• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.258-264
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• 2011

본 논문은 GSM(Global System for Mobile communications)에서 주로 사용되는 Offset-PLL(Phase Locked Loop) 방식을 사용하여 낮은 위상 잡음과 빠른 위상 고정 시간, 우수한 불요파 특성을 갖는 주파수 합성기를 설계 제작하였다. 제안된 주파수 합성기의 구조는 3번의 주파수 하향 변환을 통해 낮은 위상 잡음 갖도록 하였으며, 높은 주파수 해상도를 갖도록 세 개의 offset 주파수중 최종 offset 주파수를 DDS(Direct Digital Synthesizer)를 이용하여 생성하였다. 또한, 빠른 스위칭 속도를 가질 수 있도록 DAC(Digital to Analog Converter)를 사용하였다. DAC 사용에 따른 위상 잡음 열화를 줄이기 위해 DAC 노이즈 제거를 위한 필터를 설계하여 성능을 개선하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 V
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• pp.2621-2624
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• 2003

In this paper, we designed 12Bit DAC(Digital to Analog Converter) that applied to multiple-valued logic system to Binary system. The proposed D/A Converter structure consists of the Binary to Quaternary Converter(BQC) and Quaternary to Analog Converter(QAC). The BQC converts the two input binary signals to the one Digit Quaternary output signal. The QAC converts the Quaternary input signal to the Analog output signal. The proposed DAC structure can implement voltage mode DAC that high resolution low power consumption with reduced chip area. And also, it has advantage of the easy expansion of resolution and fast settling time.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.282-291
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• 2010

This paper presents a full-CMOS transmitter and receiver for VDSL2 systems. The transmitter part consists of the low-pass filter, programmable gain amplifier (PGA) and 14-bit DAC. The receiver part consists of the low-pass filter, variable gain amplifier (VGA), and 13-bit ADC. The low pass filter and PGA are designed to support the variable data rate. The RC bank sharing architecture for the low pass filter has reduced the chip size significantly. And, the 80 Msps, high resolution DAC and ADC are integrated to guarantee the SNR. Also, the transmitter and receiver are designed to have a wide dynamic range and gain control range because the signal from the VDSL2 line is variable depending on the distance. The chip is implemented in 0.25 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology and the die area is 5 mm $\times$ 5 mm. The spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) and SNR of the transmitter and receiver are 67.5 dB and 41 dB, respectively. The power consumption of the transmitter and receiver are 160 mW and 250 mW from the supply voltage of 2.5 V, respectively.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.885-902
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• 2022

The mmWave cell-free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO), combining the advantages of wide bandwidth in the mmWave frequency band and the high- and uniform-spectral efficiency of CFmMIMO, has recently emerged as one of the enabling technologies for 6G. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for energy-efficient mmWave CFmMIMO systems that uses low-resolution digital-analog converters (DACs) and phase shifters (PSs) to introduce lowcomplexity hybrid precoding. Additionally, we propose a heuristic pilot allocation scheme that makes the best effort to slash some interference from copilot users. The simulation results show that the proposed hybrid precoding and pilot allocation scheme outperforms the existing schemes. Furthermore, we reveal the relationship between the energy and spectral efficiencies for the proposed mmWave CFmMIMO system by modeling the whole network power consumption and observe that the introduction of low-resolution DACs and PSs is effective in increasing the energy efficiency by compromising the spectral efficiency and the network power consumption.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 8비트 전류 구동형 DAC를 설계하여 뉴런 신호를 자극하기 위한 전류자극기로 활용하였다. 제안하는 회로는 10KS/s의 샘플링 주파수와 3.3V의 구동전압을 가지며, 0.35um Magna Chip CMOS 공정을 이용하여 설계하였고 Full-Custom 방식의 레이아웃을 수행하였다. 글리치 잡음을 줄이고 해상도를 높이기 위해 상위 3비트의 온도계 코드 디코더 입력과, 하위 5비트의 이진 입력의 혼합된 구조를 적용하였다. 이로 인해 글리치 에너지는 이진 입력으로만 구성된 DAC에 비해 $10nV{\bullet}sec$ 감소하였다. 또한 LSB전류가 $0.8{\mu}m$로 작기 때문에 저전력 전류 자극기로 활용될 수 있다. 제안된 전류 자극기는 MCU와 연결하여 바이패이즈 신호를 형성 할 수 있으며, 신호의 주기와 진폭을 MCU코드를 변경하며 조절할 수 있다. 측정결과 INL은 +0.56/-0.38 LSB이고 DNL은 +0.3/-0.4 LSB로서 우수한 선형성을 나타내었고 소모전력은 6.6mW로 측정되었다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.1310-1318
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• 1998

