• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.11C
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• pp.1083-1090
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• 2005

This paper presents the design of a video encoder for the device of need TV-OUT function. The designed video encoder satisfies the standard conditions of International Telecommunication Union-Radiocommunication (ITU-R) BT.470. ITU-R BT.470 can be classified as NTSC, PAL or SECAM. NTSC and PAL use Amplitude Modulation (AM) to transmit color difference signals and SECAM uses Frequency Modulation (FM). SECAM must have an antic-cloche filter but the filter recommended by ITU-R BT.470 is not easy to design due to sharpness of the frequency response. So formerly the filter was designed as analog. This paper proposes that the filter is designed as digital and the special quality of the filter is transformed easy to design. And the modulation method is modified to be identical with the result required at standard. The encoder can control power consumption by output mode to apply mobile phone, mobile devices, etc. The proposed encoder is experimentally demonstrated with ALTERA FPGA APEX20KE EP20K1000EBC652-3 device and SAMSUNG LCD-TV.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.40-51
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• 2010

This paper presents and analyzes field test results of distributed translator (DTxR) for distributed frequency network (DFN) in the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) terrestrial digital TV broadcasting system. In the field test, according to types of antennas and receivers in areas where are overlapped by two DTxRs' coverage, we measured reception power, noise margin reception possibility, and ease of reception at each test point. By the field test results, when two DTxRs are on, reception power and noise margin are increased than when one DTxR is on. However, reception rate and ease of reception are similar or increased according to types of receivers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.1492-1497
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• 2017

In this paper, a design method for a CPW-fed wideband loop antenna for indoor digital TV applications is studied. The proposed loop antenna consists of a square loop and two circular sectors which connect the loop with central feed points, and the CPW feed line is inserted in the lower circular sector. The CPW feed line is designed to match with the 75 ohm port impedance for DTV applications, and the ground slots are etched in order to improve the impedance matching in the middle frequency region. The effects of the gap between the circular sectors and the location and dimension of the ground slots on the input reflection coefficient and gain characteristics are examined to obtain the optimal design parameters. The optimized antenna is fabricated on FR4 substrate, and the experiment results show that it operates in the frequency band of 463-1,280 MHz for a VSWR < 2, which assures the operation in the DTV band.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.840-845
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• 2013

In this paper, the broadband frequency double down-converter based on LC filter technologies has been designed and implemented, and its performances are introduced. The Designed frequency double down-converter is consisted with a low-noise amplifier, mixer, IF amplifier, LC filter, DC-block capacitor and RF-bypass capacitor. Especially, instead of active devices of a typical converter, the suggested converter designed using passive devices to provide both low-power consumption and low-cost model. As results of the measurement, the implemented frequency double down-converter realizes the broadband performance with the bandwidth of 100MHz (13~113MHz) at the center frequency of 63MHz, and its gain is approximately 40dB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.31-35
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 DVB-T 표준안의 모든 동작모드를 지원하며 임펄스 잡음 제거, 안테나 diversity 수신, 향상된 채널추정방법을 적용한 유럽향 디지털 TV 수신용 채널 칩셋의 설계에 관한 내용이다. 설계된 칩은 여러 개의 구성 블럭으로 구성되어있는데 여기에는 여러 가지의 향상된 알고리즘과 설계 아키텍쳐가 사용되었다. 가정용 가전기기들이 발생시키는 일정주기의 임펄스 잡음을 제거하기 위하여 임펄스 잡음 제거 블록을 AGC뒤에 사용하였다. 동기부는 대략적 주파수동기, 미세 주파수동기, 대략적 타이밍동기, 미세 타이밍 동기 등으로 이루어져 있으며 본 설계의 주파수 보상 영역은 $\pm$280Khz, 타이밍 보상 영역은 $\pm$500ppm이다. 파일럿 신호를 이용하여 채널추정과 보상을 수행하며 기존의 선형 보간기법과 함께 4개의 파일럿 신호를 이용한 보간기법을 사용하여 이동수신환경에 대응할 수 있도록 하였다. 이와 함에 수신성능을 개선할 수 있다고 알려진 안테나 diversity 기능을 채용하여 고정 및 이동 수신시의 수신성능을 향상시켰다. 안테나 diversity를 위해서 2개 이상의 수신 칩이 사용되며 이를 위해서 본 설계에서는 MRC(Maximum Ratio Combining)알고리즘을 사용하였다 본 설계는 5층 메탈 0.18um 공정을 사용하였으며 2.7Mbit 의 메모리 소자를 포함하여 대략 300 만 게이트의 회로크기를 갖으며 100 핀 PQFP로 제작되었다. 본 논문에서는 설계된 회로의 각 블록별 기능에 대한 설명과 함께 시뮬레이션 결과와 ASIC설계결과를 기술하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.672-678
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• 2017

