• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.74-82
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• 2015

As the complexity of an electronic device and the reduction of its operating voltage is progressing, susceptibility test of the chip and module for internal or external noises is essential. Although the immunity compliance of the chip was served with IEC 62132-4 Direct Power Injection method as an industry standard, in fact, EM immunity of the chip is influenced by their Power Domain Network (PDN). This paper evaluates the EM noise tolerance of a PLL and compares their noise transfer characteristics to the PLL on various PCB boards. To make differences of the PDNs of PCBs, various PCBs with or without LDO and with several types of capacitors are tested. For evaluation of discrepancies between EM characteristics of an IC only and the IC on real boards, the analysis of the noise transfer characteristics according to the PDNs shows that it gives important information for the design having robust EM characteristics. DPI measurement results show that greatly improved immunity of the PLL in the low-frequency region according to using the LDO and a frequency change of the PLL according to the DPI could also check with TEM cell measurement spectrum.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.714-721
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• 2022

A phase-locked loop (PLL)-based frequency synthesizer is proposed for a system on a chip (SoC) using multi-frequency clock signals. The proposed PLL-based frequency synthesizer consists of a charge pump PLL which is implemented by a phase frequency detector (PFD), a charge pump (CP), a loop filter, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), and a frequency divider, and an edge combiner. The PLL outputs a 12-phase clock by a VCO using six differential delay cells. The edge combiner synthesizes the frequency of the output clock through edge combining and frequency division of the 12-phase output clock of the PLL. The proposed PLL-based frequency synthesizer is designed using a 55-nm CMOS process with a 1.2-V supply voltage. It outputs three clocks with frequencies of 166 MHz, 83 MHz and 124.5MHz for a reference clock with a frequency of 20.75 MHz.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11c
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• pp.697-699
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• 1999

2기가비트급 이상의 Serial-Link Chip에 적용되는 PLL의 특성은 lock-in-time이 빨라야하며 low VDD 동작을 확보해야 한다. 본 논문은 2.8기가비트급의 인터페이스 전송칩에 사용되는 PLL에 내부 전원 공급기를 설계하여 외부전원 3.3V시에 2.5V를 제공하며 이를 PFD/CP/VCO에 개별적 적용하는 제어방법 및 회로를 제안하며 이에 따르는 IPLL의 Lock-In-Time을 1mS 이내로 설계하였으며 외부동작 주파수는 100MHz이상이며 인터페이스 전송량은 2.8기가비트에 이른다. 저전압 설계를 통한 동작전류를 내부 전원 제어를 통해 순차적(Sequential Method)동작을 시킴으로 IPLL 동작시의 전류소모을 2mA이하로 제한하였다. 본 논문에서는 2.8기가비트급 인터페이스 전송칩에 적용한 IPLL의 회로 및 내부전원 공급기의 제어 방법 및 설계결과를 제안하며 이에 따르는 전송칩의 동작방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06b
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• pp.193-196
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• 2001

One of the major reasons for not integrating a VCO on one-chip in a PLL (phase locked loop) system is the large chip-to-chip variation of the VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) center frequency. In this thesis, a simple bias technique is proposed to compensate the process fluctuation. The proposed bias technique is applied to the VCO and it reduces the deviation of the VCO center frequency from 35% to 8 %. With the suggested bias technique, a 400 MHz frequency synthesizer is designed for general purpose. It utilizes a programmable divider for various division ratio. The design methodology provides the possibility of the one-chip solution for a PLL system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.1189-1192
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 노이즈를 고려한 PLL를 설계하였다. 30Mhz∼300Mhz으로 동작하는 VCO를 설계하였다. VCO를 평균 250Mhz으로 동작하도록 하고 reference 주파수, 62.5Mhz로 locking하는 PLL를 설계를 하였다. 300Mhz PLL의 기본적인 구조로 PLL은 PFD(Phase frequency detector), CP(Charge Pump), LF(Loop filter), VCO(Voltage controlled Oscillator)와 Divider로 구성되었다. PFD과 CP는 Dead Zone를 줄이고, 큰 gm를 가지도록 설계를 하였다. PLL에서 가장 중요한 블락인, VCO는 One Chip으로 설계하기 위해 Ring Oscillator로 설계를 하였다. 2.5V 62.5MHZ의 외부 신호를 300MHZ을 발진하는 VCO에서 분주하여 clock synthesizer를 설계하였다. 본 논문은 Hynix0.25공정을 사용하여 설계를 하였으며, 2.5V의 공급 전원을 사용하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.36-42
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• 2008

