• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.215-220
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• 2007

Leakage current of CMOS circuits has become a major factor in VLSI design these days. Although many circuit-level techniques have been developed, most of them require significant amount of designers' effort and are not aligned well with traditional VLSI design process. In this paper, we focus on technology mapping, which is one of the steps of logic synthesis when gates are selected from a particular library to implement a circuit. We take a radical approach to push the limit of technology mapping in its capability of suppressing leakage current: we use a probabilistic leakage (together with delay) as a cost function that drives the mapping; we consider pin reordering as one of options in the mapping; we increase the library size by employing gates with larger gate length; we employ a new flipflop that is specifically designed for low-leakage through selective increase of gate length. When all techniques are applied to several benchmark circuits, leakage saving of 46% on average is achieved with 45-nm predictive model, compared to the conventional technology mapping.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.05c
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• pp.1-5
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 UART(Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter)를 soft IP(Intellectual Property) 모듈 형태로써 VLSI 설계과정을 통하여 구현하였다. 이 모듈은 현재 각종 통신 디바이스에서 최하 말단에서 직렬 데이터를 시스템으로 받아들이거나 병렬 데이터를 직렬 라인에 실어 보내는 중요한 역할을 담당한다. 본 연구에서 설계한 UART는 간단한 모듈 형태로 제작되어 있어 Verilog-HDL을 사용하여 직렬 송ㆍ수신을 필요로 하는 시스템에 내장되어 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 설계 순서에 따라 UART를 설계하고 Simulation을 하고 Synopsys Tool을 사용하여 Compile 과 Synthesis 후 Gate Area 와 Belay를 검출해 내었다. 합성결과 0.25$\mu$m 공정의 CMOS Cell Library를 사용하였을 경우 전체 면적은 1,013 gate가 나왔다. 본 논문에서 설계한 UART의 최장경로가 최대 4.12ns로 나타났으며, 최대 동작 클럭 주파수는 200MHz 로써 150Mbps 이상의 전송 속도를 가진다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.271-274
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• 2003

This paper presents a Built-in Current Sensor that detect defects in CMOS integrated circuits using the current testing technique. This scheme employs a cross-coupled connected PMOS transistors, it is used as a current comparator. Our proposed scheme is a negligible impart on the performance of the circuit undo. test (CUT). In addition, in the normal mode of the CUT not dissipation extra power, high speed detection time and applicable deep submicron process. The validity and effectiveness are verified through the HSPICE simulation on circuits with defects. The entire area of the test chip is $116{\times}65{\mu}m^2$. The BICS occupies only $41{\times}17{\mu}m^2$ of area in the test chip. The area overhead of a BICS versus the entire chip is about 9.2%. The chip was fabricated with Hynix $0.35{\mu}m$ 2-poly 4-metal N-well CMOS technology.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.34C no.6
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• pp.37-43
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• 1997

In this paper, an analog-domain powr-reduction technique for a low-voltage CMOS operational amplifier and its application to clock-based VLSI systems are proposed. The proposed technique cuts off the bias current of the op amp during a half cycle of the clock in the sleeping mode and resumes the curent supply sequentially during the remaining cycle of the clock in the normal operating mode. The proposed sequential sbiasing technique reduces about 50% of the op amp power and improves the circuit performance through high phase margin and stable settling behavior of the output voltage. The power-reduction technique is applied to a sample-and-hold amplifier which is one of the critical circuit blocks used in the front-end stage of analog and/or digital integrated systems. The SHA was simulated and analyzed in a 0.8.mu.m n-well double-poly double-metal CMOS technology.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.9 s.351
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• pp.38-43
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose the efficient dead pixel detection algorithm for CMOS image sensors and its hardware architecture. The CMOS image sensors as image input devices are becoming popular due to the demand for miniaturized, low-power and cost-effective imaging systems. However, the presence of the dead pixels degrade the image quality. To detect the dead pixels, the proposed algorithm is composed of scan, trace and detection step. The experimental results showed that it could detect 99.99% of dead pixels. It was designed in a hardware description language and total logic gate count is 3.2k using 0.25 CMOS standard cell library.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.123-131
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• 2002

