• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.627-631
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• 2009

This paper presents a novel current steering cell matrix DAC(digital-to-analog converter) architecture to reduce decoder area. The current cell matrix of a existing architecture is selected by columns and lows thermometer code decoder of input bits. But The current cell matrix of a proposal architecture is divided 2n by the thermometer code decoder of upper input bits and are selected by the thermometer code decoder of middle and lower input bits. Because of this configuration, decoder numbers have increased. But the gate number that composed of decoder has decreased. In case of the designed 8 bit current steering cell matrix DAC, the gate number of decoder has decreased by about 55% in comparison with a existing architecture.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.12 s.354
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• pp.15-22
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• 2006

In this paper, 1.8V 8-bit 500MSPS Low-power CMOS Digital-to-Analog Converter(DAC) for UWB(Ultra Wide Band) Communication Systeme is proposed. The architecture of the DAC is based on a current steering 6+2 full matrix type which has low glitch and high linearity. In order to achieve a high speed and good performance, a current cell with a high output impedance and wide swing output range is designed. Further a thermometer decoder with same delay time and low-power switching decoder for high efficiency performance are proposed. The proposed DAC was implemented with TSMC 0.18um 1-poly 6-metal N-well CMOS technology. The measured SFDR was 49dB when the output frequency was 50MHz at 500MS/s sampling frequency. The measured INL and DNL were 0.9LSB and 0.3LSB respectively. The DAC power dissipation was 20mW and the effective chip area was $0.63mm^2$.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.11 s.353
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• pp.83-89
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• 2006

This paper describes the design of I/Q channel 12bit Digital-to-Analog Converter(DAC) which shows the conversion rate of 120MHz and the power supply of 3.3V with 0.35um CMOS n-well 1-poly 4-metal process for advanced wireless transceiver. The proposed DAC utilizes 4-bit thermometer decoder with 3 stages for minimum glitch energy and linearity error. Also, using a optimized 4bit thermometer decoder for the decrement of the chip area. Integral nonlinearity(INL) of ${\pm}1.6LSB$ and differential nonlinearity(DNL) of ${\pm}1.3LSB$ have been measured. In single tone test, the ENOB of the proposed 12bit DAC is 10.5bit and SFDR of 73dB(@ Fs=120MHz, Fin=1MHz) is measured, respectively. Dual-tone test SFDR is 61 dB (@ Fs=100MHz, Fin=1.5MHz, 2MHz). Glitch energy of 31 pV.s is measured. The converter consumes a total of 105mW from 3.3-V power supply.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.587-588
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• 2008

Digital PLL을 위한 높은 해상도를 갖는 TDC(Time to Digital Converter)를 $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정으로 설계하였다. 2단 구조를 갖는 TDC를 제안하였고 이를 Cadence Spectre를 이용하여 검증하였다. TDC는 Difference pulse generator, coarse 변환기와 fine 변환기로 구성된다. 그리고, 2단 변환기와 Thermometer decoder를 이용하여 delay cell의 수를 적게 유지하면서도 높은 해상도를 얻을 수 있었다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.371-378
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• 2015

In this paper, a different type of pulse width modulation (PWM) control scheme for a buck converter is introduced. The proposed buck converter uses PWM with frequency hopping and a low quiescent.current low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator with a power supply rejection ratio enhancer to reduce high spurs, harmonics and output voltage ripples. The low quiescent.current LDO voltage regulator is not described in this paper. A three-bit binary-to-thermometer decoder scheme and voltage ripple controller (VRC) is implemented to achieve low voltage ripple less than 3mV to increase the efficiency of the buck converter. An internal clock that is synchronized to the internal switching frequency is used to set the hopping rate. A center frequency of 2.5MHz was chosen because of the bluetooth low energy (BLE) application. This proposed DC-DC buck converter is available for low-current noise-sensitive loads such as BLE and radio frequency loads in portable communications devices. Thus, a high-efficiency and low-voltage ripple is required. This results in a less than 2% drop in the regulator's efficiency, and a less than 3mV voltage ripple, with -26 dBm peak spur reduction operating in the buck converter.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.57-65
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• 2002

In this paper, a 2.5V 10-bit 300MSPS CMOS D/A Converter is described. The architecture of the D/A Converter is based on a current steering 8+2 segmented type, which reduces non-linearity error and other secondary effects. In order to achieve a high performance D/A Converter, a novel current cell with a low spurious deglitchnig circuit and a novel inverse thermomeer decoder are proposed. To verify the performance, it is integrated with $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS 1-poly 5-metal technology. The effective chip area is $1.56mm^2$ and power consumption is about 84mW at 2.5V power supply. The simulation and experimental results show that the glitch energy is 0.9pVsec at fs=100MHz, 15pVsec at fs=300MHz in worst case, respectively. Further, both of INL and DNL are within ${\pm}$1.5LSB, and the SFDR is about 45dB when sampling, frequency, is 300MHz and output frequency is 1MHz.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.56-63
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• 2008

This paper describes a 12 bit 1GS/s current mode segmented DAC for WCDMA communication. The proposed circuit in this paper employes segmented structure which consists of 4bit binary weighted structure in the LSB and 4bit thermometer decoder structure in the mSB and MSB. The proposed DAC uses delay time compensation circuits in order to suppress performance decline by delay time in segmented structure. The delay time compensation circuit comprises of phase frequency detector, charge pump, and control circuits, so that suppress delay time by binary weighted structure and thermometer decoder structure. The proposed DAC uses CMOS $0.18{\mu}m$ 1-poly 6-metal n-well process, and measured INL/DNL are below ${\pm}0.93LSB/{\pm}0.62LSB$. SFDR is approximately 60dB and SNDR is 51dB at 1MHz input frequency. Single DAC's power consumption is 46.2mW.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.9A no.1
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• pp.93-98
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• 2002

This paper introduces the design of high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for hard disk drive (HDD) read channel applications. This circuit is bated on fast regenerative autozero comparator for high speed and low-error rate comparison operation, and Double Speed Dual ADC (DSDA) architecture for efficiently increasing the overall conversion speed of ADC. A new type of thermometer-to-binary decoder appropriate for the autozero architecture is employed for no glitch decoding, simplifying the conventional structure significantly. This ADC is designed for 6-bit resolution, 800 Msample/s maximum conversion rate, 390 mW power dissipation, one clock cycle latency in 0.65 m CMOS technology.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11c
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• pp.632-634
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• 2004

First for high-qualify images and reducing process-error and driving speed, the designed 8-bit data driving circuit consists of a constant transconductance bias circuit, D-F/Fs by shift registers using static transmission gates, 1st latch and 2nd latch by tristate inverters, level shifters, current steering segmented D/A converters by 4MSB thermometer decoder and 4LSB weighted type. Second, we designed gray amp for power saving. These data driving circuits are designed with $0.35-{\mu}m$ CMOS technologies at 3.3 V and 18 V power supplies and simulated with HSPICE.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.609-612
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• 2002

In this paper, a 12-bit 100-MHz CMOS current steering digital-to-analog converter is designed. In the D/A converter, a driver circuit using a dynamic latch is implemented to obtain low glitch and thermometer decoder is used for low DNL errors, guaranteed monotonicity, reduced stitching noise. And a threshold voltage-compensated current source. The D/A converter is designed with 0.35-$\mu m$ CMOS technology at 3.3 V power supply and simulated with HSPICE. The maximum power dissipation of the designed DAC is 143 mW.