• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.281-290
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• 1996

In this paper we suggest an OFDM star network based on carrier distribution and homodyne detection in which all optical carriers generated and stabilized in a specific node are distributed to each node. We studied ASK and PSK modulation schemes and calculated rspective SNRs and BERs for this network. We also discussed on the optical power requirement on the light sources for 200 Mb/s transmission speed. As a result, we found tht ASK and PSK respectively require 13 dBm and 10 dBm for 32 nodes and the nmber of nodes can be expanded to 73 with only 0 dBm of power and minimum insertion losses of components. The proposed network is more reliable than the conventional ones due to the centralized carrier maintenance andthe network is suitable for the adverse environment of the nodes.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.526-534
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• 2008

This paper presents a fully integrated 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS MB-OFDM UWB transmitter chain (mode 1). The proposed transmitter consists of a low-pass filter, a variable gain amplifier, a voltage-to-current converter, an I/Q up-mixer, a differential-to-single-ended converter, a driver amplifier, and a transmit/receive (T/R) switch. The proposed T/R switch shows an insertion loss of less than 1.5 dB and a Tx/Rx port isolation of more than 27 dB over a 3 GHz to 5 GHz frequency range. All RF/analog circuits have been designed to achieve high linearity and wide bandwidth. The proposed transmitter is implemented using IBM 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The fabricated transmitter shows a -3 dB bandwidth of 550 MHz at each sub-band center frequency with gain flatness less than 1.5 dB. It also shows a power gain of 0.5 dB, a maximum output power level of 0 dBm, and output IP3 of +9.3 dBm. It consumes a total of 54 mA from a 1.5 V supply.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.1-6
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• 2008

A fast-hopping frequency synthesizer that reduces complexity and power consumption is presented for MB-OFDM UWB applications. The proposed architecture uses 3960 MHz LC VCO, 528 MHz ring oscillator, passive mixer and LC-tuned Q-enhancement BPF to generate Band Group 1 frequencies. The adjacent channel rejection ratio is less than -40 dBc for 3432 MHz and -H dBc for 4488 MHz. A fast switching SCL-tpre MUX is used to produce the required channel output signal and it takes less than 2.2 ns for band switching. The total power consumption is 47.9 mW from a 1.8 V supply.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.8
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• pp.117-124
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• 2009

This paper describes a 3 to 5 GHz frequency synthesizer for MB-OFDM (Multi-Band OFDM) UWB (Ultra- Wideband) application using 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process. The frequency synthesizer operates in the band group 1 whose center frequencies are 3432 MHz 3960 MHz, and 4488 MHz. To cover the overall frequencies of group 1, an efficient frequency planning minimizing a number of blocks and the power consumption are proposed. And, a high-frequency VCO and LO Mixer architecture are also presented in this paper. A new mixed coarse tuning scheme that utilizes the MIM capacitance, the varactor arrays, and the DAC is proposed to expand the VCO tuning range. The frequency synthesizer can also provide the clock for the ADC in baseband modem. So, the PLL for the ADC in the baseband modem can be removed with this frequency synthesizer. The single PLL and two SSB-mixers consume 60 mW from a 1.2 sV supply. The VCO tuning range is 1.2 GHz. The simulated phase noise of the VCO is -112 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset. The die area is 2 ${\times}$ 2mm$^2$.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.11
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• pp.137-141
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• 2007