40Gb/s CMOS Clock and Data Recovery circuit design for optical serial link is proposed. The circuit generates 8 multiphase clock using LC tank PLL and controls the phase between the clock and the data using the $2{\times}$ oversampling Bang-Bang PD. 40Gb/s input data is 1:4 demultiplexed and recovered to 4 channel 10Gb/s outputs. The design was progressed to separate the analog power and the digital power. The area of the chip is $2.8{\times}2.4mm^2$ for the inductors and the power dissipation is about 200mW. The chip has been fabricated using 0.18um CMOS process. The measured results show that the chip recovers the data up to 9.5Gb/s per channel(Equivalent to serial input rate of up to 38Gb/s).

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.137-140
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• 2005

A frequency synthesizer of 10 GHz $\sim$ 11 GHz for FMCW radar is designed and implemented by the form of indirect frequency synthesizer of a single loop structure. The synthesizer uses a high speed digital PLL chip. It is difficult to divide directly by using a program counter of PLL chip because the output frequency of VCO is 10 GHz $\sim$ 11 GHz, so we lower the frequency to 625 MHz $\sim$ 687.5 MHz by using a prescaler, and then divide the frequency by the program counter. The output frequency sweep of VCO from 10 GHz to 11 GHz is measured.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.241-246
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• 2007

This paper presents two novel compensation circuits for leakage current and power supply noise (PSN) in phase locked loop (PLL) using a nanometer CMOS technology. The leakage compensation circuit reduces the leakage current of the charge pump circuit and the PSN compensation circuit decreases the effect of power supply variation on the output frequency of VCO. The PLL design is based on a 32nm predictive CMOS technology and uses a 0.9 V power supply voltage. The simulation results show that the proposed PLL achieves 88% jitter reduction at 440 MHz output frequency compared to the PLL without leakage compensator and its output frequency drift is little to 20% power supply voltage variations. The PLL has an output frequency range of 40 $M{\sim}725$ MHz with a multiplication range of 1-1023, and the RMS and peak-to-peak jitter are 5psec and 42.7 psec, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.154-156
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• 2016

In this paper, the proposed small size PLL works stable with the discrete loop filter which is controlled by voltage controlled oscillator's output signal. Sampling and a small size capacitor functioned negative feedback with switch does make it possible to integrate the PLL into a single chip. The proposed PLL is designed by 1.8V 0.18um CMOS process.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.98-104
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• 2017

This work describes the development and comparison of two phase-locked loops (PLLs) based on a 65-nm CMOS technology. The PLLs incorporate two different topologies for the output voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO): LC cross-coupled and differential Colpitts. The measured locking ranges of the LC cross-coupled VCO-based phase-locked loop (PLL1) and the Colpitts VCO-based phase-locked loop (PLL2) are 119.84-122.61 GHz and 126.53-129.29 GHz, respectively. Th e output powers of PLL1 and PLL2 are -8.6 dBm and -10.5 dBm with DC power consumptions of 127.3 mW and 142.8 mW, respectively. Th e measured phase noise of PLL1 is -59.2 at 10 kHz offset and -104.5 at 10 MHz offset, and the phase noise of PLL2 is -60.9 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset and -104.4 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz offset. The chip sizes are $1,080{\mu}m{\times}760{\mu}m$ (PLL1) and $1,100{\mu}m{\times}800{\mu}m$ (PLL2), including the probing pads.