• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.216-219
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• 2003

In this paper, we present performance analysis of an IEEE P802.15.3a high rate wireless personal area network transceiver. This physical layer standard uses QOSK as its sub-channel modulation scheme and orthogonal frequency domain modulation (OFDM) for sub-bands. OFDM is used for each sub-band so that multi-path effects are absorbed by equalizer and guard, and fading can be approximately modeled as additive white Gaussian noise. In multi-band ultra-wideband system, DAC quantization error is important noise source since high resolution conversion cannot be used due to high power consumption. Simulation result shows that, to get 640-Mbps throughput, at least 5-bits precision is necessary to maintain bit-error rate under 10$\^$-2/, which can be lowered, with channel coding, to 10$\^$-6/ that is the bit-error rate required by IEEE 802.15 upper protocol layer, in 4-meter LOS fading channel.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.607-608
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• 2006

A CMOS phase-locked loop (PLL) which synthesizes frequencies between $6.336{\sim}8.976GHz$ in steps of 528MHz and settles in approximately 150ns using the 528MHz reference clock is presented. Frequency hopping between the bands in the each mode is critical point to design the PLL in multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) because frequency switching between each band is less than 9.5ns. To achieve the fast loop settling, integer-N PLL that operates with the high reference frequency to meet the settling requirement is implemented. Two PLLs that operate at 9GHz and 528MHz is integrated and shows the band hopping lower than 1ns.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.3C
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• pp.175-182
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• 2011

This paper presents a novel eight-parallel 128/256-point mixed-radix multi-path delay commutator (MRMDC) FFT/IFFT processor for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The proposed FFT architecture can provide a high throughput rate and low hardware complexity by using an eight-parallel data-path scheme, a modified mixed-radix multi-path delay commutator structure and an efficient scheduling scheme of complex multiplications. The efficient scheduling scheme can reduce the number of complex multipliers at the second stage from 88 to 40. The proposed FFT/IFFT processor has been designed and implemented with the 90nm CMOS technology. The proposed eight-parallel FFT/IFFT processor can provide a throughput rate of up to 27.5Gsample/s at 430MHz.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.1075-1083
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• 2013

This paper describes an ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna that uses a ring resonator concept. The proposed antenna can operate in the entire UWB, and the IEEE 802.11a frequency band can be rejected by inserting a notch stub into the ring resonator. The experiment results indicate that the measured impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 17.5 GHz (2.5 GHz to at least 20 GHz). The proposed UWB antenna has omnidirectional radiation patterns with a gain variation of 3 dBi (1 dBi to 4 dBi).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.209-210
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• 2008

We have proposed a bow-tie UWB antenna using a U-shaped stub. The proposed antenna covers the entire ISM frequency (2.45 GHz) and DS-OFDM UWB band ($3.1\;{\sim}\;5\;GHz$). Simulated and measured results are found to be in good agreement with each other. The designed antenna has the figure-of-eight radiation pattern, wide bandwidth, dual-band, and negligible dispersion over the operating frequency band.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.91-94
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• 2006

Impulse radio (IR) is a competitive candidate for ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. In this letter, we evaluated the coexistence of an IR-UWB system based on an orthogonal sinusoidal correlation receiver (OSCR) with an IEEE 802.11a WLAN through a detailed simulation. The coexistence performance of the two systems is characterized in terms of the receiver's bit-error rates. Then, some approaches to interference mitigation are discussed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.8
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• pp.117-124
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• 2009