In this paper, a new standard basis parallel ternary-valued multiplier circuit designed using current mode CMOS is presented. Prior to constructing the GF(3$^{ｍ}$) multiplier circuit, we provide a GF(3) adder and a GF(3) multiplier with truth tables and symbolize them, and also design them using current mode CMOS circuit. Using the basic ternary operation concept, a ternary adder and a multiplier, we develop the equations to multiply arbitrary two elements over GF(3$^{ｍ}$). Following these equations, we can design a multiplier generalized to GF(3$^{ｍ}$). For the proposed circuit in this paper, we show the example in GF(3$^{3}$). In this paper, we assemble the operation blocks into a complete GF(3$^{ｍ}$) multiplier. Therefore the proposed circuit is easy to generalize for m and advantageous for VLSI. Also, it need no memory element and the latency not less fewer than other circuit. We verify the proposed circuit by functional simulation and show its result.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.57-66
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• 2002

In this study, Multi-Values Logic processor was designed using the basic circuit of the electric current mode CMOS. First of all, binary FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) was extended and high-speed Multi-Valued Logic processor was constructed using a multi-valued logic circuit. Compared with the existing two-valued FFT, the FFT operation can reduce the number of transistors significantly and show the simplicity of the circuit. Moreover, for the construction of amount was used inside the FFT circuit with the set of redundant numbers like ［0,1,2,3］. As a result, the defects in lines were reduced and it turned out to be effective in the aspect of normality an regularity when it was used designing VLSI(Very Large Scale Integration). To multiply FFT, the time and size of the operation was used as LUT(Look Up Table) Finally, for the compatibility with the binary system, multiple-valued hybrid-type FFT processor was proposed and designed using binary-four valued encoder, four-binary valued decoder, and the electric current mode CMOS circuit.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics C
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• v.36C no.3
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• pp.35-46
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• 1999

A derotator VLSI which compensates for the frequency and phase errors of a received signal in digital communication systems was developed employing a CORDIC algorithm. The CORDIC circuit directly rotates the input signal according to the phase error information, thus is much simpler than the conventional derotator architecture which consists of a DDFS (Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer) and a complex multiplier. Since a derotator needs only small phase error accumulation, a fast direction sequence generation method which exploits the linearity of the arctangent function in small angles is utilized in order to enhance the operating speed. The chip was designed and implemented using a $0.6\mu\textrm{m}$ triple metal CMOS process by the full custom layout method. The whole chip size is $6.8\textrm{mm}^2$ and the maximum operating frequency is 25 MHz.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• v.2 no.5
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• pp.9-16
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• 1997

This paper describes the design of a multistandard video encoder. The proposed encoder accepts conventional NTSC/PAL video signals, It also processes he PAL-plus video signal which is now popular in Europe. The encoder consists of five major building functions which are letter-box converter, color space converter, digital filters, color modulator and timing generator. In order to support multistandard video signals, a programmable systolic architecture is adopted in designing various digital filters. Interpolation digital filters are also used to enhance signal-to-noise ratio of encoded video signals. The input to the encoder can be either YCbCr signal or RGB signal. The outputs re luminance(Y), chrominance(C), and composite video baseband(Y+C) signals. The architecture of the encoder is defined by using Matlab program and is modelled by using Veriflog-HDL language. The overall operation is verified by using various video signals, such as color bar patterns, ramp signals, and so on. The encoder contains 42K gates and is implemented by using 0.6um CMOS process.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.180-188
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• 2015

As a potential alternative to the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, many researchers are focusing on carbon-nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) for future electronics. However, existing studies report the advantages of CNFETs over CMOS at the device level by using small-scale circuits, or over outdated CMOS technology. In this paper, we propose a methodology of analyzing CNFET-based circuits and study its impact at the full-chip scale. First, we design CNFET standard cells and use them to construct large-scale designs. Second, we perform parasitic extraction of CNFET devices and characterize their timing and power behaviors. Then, we perform a full-chip analysis and show the benefits of CNFET over CMOS in 45-nm and 20-nm designs. Our full-chip study shows that in the 45-nm design, CNFET circuits achieve a 5.91×/3.87× (delay/power) benefit over CMOS circuits at a density of 200 CNTs/µm. In the 20-nm design, CNFET achieves a 6.44×/3.01× (delay/power) benefit over CMOS at a density of 200 CNTs/µm.