• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.458-465
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• 2013

This paper proposes a novel soft-switched auxiliary resonant circuit to provide a Zero-Voltage-Transition at turn-on for a conventional PWM boost converter in a PFC application. The proposed auxiliary circuit enables a main switch of the boost converter to turn on under a zero voltage switching condition and simultaneously achieves both soft-switched turn-on and turn-off. Moreover, for the purpose of an intelligent multi-chip power module fabrication, the proposed circuit is designed to satisfy several design constraints including space saving, low cost, and easy fabrication. As a result, the circuit is easily realized by a low rated MOSFET and a small inductor. Detail operation and the circuit waveform are theoretically explained and then simulation and experimental results are provided based on a 1.8 kW prototype PFC converter in order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed circuit.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.645-653
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• 2016

This paper demonstrates the performance of a metal-substrate power module with multiple fabricated chips for a high current electrical application, and evaluates the proposed module using a 1.5-kW sinusoidal brushless direct current (BLDC) motor. Specifically, the power module has a hybrid structure employing a single-layer heat-sink extensible metal board (Al board). A fabricated motor driver IC and trench gate DMOSFET (TDMOSFET) are implemented on the Al board, and the proper heat-sink size was designed under the operating conditions. The fabricated motor driver IC mainly operates as a speed controller under various load conditions, and as a multi-phase gate driver using an N-ch silicon MOSFET high-side drive scheme. A fabricated power TDMOSFET is also included in the fabricated power module for three-phase inverter operation. Using this proposed module, a BLDC motor is operated and evaluated under various pulse load tests, and our module is compared with a commercial MOSFET module in terms of the system efficiency and input current.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2014

3차원 적층 패키지(3D integrated package) 에서 초소형 패키지 내에 적층되어 있는 칩들의 발열로 인한 열 신뢰성 문제는 3차원 적층 패키지의 핵심 이슈가 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 TSV(through-silicon-via) 기술을 이용한 3차원 적층 패키지의 열 특성을 분석하기 위하여 수치해석을 이용한 방열 해석을 수행하였다. 특히 모바일 기기에 적용하기 위한 3D TSV 패키지의 열 특성에 대해서 연구하였다. 본 연구에서 사용된 3차원 패키지는 최대 8 개의 메모리 칩과 한 개의 로직 칩으로 적층되어 있으며, 구리 TSV 비아가 내장된 인터포저(interposer)를 사용하여 기판과 연결되어 있다. 실리콘 및 유리 소재의 인터포저의 열 특성을 각각 비교 분석하였다. 또한 본 연구에서는 TSV 인터포저를 사용한 3D 패키지에 대해서 메모리 칩과 로직 칩을 사용하여 적층한 경우에 대해서 방열 특성을 수치 해석적으로 연구하였다. 적층된 칩의 개수, 인터포저의 크기 및 TSV의 크기가 방열에 미치는 영향에 대해서도 분석하였다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 메모리 칩과 로직 칩의 위치 및 배열 형태에 따른 방열의 효과를 분석하였으며, 열을 최소화하기 위한 메모리 칩과 로직 칩의 최적의 적층 방법을 제시하였다. 궁극적으로 3D TSV 패키지 기술을 모바일 기기에 적용하였을 때의 열 특성 및 이슈를 분석하였다. 본 연구 결과는 방열을 고려한 3D TSV 패키지의 최적 설계에 활용될 것으로 판단되며, 이를 통하여 패키지의 방열 설계 가이드라인을 제시하고자 하였다.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제11B권3호
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• pp.112-118
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• 2001

In the near future, the voltage of power system for passenger vehicle will be changed to 42V from existing 14V./ Because of increasing power and voltage ratings used in the vehicle the motor drive system has high switching dv/dt and it generates electromagnetic interference (EMI) To solve these problems multi-level inverter system may be used The feature of multi-level inverter is the output voltage to be synthesized from several levels of voltage Because of this feature high switching dv/dt and EMI can be reduced in the multi-level inverter system But as the number of level is increased manufacturing cost is getting expensive and system size is getting large. Because of these disadvantages the application of multi-level inverter has been restricted only to high power drives. The method to reduce manufacturing cost and system size is to integrate circuit of multi-level inverter into a few chips But isolated power supply and signal isolation circuit using transformer or opto-coupler for drive circuit are obstacles to implement the integrated circuit (IC) In this paper a drive circuit of 4-level inverter suitable for integration to hybrid or one chip is proposed In the proposed drive circuit DC link voltage is used directly as the power source of each gate drive circuit NPN transistors and PNP transistors are used to isolate to transfer the control signals. So the proposed drive circuit needs no transformers and opto-couplers for electrical isolation of drive circuit and is constructed only using components to be implemented on a silicon wafer With th e proposed drive circuit 4- level inverter system will be possible to be implemented through integrated circuit technology Using the proposed drive circuit 4- level inverter system is constructed and the validity and characteristics of the proposed drive circuit are proved through the experiments.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

In this paper, the IC(Integrated Circuit) for multi-channel synchronous communication was designed by using FPGA and VHDL language. The existing chips for synchronous communication that has been used commercially are composed for one to two channels. Therefore, when communication system with three channels or more is made, the cost becomes high and it becomes complicated for communication system to be realized and also has very little buffer, load that is placed into Microprocessor increases heavily in case of high speed communication or transmission of high-capacity data. The designed IC was improved the function and performance of communication system and reduced costs by designing 8 synchronous communication channels with only one IC, and it has the size of transmitter/receiver buffer with 1024 bytes respectively and consequently high speed communication became possible. It was designed with a communication signal of a form various encoding. To detect errors of communications, the CRC-ITU-T logic and channel MUX logic was designed with hardware logics so that the malfunction can be prevented and errors can be detected more easily and input/output port regarding each communication channel can be used flexibly and consequently the reliability of system was improved. In order to show the performance of designed IC, the test was conducted successfully in Quartus simulation and experiment and the excellence was compared with the 85C3016VSC of ZILOG company that are used widely as chips for synchronous communication.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2011

