• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.2387-2394
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• 2013

A low spur phase-locked loop (PLL) with FVCO-sampled feedforward loop-filter has been proposed. Conventional PLL has loop filter made of a resistor and capacitors. The proposed PLL is working stably with the filter consisted of capacitors and a switch. It has been designed with a 1.8V $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and proved by simulation with HSPICE.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.187-190
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• 2000

In this paper, A Feedforward Linear Power Amplifier which is appended a feedback loop for IMT-2000 was designed and fabricated. Feedback loop was used to improve the IMD(Inter-Modulation Distortion) characteristics of the main amplifier. And it is easy to cancel IMD on the min path and control IMD cancellation loop, compared with basic Feedforward Linear Power Amplifier. This feedback loop has the same effect of the Predistroter. So, This power amplifier was improved in IMD characteristics to add the effect of Predistroter to basic Feedforward amplifier. And the disigned power amplifier in this paper represented the 40dBm(10W) output and -55dBc 3rd IMD at center frequency 2.14GHz (@10MHz).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.116-123
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• 2000

This paper presents a linearizer using the feedforward loop which can be applied to PCS base-station applications. This linearizer used a IM amplifier and an auxiliary amplifier in order to remove delay lines used in the predistortor using the feedforward technique. The delay line in error loop is changed by the main power amplifier(PA) and the error amplifier is utilized to amplify the error signal which fed to the output of main amplifier. The linearizer was simulated by HP ADS ver 1.1 and fabricated on GML 1000 with thickness of 0.8 mm and dielectric constant of 3.2. Two-tone signals at 1.85 GHz and 1.851 GHz with -7dBm/tone from synthesizers are injected into the main PA. The main PA with a 27 dB gain and a $P_{1dB}$ of 29 dBm(two-tone) was utilized. The reduction of intermodulation distortion (IMD) is around 17 dB.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.998-1004
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• 2002

This paper reports a design of feedforward linear power amplifier using pilot tone for IMT-2000 band repeaters accepting multi-carrier. As this time pilot tone is applied to the circuit differently from the existing method. Only one pilot tone is used in both 1-st loop(IMD abstraction loop) and 2-nd loop(IMD cancellation loop) to cancell IMD signals automatically according to variation of frequency or power level of input signals. As an experiment, in range of 2110 MHz - 2170 MHz at LPA output power of $20 W_{avg}$, IMD characteristics of over 20 dB was improved maintaining below -60 dBc considering respective 20 MHz. Therefore the supposed feedforward linear power amplifier can be used for linear power amplifier in IMT-2000 band repeaters.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.3 no.2 s.5
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• pp.215-220
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• 1999

In fabricated linear power amplifier(LPA), the third-order inter-modulation distortion(IMD) for main amplifier alone is 10.61dBc, and the IMD for LPA with predistorter and feedforward loop combined is 32.50dBc. Therefore, the IMD characteristic results an improvement of approximately 22dB. The main amplifier efficiency with single tone input is close to 30%, and the efficiency of the overall LPA with predistorter is 27.4% and predicted feedforward loop efficiency without predistorter is about 20%. Therefore, LPA with predistorter and feedforward loop combined is improved by 7.4%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.99-106
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• 2001

In this paper, an 1-Watt amplifier for IMT-2000 was designed and fabricated using feedfarward method which has the highest linearity and wide bandwidth. Since feedforward is sensitive to surroundings for example heat, input power level, time and so on, adaptive controller using micro controller is adopted. We fabricated a HPA with 35 dB gain, 40 dBm of 1-dB compression point, and utilized variable attenuator and variable phase shifter using reflection type to cancel loop signal. From the measured results, the fo11owing facts were obtained, in signal loop, main carrier over 35 dB was suppressed and error signal over 30 dB is cancelled in error loop, IMD characteristics above 60 dBc were obtained.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.31A no.5
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• pp.68-75
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• 1994

A new Predistortor that is designed using Feedforward type is proposed to overcome the nonlinearity of HPA (High Power Amplifier). HPA has the nonlinearity of the gain compression and phase distorton, so digital communication system of multi-carrier TDMA needs the linear RF transmitter. Using IMD (Intermodulation Distortion) of drive amplifier, as Feedforward type, the inverse IMD is coupled to the main loop with variable attenuators, phase shifters, and sub-amplifiers well designed. At the input of main amplifier, the over-coupled IMD surpresses the main amplifier 's IMD. Adjusting the level and phase of IMD at the sub loop, C/I of HPA is better than before correction.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.33-41
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• 1999

This paper presents a method of actively controlling the interior noise by a trim panel with hybrid feedforward-feedback control loop. The control technique is designed to minimize the vibration of panel whose motion is limited to that of a piston (out-of-plane motion). The hybrid controller consists of an adaptive feedforward controller in conjunction with a linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) feedback controller. In order to maintain control performance of both persistent and transient disturbances, the feedback loop speeds up the adaptation rate of feedforward controller by improving damping capacity of secondary plant related with the adaptation rule. Numerical simulation and experimental result indicate that the hybrid controller is a more effective method for reducing the vibration of the panel (and therefore the interior noise) compared to using feedforward controller.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.7 s.172
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• pp.94-101
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• 2005

This work proposes a new method for describing the hysteresis non-linearity of a piezoelectric actuator. The hysteresis behaviour of piezoelectric actuators, including the minor loop trajectory, are modeled by geometrical relationship between a reference major loop and its minor loops. This hysteresis model is transformed into inverse hysteresis model in order to output compensated voltage with regard to the given input displacement. A feedforward neural network, which is trained by a feedback PID control module, is incorporated to the inverse hysteresis model to compensate unknown dynamics of the piezoelectric system. To show the feasibility of the proposed feedforward-feedback controller, some experiments have been carried out and the tracking performance was compared to that of simple PTD controller.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.91-97
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• 2000

Tn this paper, a novel control circuit applicable to the error sensor loop block in the feedforward linearizer system is proposed. The proposed control circuit is applied to the error sensor loop block, where in the 11dB power range, it operates stably, and makes main carrier signals to be eliminated more than 40dB below 3$\^$rd/ order IM level. In the operating point, the amplitude control error is 0.05∼0.12dB, and the phase control error is smaller than 0.02。. It is verified theoretically as well as experimentally that the control circuit can precisely compensate the variation of nonlinear characteristics in a high power amplifier, due to the variations of input power, operating temperature, humidity and the other system environments.