanned in. Experimental results on ISCAS'89 benchmark circuits show that the number of testable paths can be increased by about 45 % over the conventional functional justification.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06b
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• pp.537-540
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• 2004

In this paper, CMOS A/D converter with 6bit 2GSPS Nyquist input at 1.8V is designed. In order to obtain the resolution of 6bit and the character of high-speed operation. we present an Interpolation type architecture. In order to overcome the problems of high speed operation further a novel encoder, a circuit for the Reference Fluctuation, an Averaging Resistor and a Track & Hold for the improved SNR are proposed. The proposed Interpolation ADC consists of Track & Holt four resistive ladders with 64 taps, 32 comparators and digital blocks. The proposed ADC is based on 0.18um 1-poly 3-metal N-well CMOS technology, and it consumes 145mW at 1.8V power supply.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.54-60
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• 1994

In this paper, the multi-sensor signal processing IC is designed. It consists of an analog multiplexer for selection of multi-sensor signals, active filters for noise rejection and signal amplification, and a sample and hold circuit for interface with digital signal processing. By implementing these circuits with CMOS transistors, integration, low power dissipation and miniaturization of the total signal processing system have been made possible.