• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.763-764
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• 2013

A three-dimensional image capturing device and its signal processing algorithm and apparatus are presented. Three dimensional information is one of emerging differentiators that provides consumers with more realistic and immersive experiences in user interface, game, 3D-virtual reality, and 3D display. It has the depth information of a scene together with conventional color image so that full-information of real life that human eyes experience can be captured, recorded and reproduced. 20 Mega-Hertz-switching high speed image shutter device for 3D image capturing and its application to system prototype are presented[1,2]. For 3D image capturing, the system utilizes Time-of-Flight (TOF) principle by means of 20MHz high-speed micro-optical image modulator, so called 'optical resonator'. The high speed image modulation is obtained using the electro-optic operation of the multi-layer stacked structure having diffractive mirrors and optical resonance cavity which maximizes the magnitude of optical modulation[3,4]. The optical resonator is specially designed and fabricated realizing low resistance-capacitance cell structures having small RC-time constant. The optical shutter is positioned in front of a standard high resolution CMOS image sensor and modulates the IR image reflected from the object to capture a depth image (Figure 1). Suggested novel optical resonator enables capturing of a full HD depth image with depth accuracy of mm-scale, which is the largest depth image resolution among the-state-of-the-arts, which have been limited up to VGA. The 3D camera prototype realizes color/depth concurrent sensing optical architecture to capture 14Mp color and full HD depth images, simultaneously (Figure 2,3). The resulting high definition color/depth image and its capturing device have crucial impact on 3D business eco-system in IT industry especially as 3D image sensing means in the fields of 3D camera, gesture recognition, user interface, and 3D display. This paper presents MEMS-based optical resonator design, fabrication, 3D camera system prototype and signal processing algorithms.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.197-200
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• 2010

The FLL(frequency locked loop) circuit is used to generate an output signal that tracks an input reference signal. The locking time of FLL is short compared to PLL(phase locked loop) circuit because the output signal of FLL is synchronized only in frequency. Also the FLL is designed to allow the circuit to be fully integrated. In this paper, the temperature stable FLL circuit is designed by using full CMOS transistors. When the temperature is varied from $-20^{\circ}C$ to $70^{\circ}C$, the variation of output frequency is about from -2% to 1.6% from HSPICE simulation results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.122-128
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• 2003

In this paper, a 16${\times}$16-bit Multiplier and Accumulator (MAC) is designed using a Redundant Binary Adder (RBA) circuit so that it can make a fast addition of the Redundant Binary Partial Products (RB_PP's) by using Wallace-tree structure. Because a RBA adds two RB numbers, it acts as a 4-2 compressor, which reduces four inputs to two output signals. We propose a method to convert the Redundant Binary (RB) representation into the 2's complement binary representation. Instead of using the conventional full adders, a more efficient RB number to binary number converter can be designed with new conversion method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06b
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• pp.399-402
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• 2004

This paper presents a system-on-chip prototype implementing a full integration for a portable digital audio system. The chip is composed of a audio processor block to implements audio decoding and voice compression or decompression software, a system control block including 8-bit MCU core and Memory Management Unit (MMU) a low power 16-bit ${\Sigma}{\Delta}$ CODEC, two DC-to-BC converter, and a flash memory controller. In order to support other audio algorithms except Mask ROM type's fixed codes, a novel 16-bit fixed-point DSP core with the program-download architecture is proposed. Funker, an efficient power management technique such as task-based clock management is implemented to reduce power consumption for portable application. The proposed chip has been fabricated with a 4 metal 0.25um CMOS technology and the chip area is about 7.1 mm ${\times}$ 7.1mm with 100mW power dissipation at 2.5V power supply.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.270-277
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• 2012