This paper proposes a cost-effective architecture design of an angle-of-arrival (AOA) estimator based on the multiple signal identification and classification (MUSIC) algerian in UWB systems adapting Multi-band OFDM (MB-OFDM) techniques with two-receive antennas. In the proposed method, by modifying the equations of algorithm in order to remove the high computational functions, the computation power can be significantly reduced without significant performance degradation. The proposed architecture is designed and verified by Verilog HDL, and implemented into 0.13um CMOS standard cell and Xilinx FPGA circuits for the estimation of hardware complexity and computation power. From the results of the implementations, we can find that the proposed circuits reduces the hardware complexity by about 43% and the estimated computation power by about 23%, respectively, compared to the architecture employing the original MUSIC algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.2 s.93
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• pp.189-193
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a direct conversion double-balanced down-converter fer MB-OFDM W system, which is implemented using $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS technology and its measurement results are shown. The proposed down-converter adopts a resistive current-source instead of general transconductance stage using MOS transistor to achieve wideband characteristics over RF input frequency band $3\~5\;GHz$ with good gain flatness. The measured conversion gain is more than +3 dB, and gain flatness is less than 3 dB for three UWB channels. The dc consumption of this work is only 0.89 mA from 1.8 V power supply, leading to the low-power W application.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.7C
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• pp.443-450
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• 2011

Recently, various transmission techniques for communication and broadcasting systems have been developed to meet the dramatically increasing requirement of consumers. Because UWB (Ultra-Wideband) is a wireless communication technique that supports high data rate with low power, it can satisfy the requirement and can be applied to various wireless communication services. The multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) system, one of UWB system, is the wireless communication system that satisfies the transmission characteristic for UWB and so it can be used for various wireless communication services. In this paper, we propose a scheme that uses hierarchical modulation which is applied in digital video broadcasting system at the source and adaptive modulation based on the channel quality at the relays. The simulation results have shown that the proposed scheme has both the advantages of the increased throughput by 33% and similar BER performance to conventional scheme.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.845-848
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• 2005

This paper describes a 4.224GHz CMOS charge pump PLL for Mode 1 MB-OFDM UWB hopping carrier generation. It includes a qudrature VCO of which the frequency range is from 3.98GHz to 4.47GHz(@ 0.4 to 1.5 V), a divider, a PFD, a loop filter, a charge pump, and a lock detector. Designed in a 0.18um CMOS technology, the PLL draws 6.6mA from a 1.8V supply. The phase noise of the designed VCO is -133dBc/Hz@3MHz.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.195-198
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• 2005

UWB is the most spotlighted wireless technology that transmits data at very high rates using low power over a wide spectrum of frequency band. UWB technology makes it possible to transmit data at rate over 100Mbps within 10 meters. To preserve important header information, MBOFDM UWB adopts Reed-Solomon(23,17) code. In receiver, RS decoder needs high speed and low latency using efficient hardware. In this paper, we suggest the architecture of RS decoder for MBOFDM UWB. We adopts Modified-Euclidean algorithm for key equation solver block which is most complex in area. We suggest pipelined processing cell for this block and show the detailed architecture of syndrome, Chien search and Forney algorithm block. At last, we show the hardware implementation results of RS decoder for ASIC implementation.

• TTA Journal
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• s.110
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• pp.61-68
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• 2007

UWB는 2002년부터 FCC에서 상용을 허용한 이후 IEEE802.15.3a에서 DS-CDMA 방식과 MB-OFDM 방식을 논의해 왔으나 표준안 도출에 실패한 후 지금은 WiMedia Alliance와 UWB Forum에서 각기 표준화 진행중이다. Intel, Microsoft, HP 등이 주축인 WiMdeia Alliance는‘PAN 환경에서 장치간의 무선 멀티미디어 연결과 상호운용성’을 위하여 구성되었으며, 2003년 MBOA와 합병하여 MBOA 기술을 기반으로 하는 물리계층 및 MAC 계층 기능 규격을 ECMA 등에 표준으로 등록하였고, 그 외 표준화 단체에 표준안 채택을 위한 노력을 계속하고 있다. 또한 USB Forum, Bluetooth, IEEE1394 등에 MBOA 기반 응용이 사용될 수 있도록 노력하고 있으며, 2005년 MBOA 기반의 Certified Wireless USB 규격으로 UWB 시장을 선점하기 시작하였으며, Bluetooth 및 IEEE1394에서도 MBOA 기반 표준이 진행되고 있다. 본 고는 WiMedia Alliance의 최근 표준 활동과 WiMedia 규격을 활용한 국내.외 기술동향에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.