In this paper, the IC(Integrated Circuit) for multi-channel synchronous communication was designed by using FPGA and VHDL language. The existing chips for synchronous communication that has been used commercially are composed for one to two channels. Therefore, when communication system with three channels or more is made, the cost becomes high and it becomes complicated for communication system to be realized and also has very little buffer, load that is placed into Microprocessor increases heavily in case of high speed communication or transmission of high-capacity data. The designed IC was improved the function and performance of communication system and reduced costs by designing 8 synchronous communication channels with only one IC, and it has the size of transmitter/receiver buffer with 1024 bytes respectively and consequently high speed communication became possible. It was designed with a communication signal of a form various encoding. To detect errors of communications, the CRC-ITU-T logic and channel MUX logic was designed with hardware logics so that the malfunction can be prevented and errors can be detected more easily and input/output port regarding each communication channel can be used flexibly and consequently the reliability of system was improved. In order to show the performance of designed IC, the test was conducted successfully in Quartus simulation and experiment and the excellence was compared with the 85C3016VSC of ZILOG company that are used widely as chips for synchronous communication.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2006

Single-electron transistor (SET)-based logic cells and SET/FET hybrid integrated circuits have been fabricated on SOI chips. The input-output voltage transfer characteristic of the SET-based complementary logic cell shows an inverting behavior where the output voltage gain is estimated to be about 1.2 at 4.2K. The SET/FET output driver, consisting of one SET and three FETs, yields a high voltage gain of 13 and power amplification with a wide-range output window for driving next circuit. Finally, the SET/FET literal gate for a multi-valued logic cell, comprising of an SET, an FET and a constant-current load, displays a periodic voltage output of high/low level multiple switching with a swing as high as 200mV. The multiple switching functionality of all the fabricated logic circuits could be enhanced by utilizing a side gate incorporated to each SET component to enable the phase control of Coulomb oscillations, which is one of the unique characteristics of the SET-based logic circuits.

• KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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• 제11C권2호
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• pp.23-27
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• 2001

Microarray-based DNA chips provide an architecture for multi-analyte sensing. In this paper, we report a new approach for DNA chip microarray fabrication. Multifunctional DNA chip microarrays were made by immobilizing many kinds if DNAs on transducers (particles). DNA chip microarrays were prepared by randomly distributing a mixture of the particles on a chip pattern containing thousands of micro meter-scale sites. The particles occupied different sites from array to array. Each particle cam be distinguished by a tag that is established on the particle. The particles were arranged on the chip pattern by the random fluidic self-assembly (RFSA) method, using hydrophobic interaction.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2001

Practical implementation of the SFQ technology in most application requires more than single-chip-level circuit complexity. Multiple chips have to be integrated with a technology that is reliable at cryogenic temperatures and supports an inter-chip data transmission speed of tens of GHz. In this work, we have studied two basic issues in building large RSFQ circuits. The first is the reliable inter-chip SFQ pulse transfer technique using Multi-Chip-Module (MCM) technology. By noting that the energy contained in an SFQ pulse is less than an attojoule, it is not very surprising that the direct transmission of a single SFQ pulse through MCM solder bump connectors can be difficult and an innovative technique is needed. The second is the recycling of the bias currents. Since RSFQ circuits are dc current biased the large RSFQ circuits need serial biasing to reduce the total amount of current input to the circuit.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.28-37
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 FPGA와 VHDL을 이용하여 다채널 비동기 통신용 IC를 설계하였다. 기존에 상용되고 있는 대부분의 비동기 통신용 IC들은 최대 1~2채널(Channel)로 구성되어 있다. 따라서 2채널 이상의 통신 시스템을 구성할 때 원가가 높아지고 구현하기도 복잡해진다. 그리고 매우 적은 송수신 버퍼(Buffer)를 가지고 있으므로 고속으로 대용량의 데이터를 전송할 경우 마이크로프로세서에 걸리는 부하가 많아지게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 비동기 통신 채널 8개를 단 한개의 IC로 설계하여 원가 절감 및 기능과 성능을 향상 시키도록 설계하였으며, 송수신 버퍼의 크기를 각각 256 바이트로 설계함으로써 고속의 통신을 가능하게 하였다. 또한 통신시 오동작을 방지하기 위해 디지털(Digital) 필터 및 첵섬(Check-sum) 로직을 설계하여 신뢰성을 향상시켰으며, 채널 먹스 로직을 설계하여 각 채널별 입/출력을 자유롭게 선택하도록 하여 통신 채널에 대한 입/출력 포트를 유연하게 사용할 수 있도록 설계하였다. 이와 같이 설계된 다채널 비동기 통신 IC를 ALTERA사의 Cyclone II Series EP2C35F672C8과 QuartusII V8.1을 이용하여 로직을 합성 및 시뮬레이션 하였다. QuartusII 시뮬레이션과 실험에서 성공적으로 수행되었으며, 설계된 IC의 우수성을 보이기 위해 비동기 통신 칩으로 많이 사용되고 있는 TI(Texas Instruments)사의 TL16C550A, ATMEL사의 ATmega128 범용 마이크로 콘트롤러와 수행시간 및 성능을 비교하여 본 논문에서 설계된 다채널 비동기 통신용 IC의 우수함을 확인하였다.