• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.318-319
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• 2008

국내 지중배전선로에 XLPE 절연체를 사용한 전력케이블이 1980년대 중후반부터 사용되기 시작하여 20년 이상 사용경험이 축적되고 있다. 현재 국내는 전기설비기술기준에 의하여 직류내전압시험을 사용하여 준공시험을 수행하고 있다. 그러나 최근 20여년의 국제적 연구결과는 직류내전압시험이 XLPE 절연체의 결함을 발견하지 못하며 절연체 내에 장기 공간전하를 형성함으로써 케이블의 수명을 단축하는 역효과가 발생한다고 보고되고 있다. 2000년대에 XLPE 절연체를 사용한 전력케이블의 준공시험으로 초저주파(VLF) 내전압시험이 CENELEC과 IEEE 규격으로 제정되었다. 국내에도 전력케이블의 준공시험으로 초저주파 내전압시험을 도입하여 적용하는 것이 적절하며, 초저주파전압을 이용한 열화진단기술을 적용하는 것이 XLPE 절연 케이블의 고장예방에 효과적일 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.17-23
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• 2012

Ultra low-power design and energy harvesting applications require digital systems to operate under extremely low voltages approaching the point of balance between dynamic and static power consumption which is attained in the sub-threshold operation mode. Delay variations are extremely large in this mode. Therefore, in this paper, a new low-power logic design methodology using asynchronous NCL circuits is proposed to reduce power consumption and not to be affected by various technology variations in nanoscale MOSFET technology. The proposed NCL is evaluated using various benchmark circuits at 0.4V supply voltage, which are designed using 45nm MOSFET predictive technology model. The simulation results are compared to those of conventional synchrouns logic circuits in terms of power consumption and speed.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.403-410
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• 2016

Materials made of metals have their own manifest resonant frequencies. Using this property, the quality test of products from the factory can be performed. An impact is applied to the product and the frequencies of the sound and/or vibration are measured using high-end equipments. They use a general purpose computer or a DSP(: Digital Signal Processor)-based stand-alone system which is usually too large in-size to carry and expensive to build. In this paper, we introduce a system that is developed based on a MSP430 MCU(:Micro-Controller Unit) from TI(: Texas Instruments). The ultra-low power MSP430 MCUs make it possible to make a frequency analyzer in a very small size without the need of using a large-size battery. The proposed system can be used in situations where the frequency analyzer should be carried easily with an investigator and should be built at low cost sacrificing some accuracy. We implemented the system using a launchpad supplied by TI and could confirm that the proposed system could identify with a high-accuracy the frequencies of various artificial and natural sounds.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.80-82
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• 2016

In this letter, we evaluate the performances of both GOOK and GFSK de/modulation techniques which are candidates for ULP communications in WPAN systems. For the performance evaluation, we define the system model for each of GOOK and GFSK de/modulations and perform computer simulations based on the proposed models. From the computer simulations, we show that GOOK de/modulation technique has 15 dB out-of-band emission gain and is robust over frequency offsets in terms of BER compared to GFSK de/modulation technique.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.3
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• pp.239-246
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• 2014

In the context of wireless sensor networks, one of major issues is energy conservation. For low power communication, by utilizing our experimental results for the relation between clock drift and synchronization interval, we designed a new protocol which can support a wide range of duty cycles for applications with very low traffic rate and insensitive delay. The transmission (TX) node in the protocol synchronizes with the reception (RX) node very before transmitting a packet, and it can adaptively estimate the synchronization error size according to the synchronization interval from minutes to hours. We conducted simulations and a testbed implementation to show the efficacy of the proposed protocol. We found that our protocol substantially outperforms other state-of-the-art protocols, resulting in order-of-magnitude increase in network lifetime over a variety of duty cycles.

• Korea Information Processing Society Review
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.93-102
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.426-427
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• 2010

커패시터 소자와 브릿지 다이오드만을 사용한 교류전원 LED 구동회로를 분석하여, 초저손실 고효율 특성과 더불어 입력전류의 고조파 및 역률특성이 양호해지는 동작점을 찾아내었다. 커패시터 소자는 교류전원에 직렬로 연결되어 전력손실 없이 LED 전류를 제한하는 역할을 하게 되며, 브릿지 다이오드 정류회로는 LED 어레이를 교류전원의 2배 주파수로 구동시키게 한다. 분석결과, 제안된 LED 구동회로는 LED 어레이의 전압강하가 입력 교류전압 최대치의 절반이 될 때 역률특성과 효율이 최고가 되며, 동작온도 변화에 따른 LED 어레이 전압 변동에 대해 출력이 변하지 않는 특징을 갖는다. 이러한 LED 구동회로는 스윗칭 레귤레이터나 IC 등이 없이 단순 수동소자만을 사용함으로써 제품원가 최소화와 효율향상을 동시에 달성할 수 있으며, 실험을 통해 특성이 확인되었다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.665-670
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• 2016

In this paper, we suggest the design of OP-AMP using MOSFET in the operation of sub-threshold condition as a basic unit of an IoT. The sub-threshold operation of MOSFET is useful for an ultra low power consumption of sensor network system in the IoT, because it cause the supply voltage to be reduced. From the simulation result using 0.35 um CMOS process, the supply voltage, VDD can be reduced with 0.6 V, open-loop gain of 43 dB and the power consumption was evaluated with about $1.3{\mu}W$ and the active size for an integration was measured with $64{\mu}m{\times}105{\mu}m$. It is expected that the proposed circuit is applied to the low power sensor network for IoT.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.45-50
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• 1998

This paper presents experimental results on the application of very low frequency(VLF) voltage to replace conventional DC test as an after laying test for underground distribution cables. We carried out several tests to prove defects detecting ability of VLF test on the 5m length real cables having knife-cut or needle type defects which is made in our La.. Through this experiment we proved it is very difficult to initiate electrical tree from the defects inside of the cable insulation but once the electrical tree is initiated it grows very fast and VLF does not make new defects and expand the defect. Therefore VLF test equipment for quality inspection test of manufacture is more effective than field application for underground distribution cables.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.44-49
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• 2017

There are many battery-based wearable devices for healthcare and medical applications, but there is a user's inconvenience to charge battery frequently due to insufficient power management. In this paper, we propose a tickless-based operating system and power management algorithm that can effectively utilize the power management provided by HW, and propose a cold restart method that consumes the minimum power at the board level. The operating system of the proposed technique has reduced the power consumption from 2 times to 33 times in the four scenarios modeling the wearable device application compared to the existing operating system.