• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.160-165
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• 2009

A 12b 2 MS/s cyclic ADC processing 3.3 Vpp single-ended rail-to-rail input signals is presented. The proposed ADC demonstrates an offset voltage less than 1 mV without well-known calibration and trimming techniques although power supplies are directly employed as voltage references. The SHA-free input sampling scheme and the two-stage switched op-amp discussed in this work reduce power dissipation, while the comparators based on capacitor-divided voltage references show a matched full-scale performance between two flash sub ADCs. The prototype ADC in a $0.18{\mu}m$ 1P6M CMOS demonstrates the effective number of bits of 11.48 for a 100 kHz full-scale input at 2 MS/s. The ADC with an active die area of $0.12\;mm^2$ consumes 3.6 m W at 2 MS/s and 3.3 V (analog)/1.8 V (digital).

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2013년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.371-374
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 빛 에너지 하베스팅을 이용한 센서 노드 회로를 제안한다. 솔라셀에서 변환된 에너지는 PMU(Power Management Unit)를 통해 관리되고, 일정한 전압을 공급하기 위해 LDO(Low Drop Out Regulator)를 사용한다. LDO를 통해 공급된 전압으로 온도센서와 SAR ADC(Successive Approximate Register Analog-to-Digital Converter)를 구동시킨다. 이 회로는 0.35um CMOS 공정으로 설계되었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.199-203
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• 2004

In this paper, we only describe the digital block of two-channel 18-bit analog-to-digital (A/D) converter employing sigma-delta method and xl28 decimation. The device contains two fourth comb filters with 1-bit input from sigma­delta modulator. each followed by a digital half band FIR(Finite Impulse Response) filters. The external analog sigma-delta modulators are sampled at 6.144MHz and the digital words are output at 48kHz. The fourth-order comb filter has designed 3 types of ways for optimal power consumption and signal-to-noise ratio. The following 3 digital filters are designed with 12tap, 22tap and 116tap to meet the specification. These filters eliminate images of the base band audio signal that exist at multiples of the input sample rate. We also designed these filters with 8bit and 16bit filter coefficient to analysis signal-to-noise ratio and hardware complexity. It also included digital output interface block for I2S serial data protocol, test circuit and internal input vector generator. It is fabricated with 0.35um HYNIX standard CMOS cell library with 3.3V supply voltage and the chip size is 2000um by 2000um. The function and the performance have been verified using Verilog XL logic simulator and Matlab tool.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.297-303
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• 2012

In this study, voltammetry system for realizing high sensitivity nano-labeled sensor of detecting heavy metals was designed, and optimal system operating conditions were determined. High precision digital to analog converter (DAC) circuit was designed to control applied unit voltage at working electrode and analog to digital converter (ADC) circuit was designed to measure the current range of $0.1{\sim}1000{\mu}A$ at counter electrode. Main control unit (MCU) circuit for controlling voltammetry system with 150 MHz clock speed, main memory circuit for the mathematical operation processing of the measured current value and independent power circuit for analog/digital circuit parts to reduce various noise were designed. From result of voltammetry system operation, oxidation current peaks which are proportional to the concentrations of Zn, Cd and Pb ions were found at each oxidation potential with high precision.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2017

In this paper, a $4{\times}32$-channel neural recording system capable of acquiring neural signals is introduced. Four 32-channel neural recording ICs, complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), a micro controller unit (MCU) with USB interface, and a PC are used. Each neural recording IC, implemented in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, includes 32 channels of analog front-ends (AFEs), a 32-to-1 analog multiplexer, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The mid-band gain of the AFE is adjustable in four steps, and have a tunable bandwidth. The AFE has a mid-band gain of 54.5 dB to 65.7 dB and a bandwidth of 35.3 Hz to 5.8 kHz. The high-pass cutoff frequency of the AFE varies from 18.6 Hz to 154.7 Hz. The input-referred noise (IRN) of the AFE is $10.2{\mu}V_{rms}$. A high-resolution, low-power ADC with a high conversion speed achieves a signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) of 50.63 dB and a spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) of 63.88 dB, at a sampling-rate of 2.5 MS/s. The effectiveness of our neural recording system is validated in in-vivo recording of the primary somatosensory cortex of a rat.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.278-284
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 HDTV 응용을 위한 10b 저전력 CMOS A/D 변환기 (analog-to-digital converter : ADC) 회로를 제안한다. 제안된 ADC의 전체 구조는 응용되는 시스템의 속도와 해상도 등의 사양을 고려하여 다단 파이프라인 구조가 적용되었다. 본 시스템이 갖는 회로적 특성은 다음과 같이 요약할 수 있다. 첫째, 전원전압의 변화에도 일정한 시스템 성능을 얻을 수 있는 바이어스 회로의 선택적 채널길이 조정기법을 제안한다. 둘째, 고속 2단 증폭기의 전력소모를 줄이기 위하여 증폭기가 사용되지 않는 동안 동작 전류 공급을 줄이는 전력소모 최적화 기법을 사용한다. 넷째, 다단 파이프라인 구조에서 최종단으로 갈수록 정확도 및 잡음 특성 등에서 여유를 얻을 수 있는 점을 고려한 캐패시터 스케일링 기법의 적용으로 면적 및 전력소모를 감소시킨다. 제안된 ADC는 0.8 um double-poly double-metal n-well CMOS 공정 변수를 사용하여 설계 및 제작되었고, 시제품 ADC의 성능 측정 결과는 Differential Nonlinearity (DNL) ${\pm}0.6LSB$, Integral Nonlinearity (INL) ${\pm}2.0LSB$ 수준이며, 전력소모는 3 V 및 40 MHz 동작시에는 119 mW, 5 V 및 50 MHz 동작시에는 320 mW로 측정되었다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1447-1453
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• 2014