This paper describes a 3 to 5 GHz frequency synthesizer for MB-OFDM (Multi-Band OFDM) UWB (Ultra- Wideband) application using 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process. The frequency synthesizer operates in the band group 1 whose center frequencies are 3432 MHz 3960 MHz, and 4488 MHz. To cover the overall frequencies of group 1, an efficient frequency planning minimizing a number of blocks and the power consumption are proposed. And, a high-frequency VCO and LO Mixer architecture are also presented in this paper. A new mixed coarse tuning scheme that utilizes the MIM capacitance, the varactor arrays, and the DAC is proposed to expand the VCO tuning range. The frequency synthesizer can also provide the clock for the ADC in baseband modem. So, the PLL for the ADC in the baseband modem can be removed with this frequency synthesizer. The single PLL and two SSB-mixers consume 60 mW from a 1.2 sV supply. The VCO tuning range is 1.2 GHz. The simulated phase noise of the VCO is -112 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset. The die area is 2 ${\times}$ 2mm$^2$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.2 s.93
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• pp.189-193
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a direct conversion double-balanced down-converter fer MB-OFDM W system, which is implemented using $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS technology and its measurement results are shown. The proposed down-converter adopts a resistive current-source instead of general transconductance stage using MOS transistor to achieve wideband characteristics over RF input frequency band $3\~5\;GHz$ with good gain flatness. The measured conversion gain is more than +3 dB, and gain flatness is less than 3 dB for three UWB channels. The dc consumption of this work is only 0.89 mA from 1.8 V power supply, leading to the low-power W application.

• TTA Journal
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• s.110
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• pp.61-68
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• 2007

UWB는 2002년부터 FCC에서 상용을 허용한 이후 IEEE802.15.3a에서 DS-CDMA 방식과 MB-OFDM 방식을 논의해 왔으나 표준안 도출에 실패한 후 지금은 WiMedia Alliance와 UWB Forum에서 각기 표준화 진행중이다. Intel, Microsoft, HP 등이 주축인 WiMdeia Alliance는‘PAN 환경에서 장치간의 무선 멀티미디어 연결과 상호운용성’을 위하여 구성되었으며, 2003년 MBOA와 합병하여 MBOA 기술을 기반으로 하는 물리계층 및 MAC 계층 기능 규격을 ECMA 등에 표준으로 등록하였고, 그 외 표준화 단체에 표준안 채택을 위한 노력을 계속하고 있다. 또한 USB Forum, Bluetooth, IEEE1394 등에 MBOA 기반 응용이 사용될 수 있도록 노력하고 있으며, 2005년 MBOA 기반의 Certified Wireless USB 규격으로 UWB 시장을 선점하기 시작하였으며, Bluetooth 및 IEEE1394에서도 MBOA 기반 표준이 진행되고 있다. 본 고는 WiMedia Alliance의 최근 표준 활동과 WiMedia 규격을 활용한 국내.외 기술동향에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.24 no.9
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• pp.104-110
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• 2007

UWB는 2002년부터 FCC에서 상용을 허용한 이후 IEEE802.15.3a에서 DS-CDMA 방식과 MB-OFDM 방식을 논의해 왔으나 표준안 도출에 실패한 후 지금은 WiMedia Alliance와 UWB Forum에서 각기 표준화 진행중이다. Intel, Microsoft, HP 등이 주축인 WiMdeia Alliance는 "PAN 환경에서 장치간의 무선 멀티미디어 연결과 상호 운용성"을 위하여 구성되었으며, 2003년 MBOA와 합병하여 MBOA 기술을 기반으로 하는 물리계층 및 MAC 계층 기능 규격을 ECMA 등에 표준으로 등록하였고, 그 외 표준화 단체에 표준안 채택을 위한 노력을 계속하고 있다. 또한 USB Forum, Bluetooth, IEEE1394 등에 MBOA 기반 응용이 사용될 수 있도록 노력하고 있으며, 2005년 MBOA 기반의 Certified Wireless USB 규격으로 UWB 시장을 선점하기 시작하였으며, Bluetooth 및 IEEE1394에서도 MBOA 기반 표준이 진행되고 있다. 본 고는 WiMedia Alliance의 최근 표준 활동과 WiMedia 규격을 활용한 국내 외 기술동향에 대하여 살펴보고자 한다.