• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.44-54
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• 2000

In this paper, a design methodology for the frequency-adaptive negative-delay circuit which can be implemented in standard CMOS memory process is proposed. The proposed negative-delay circuit which is a basic type of the analog SMD (synchronous mirror delay) measures the time difference between the input clock period and the target negative delay by utilizing analog behavior and repeats it in the next coming cycle. A new technology that compensates the auxiliary delay related with the output clock in the measure stage differentiates the Proposed method from the conventional method that compensates it in the delay-model stage which comes before the measure stage. A wider negative-delay range especially prominent in the high frequency performance than that in the conventional method can be realized through the proposed technology. In order to implement the wide locking range, a new frequency detector and the method for optimizing the bias condition of the analog circuit are suggested. An application example to the clocking circuits of a DDR SDRAM is simulated and demonstrated in a 0.6 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ n-well double-poly double-metal CMOS technology.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.1471-1479
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• 2017

This paper describes a design of RSA public-key cryptography processor supporting key length of 2,048 bits. A modular multiplier that is core arithmetic function in RSA cryptography was designed using word-based Montgomery multiplication algorithm, and a modular exponentiation was implemented by using Left-to-Right (LR) binary exponentiation algorithm. A computation of a modular multiplication takes 8,386 clock cycles, and RSA encryption and decryption requires 185,724 and 25,561,076 clock cycles, respectively. The RSA processor was verified by FPGA implementation using Virtex5 device. The RSA cryptographic processor synthesized with 100 MHz clock frequency using a 0.18 um CMOS cell library occupies 12,540 gate equivalents (GEs) and 12 kbits memory. It was estimated that the RSA processor can operate up to 165 MHz, and the estimated time for RSA encryption and decryption operations are 1.12 ms and 154.91 ms, respectively.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 2011

This paper describes design and implementation of a spread spectrum clock generator(SSCG). The proposed architecture generates the spread spectrum clock controlling a input voltage signal for VCDL(Voltage Controlled Delay Line). Spread charge pump is controlled by the SSC modulation logic block provides a control signal to VCDL through LPF in DLL. By using this architecture, chip area and power consumption can be reduced because it is not necessary additional circuit to control modulation rate. This circuit has been designed and fabricated using the UMC 0.25um CMOS technology. The chip occupies an area of 290${\times}$120um^2.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.4871-4877
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• 2015

This article presents a circuit and a system for IEEE 1588 based clock synchronization to generate a very accurate frequency signal required in femtocell devices. A prototype board and the experimental environment to verify the functions and to evaluate the performance are explained to verify the feasibility of the proposed synchronization system. To make low-cost femtocells without constraints on the place of installation, it is very important to study on the practical implementation of synchronization system based on IEEE 1588. The experimental result shows that the synchronization errors between -16 ns and 9 ns are guaranteed over the network of femtocell devices with the proposed synchronization circuits, thus the synchronization criteria of the 3GPP HNB are met.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1153-1157
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• 2004

This paper describes a new programmable DLL_based frequency synthesizer. Generally, PLLs have been used for frequency synthesis. Inherent fast locking DLLs are also used for frequency synthesis. However, DLL needs a frequency multiplier for various frequencies. A conventional frequency multiplier used in DLL has a restriction in which a multiple is fixed. However, the proposed DLL can generate clocks which are from 6 times to 10 times of the reference clock. Frequency range of the proposed DLL is from 600MHz to 1GHz. The idea has been confirmed by HSPICE simulations in a $0.35-\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS process.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.21-31
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• 2010

This paper presents a design of PLL and SSCG for reducing the EMI effect at the electronic machinery and tools for DisplayPort application. This system is composed of the essential element of PLL and Charge-Pump2 and Reference Clock Divider to implement the SSCG operation. In this paper, 270MHz/162MHz dual-mode PLL that can provide 10-phase and 1.35GHz/810MHz PLL that can reduce the jitter are designed for 2.7Gbps/162Gbps DisplayPort application. The jitter can be reduced drastically by combining 270MHz/162MHz PLL with 2-stage 5 to 1 serializer and 1.35GHz PLL with 2 to 1 serializer. This paper propose the frequency divider topology which can share the divider between modes and guarantee the 50% duty ratio. And, the output current mismatch can be reduced by using the proposed charge-pump topology. It is implemented using 0.13 um CMOS process and die areas of 270MHz/162MHz PLL and 1.35GHz/810MHz PLL are $650um\;{\times}\;500um$ and $600um\;{\times}\;500um$, respectively. The VCO tuning range of 270 MHz/162 MHz PLL is 330 MHz and the phase noise is -114 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset. The measured SSCG down spread amplitude is 0.5% and modulation frequency is 31kHz. The total power consumption is 48mW.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.163-165
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• 2018