저주파의 아날로그 신호를 디지털 신호로 변환하기 위해 sigma-delta 아날로그-디지털 변환기의 이용이 용이하다. 이 변환기는 변조기와 디지털 필터로 구성되는데 여기에서는 변조기에 대해 언급한다. 14비트 분해능을 갖는 2차 sigma-delta 변조기를 설계하기 위한 변조기의 구성요소 즉 연산 증폭기, 적분기, 내부 ADC 및 DAC의 최대 허용 에러 범위를 규정하였다. 이를 위하여 먼저 이상적인 변조기를 모델링하고 다음으로 변조기의 성능을 저하시키는 여러 가지 에러 요인 즉 연산증폭기의 최대 출력 제한, DC 이득, slew rate, 축전기의 불일치에 의한 적분기 이득 에러와 내부 ADC 및 DAC의 에러 등을 이상적인 모델에 적용하여 성능을 검증하였다. 이러한 에러 허용 범위에 대한 조사를 바탕으로 sigma-delta 변조기 설계 시 요구되는 구성 요소의 사양을 결정 할 수 있으며, 제조과정에서 나타나는 에러 성분에 대한 한계를 규정하여 최종 제작될 변조기의 성능을 확신 할 수 있다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.658-665
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• 2014

The neural stimulators have been employed to the visual prostheses system based on the functional electrical stimulation (FES). Due to the size limitation of the implantable device, the smaller area of the unit current driver pixel is highly desired for higher resolution current stimulation system. This paper presents a 16-channel compact current-mode neural stimulator IC with digital to analog converter (DAC) sharing scheme for artificial retinal prostheses. The individual pixel circuits in the stimulator IC share a single 6 bit DAC using the sample-and-hold scheme. The DAC sharing scheme enables the simultaneous stimulation on multiple active pixels with a single DAC while maintaining small size and low power. The layout size of the stimulator circuit with the DAC sharing scheme is reduced to be 51.98 %, compared to the conventional scheme. The stimulator IC is designed using standard $0.18{\mu}m$ 1P6M process. The chip size except the I/O cells is $437{\mu}m{\times}501{\mu}m$.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2020년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.113-117
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• 2020

Images were taken under various weather such as rain, haze, snow often show low visibility, which can dramatically decrease accuracy of some tasks in computer vision: object detection, segmentation. Besides, previous work to enhance image usually downsample the image to receive consistency features but have not yet good upsample algorithm to recover original size. So, in this research, we jointly implement removal streak in heavy rain image and super resolution using a deep network. We put forth a 2-stage network: a multi-model network followed by a refinement network. The first stage using rain formula in the single image and two operation layers (addition, multiplication) removes rain streak and noise to get clean image in low resolution. The second stage uses refinement network to recover damaged background information as well as upsample, and receive high resolution image. Our method improves visual quality image, gains accuracy in human action recognition task in datasets. Extensive experiments show that our network outperforms the state of the art (SoTA) methods.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.17
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• pp.57-60
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• 2004

This paper presents multibit Sigma-Delta ADC using Leslie-Singh Structure to Improve nonlinearity of feedback loop. 4-bit flash ADC for multibit Quantization in Sigma Delta modulator offers the following advantages such as lower quantization noise, more accurate white-noise level and more stability over single quantization. For the feedback paths consisting of DAC, the DAC element should have a high matching requirement in order to maintain the linearity performance which can be obtained by the modulator with a multibit quantizer. Thus a Sigma-Delta ADC usually adds the dynamic element matching digital circuit within feedback loop. It occurs complexity of Sigma-Delta Circuit and increase of power dissipation. In this paper using the Leslie-Singh Structure for improving nonliearity of ADC. This structure operate at low oversampling ratio but is difficult to achieve high resolution. So in this paper propose improving loop filter for single-bit feedback multi-bit quantization Sigma-Delta ADC. It obtained 94.3dB signal to noise ratio over 615kHz bandwidth, and 62mW power dissipation at a sampling frequency of 19.6MHz. This Sigma Delta ADC is fabricated in 0.25um CMOS technology with 2.5V supply voltage.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.201-204
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• 2000

In this paper, an A/D converter is implemented to obtain 8bit resolution at a conversion rate of 10Msample/s. This architecture is proposed using the 2-step architecture for high speed conversion rate. It is consisted of sample/hold circuit, low power comparator, voltage reference circuit and DAC of binary weighted capacitor array. Proposed A/D converter is designed using 0.2$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS technology. The SNR is 45.3dB at a sampling rate of 10MHz with 1.95MHz sine input signal. When an 8bit 10Msample/s A/D converter is simulated, the Differential Nonlinearity / Integral Nonlinearity (DNL/ INL) error are ${\pm}$1 / ${\pm}$2 LSB, respectively. The power consumption is 13㎽ at single +2.5V supply voltage.