• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2012

A 10-b 500 MS/s A/D converter (ADC) with a hybrid calibration and error correction logic is described. The ADC employs a single-channel cascaded folding-interpolating architecture whose folding rate (FR) is 25 and interpolation rate (IR) is 8. To overcome the disadvantage of an offset error, we propose a hybrid self-calibration circuit at the open-loop amplifier. Further, a novel prevision digital error correction logic (DCL) for the folding ADC is also proposed. The ADC prototype using a 130 nm 1P6M CMOS has a DNL of ${\pm}0.8$ LSB and an INL of ${\pm}1.0$ LSB. The measured SNDR is 52.34-dB and SFDR is 62.04-dBc when the input frequency is 78.15 MHz at 500 MS/s conversion rate. The SNDR of the ADC is 7-dB higher than the same circuit without the proposed calibration. The effective chip area is $1.55mm^2$, and the power dissipates 300 mW including peripheral circuits, at a 1.2/1.5 V power supply.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제33A권6호
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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.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.798-803
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• 2007

In case of minimized digital camera and mobile digital camera, it's difficult to get the high quality image by conventional AE(Auto Exposure) algorithm because of restriction of system organization. In this paper, a new algorithm that adopts a target setting, a compensation of feedback delay and a gamma correction, etc, are suggested for improving a noise increase and an output sensitivity decrease due to system minimization. We also suggest a method using fuzzy logic which can decide more effectively the ES(Electric Shutter) value and the AGC(Analog Gain Control) value than conventional system.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.35-42
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• 2017

This paper presents hardware implementation of background timing-skew calibration technique for time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (TI ADCs). The timing skew between any two adjacent analog-digital (A/D) channels is detected by using pure digital Finite Impulse Response (FIR) delay filter. This paper includes hardware architecture of the system, main units and small sub-blocks along with control logic circuits. Moreover, timing diagrams of logic simulations using ModelSim are provided and discussed for further understanding about simulations. Simulation process in MATLAB and Verilog is also included and provided with basic settings need to be done. For hardware implementation it not practical to work with all samples. Hence, the simulation is conducted on 512 TI ADC output samples which are stored in the buffer simultaneously and the correction arithmetic is done on those samples according to the time skew algorithm. Through the simulated results, we verified the implemented hardware is working well.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제47권8호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 고해상도 저전력 SAR 타입 ADC(아날로그 디지털 변환기)의 면적을 획기적으로 줄이기 위해서 역 다중화기 (Demultiplexer)와 카운터 (Counter)를 이용하는 타이밍 레지스터 (Timing register) 구조를 제안하였다. 전통적으로 사용되는 쉬프트 레지스터에 기반을 둔 타이밍 레지스터 구조는 해상도가 증가될수록 면적이 급격하게 증가하고, 또한 잡음의 원인이 되는 디지털 소비 전력도 증가되는 반면, 제안하는 구조는 해상도 증가에 따른 에러 보정 회로의 면적과 소비 전력 증가를 줄일 수 있다. 0.18 um CMOS 공정을 이용하여 제작하였으며, 제안한 타이밍 레지스터 구조를 이용하여, 기존 구조 대비 5.4배의 면적 감소와 디지털 전력 최소화의 효과를 얻을 수 있었다. 설계한 12 비트 SAR ADC는 11 비트의 유효 비트 (ENOB), 2 mW (기준전압 생성 블록 포함)의 소비전력과 1 MSPS의 변환 속도를 보였으며, 레이아웃 면적은 $1mm{\times}1mm$ 이었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권10C호
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• pp.1019-1024
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 무선 랜 시스템용 10비트 20MHz 파이프라인 아날로그-디지털 변환기 설계를 위해서 Verilog-A 언어를 사용하여서 모델링하였다. 변환기내 샘플 / 홀드 증폭기, 비교기, MDAC 및 오차 보정 회로 등의 구성회로들을 각각 모델링해서 모의실험 한 결과 HSPICE를 이용한 모의 실험 시간보다 1/50배로 단축되어서 시스템 모델링에 적합함을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.224-227
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• 1999

This paper presents a design of the real-time preprocessor for CMOS image sensor suitable to the digital camera applications. CMOS image sensor offers some advantages in on-chip integration, system power reduction, and low cost. However, it has a lower-quality image than CCDs. We describe an image enhancement algorithm, which includes color interpolation, color correction, gamma correction, sharpening, and automatic exposure control, to compensate for this disadvantage, and present its efficient hardware architecture to implement on the real-time processor. The presented real-time preprocessor was designed using VHDL, and it contains about 19.2K logic gates. We also implement our system on FPGA chips in order to provide the real-time adjustment and it was successfully tested.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2013

A fractional folding analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a novel arithmetic digital encoding technique is discussed. In order to reduce the asymmetry errors of the boundary conditions for the conventional folding ADC, a structure using an odd number of folding blocks and fractional folding rate is proposed. To implement the fractional technique, a new arithmetic digital encoding technique composed of a memory and an adder is described. Further, the coding errors generated by device mismatching and other external factors are minimized, since an iterating offset self-calibration technique is adopted with a digital error correction logic. A prototype 8-bit 1GS/s ADC has been fabricated using an 1.2V 0.13 um 1-poly 6-metal CMOS process. The effective chip area is $2.1mm^2$(ADC core : $1.4mm^2$, calibration engine : $0.7mm^2$), and the power consumption is 88 mW. The measured SNDR is 46.22 dB at the conversion rate of 1 GS/s. Both values of INL and DNL are within 1 LSB.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권9호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 컬러 영상을 실시간 신호 처리 과정을 통해 보정하기 위한 낮은 복잡도의 배럴 왜곡 보정 프로세서의 구조를 제시하고, 이를 구현한 결과를 보인다. 제안하는 배럴 왜곡 보정 프로세서는 컬러 디모자이킹과 배럴 왜곡 보정 과정의 두 보간과정을 결합하여 하드웨어 복잡도를 낮추었다. 또한 배럴 왜곡 보정 과정의 공간적 지역성을 이용한 메모리 인터페이스를 설계하여 한 픽셀을 보정하는데 요구되는 메모리 대역폭을 크게 감소시켰다. 설계된 보정 프로세서는 $0.11-{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정을 사용하여 35K의 논리 게이트로 구현되었고, $2048{\times}2048$ 크기의 컬러 영상을 최대 606 MHz의 동작 주파수로 150 Mpixels/s의 속도로 보정할 수 있으며, 요구되는 메모리 대역폭은 1 read/correction이다.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제29A권8호
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• pp.1-9
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• 1992

Radio data system is a next-generation broadcasting system of digital information communication which multiplexes the digital data into the FM stereo signal in VHF/FM band and provides important and convenient service features. And radio data are composed of groups which are divided into 4 blocks with information word and check word. In this paper, radio data receiver is developed which recovers and process radio data to provide services. Then we confirm that 7dB SNR is required to be 10S0-5TBER of demodulation. Deconding process of shortened-cyclic-decoder has been simulated by computer. Also, the time-compression (by 16 times) method has been adopted for the RDS features post-processing. Via the error probability calculation, simulation and experimentation, the developed receiver system is proved to satisfy the system specification of EBU and implemented by general logic gates and analog circuits.