• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2008

The demand of wireless communication is increased rapidly due to the development of wireless communication systems, and many people have the great interest about the "RF system". The trend of the RF audio system is to design the system with less power consumption. In this paper, we explain the Software Algorithm Design of RF systems that is suitable for low power consumption.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.49-55
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• 2015

This paper proposes a 2.4 GHz RF oscillator with a very low close-in phase noise performance. This is composed of a low frequency crystal oscillator and three frequency multipliers such as two doubler (X2) and one tripler (X3). The proposed oscillator is implemented as a hybrid type circuit design using a discrete silicon bipolar transistor. The measurement results of the proposed oscillator structure show -115 dBc/Hz close-in phase noise at 10 kHz offset frequency, while only dissipating 5 mW from a 1-V supply. Its close-in phase noise level is very close to that of a low frequency crystal oscillator with little degradation of noise performance. The proposed structure which is consisted of a low frequency crystal oscillator and a frequency multiplier provides new method to implement a low power low close-in phase noise RF local oscillator.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(5)
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• pp.61-64
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• 2000

This paper describes a RF Down-Conversion Mixer for mobile communication systems. This circuit achieves low voltage operation and low power consumption by reducing stacked devices of conventional gilbert cell mixer. In order to reduce stacked devices, we use source-follower structure. The proposed RF Down-Conversion mixer operates up to 1.85GHz at 1.5V power supply with 0.25um CMOS technology and consumes 2.2mA.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2015

Global Positioning System (GPS) is used in various fields such as communications systems, transportation systems, e-commerce, power plant systems, and up to various military weapons systems recently. However, GPS receiver is vulnerable to jamming signals as the GPS signals come from the satellites located at approximately 20,000 km above the earth. For this reason, various anti-jamming techniques have been developed for military application systems especially and it is also required for commercial application systems nowadays. In this paper, we proposed a dual-channel Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) RF ASIC for digital pre-correlation anti-jam technique. It not only covers all GNSS frequency bands, but is integrated low-gain/attenuation mode in low-noise amplifier (LNA) without influencing in/out matching and 14-bit analogdigital converter (ADC) to have a high dynamic range. With the aid of digital processing, jamming to signal ratio is improved to 77 dB from 42 dB with proposed receiver. RF ASIC for anti-jam is fabricated on a 0.18-μm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology and consumes 1.16 W with 2.1 V (low-dropout; LDO) power supply. And the performance is evaluated by a kind of test hardware using the designed RF ASIC.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제45권11호
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• pp.61-68
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• 2008

본 논문은 차량용 UWB 레이더 시스템의 RF front-end 개발에 그 목적이 있다. UWB 시스템은 1ns 이하의 매우 좁은 펄스폭을 갖는 임펄스를 전송한다. 따라서 수 GHz에 이르는 매우 낮은 전력의 초광대역 특성을 갖게 되어 기존의 무선 통신 시스템과의 공존이 불가피하다. UWB의 장점은 높은 채널 용량과 데이터 전송률을 가지며, 다중 경로에 대한 세밀한 분해가 용이하여 위치 예측과 Rake 수신이 가능하다는 점이다. 또한 UWB는 저전력의 초광대역 특성을 나타내므로 낮은 간섭 특성을 가지며, 초단거리의 정밀함에 의해 위치 추적이 가능하며, 시스템 구현 비용을 절감할 수 있다. RF front-end 모듈은 DCR(Direct ConveRsion) 방식을 사용하여 설계하였으며, 저가의 차량용 RF단에 적합하게 구성을 하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.352-360
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• 2014

This paper presents a 900 MHz zero-IF RF transceiver for IEEE 802.15.4g Smart Utility Networks OFDM systems. The proposed RF transceiver comprises an RF front end, a Tx baseband analog circuit, an Rx baseband analog circuit, and a ${\Delta}{\Sigma}$ fractional-N frequency synthesizer. In the RF front end, re-use of a matching network reduces the chip size of the RF transceiver. Since a T/Rx switch is implemented only at the input of the low noise amplifier, the driver amplifier can deliver its output power to an antenna without any signal loss; thus, leading to a low dc power consumption. The proposed current-driven passive mixer in Rx and voltage-mode passive mixer in Tx can mitigate the IQ crosstalk problem, while maintaining 50% duty-cycle in local oscillator clocks. The overall Rx-baseband circuits can provide a voltage gain of 70 dB with a 1 dB gain control step. The proposed RF transceiver is implemented in a $0.18{\mu}$ CMOS technology and consumes 37 mA in Tx mode and 38 mA in Rx mode from a 1.8 V supply voltage. The fabricated chip shows a Tx average power of -2 dBm, a sensitivity level of -103 dBm at 100 Kbps with PER < 1%, an Rx input $P_{1dB}$ of -11 dBm, and an Rx input IP3 of -2.3 dBm.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.501-502
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• 2006

In this paper low power high gain amplifier is suitable for application in low power systems was designed and fabricated. The amplifier used both subthreshold bias for low power and positive feedback Q-enhancement technique for high gain. The amplifier used TSCM $0.18{\mu}m$ RF CMOS technology measures a power gain of 32.3dB, a quality factor of 366 and a power consumption of 3mW in a supply voltage of 1.8V.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.11-21
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• 2022

GaN (Gallium-Nitride) is a promising candidate material in various radio frequency applications due to its inherent properties including wide bandgap, high carrier concentration, and high electron mobility/saturation velocity. Notably, AlGaN/GaN heterostructure field effect transistor exhibits high operating voltage and high power-density/power at high frequency. In next-generation radar systems, GaN power transistors and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) are significant components of transmitting and receiving modules. In this paper, we introduce technological trends for C-/X-/Ku-band GaN MMICs including power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers and switch MMICs, focusing on the status of GaN MMIC fabrication technology and GaN foundry service. Additionally, we review the research for the localization of C-/X-/Ku-band GaN MMICs using in-house GaN transistor and MMIC fabrication technology. We also discuss the results of C-/X-/Ku-band GaN MMICs developed at Defense Materials and Components Convergence Research Department in ETRI.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.326-332
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• 2017

A switched VCO-based UWB transmitter for 3-5 GHz is implemented using $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. Using RF switch and timing control of DPGs, the uniform RF power and low power consumption are possible regardless of carrier frequency. And gate control of RF switch enables the undesired side lobe rejection sufficiently. The measured pulse width is tunable from 0.5 to 2 ns. The measured energy efficiency per pulse is 4.08% and the power consumption is 0.6 mW at 10 Mbps without the buffer amplifier.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권9호
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• pp.46-53
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 무인항공기 가시선 데이터링크 Ku 대역 RF 송수신 시스템을 설계하였다. RF 송수신 시스템은 송수신반, RF 전단반, 고출력증폭반으로 구성되어 있다. 송수신반은 주파수 상/하향 변환 기능과 채널 변경 기능을 제공하며, RF 전단반은 송/수신 신호 이중화, 안테나 선택, 소신호 증폭, 수신신호 외 주파수 필터링 기능을 제공한다. 고출력증폭반은 Ku 대역 전력증폭과 송신출력 가변(고/중/저/Mute) 기능을 제공한다. 송수신반의 주파수 상/하향 변환은 슈퍼헤테로다인 방식으로 구현하였다. RF 송수신 시스템은 대용량 고속 데이터의 신뢰성 있는 송수신을 위하여 광대역 고선형 특성을 갖도록 설계하였다. 또한, 무인항공기 운용 환경에 따른 주파수의 선택적 사용을 위하여 채널 변경이 가능하도록 설계하였다.