• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.943-950
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• 2020

We propose 8.2-GHz band radar RFICs for an 8 × 8 phased-array frequency-modulated continuous-wave receiver developed using 65-nm CMOS technology. This receiver panel is constructed using a multichip solution comprising fabricated 2 × 2 low-noise amplifier phase-shifter (LNA-PS) chips and a 4ch RX front-end chip. The LNA-PS chip has a novel phase-shifter circuit for low-voltage operation, novel active single-to-differential/differential-to-single circuits, and a current-mode combiner to utilize a small area. The LNA-PS chip shows a power gain range of 5 dB to 20 dB per channel with gain control and a single-channel NF of 6.4 dB at maximum gain. The measured result of the chip shows 6-bit phase states with a 0.35° RMS phase error. The input P1 dB of the chip is approximately -27.5 dBm at high gain and is enough to cover the highest input power from the TX-to-RX leakage in the radar system. The gain range of the 4ch RX front-end chip is 9 dB to 30 dB per channel. The LNA-PS chip consumes 82 mA, and the 4ch RX front-end chip consumes 97 mA from a 1.2 V supply voltage. The chip sizes of the 2 × 2 LNA-PS and the 4ch RX front end are 2.39 mm × 1.3 mm and 2.42 mm × 1.62 mm, respectively.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.221-226
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• 2019

In this work, a transmitter/receiver front-end module (T/R FEM) with an automatic Tx/Rx switching scheme for a 2.4 GHz microwave power transfer is developed for a retro-reflective beamforming scheme. Recently, research on wireless power transfer techniques has moved to wireless charging systems for mobile devices. Retro-reflective beamforming is a good candidate for tracking the spatial position of a mobile device to be charged. In Tx mode, the T/R FEM generates a minimum of 1 W. It also comprises an amplitude and phase monitoring port for transmitting RF power. In Rx mode, it passes an Rx pilot signal from a mobile device to a digital baseband subsystem to recognize the position of the mobile device. The insertion loss of the Rx signal path is 4.5 dB. The Tx and Rx modes are automatically switched by detecting the Tx input power. This T/R FEM is a design example of T/R FEMs for wireless charging systems based on a retro-reflective beamforming scheme.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.44-49
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• 2013

A transimpedance amplifier (TIA)-optical receiver (Rx) using two intersecting active feedback system with regulated-cascode (RGC) input stage has been designed and implemented for optical interconnects. The optical TIA-Rx chip is designed in a 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology and works up to 10 Gbps data rate. The TIA-Rx chip core occupies an area of 0.051 $mm^2$ with power consumption of 16.9 mW at 1.3 V. The measured input-referred noise of optical TIA-Rx is 20 pA/${\surd}$Hz with a 3-dB bandwidth of 6.9 GHz. The proposed TIA-Rx achieved a high gain-bandwidth product per DC power figure of merit of 408 $GHz{\Omega}/mW$.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제29권12호
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• pp.907-914
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• 2018

무선충전은 전선 없이 전자기기를 충전할 수 있다는 사용자의 편의적인 측면에 장점이 커 활발히 연구개발되고 널리 보급되었다. 하지만 무선충전패드에서 수신기의 중심이 어긋날 경우에 충전이 되지 않아 수신기의 중심을 잘 맞춰야 한다는 점은 사용자의 편의성이라는 무선충전의 효용성을 크게 저감시킨다. 본 논문은 이러한 무선충전의 한계를 극복하고자 수신기의 위치 자유도를 향상시키기 위한 코일 설계를 진행하였다. Tx 코일이 Rx 코일과 사이즈가 비슷할 때보다 외경 크기가 클 때 중심에서 효율은 다소 저하되었지만, 중심이 어긋날 경우의 효율이 개선되어 Rx 코일의 위치 자유도가 향상됨을 알 수 있었다. 이 때, Tx 코일에 내측 코일이 추가로 구성된 이중코일 구조를 제안하여 효율을 추가적으로 향상시킬 수 있었다. 자유도 개선 결과를 시뮬레이션과 측정을 통해 효율을 확인하였고, 경향성이 일치함을 볼 수 있었다. 측정 결과, 105~210 kHz 동작 주파수에서 송수신 코일의 전송거리 3 mm, 오정렬 15 mm일 때, 수신 코일에 전류가 1A 흐를 때 기준으로 기존 Tx 코일의 전송 효율은 37 %, 외경 크기를 키운 코일의 효율은 45 %, 내측 코일을 추가한 이중 코일은 47 %로 효율이 향상되었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.453-456
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• 2005

