• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.10-19
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• 1971

Problems and technologies involved in integrating an audio preamplifier in terms of thick film technology has been discussed in detail. In particular, an attempt has been made to find methods for functional trimming of the amplifer by employing computer analysis. Among seven resistors integrated on a alumina substrate, only one resistor was found to be very sensitive to over all performance of the preamplifier. By trimming this resistor to its freguency charcteristic reguirements, it was possible to cut down trimming labor by one seventh. Besides, problems concerning resistor conductor contacts, crossover parasitic capacitance and the relations between noise per(ormance and trimming method are discussed in detail.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07d
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• pp.3124-3126
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• 2000

The application of IR(Infrared) communication is very wide and IR receiver has become a standard of home entertainment. A preamplifier with single 5V supply was designed for IR receiver IC. To operate at long distance, receiver IC should have high gain and low noise characteristic. To provide constant output signal magnitude, independent of transciever distance, gain limiting stage is needed. And to cut-off DC noise component effectively, large resistance and capacitance are required. Transimpedance type preamplifier, and diode limiting amplifier, and current limiting amplifier were designed. It is another function of current limiting amplifier that transforms single input signal to differential output signal. Using AMS BiCMOS model, both BJT version and MOS version was designed. Total power consumption is O.lmW, and IC size is $0.3mm^2$

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.46-51
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• 2005

We have developed control electronics to operate flux-locked loop (FLL), and analog signal filters to process FLL outputs for 64-channel Double Relaxation Oscillation SQUID (DROS) magnetocardiography (MCG) system. Control electronics consisting of a preamplifier, an integrator, and a feedback, is compact and low-cost due to larger swing voltage and flux-to-voltage transfer coefficients of DROS than those of dc SQUIDs. Analog signal filter (ASF) serially chained with a high-pass filter having a cut-off frequency of 0.1 Hz, an amplifier having a gain of 100, a low-pass filter of 100 Hz, and a notch filter of 60 Hz makes FLL output suitable for MCG. The noise of a preamplifier in FLL control electronics is $7\;nV/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 1 Hz, $1.5\;nV/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 100 Hz that contributes $6\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 1 Hz, $1.3\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 100 Hz in readout electronics, and the noise of ASF electronics is $150\;{\mu}V/{\surd}\;Hz$ equivalent to $0.13\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ within the range of $1{\sim}100\;Hz$. When DROSs are connected to readout electronics inside a magnetically shielded room, the noise of 64-channel DROS system is $10\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 1 Hz, $5\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 100 Hz on the average, low enough to measure human MCG.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.377-382
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• 2009

In this paper, theoretical analysis for metropolitan optical networks is performed. First, analytical optical SNR is derived assuming each node consists of an EDFA, an optical filter, an optical switch, and a VOA, and then the relationship between OSNR and BER is studied. In a metropolitan optical network, an optical signal can be dropped to deliver data, and we also studied the effect of drop loss on system performance. When the drop loss is relatively small, the receiver structure of the node can be treated as a preamplifier receiver which is widely used in long-haul systems. In that case, ASE noise from EDFAs is the dominant noise source in the receiver. However, system performance is relatively insensitive to OSNR when the drop loss is significant because of the noise sources in the receiver (thermal and shot noise).

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1995 no.05
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• pp.68-70
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• 1995

A low-noise pre-amplifier is developed for use in Topographic Brain Mapping system. It consists of signal generator, signal amplifier with a impedance converter, shield driver, body driver, differential amplifier, and isolation amplifier. Pre-amplifier circuit is designed with the concept of isolation and active body and shield driver. This amplifier shows the good noise behavior, high CMRR, high input impedance, low leakage current and high IMRR.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.49-55
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• 2013

A high-voltage highly-integrated analog front-end (AFE) IC for medical ultrasound imaging applications is implemented using standard 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS process. The proposed AFE IC is composed of a high-voltage (HV) pulser utilizing stacked transistors generating up to 15 Vp-p pulses at 2.6 MHz, a low-voltage low-noise transimpedance preamplifier, and a HV switch for isolation between the transmit and receive parts. The designed IC consumes less than $0.15mm^2$ of core area, making it feasible to be applied for multi-array medical ultrasound imaging systems, including portable handheld applications.

