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A CMOS Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer for DTV Tuners (DTV 튜너를 위한 CMOS Fractional-N 주파수합성기)

  • Ko, Seung-O;Seo, Hee-Teak;Park, Jong-Tae;Yu, Chong-Gun
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2010
  • The Digital TV(DTV) standard has ushered in a new era in TV broadcasting and raised a great demand for DTV tuners. There are many challenges in designing a DTV tuner, of which the most difficult part is the frequency synthesizer. This paper presents the design of a frequency synthesizer for DTV Tuners in a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. It satisfies the DTV(ATSC) frequency band(54~806MHz). A scheme is proposed to cover the full band using only one VCO. The VCO has been designed to operate at 1.6~3.6GHz band such that the LO pulling effect is minimized, and reliable broadband characteristics have been achieved by reducing the variations of VCO gain and frequency step. The simulation results show that the designed VCO has gains of 59~94MHz(${\pm}$17.7MHz/V,${\pm}$23%) and frequency steps of 26~42.5MHz(${\pm}$8.25MHz/V,${\pm}$24%), and a very wide tuning range of 76.9%. The designed frequency synthesizer has a phase noise of -106dBc/Hz at 100kHz offset, and the lock time is less than $10{\mu}$sec. It consumes 20~23mA from a 1.8V supply, and the chip size including PADs is 2.0mm${\times}$1.8mm.

Design of a 48MHz~1675MHz Frequency Synthesizer for DTV Tuners (DTV 튜너를 위한 48MHz~1675MHz 주파수합성기 설계)

  • Ko, Seung-O;Seo, Hee-Teak;Kwon, Duck-Ki;Yu, Chong-Gun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.1125-1134
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    • 2011
  • In this paper a wideband frequency synthesizer is designed for DTV tuners using a $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. It satisfies the DTV frequency band(48~1675MHz). A scheme is proposed to cover the full band using only one VCO and reliable broadband characteristics are achieved by reducing the variations of VCO gains and frequency steps. The simulation results show that the designed VCO has frequency range of 1.85~4.22GHz, phase noise at 4.22GHz of -89.7dBc/Hz@100kHz, gains of 62.4~95.8MHz/V(${\pm}21.0%$) and frequency steps of 22.9~47.9MHz(${\pm}35.3%$). The designed VCO has a phase noise of -89.75dBc/Hz at 100kHz offset. The designed synthesizer has a lock time less than $0.15{\mu}s$. The measured VCO tuning range is 2.05~3.4GHz. The frequency range is shifted down but still satisfy the target range owing to the design for enough margin. The designed circuit consumes 23~27mA from a 1.8V supply, and the chip size including PADs is $2.0mm{\times}1.5mm$.

Analysis on DTV Indoor Reception Environments (디지털 TV 실내수신 환경 분석)

  • Suh, Young-Woo;You, Ho-Jin;Park, Min-Ho;Park, Joon-Sung;Kim, Gyu-Young;Seo, Jong-Soo
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.636-650
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    • 2008
  • DTV has a great advantage as compared to Analog TV in picture quality under low reception field strength. Various high quality tuners have been developed to result in much smaller Noise Figure of the receivers and many trials for receiving DTV signal through indoor antenna. In this paper, results of intensive field tests on the indoor reception of DTV are presented. Tests were carried out around Seoul-Gyeonggi Metropolitan area. Commercial directional and omni-directional antennas and 5th generation receiver were used for reception availability tests. The effects of heights, locations, and types of the house as well as the distance to the transmitter on the reception performances are analyzed. Our test results will be applied to improve the indoor reception environment of DTV.

Design of 900MHz CMOS RF Front-End IC for Digital TV Tuner (디지털 TV 튜너용 900MHz CMOS RF Front-End IC의 설계 및 구현)

  • 김성도;유현규;이상국
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.11b
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    • pp.104-107
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    • 2000
  • We designed and implemented the RFIC(RF front-end IC) for DTV(Digital TV) tuner. The DTV tuner RF front-end consists of low noise IF amplifier fur the amplification of 900 MHz RF signal and down conversion mixer for the RF signal to 44MHz IF conversion. The RFIC is implemented on ETRI 0.8u high resistive (2㎘ -cm) and evaluated by on wafer, packaged chip test. The gain and IIP3 of IF amplifier are 15㏈ and -6.6㏈m respectively. For the down conversion mixer gain and IIP3 are 13㏈ and -6.5㏈m. Operating voltage of the IF amplifier and the down mixer is 5V, current consumption are 13㎃ and 26㎃ respectively.