The ultra-wideband (UWB) signal radiation process in an antenna is different from that of a narrowband signal. In this paper, we study the degradation of the desired signal component according to the antenna structure and location of a receiver in a bipolar time-hopping UWB system. And we propose a receiver structure with an adaptive template waveform generator to compensate for the degradation caused by a realistic TX-RX antenna system.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2019

In this paper, we consider the D2D Transmitter(Tx) and Receiver(Rx) pair assignment problem in the cellular system. Sharing the resource of the cellular system, D2D users may cause interference to the cellular system, though it is beneficial to improve the D2D user Capacity. Therefore, to protect the cellular users, D2D transmit power should be carefully controlled. Previously, optimal Tx-Rx assignment to minimize the total transmit power of users was investigated. Accordingly, the iterative algorithm to find the optimum Tx-Rx asignment was obtained. In this work, we consider the case where Tx group users becomes Rx group users, and Rx group users become Tx group users. We prove that the Tx-Rx assignment problem has the duality property. We present the numerical examples that show the duality between U-link and D-link.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.456-462
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• 2011

This paper investigates the outage behavior of peak interference power limited cognitive radio (CR) networks with multiple transmit antennas. In CR-multi-input single-output (MISO) channel, the total transmit power is distributed over the transmitantennas. First, we use the orthogonal space-time codes (STC) to achieve the transmit diversity at CR-receiver (rx) and investigate the effect of the power distribution on the interference power received at the primary-receiver (P-rx). Then, we investigate the transmit antenna selection (TAS) scheme in which the CR system selects the best transmit antenna and allocates all the power to the selected best antenna. Two transmit antenna selection strategies are proposed depending on if feedback channel is available or not. We derive the closed form expressions of outage probability and outage capacity of all schemes with arbitrary number of transmit-antennas. We show that the proposed schemes significantly improve the outage capacity over the single antenna systems in Rayleigh fading environment. We also show that TAS based scheme outperforms the STC based scheme when peak interference power constraint is imposed on the P-rx only if a feedback channel from CR-rx to CR-transmitter is available.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2017

In this paper, we investigate the D2D Transmitter(Tx) and Receiver(Rx) pair assignment problem in the cellular system where D2D users share the uplink resource of the cellular system. Sharing the uplink resource of the cellular system may cause interference to the cellular system, though it is beneficial to improve the D2D user Capacity. Therefore, to protect the cellular users, D2D transmit power should be carefully controlled. In this work, we focus on optimal Tx-Rx assignment in such a way that the total transmit power of users is minimized. First, we consider the optimum Tx-Rx assignment in general and the corresponding complexity. Then, we propose an iterative D2D Tx-Rx assignment algorithm with low complexity that can minimize total transmit power of users. Finally, we present the numerical examples that show the complexity and the convergence to the unique transmit power level.

• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.90-96
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• 2014

본 논문은 무선충전기에 있어서 효율 증대 기법에 관한 것으로, 송수신 장치간 정렬상태를 수신 장치인 스마트폰에 표시할 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 구현된 무선충전기는 세계 표준인 WPC( Wireless Power Consortium ) 방식을 기반으로 되어 있어 수 100kHz 이하의 주파수로 동작하고 누설 자속을 최소화할 수 있도록 자기장 차폐제를 사용한 송수신 코일 구조를 갖는다. 송수신 장치의 정렬 상태를 확인할 수 있는 종래 방식은 수신단 코일의 수신 레벨만을 표시하는 단순 방식이지만 본 방식은 수신 장치의 위치까지 알 수 있어 보다 진보된 방식이라 할 수 있다. 무선 충전기 송수신 장치의 정렬상태 검출을 위하여 수신 코일의 위치변화와 자기장 세기가 서로 선형관계에 있음을 확인하고 삼각측량법을 이용하여 이 선형관계가 위치 정보로 변환될 수 있음을 보였다. 실험을 통하여 선형관계에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 요소들을 분석하고 이 요소들을 최적화한 상태에서의 선형 특성을 가질 수 있음을 보였다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.59.2-59.2
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• 2017

The Submillimeter Array (SMA) has provided forefront capabilities for high spatial and spectral resolution observations at submillimeter wavelengths from its excellent site on Mauna Kea, Hawaii since 2004. The SMA has continuously enhanced its capability. It is now equipped with two receivers in the 1.3 mm band (Rx230/Rx240) and two in the 0.85 mm band (Rx345/Rx400). The total bandwidth available is 8+8 GHz (per receiver) in the dual band or polarization mode. To maintain a leading role in the ALMA era, the SMA project is now upgrading its receivers, IF signal transport and correlator system. The new wideband SMA - the wSMA - will provide the instantaneous coverage of 56 GHz. In this presentation, I will introduce the latest status of the SMA, upgrade plan to the w-SMA, the possible science cases with the w-SMA, and the roles of the w-SMA in the ALMA era.