• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.6
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• pp.71-78
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• 1999

In this paper, a new model for optical phase-locked loop(OPLL) is proposed that includes VCO laser frequency response as well as loop propagation delay. It is found that both of them greatly affect the OPLL performance. Our model can be used for realizing high-performance microwave-range OPLL.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.829-832
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• 2005

This paper describes a wide-range dual-loop Delay Locked Loop (DLL) using Voltage Controlled Delay Line (VCDL) based on Transmission Gate(TG) inverters. One loop is used when the minimum VCDL delay is greater than a half of $T_{REF}$, the reference clock period. The other loop is initiated when the minimum delay is less than $0.5{\times}T_{REF}$. The proposed VCDL improves the dynamic operation range of a DLL. The DLL with a VCDL of 10 TG inverters provides a lock range from 70MHz to 700MHz when designed using $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology with 1.8 supply voltage. The DLL consumes 11.5mW for locking operation with a 700MHz reference clock. The proposed DLL can be used for high-speed memory devices and processors, communication systems, high-performance display interfaces, etc.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.139-142
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• 2018

This work presents a novel architecture of phase locked loop (PLL) with the current compensating scheme to improve phase noise characteristic. The proposed PLL has two charge pumps (CP), main-CP (MCP) and sub-CP (SCP). The smaller SCP current with same time duration but opposite direction of UP/DN MCP current is injected to the loop filter (LF). It suppresses the voltage fluctuation of LF. The PLL has a novel voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) consisting of a voltage controlled resistor (VCR) and the three-stage ring oscillator with latch type delay cells. The VCR linearly converts voltage into current, and the latch type delay cell has short active on-time of transistors. As a result, it improves phase noise characteristic. The proposed PLL has been fabricated with $0.35{\mu}m$ 3.3 V CMOS process. Measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset is -103 dBc/Hz resulting in 3 dBc/Hz phase noise improvement compared to the conventional PLL.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.1196-1199
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• 1998

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.43-49
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• 2000

We proposed ADD(Alternate Directional Delay) circuit technique as the DLL(Delay Locked Loop) circuits which technique is established the data valid window(tDV) in DDR(Double Data Rate) Synchronous DRAM. This technique could be decrease area-overhead which it could generated bidirectional clock simultaneously using only one delay chain block. In this paper for high speed memory with relatively small size. This technique decreased area-overhead more 2 times than SMD(Synchronous Mirror Delay) technique. ADD technique has 50ps-140ps jitter and the operation frequency has 166MHz-66MHz range.(at 2.5V, TYP. condition)

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.387-394
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• 2016

This paper presents a fully digital delay locked loop (DLL) that can acquire lock in four clock cycles with a resolution of a 1/4 NAND-delay. The proposed DLL with a multi-dither-free phase detector acquires the initial lock in four clock cycles with 1/2 NAND-delay. Then, it utilizes a multi-dither-free phase detector, a region accumulator, and phase blenders, to improve the resolution to a 1/4 NAND-delay. The region accumulator which continuously steers the control registers and the phase blender, adaptively controls the tracking bandwidth depending on the amount of jitter, and effectively suppresses the dithering jitter. Fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process, the proposed DLL occupies $0.0432mm^2$, and consumes 3.7 mW from a 1.2-V supply at 2 GHz.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1261-1266
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• 2017

A random and systematic jitter suppressed delay locked loop (DLL)-based clock generator with a delay-time voltage variance converter (DVVC) and an averaging circuit (AC) is presented. The DVVC senses the delay variance of each delay stage and generates a voltage. The AC averages the output voltages of two consecutive DVVCs to suppress the systematic and random delay variance of each delay stage in the VCDL. The DVVC and AC averages the delay time of successive delay stages and equalizes the delay time of all delay stages. In addition, a capacitor with a switch working effectively as a negative feedback function is introduced to reduce the variation of the loop filter output voltage. Measurement results of the DLL-based clock generator fabricated in a one-poly six-metal $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process shows 13.4-ps rms jitter.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.165-171
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• 2007

This paper proposes a new islanding detection method for inverter-interfaced distributed generators (DG). To detect islanding conditions, this paper calculates the phase angle variation of the system voltage by using the phase-locked loop (PLL) in the inverter controllers. Because almost all inverter systems are equipped with the PLL, the implementation of this method is fairly simple and economical for inverter-interfaced DGs. The detection time can also be shortened by reducing communication delay between the relays and the DGs. The proposed method is based on the fact that islanding conditions result in the frequency and voltage variation of the islanded area. The variation depends on the amount of power mismatch. To improve the accuracy of the detection algorithm, this paper injects small low-frequency reactive power mismatch to the output power of DG.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.303-317
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• 2013

Two novel clocking strategies for a high-speed multi-channel serializer-deserializer (SERDES) are proposed in this paper. Both of the clocking strategies are based on groups, which facilitate flexibility and expansibility of the SERDES. One clocking strategy is applicable to moderate parallel I/O cases, such as high density, short distance, consistent media, high temperature variation, which is used for the serializer array. Each group within the strategy consists of a full-rate phase-locked loop (PLL), a full-rate delay-locked loop (DLL), and two fixed phase alignment (FPA) techniques. The other is applicable to more awful I/O cases such as higher speed, longer distance, inconsistent media, serious crosstalk, which is used for the deserializer array. Each group within the strategy is composed of a PLL and two DLLs. Moreover, a half-rate version is chosen to realize the desired function of 1:2 deserializer. Based on the proposed clocking strategies, two representative ICs for each group of SERDES are designed and fabricated in a standard $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. Measurement results indicate that the two SERDES ICs can work properly accompanied with their corresponding clocking strategies.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.179-192
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• 2008

A multiphase compensation method with mismatch linearization technique, is presented and demonstrated in a $\Sigma-\Delta$ fractional-N frequency synthesizer. An on-chip delay-locked loop (DLL) and a proposed delay line structure are constructed to provide multiphase compensation on $\Sigma-\Delta$ quantizetion noise. In the delay line structure, dynamic element matching (DEM) techniques are employed for mismatch linearization. The proposed $\Sigma-\Delta$ fractional-N frequency synthesizer is fabricated in a $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology with 2.14-GHz output frequency and 4-Hz resolution. The die size is 0.92 mm$\times$1.15 mm, and it consumes 27.2 mW. In-band phase noise of -82 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset and out-of-band phase noise of -103 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset are measured with a loop bandwidth of 200 kHz. The settling time is shorter than $25{\mu}s$.