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Design of a Wide-Band, Low-Noise CMOS VCO for DTV Tuner Applications (DTV 튜너 응용을 위한 광대역 저잡음 CMOS VCO 설계)

  • Kim, Y.J.;Yu, J.B.;Ko, S.O.;Kim, K.H.;Yu, C.G.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.195-196
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    • 2007
  • Since the digital TV signal band is very wide ($54{\sim}806MHz$), the VCO used in the frequency synthesizer must also have a wide frequency tuning range. Multiple LC VCOs have been used to cover such wide frequency band. However, the chip area increases due to the increased number of integrated inductors. In this paper, a scheme is proposed to cover the full band using only one VCO. The RF VCO block designed using a 0.18um CMOS process consists of a wideband LC VCO, five divide-by-2 circuits and several buffers. The simulation results show that the designed circuit has a phase noise at 10kHz better than -87dBc/Hz throughout the signal band and consumes 10mA from a 1.8V supply.

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Implemention of NIM Interface for the Reception Improvement of ATSC D-TV Recevier (ATSC DTV 수신기의 수신 성능 개선을 위한 NIM Interface 구현)

  • Jang, Woo-Young;Choi, Seon-Jun;Kim, Young-Chul
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.1389-1392
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    • 2005
  • 본 논문은 ATSC 지상파 디지털 TV수신을 위한 효율적인 NIM Interface 구현에 관한 것을 제안하고자 한다. ATSC 규격에 만족하는 NIM Module의 최적화로 다른 정보가전들의 소형화를 가져오며 튜너와 복조IC 와의 RF 인터페이스 기술의 문제점을 해결해 준다. OrCAD Tool을 사용하여 NIM Interface를 해결하였으며, 그 결과를 나타내었다.

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Improving Usability of DTV PIP(Picture in Picture) Applying OSD Menu (OSD 메뉴를 활용한 DTV PIP (Picture in Picture) 사용성 개선)

  • Kim, Kyung-Jin;Shin, Sang-Hyun;Ha, Yoon
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.02a
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    • pp.305-310
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    • 2006
  • TV 프로그램 전송 방식이 아날로그에서 디지털로 바뀌며, TV방송의 다채널화 현상이 일어나고 있다. 동시에 많은 채널을 시청하며, 정보를 습득하고자 하는 바쁜 현대인들에게 두 개 이상의 채널을 동시에 시청하면서, 이를 녹화하거나 모니터링 하고자 하는 Need가 점점 높아져 가고 있다. 두 개의 튜너를 이용하여 두 채널의 방송을 동시에 시청 할 수 있는 PIP(Picture in Picture-동시화면) 기능은 이러한 사용자 욕구를 해소함과 동시에, 프리미엄 TV의 기술적 특성으로 자리잡고 있다. 현재 LG전자 TV의 경우, PIP관련 기능은 5가지로 [동시화면] [부채널+] [부채널 -] [부화면 입력][주부전환] 이 있다. 이러한 PIP관련 기능은 리모컨에서 부가기능 버튼으로 동작하고 있으며, 리모컨 레이아웃의 복잡성을 증대시키는 큰 원인이 되고 있다. 특히 관련 버튼이 숨김 버튼으로 배치되어 있어 사용자는 버튼을 찾지 못하고 오히려TV OSD 메뉴 상에서 PIP기능을 찾는 오류를 범하고 있어 직관적인 사용성을 제안하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 리모컨에서 PIP관련 버튼을 줄임과 동시에 PIP 사용성을 높일 수 있는 개선안을 제안하고자 하였다. 연구 방법은 PIP 사용행태 분석을 통한 문제점 파악 후 2가지 개선안을 도출한 후 각각의 개선안에 대한 사용성 검증을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 기존의 리모컨 버튼으로 접근하는 것이 사용성이 더 좋을 것이라는 예상을 깨고, PIP기능 사용 시 OSD메뉴로 접근하는 것이 수행시간이 줄어들었음을 알 수 있었다. 이것은 TV라는 매체의 특성상 사용자는 TV화면에서 기능 수행 후 Feedback을 기대하며, TV화면 상에서 동작하는 것에 더 익숙하기 때문이다. 이는 향후 새로운 TV기능 구현 시 중요한 Impact로 작용할 수 있다. 그 이유는 리모컨 버튼을 활용하여 모든 기능을 수행하는 것보다, 특정 기능은 OSD상에서 구현하는 것이 TV의 직관적인 사용 Scene에 더 적합한 것을 파악할 수 있었기 때문이다.

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