GF(p)상 타원곡선 암호(ECC)와 RSA를 단일 하드웨어로 통합하여 구현한 공개키 암호 프로세서를 설계하였다. 설계된 EC-RSA 공개키 암호 프로세서는 NIST 표준에 정의된 소수체 상의 224-비트 타원 곡선 P-224와 2048-비트 키 길이의 RSA를 지원한다. ECC와 RSA가 갖는 연산의 공통점을 기반으로 워드기반 몽고메리 곱셈기와 메모리 블록을 효율적으로 결합하여 최적화된 데이터 패스 구조를 적용하였다. EC-RSA 공개키 암호 프로세서는 Modelsim을 이용한 기능검증을 통하여 정상동작을 확인하였으며, $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 셀 라이브러리로 합성한 결과 11,779 GEs와 14-Kbit RAM의 경량 하드웨어로 구현되었다. EC-RSA 공개키 암호 프로세서는 최대 동작주파수 133 MHz이며, ECC 연산에는 867,746 클록주기가 소요되며, RSA 복호화 연산에는 26,149,013 클록주기가 소요된다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10B
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• pp.1491-1500
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 AES Rijndael 암호 알고리즘을 구현하는 암호 프로세서를 설계하였다. 하드웨어 공유를 통해 면적을 감소시키기 위해 1라운드 동작을 2개의 부분 라운드로 나누고 각 부분 라운드를 4 클록으로 구현하였다. 라운드 당 평균 5 클록의 연산 효율을 만들기 위해 인접한 라운드간에 부분 라운드 라이프라인 동작 기법을 적용하고, 키 설정 오버헤드 시간을 배제하기 위해, 암호 및 복호 동작의 라운드 키를 온라인 계산 기법을 사용하여 생성하였다. 그리고 다양한 응용 분야에 적용하기 위해, 128, 192, 256 비트의 3가지 암호 키를 모두 지원할 수 있도록 하였다. 설계된 암호 프로세서는 약 36,000개의 게이트로 구성되며 0.25$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS 공정에서 약 200Mhz의 동작 주파수를 가지며, 키 길이가 128 비트인 AES-128 ECB 동작 모드에서 약 512 Mbps의 암.복호 율의 성능을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.92-101
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• 2008

전원관리 및 전력소모 절감 기술은 휴대폰, 노트북 등의 휴대 기기 사용이 보편화되고 다기능화, 고성능화함에 따라 지속적으로 발전해 왔다. 특히 반도체 소자의 선폭이 나노미터급으로 초미세화 됨에 따라 누설 전류가 급증하고 칩의 처리 성능을 높이기 위해 클록 주파수를 높이면서 스위칭 전류 소모도 증가하므로, 이러한 동적/정적 전력소모 증가를 억제시킬 수 있는 다중 문턱전압 소자, DVFS, sub-threshold, 클록 게이팅, 저전압 회로 기술이 SoC 설계에 점진적으로 적용되고 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 휴대폰용 부품을 중심으로, 무선 통신 기능을 갖춘 기기의 전력소모 요인을 분석하고 배터리 사용시간을 연장시킬 수 있는 저전력 SoC 기술 동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.51-58
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• 2013

A clock duty-cycle corrector (DCC) which is an essential device of clocking circuits for high-speed system-on-chip (SoC) design is introduced in this paper. The architectures and operation of conventional analog feedback DCCs and digital feedback DCCs are compared and analyzed. A new mixed-mode feedback DCC that combines the advantages of analog DCCs and digital DCCs to achieve a wider duty-cycle correction range, higher operating frequency, and higher duty-cycle correction accuracy is presented. Especially, the architectures and design of a mixed-mode duty-cycle amplifier (DCA) which is a core unit circuit of a mixed-mode DCC is presented in detail. Two mixed-mode DCCs based on a single-stage DCA and a two-stage DCA were designed in a 0.18-${\mu}m$ CMOS process, and it is proven that the two-stage DCA-based DCC has a wider duty-cycler correction range and smaller duty-cycle correction error.