• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.119-122
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 기존 LDO regulator에서 많이 사용 되는 피드백 저항을 Pseudo resistor를 이용하여 동작하기 위한 LDO regulator를 제안한다. 제안 된 Pesudo resistor를 사용한 Feedback network는 기존 피드백 저항보다 면적이 작으면서도 기존 LDO regulator의 역할을 하며, 노이즈를 갖는 LDO regulator의 단점을 보완하고자 제안되었다. 기존 LDO regulator와 비교하여 비슷한 성능을 가짐에도 불구하고, Overshoot를 감소시키고 면적을 줄여 더 높은 효율을 제공할 수 있다. 설계한 회로는 동부 하이텍의 0.18um CMOS 공정을 이용하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.609-611
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• 2006

This paper describes a CMOS sub-bandgap reference using Pseudo-Resistors which can be widely used in flash memory, DRAM, ADC and Power management circuits. Bandgap reference circuit operates weak inversion for reducing power consumption and uses Pseudo-Resistors for reducing the chip area, instead of big resistor. It is implemented in 0.35um Standard 1P4M CMOS process. The temperature coefficient is 5ppm/$^{\circ}C$ from $40^{\circ}C$ to $100^{\circ}C$ and minimum power supply voltage is 1.2V The core area is 1177um${\times}$617um. Total current is below 2.8uA and output voltage is 0.598V at $27^{\circ}C$.

• BioChip Journal
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.332-339
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• 2018

The future neuro-prosthetic devices would be required spikes data monitoring through sub-nanoscale transistors that enables to neuroscientists and clinicals for scalable, wireless and implantable applications. This research investigates the spikes monitoring through integrated CNT front-end amplifier for neuro-prosthetic diagnosis. The proposed carbon nanotube-based architecture consists of front-end amplifier (FEA), integrate fire neuron and pseudo resistor technique that observed high electrical performance through neural activity. A pseudo resistor technique ensures large input impedance for integrated FEA by compensating the input leakage current. While carbon nanotube based FEA provides low-voltage operation with directly impacts on the power consumption and also give detector size that demonstrates fidelity of the neural signals. The observed neural activity shows amplitude of spiking in terms of action potential up to $80{\mu}V$ while local field potentials up to 40 mV by using proposed architecture. This fully integrated architecture is implemented in Analog cadence virtuoso using design kit of CNT process. The fabricated chip consumes less power consumption of $2{\mu}W$ under the supply voltage of 0.7 V. The experimental and simulated results of the integrated FEA achieves $60G{\Omega}$ of input impedance and input referred noise of $8.5nv/{\sqrt{Hz}}$ over the wide bandwidth. Moreover, measured gain of the amplifier achieves 75 dB midband from range of 1 KHz to 35 KHz. The proposed research provides refreshing neural recording data through nanotube integrated circuit and which could be beneficial for the next generation neuroscientists.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.309-315
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• 2010

A fully-differential low-voltage low-power electrocardiogram (ECG) amplifier by using the nonfeedback PMOS pseudo-resistors is proposed. It consists of two operational-transconductance amplifiers (OTA) in series (a preamplifier and a variable-gain amplifier). To make it insensitive to the gate leakage current of the OTA input transistor, the feedback pseudo-resistor of the conventional ECG amplifier is moved to input branch between the OP amp summing node and the DC reference voltage. Also, an OTA circuit with a Gm boosting block without reducing the output resistance (Ro) is proposed to maximize the OTA DC gain. The measurements shows the frequency bandwidth from 7 Hz to 480 Hz, the midband gain programmable from 48.7 dB to 59.5 dB, the total harmonic distortion (THD) less than 1.21% with a full voltage swing, and the power consumption of 233 nW in a 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process at the supply voltage of 0.7 V.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.576-584
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• 2009

A novel tunable transconductor is presented. Input transistors operate in the triode region to achieve programmable voltage-to-current conversion. These transistors are kept in the triode region by a novel negative feedback loop which features simplicity, low voltage requirements, and high output resistance. A linearity analysis is carried out which demonstrates how the proposed transconductance tuning scheme leads to high linearity in a wide transconductance range. Measurement results for a 0.5 ${\mu}m$ CMOS implementation of the transconductor show a transconductance tuning range of more than a decade (15 ${\mu}A/V$ to 165 ${\mu}A/V$) and a total harmonic distortion of -67 dB at 1 MHz for an input of 1 Vpp and a supply voltage of 1.8 V.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.1077-1083
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• 2000

인터넷 서비스의 폭발적인 증가로 기존에 사용하고 있던 통신망은 용량과 속도 등에서 한계에 부딪치며 개별 사용자가 이용하는 서비스 품질을 만족시키지 못하고 있다. 다양한 멀티미디어 통신서비스를 개별 사용자에게 제공하기 위해서는 가입자망의 광대역화가 이루어져야 한다. 그러나 가입자망의 광대역화에는 많은 시간과 비용을 필요로 한다. 따라서 FTTH(Fiber To The Home)가 일반화되기 이전까지 가장 경제적인 가입자망의 광대역화 방안으로 현행 전화선이나 전화기를 그대로 사용하면서도 고속데이터 통신이 가능한 전화선을 이용한 전송기술이 부각되고 있다. 이 논문에서는 전화선에 가변저항을 연결하여 속도향상에 관한 결과를 분석하였다.