• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.568-576
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• 2017

This paper presents a clock and data recovery circuit with an adaptive loop bandwidth calibration scheme and the idle power saved frequency acquisition. The loop bandwidth calibration adaptively controls injection currents of the main loop with a trimmable bandgap reference circuit and trains the VCO to operate in the linear frequency control range. For stand-by power reduction of the phase detector, a clock gating circuit blocks 8-phase clock signals from the VCO and cuts off the current paths of current mode D-flip flops and latches during the frequency acquisition. 77.96% reduction has been accomplished in idle power consumption of the phase detector. In the jitter experiment, the proposed scheme reduces the jitter tolerance variation from 0.45-UI to 0.2-UI at 1-MHz as compared with the conventional circuit.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.2
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• pp.451-454
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• 2011

In this paper, a wideband clock generator using novel Automatic frequency calibration(AFC) scheme is proposed. Wideband clock generator using AFC has the advantage of small VCO gain and wide frequency band. The conventional AFC compares whether the feedback frequency is faster or slower then the reference frequency. However, the proposed AFC can detect frequency difference between reference frequency with feedback frequency. So it can be reduced an operation time than conventional methods AFC. Conventional AFC goes to the initial code if the frequency step changed. This AFC, on the other hand, can a prior state code so it can approach a fast operation. In simulation results, the proposed clock generator is designed for DisplayPort using the CMOS ring-VCO. The VCO tuning range is 350MHz, and a VCO frequency is 270MHz. The lock time of clock generator is less then 3us at input reference frequency, 67.5MHz. The phase noise is -109dBC/Hz at 1MHz offset from the center frequency. and power consumption is 10.1mW at 1.8V supply and layout area is $0.384mm^2$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.469-471
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• 2022

This paper presents an implementation of a calibration circuit to correct the gain error, DC offset and sampling clock phase error generated in the process of converting digital pixels to analog pixels to drive an analog-driven 4K UHD LCOS panel. The proposed calibration circuit consists of a gain and DC offset adjustment circuit and a sampling clock phase adjustment circuit. The calibration circuit is implemented with an FPGA device, and video amplifiers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.1847-1855
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• 2012

A 1V 1.6-GS/s 6-bit flash analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a clock calibration circuit is proposed. A single track/hold circuit with a bootstrapped analog switch is used as an input stage with a supply voltage of 1V for the high speed operation. Two preamplifier-arrays and each comparator composed of two-stage are implemented for the reduction of analog noises and high speed operation. The clock calibration circuit in the proposed flash ADC improves the dynamic performance of the entire flash ADC by optimizing the duty cycle and phase of the clock. It adjusts the reset and evaluation time of the clock for the comparator by controlling the duty cycle of the clock. The proposed 1.6-GS/s 6-bit flash ADC is fabricated in a 1V 90nm 1-poly 9-metal CMOS process. The measured SNDR is 32.8 dB for a 800 MHz analog input signal. The measured DNL and INL are +0.38/-0.37 LSB, +0.64/-0.64 LSB, respectively. The power consumption and chip area are $800{\times}500{\mu}m2$ and 193.02mW.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.408-420
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• 2003

This paper describes a Delay Locked Loop (DLL) circuit having two advancements : 1) a dual loop operation for a wide lock-range and 2) programmable replica delays using antifuse circuitry and internal voltage generator for a post-package skew calibration. The dual loop operation uses information from the initial time-difference between reference clock and internal clock to select one of the differential internal loops. This increases the lock-range of the DLL to the lower frequency. In addition, incorporation with the programmable replica delay using antifuse circuitry and internal voltage generator allows for the elimination of skews between external clock and internal clock that occur from on and off-chip variations after the package process. The proposed DLL, fabricated on 0.16m process, operates over the wide range of 42MHz - 400MHz with 2.3v power supply. The measured results show 43psec peak-to-peak jitter and 4.71psec ms jitter consuming 52㎽ at 400MHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.10
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• pp.894-900
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• 2012

Indoor wireless positioning system uses ranging information of beacons in order to precisely estimate a tag location. To estimate distance between each beacons and tag, the system calculates arrival time of a tag pulse with clock of each beacon including independent clock offset. This clock offset seriously affects the performance of ranging and positioning. We propose in this paper a clock offset compensation method to solve this problem. To verify the performance of the proposed method, we simulated location estimation with random clock offset between -1,000ppm and 1,000ppm, and the result shows that the proposed scheme effectively solves the clock offset problem.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2015

In this paper, a 12-bit high resolution, power and area efficiency hybrid digital pulse width modulator (DPWM) with process and temperature (PT) calibration has been proposed for digital controlled DC-DC converters. The hybrid structure of DPWM combines a 6-bit differential tapped delay line ring-mux digital-to-time converter (DTC) schema and a 6-bit counter-comparator DTC schema, resulting in a power and area saving solution. Furthermore, since the 6-bit differential delay line ring oscillator serves as the clock to the high 6-bit counter-comparator DTC, a high frequency clock is eliminated, and the power is significantly saved. In order to have a simple delay cell and flexible delay time controllability, a voltage controlled inverter is adopted to build the deferential delay cell, which allows fine-tuning of the delay time. The PT calibration circuit is composed of process and temperature monitors, two 2-bit flash ADCs and a lookup table. The monitor circuits sense the PT (Process and Temperature) variations, and the flash ADC converts the data into a digital code. The complete circuits design has been verified under different corners of CMOS 0.18um process technology node.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.5
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• pp.1005-1009
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• 2010

This paper presents a digitally-controlled filter calibration technique for biquad RC filter using self oscillation. The biquad RC filter is converted to a fully-differential ring oscillator by changing its resistor connections, where the oscillation frequency reflects the cut-off frequency. The proposed calibration circuit measures the oscillation frequency by counting with a fixed higher-frequency clock and then tunes it to a desired frequency with a digital frequency-locked loop including a PI controller. Because the proposed circuit directly measures the cut-off frequency of the filter itself and calibrates it with the small area digital circuits, the area and the power consumption are much small compared with conventional works. When it is implemented in a 65nm CMOS process, the calibration circuit except the filter consumes the area of 80um X 50um and power consumption is 443uA at 1.2 V supply voltage.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.6
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• pp.230-238
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• 1996

In this paper, digital corrction and calibration circuit for a high-resolution CMOS pipelined A/D converter are proposed. The circuits were actually applied to a 12 -bit 4-stage pipelined A/D converter which was implemented in a 0.8${\mu}$m p-well CMOS process. The proposed digital correction logic is based on optimum multiplexer and two nonoverlapping clock phases resulting in a small die area snd a modular pipelined architecture. The propsoed digital calibration logic which consists of calibration control logic, error averaging logic, and memory can effectively perform self-calibration with little modifying analog functional bolcks of a conventional pipelined A/D conveter.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.417-422
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• 2021

In this paper, a ZQ calibration using a time domain comparator is proposed. The proposed comparator is designed based on VCO, and an additional clock generator is used to reduce power consumption. By using the proposed comparator, the reference voltage and the PAD voltage were compared with a low 1 LSB voltage, so that the additional offset cancelation process could be omitted. The proposed time domain comparator-based ZQ calibration circuit was designed with a 65nm CMOS process with 1.05V and 0.5V supply voltages. The proposed clock generator reduces power consumption by 37% compared to a single time domain comparator, and the proposed ZQ calibration increases the mask margin by up to 67.4%.