This paper proposes the new method based on the availability of three points measurement and convexity of photovoltaic (PV) curve characteristic at the maximum power point (MPP). In general, the MPP tracking (MPPT) function is the important part of all PV systems due to their power-voltage (P-V) characteristics related with weather conditions. Then, the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and low pass filter (LPF) are required to measure the voltage and current for MPPT by the digital controller, which is used to implement the PV power conditioning system (PCS). The measurement and quantization error due to rounding or truncation in ADC and the delay of LPF might degrade the reliability of MPPT. To overcome this limitation, the proposed method is proposed while improving the performances in both steady-state and dynamic responses based on the detailed investigation of its properties for availability and convexity. The performances of proposed method are evaluated with the several case studies by the PSCAD/EMTDC$^{(R)}$ simulation. Then, the experimental results are given to verify its feasibility in real-time.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.355-358
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• 2010

As CMOS technology continues to scale down, signal processing is favorably done in the digital domain, which requires Analog-to-Digital (A/D) Converter to be integrated on-chip. This paper presents a design methodology of 12-bit 1-MS/s Rail-to-Rail fully differential SAR ADC using Deep N-well Switch based on binary search algorithm. Proposed A/D Converter has the following architecture and techniques. Firstly, chip size and power consumption is reduced due to split capacitor array architecture and charge recycling method. Secondly, fully differential architecture is used to reduce noise between the digital part and converters. Finally, to reduce the mismatch effect and noise error, the circuit is designed to be available for Rail-to-Rail input range using simple Deep N-well switch. The A/D Converter fabricated in a TSMC 0.18um 1P6M CMOS technology and has a Signal-to-Noise-and-Distortion-Ratio(SNDR) of 69 dB and Free-Dynamic-Range (SFDR) of 73 dB. The occupied active area is $0.6mm^2$.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.606-608
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• 2006

This paper describes a 8bit 10MS/s low power pipelined analog-to-digital converter(ADC). To reduce power consumption in proposed ADC, a high gain op-amp that consumes large power in MDAC(multiplying DAC) of conventional pipelined ADC is replaced with simple comparator and current sources. Moreover, differential charge transfer amplifier technique with latch in the sub-ADC reduces the power consumption to less than half compared with the conventional sub-ADC which use high speed comparator. The proposed ADC shows the power consumption of 1.8mW at supply voltage of 1.8V. This proposed ADC is suitable to apply to the portable display device. The circuit was implemented with 0.18um CMOS technology and the core size of circuit is 2.5mm${\times}$1mm.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.316-321
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 정전류(constant current) 원리를 적용하여 각종 전기재료의 특정 대역 고정밀 임피던스 측정이 가능한 임피던스 측정 시스템을 마이크로프로세서를 사용하여 개발한다. 본 측정 시스템 보드에는 임피던스 측정장치를 포함하여 외부장치에서 디지털 데이터 취득을 위한 인터페이스 장치를 갖추고 있으며, 이와 같은 임베디드 보드에서 실행되는 펌웨어 프로그램으로 시스템 소프트웨어를 작성한다. 그리고 15-비트 ADC (analog-to digital converter)를 사용하여 특정 대역의 정밀 임피던스를 1/32768 정밀도로 측정하여 소수점 5자리까지 연산하여 출력할 수 있으며, 디지털 데이터를 관리하기 위해 개발된 측정장치와 일반 컴퓨터의 USB 인터페이스를 통해 데이터를 전송하여, 여타 측정 장비들 보다 범용적이고 사용이 용이한 인터페이스가 가능한 통신기능을 탑재한 임피던스 측정시스템을 개발하고 그 정밀도를 측정하여 검증한다.