• 전기의세계
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• v.11
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• pp.8-13
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• 1963

Solid state nuclear radiation detector에 사용되는 transistor에 의한 저잡음 charge sensitive preamplifier의 설계방식과 이에 대한 실측결과에 관하여 기술하였다. 먼저 transistor noise의 제원인을 분석하고 이 잡음들을 최소로 하기 위하여 이에 관련된 각 parameter에 대하여 이론 및 실험적으로 고찰하였다. 지금까지 알려진 진공관식 증폭기의 최소잡음은 등가전자수로 표시하면 약 250전자 정도이고 그 transistor증폭기에 있어서는 약 1,000전자 정도이었으나 본 설계방식에 의하여 제작된 transistor증폭기에서는 detector를 포함한 전 input capacitance가 약 100PF일때 약 400전자의 양호한 저잡음특성을 보이고 있으며 linearity 및 stability도 매우 좋은 결과를 보이고 있다. 여기에 사용된 cascode회로 자체는 이미 오래 전부터 알려져 있었지만 잡음을 최소로 하기 위한 설계방법은 지금껏 알려지지 않고 있으므로 본 논문에서는 전치증복기의 소요이득에서 잡음을 최소로 할 수 있는 설계방식을 확립하여 이 방식에 의한 실측결과는 종래의 transistor를 사용한 것보다 가장 좋았다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.477-485
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 신경신호기록을 위한 반도체 미세전극용 전치증폭기의 잡음특성을 설계하기 위한 체계적인 방법을 제시한다. 세포외기록(extracellular recording)에 의하여 측정된 신경신호와 전형적인 CMOS소자의 저주파 잡음특성을 함계 고려하여 전체 신호대잡음비를 계산하였다. 2단 CMOS 차동증폭기에 대한 해석과 함께 신호대잡음비에 중요한 영향을 끼치는 요소들에 대하여 설명하였다. 출력잡음전력에 대한 해석적인식을 유도하였으며 이로부터 회로설계자가 조절할 수 있는 주파수응답과 소자 파라미터들을 결정하였다. 입력소자의 크기와 트랜스컨덕턴스의 비가 최적영역으로부터 약간 벗어날 경우에 신호대잡음비가 크게 저하됨을 보였다. 이와 함께 만족스런 잡음특성을 위한 증폭이의 설계 변수 값들도 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.219-225
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• 2012

A low-power, low-noise pre-amplifier for digital hearing-aid application is designed. This pre-amplifier amplifies single-ended signal from an electret microphone, and produces differential output to be delivered to an ADC. It has a variable gain of 3.6, 7.2, 14.4 and 28.8 with a bandwidth between 100Hz~10kHzon. The measurement results show 85 dB of SNR, 0.05 % of harmonic distortion and $200{\mu}W$ of power consumption with 1.2V supply.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.60-73
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• 1973

The reactor noise analysis was performed by the cross correlation method using two detectors to determine the dynamic stability and the system parameter of TRIGA Mark-II reactor under critical and subcritical conditions. The a values turned out to be 46.67 and 70.04 respectively at zero power and full power under critical condition, while 79.47 and 97.59 respectively at the safety rod dropping and the regulating rod dropping under subcritical condition. Prompt neutron life time of TRIGA Mark-II reactor measured 107 and 160 $\mu$sec, and shut down margin was -10.03$\times$10-4 at the safety rod dropping and -29-43$\times$10-4 at the regulating rod dropping CDC 3100/MSOS digital computer, HITACHI 505 Analog computer, and preamplifier, bandpass filter, FM modulator or demodulator designed for this specific purpose, were employed for the present investigation.