This paper presents a new DAC design strategy to achieve a wideband dynamic linearity by increasing the bandwidth of the output impedance. In order to reduce the dominant parasitic capacitance of the conventional matrix structure, all the cells associated with a unit current source and its control are stacked in a single column very closely (stacked unit cell structure). To further reduce the parasitic capacitance, the size of the unit current source is considerably reduced at the sacrifice of matching yield. The degraded matching of the current sources is compensated for by a self-calibration. A prototype 6-bit 3.3-GS/s current-steering full binary DAC was fabricated in a 1P9M 90 nm CMOS process. The DAC shows an SFDR of 36.4 dB at 3.3 GS/s Nyquist input signal. The active area of the DAC occupies only $0.0546mm^2$ (0.21 mm ${\times}$ 0.26 mm).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.79-82
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• 2003

This paper describes a new low-swing inverter for low power consumption. To reduce a power consumption, an output voltage swing is in the range from 0 to $V_{ref}-V_{TH}$, where $V_{ref}=V_{DD}-nV_{TH}$. This can be done by the inverter structure that allow a full swing or a swing on its input terminal without leakage current. Using this low-swing voltage technology, we propose a low-power $4\times4$ bit parallel multiplier. The proposed circuits are simulated with HSPICE under $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS standard technology. Compare to the previous works, this circuit can reduce the power consumption rate of 11.2% and the power-delay product of 10.3%.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.62-65
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• 2009

In this paper, the temperature characteristics of full CMOS FLL(frequency locked loop) re analyzed. The FLL circuit is used to generate an output signal that tracks an input efference signal. The locking time of FLL is short compared to PLL(phase locked loop) circuit because the output signal of FLL is synchronized only in frequency. Also the FLL s designed to allow the circuit to be fully integrated. The FLL circuit is composed two VCs, two buffers, a VCO and two frequency dividers. The temperature variation of frequency divider, FVC and buffer cancelled because the circuit structure. is the same and he temperature effect is cancelled by the comparator. Simulation results are shown to illustrate the performance of the designed FLL circuit with temperature.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.275-278
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• 2008

In this paper, I propose the full CMOS FLL(frequency locked loop) circuit. The proposed FLL circuit has a simple structure which contains a FVC(frequency-to-voltage converter), an operational amplifier and a VCO(voltage controlled oscillator). The operation of FLL circuit is based on frequency comparison by the two FVC circuit blocks. The locking time of FLL is short compared to PLL(phase locked loop) circuit because the output signal of FLL is synchronized only in frequency. The circuit is designed by 0.35${\mu}m$ process and simulation carried out with HSPICE. Simulation results are shown to illustrate the performance of the proposed FLL circuit.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.7
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• pp.40-47
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• 1998

This paper presents the physiological signal processing CMOS one chip for transmitting human bodys small electrical signals such as electrocardiogram(EKG) or electromyogram(EMG) and the external system for receiving signals was implemented by the commercial ICs. For simultaneous four-subject four-channel telemetry, a new enfored synchronization techniqeu using infrared bi-directional communication has been proposed. The telemeter IC with the size of 5.1*5.1mm$^{2}$ has the following functions: receiving of command signal, initialization of internal state of all functional blocks, decoding of subject-selection signal, time multiplexing of 4-channel modulated physiological signals, transmitting of telemetry signal to external system and auto power down control. The newly designed synchronized oscillator with low supply voltage dependence in the telemeter IC operates at a supply voltage from 4.6~6.0V and the nonlinearity error of PIM modulator was less than 1.2%F.S(full scale). The power saving block operates at the period of 2.5ms even if the telemetry IC does not receive command signal from external system for a constant time.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.12
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• pp.1644-1651
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• 1995

A data and clock recovery integrated circuit for MAC (Multiplexed Analog Component) TV standard is described. The chip performs the recovery of a system clock from a digitally encoded voice signal, clamping of a video signal for DC-level restoration, and precise gain control of a video signal in the presence of a large amplitude variation. A PLL (Phase Locked Loop) is used for timing recovery and a new gain control circuit is proposed which enhances its accuracy and dynamic range by employing two identical four-quadrant analog multipliers. The chip is designed in full custom with 1.5um BiCMOS technology, and layout verification is completed by post-simulation with the extracted circuit.