• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.95-103
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• 2009

We improve the performance of WCDMA repeater by cancelling the feedback interference radio signal under the fixed point implementation. Floating-point DSP or FPGA to implement the ICS algorithm may have an disadvantage of high cost, To solve this problem, we suggest the ICS algorithm based on LMS under fixed point operation, and show the validity of our results by comparing with the floating-point results through numerical simulation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.24-25
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• 2008

An Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection has been a very important reliability issue in microelectronics, especially for RF (Radio Frequency) integrated circuits (ICs). This paper reviews design and analysis of on-chip ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection circuits for RF applications. Key issues in RF ESD protection, design methods, and RF ESD protection solutions are discussed.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.44-53
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• 2009

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.2A
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• pp.98-106
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• 2008

To reduce the outage probability and to increase the transmission capacity, the importance of repeaters in cellular systems keeps increasing. Unlike optical repeaters which require wireline connections, RF repeaters are easy to install, have low limitations in location and also have a reduced operational expense such as the optical fiber maintenance cost. On the other hand, RF repeaters suffer the interference due to the feedback signals between the transmitter and receiver antennas, hence require an extra interference cancellation method when the amount of the feedback signal reduction by using the shielding is not sufficient. In this paper, a channel estimation method for two-path feedback interference signals in the ICS (Interference Cancellation System) repeaters using baseband signal processing is proposed and its performance is evaluated. When compared with the conventional method which estimates each multipath individually, the proposed method achieves 10 dB performance gain in terms of the normalized mean-squared-error.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.56-61
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• 2013

Modern integrated circuits (ICs) are becoming an integrated parts of analog, digital, and radio frequency (RF) circuits. Testing these RF circuits on a chip is an important task, not only for fabrication quality control but also for tuning RF circuit elements to fit multi-standard wireless systems. In this paper, RF test circuits suitable for embedded testing are introduced: RF power detectors, power control circuits, directional couplers, and six-port reflectometers. Various types of embedded RF power detectors are reviewed. The conventional approach and our approach for the RF power control circuits are compared. Also, embedded tunable active directional couplers are presented. Then, six-port reflectometers for embedded RF testing are introduced including a 77-GHz six-port reflectometer circuit in a 130 nm process. This circuit demonstrates successful calibrated reflection coefficient simulation results for 37 well distributed samples in a Smith chart. The details including the theory, calibration, circuit design techniques, and simulations of the 77-GHz six-port reflectometer are presented in this paper.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.38-43
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• 2008

This paper presents a new interference cancellation method to remove the oscillation due to feedback signal of RF relay. In this paper, we estimate the feedback signal using to LMS(Least Mean Square) algorithm and remove the interference through attenuation signal arbitrary corresponding to feedback signal. From the various performance analysis for various doppler effects, a proposed method prevents from oscillation using -30dB attenuation signal as a cancellation value of feedback signal.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.275-280
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• 2006

We propose Doherty power amplifier structure which can be integrated in Silicon RF ICs. Doherty power amplifiers are widely used in RF transmitters, because of their high Power Added Efficiency (PAE) and good linearity. In this paper, it is proposed that a method to replace the quarter wavelength coupler with IQ up-conversion mixers to achieve 90 degree phase shift, which allows on-chip Doherty amplifier. This idea is implemented and manufactured in CMOS 5 GHz band direct-conversion RF transmitter. We measured a 3dB improvement output RF power and linearity.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.9 s.339
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

A $0.35\mu$m SiGe BiCMOS fabrication process has been timely developed, which is aiming at wireless RF ICs development and fast growing SiGe RF market. With non-selective SiGe epilayer, SiGe HBTs in this process used trapezoidal Ge base profile for the enhanced AC performance via Ge induced bandgap niuoin. The characteristics of hFE 100, $f_{T}\;45GHz,\;F_{max}\;50GHz,\;NF_{min}\;0.8dB$ have been obtained by optimizing not only SiGe base profile but also RTA condition after emitter polysilicon deposition, which enables the SiGe technology competition against the worldwide cutting edge SiGe BiCMOS technology. In addition, the process incorporates the CMOS logic, which is fully compatible with $0.35\mu$m pure logic technology. High Q passive elements are also provided for high precision analog circuit designs, and their quality factors of W(1pF) and inductor(2nH) are 80, 12.5, respectively.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.491-500
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• 2012

In this paper, a new loopback BIST structure which is effective to test RF transceiver chip and LNA(Low Noise Amplifier) in the chip is presented. Because the presented BIST structure uses a baseband processor in the chip as a tester while the system is under testing mode, the developed test technique has an advantage of performing test application and test evaluation in effectiveness. The presented BIST structure can change high frequency test output signals to a low frequency signals which can make the CUT(circuits under test) tested easily. By using this technique, the necessity of RF test equipment can be mostly reduced. The test time and test cost of RF circuits can be cut down by using proposed BIST structure, and finally the total chip manufacturing costs can be reduced.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.9
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• pp.37-43
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• 2010

An Interference Cancellation Wireless Repeater transmitts directly amplified the RF signal input to extend the coverage of the base station. Such a repeater inevitably suffers from the feedback interferences due to the environment and the adaptive Interference Cancelling System(ICS) is necessary. In this paper, the Variable Stepsize Complex Sign -Sign(VSCSS) LMS algorithm for ICS is presented. The algorithm can be implemented without multiplication/division arithmetic operation so that the required logic resources can be dramatically reduced in FPGA implementation. The performance of the proposed algorithm was analyzed in comparison with CSS-LMS algorithm and the learning curves obtained from simulation showed an excellent agreement with the theorical prediction. The simulation result with ICS in fading feedback channel environment showed the performance of the proposed algorithm is competible with NLMS algorithm.