In this paper, we studied a design method for a broadband quasi-Yagi antenna (QYA) for terrestrial digital television (DTV) reception. The proposed antenna is composed of a dipole driver, a rectangular patch type director close to the dipole, and a ground reflector printed on an FR4 substrate. A balun between a microstrip line and a coplanar strip (CPS) line is a rectangular patch inserted along the center of the CPS. The end of the balun is connected to the CPS line through a shorting pin. An antenna, as an design example for the proposed antenna, is designed for the operation in the frequency band of 470-806 MHz for terrestrial DTV, and the characteristics of the designed antenna are examined. The antenna has a good performance such as a frequency band of 430-842 MHz for a voltage standing wave ratio < 2, a gain > 3.7 dBi, and a front-to-back ratio > 7.4 dB.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.990-1003
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• 2012

In this paper, the possibility and necessity of the digital broadcasting propulsion in AM and FM is presented based on DRM and DRM+ transmission modes, They are the members of series technological family in digital radio development. As the frequency utilization, the application of DRM+ is flexible in any mode such as IN-BAND or OUT-OF-BAND. When the digital audio broadcasting is planned at LOW-VHF bandwidth such as TV channel No.5 and NO.6 being adjacent to FM band and OUT-Of-BAND DRM+ technology is applied, there is no collision and jamming. Particularly, in the IN-BAND Hybrid mode, it is mentioned that there was the difficulty problem for multiple SFN transmitters uses. Not like the IN-BAND mode the OUT-OF-BAND mode lets multiple transmitters, because neighbor transmitters do not interfere each other. Digital transmitter can be combined with the existing FM transmitter. The intensity of power and size of area can be easily determined according to local broadcasters' condition. And the OUT-OF-BAND mode is advantageous for AM/FM integration in digital radio receiver manufacturing, which makes the conversion schedule much shorter.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.906-912
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• 2017

In this paper, we studied a design method for a broadband 3-element quasi-Yagi antenna (QYA) for indoor digital television (DTV) reception. The proposed QYA employs a novel balun between a microstrip (MS) line and a coplanar strip (CPS) line feeding the driver dipole. The proposed balun is constructed by connecting the end of MS line to CPS line through a shorting pin, and the CPS and ground reflector are connected through a circular ring-type conductor. An antenna, as an design example for the proposed antenna, is designed for the operation in the frequency band of 470-806 MHz for terrestrial DTV. The antenna fabricated on an FR4 substrate with a size of $270mm{\times}150mm$ showed a good performance such as a frequency band of 470-820 MHz for a voltage standing wave ratio < 2, a gain > 4.0 dBi, and a front-to-back ratio > 8.4 dB over the DTV frequency band.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.298-305
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose simple combining schemes for sensing ATSC digital television signals with spectral correlation density (SCD). The detection algorithms exploiting the cyclostationarity exhibited by the pilot of ATSC digital television signals usually use the SCD value at a given particular frequency. However, we found that non-zero SCDs are found to be distributed over a certain range of frequencies in multipath fading environment. To utilize a set of non-zero SCD values computed in the vicinity of the pilot location, we formulate a class of combining methods in analogy with the maximal ratio combining, the square law combining and the equal gain combining. We show that the proposed simple combining schemes improve the detection performance by 0.5~1.0dB under multipath fading environments.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.39-47
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• 2012

Currently, most of the frequency spectrum resources are allocated and due to the lack of frequency, low frequency band, optimal for wireless communication environment is not used. Therefore, Cognitive Radio (CR) is a critical issue to solve the spectrum scarcity and to improve frequency spectrum utilization in wireless communication. In this paper, we implement data transmission and receive in a real CR system using the USRP(Universal Software Radio Peripheral) board and GNU Radio package of an open source development kit. Concretely, we detect the Primary User by spectrum sensing, and then we send Primary User information to the database. After receiving the information, because the database already sent optimal transmit power, bandwidth and channel information to CR equipment, CR can communicate without any interference to Primary User.