• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1650-1651
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 가변안내표지판(VMS)용 멀티-채널 LED Driver IC를 설계 연구 하였다. 설계한 LED Driver IC의 채널 수는 96 채널을 기본으로 하여 여분의 64채널을 추가로 구성하였다. VDD는 동작 환경에 따라 사용할 수 있게 12V, 6V, 3.3V로 구성하였다. 각 채널당 전류는 20mA로 일정한 전류가 흐를 수 있도록 하였다. 온도 변화에 따른 전류 변화로 인한 LED 휘도특성 변화를 줄이기 위해 트랜지스터를 여러단으로 쌓아 회로를 구성하였으며 내부 회로에 PTAT과 Bandgap Reference를 이용하여 트랜지스터에 안정적인 전원이 공급될 수 있게 구성하였다. 본 논문에 사용된 공정은 동부 0.13um 공정으로 최대 3.3V까지 사용할 수 있지만 12V및 6V에도 사용할 수 있게 트랜스지터를 쌓는 회로를 구성하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.1
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• pp.34-40
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• 1998

For applicating to 10-Gbit/s optical transimission systems, we have designed and fabricated a laser driver IC with extremely-high-operation-frequencies using AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), and have investigated its performances. Circuits design andsimulation were performed using SPICE and LIBRA. A discrete AlGaAs/GaAs HBT with the emitter area of 1.5*10 .mu.m$^{2}$, used for the circuit fabrication, exhibited cutoff frequency of 63 GHz andmaximum osciallation frquency of 50 GHZ. After fabrication of MMICs, we observed the very wide bandwidth of DC~18 GHz and the S$_{21}$ gain of 17 dB for a laser driver IC from the on-wafer measurement. Metal-packaged laser driver IC showed the excellent eye opening, the modulation currents of 32 mA, the rise/fall time of 40 ps, measured at the data rates of 10-Gbit/s.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.702-708
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• 2020

Recently, as LED display systems have become larger, research on effective power control methods for the systems has been in progress. This paper proposes a power control method to minimize power loss due to the difference in LED characteristics for each channel of a backlight unit (BLU) system. The proposed LED driver IC has a power optimization function and detects the minimum headroom voltage for constant current operation of all channels and linearly controls the DC-DC converter output. Thus, it minimizes power consumption due to unnecessary additional voltage. In addition, it does not require a voltage sensing comparator or a voltage generation circuit for each channel. This has a great advantage in reducing the chip size and for stabilization when implementing an integrated circuit. In order to verify the proposed function, an IC was designed using Cadence and Synopsys' design tools, and it was fabricated with a Magnachip 0.35um 5V/40V CMOS process. The experiments confirmed that the proposed power control method controls the minimum required voltage of the BLU system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.883-884
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• 2004

High-speed IC for time-division multiplexing (TDM) optical transmission systems have been designed and fabricated by using InP heterojunction-bipolar-transistor (HBT) technology. The driver IC was developed for driving external modulators, featuring differential outputs and the operation speed up to 10 Gbps with an output voltage swing of 1.3 Vpp at each output which was the limit of the measurement. Because -3 dB frequency was 20GHz, this circuit will be operated up to 20Gbps. 1.3Vpp differential output was achieved by switching 50 mA into a 50 $\Omega$ load. The power dissipation of the driver IC was 1W using a single supply voltage of -3.5Y. Input md output return loss of the IC were better than 10 dB and 15 dB, respectively, from DC to 20GHz. The chip size of fabricated IC was $1.7{\Box}1.2 mm^{2}$.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.587-592
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• 2018

Because the brightness of an AMOLED is determined by the flowing current, each pixel of AMOLED operates via A current driving method. Therefore, it is necessary to supply power to adjust the amount of current according to THE user's requirement for AMOLED driving. In this study, an IP driver block was designed and a simulation was conducted for an AMOLED display, which supplies power as selected by users. The IP driver design focused on regulating the output power due to the OLED characteristics for the diode electric current according to the voltage to be activated by pulse-skipping mode (PSM) under low loads, and 1.5 MHz pulse-width modulation (PWM) for medium/high loads. The IP driver was designed to eliminate the ringing effects appearing from the dis-continue mode (DCM) of the step-up converter. The ringing effects destroy the power switch within the IC, or increase the EMI to the surrounding elements. The IP driver design minimized this through a ringing killer circuit. Mobile applications were considered to enable true shut-down capability by designing the standby current to fall below $1{\mu}A$ to disable it. The driver proposed in this paper can be applied effectively to the same system as the AMOLED display dual power management circuit.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.269-274
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• 2004

Current delivery system, in which the analog current produced by a unique DAC circuit is stored into a current-memory circuit and delivered in a time-divided sequence, shows variation of output current as low as 4% in a current source data-driver IC for AM-OLED driven by a current-programmed method without any fuse repairing after fabrication. This driver IC has 54 outputs and can sink constant current as low as 3 ${\mu}A$ with 6-bit analog levels. Such a low current level without variation can hardly be obtained by an ordinary MOS transistor because the current level is in the sub-threshold region and changes exponentially with threshold voltage variation. Thus we adopted a current mirror circuit composed of bipolar transistors to supply well-controlled current within a nano-ampere range.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.1593-1599
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• 2017

This paper presents a multi-channel light-emitting diode (LED) driver IC with a current-mode current regulator. The proposed current regulator replaces resistors for current sensing with a sequentially controlled single current sensor and a single regulation loop for sensing and regulating all LED channel currents. This minimizes the current mismatch among the LED channels and increases voltage headroom or, equivalently, power efficiency. The proposed LED driver IC was fabricated in a $0.35-{\mu}m$ BCD 60-V high voltage process, and the chip area is $1.06mm^2$. The measured maximum power efficiency is 93.4 % from a 12-V input, and the inter-channel current error is smaller than as low as ${\pm}1.3%$ in overall operating region.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.997-998
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• 2006

This paper proposes an design of the OLED(Organic Light Emitting Diodes) driver IC using novel verification method. This method using the HDL(hardware description language) simulator, PLI(Programing Language Interface) and image viewer. The proposed method can be used efficiently to function verification in display driver IC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.105-107
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• 2008

LED driver is important for reliable LED lighting system. A variety of ICs for LED driver are supplied by almost all semiconductor company The types and performances are too diverse to collect proper IC and use efficiently. This paper classifies driver IC according to the usage for each application area and the circuit topology. Finally, the paper shows several representative ICs for main applications with notice of important performance.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.29-36
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• 2015

This paper presents an LED backlight driver IC consisting of three linear current regulators and an output-voltage regulation loop with a self-adjustable reference voltage. In the proposed LED driver, the output voltage is controlled by dual feedback loops. The first loop senses and controls the output voltage, and the second loop senses the voltage drop of the linear current regulator and adjusts the reference voltage. With these feedback loops, the voltage drop of the linear current regulator is maintained at a minimum value, at which the driver efficiency is maximized. The output of the driver is a three-channel LED setup with four LEDs in each channel. The luminance is adjusted by the PWM dimming signal. The proposed driver is designed by a $0.35-{\mu}m$ 60-V high-voltage process, resulting in an experimental maximum efficiency of approximately 85%.