• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.476-478
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• 2006

A prescaler is an essential building block for PLL-based frequency synthesizers and must satisfy high-speed and low-power characteristics. The design of D-flip flips used in the prescaler implementation is thus critical. In this paper a 64/65, 128/129 dual-modulus prescaler is designed using a $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS process. In the design a new dynamic D-flip flop is employed, where glitches are minimized using discharge suppression scheme, speed is improved by making balanced propagation delay, and low power consumption is achieved by removing unnecessary discharge. The designed prescaler operates up to 2.5GHz and consumes 3.1mA at 2.5GHz operation.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.249-252
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• 2005

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.69-76
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• 2000

A dual-modulus prescaler divides the input signal by one of the moduli according to the control signal. In this paper, a new fast dual-modulus prescaler is proposed. The proposed prescaler has a ratioed-NOR structure different from a conventional ratioed-NAND structure. The proposed one can operate at a higher speed by using parallely connected NMOSs instead of using series-connected ones. HSPICE simulation results using HYUNDAI 0.65(m 2-poly 2-metal CMOS process parameters show that the maximum operating frequency of the proposed dual-modulus prescaler is 2.8㎓ with power consumption of 40.7㎽ at 5V supply voltage at $25^{\circ}C$. The proposed dual-modulus prescaler can be utilized for the frequency-synthesis in cellular radio front-ends.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.10A
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• pp.1582-1589
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• 2000

A dynamic D-flipflop is proposed aiming at low power and high frequency(GHz) operations. The proposed D-flipflop uses a smaller number of pmos transistors that it operates high speed in same dimensions. Also, it consumes lower power than conventional approaches by a shared nmos with clock input. In order to compare the performance of the proposed D-flipflop, we perform simulation estimating power consumption and maximum operating frequency of each same dimension D-flipflop. A high speed dual-modulus prescaler employing the proposed D-flipflop. A high speed dual-modulus prescaler employing the proposed D-flipflop. A high speed dual-modulus prescaler employing the proposed D-flipflop is evaluated via the same method. The simulation results show that the proposed D-fliplflop has good performance than conventional circuits.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.271-274
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• 1999

This paper proposes a simple architecture of digital dividing block in dual-modulus prescaler phase-locked loop used in the wireless communication. Proposed architecture eliminates a swallow counter in the conventional one and demonstrates the advantages in reducing the power consumption and the gate-counts. Therefore, it is suitable for small die area and low power applications. The circuit is designed in a standard 0.35${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.316-316
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.779-782
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• 1998

This paper describes a high-speed Dual-modulus Prescaler (DMP) for RF mobile communication systems with pulse remover using selective latch technique. This circuit achieves high speed and low power consumption by reducing full speed flip-flops and using a selective latch. The proposed DMP consists of only one full speed flip-flop, a selective latch, conventional flip-flops, and a control gate. In order to ensure the timing of control signal, duty cycle problem and propagation delay must be considered. The failling edgetriggered flip-flops alleviate the duty cycle problem andthis paper shows that the propagation delay of control signal doesn't matter. The maximum operating frequency of the proposed DMP with 0.6um CMOS technology is up to 2.2㎓ at 3.3V power supply and the circuit consumes 5.24mA.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.816-820
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• 1990

A Tx modulator of the AMPS cellular wireless communication has been implemented using the PLL synthesizer, of which is modified for multiple frequency output capability. The frequency range is in 825-845 MHz with the 666 channels of 30KHz channel spacing and its switching time is less than 40 msec. The purpose of this paper is to develope the PLL frequency synthesizer with the high speed pulse swallow prescaler in order to save power consumption and cost. The PLL frequency synthesizer is studied in this paper to apply the cellular communication modulator.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.9 no.2 s.17
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• pp.152-160
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• 2005

A prescaler is an essential building block for PLL-based frequency synthesizers and must satisfy high-speed and low-power characteristics. The design of D-flip flips used in the prescaler implementation is thus critical. Conventional TSPC D-flip flops suffer from glitches, unbalanced propagation delay, and unnecessary charge/discharge at internal nodes in precharge phase, which results in increased power consumption. In this paper a new dynamic D-flip flop is proposed to overcome these problems. Glitches are minimized using discharge suppression scheme, speed is improved by making balanced propagation delay, and low power consumption is achieved by removing unnecessary discharge. The proposed D-flip flop is employed in designing a 128/129 dual-modulus prescaler using $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process parameters. The designed prescaler operates up to 5GHz while conventional one can operate up to 4.5GHz under same conditions. It consumes 0.394mW at 4GHz that is a 34% improved result compared with conventional one.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.8 s.338
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• pp.43-52
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• 2005

An prescaler which uses PLL(Phase Locked Loop) must satisfy high speed operation and low power consumption. Thus the performance or TSPC(True Single Phase Clocked) D-flip flops which is applied at Prescaler is very important. Power consumption of conventional TSPC D-flip flops was increased with glitches from output and unnecessary discharge at internal node in precharge phase. We proposed a new D-flip flop which reduced two clock transistors for precharge and discharge Phase. With inserting a new PMOS transistor to the input stage, we could prevent from unnecessary discharge in precharge phase. Moreover, to remove the glitch problems at output, we inserted an PMOS transistor in output stage. The proposed flip flop showed stable operations as well as low power consumption. The maximum frequency of prescaler by applying the proposed D-flip flop was 2.92GHz and achieved power consumption of 10.61mw at 3.3V. In comparison with prescaler applying the conventional TSPC D-flip $flop^[6]$, we obtained the performance improvement of $45.4\%$ in the view of PDP(Power-Belay-Product).