• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.53-57
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• 2017

This paper proposes a 401MHz-406MHz low noise amplifier for MedRadio applications. The proposed low noise amplifier adopts a common gate amplifier topology using current reuse gm-boosting technique. The proposed low noise amplifier shows better performance of voltage gain and noise figure than the conventional gm-boosted common gate amplifier in the same power consumption. The proposed current-reuse gm-boosted low noise amplifier achieves a voltage gain of 22 dB, a noise figure of 2.95 dB, and IIP3 of -17 dBm while consuming $170{\mu}W$ from a 0.5 V supply voltage in $0.13{\mu}m$ CMOS process.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.1-15
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• 2009

In a classification problem, data imbalance occurs when the number of instances in one class greatly outnumbers the number of instances in the other class. Such data sets often cause a default classifier to be built due to skewed boundary and thus the reduction in the classification accuracy of such a classifier. This paper proposes a Geometric Mean-based Boosting (GM-Boost) to resolve the problem of data imbalance. Since GM-Boost introduces the notion of geometric mean, it can perform learning process considering both majority and minority sides, and reinforce the learning on misclassified data. An empirical study with bankruptcy prediction on Korea companies shows that GM-Boost has the higher classification accuracy than previous methods including Under-sampling, Over-Sampling, and AdaBoost, used in imbalanced data and robust learning performance regardless of the degree of data imbalance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.299-301
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 직류 오프셋 (DC-offset) 제거 기능을 가진 저 전력 자동 이득 조절 증폭기 (PGA, Programmable Gain Amplifier)를 제안한다. 이러한 회로는 직류 오프셋 문제점을 해결하기 위해 기존의 gm-boosting 증폭기를 변형한 디지털 이득 제어 방식으로 설계되어 있기 때문에 우수한 선형성을 가진다. 또한 특수 목적에 맞도록 그 이득을 6dB에서 60dB까지 7단계로 조절 가능하며, 밀러효과를 이용한 AC-coupling 방식으로 큰 값의 유동적인 커패시터와 저항을 구현하여 직류 오프셋을 제거한다. 제안한 PGA는 기존 회로에 비해 0.2dB 보다 작은 이득오차와 0.47mW의 낮은 소비전력 특성을 보였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.309-315
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• 2010

A fully-differential low-voltage low-power electrocardiogram (ECG) amplifier by using the nonfeedback PMOS pseudo-resistors is proposed. It consists of two operational-transconductance amplifiers (OTA) in series (a preamplifier and a variable-gain amplifier). To make it insensitive to the gate leakage current of the OTA input transistor, the feedback pseudo-resistor of the conventional ECG amplifier is moved to input branch between the OP amp summing node and the DC reference voltage. Also, an OTA circuit with a Gm boosting block without reducing the output resistance (Ro) is proposed to maximize the OTA DC gain. The measurements shows the frequency bandwidth from 7 Hz to 480 Hz, the midband gain programmable from 48.7 dB to 59.5 dB, the total harmonic distortion (THD) less than 1.21% with a full voltage swing, and the power consumption of 233 nW in a 0.13 ${\mu}m$ CMOS process at the supply voltage of 0.7 V.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.354-356
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 CMOS 스위치를 이용한 디지털 이득 제어 구조를 가진 이득 조절 증폭기 (PGA, Programmable Gain Amplifier)를 제안한다. 기존의 아날로그 이득 제어 방식에서는 가변적인 트랜스 컨덕턴스를 활용하는 과정에서 바이어스 전류나 전압에 의해 이득이 변하게 되어 순간적으로 구성회로의 바이어스 포인트가 변하기 때문에 왜곡이 발생하게 되는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 기존의 gm-boosting 증폭기를 변형한 디지털 이득 제어 방식으로 설계되어 있기 때문에 우수한 선형성을 가지며 특수 목적에 맞도록 그 이득을 6dB에서 60dB까지 7가지 단계로 조절 가능하다. 제안한 PGA는 기존 회로에 비해 0.2dB 보다 작은 이득오차와 0.47mW의 낮은 소비전력 특성을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.9
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• pp.673-684
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• 2003

A degenerated differential pair has been widely used as a standard topology for digitally programmable CMOS VGAs. A variable degeneration resistor has been implemented using a resistor string or R-2R ladder with MOSFET switches. However, in the VGAs using these conventional methods, low-voltage and high-speed operation is very hard to achieve due to the dc voltage drop over the degeneration resistor. To overcome this problem a new variable degeneration resistor is proposed where the dc voltage drop is almost removed. Using the proposed gain control scheme, a low-voltage and high-speed CMOS VGA is designed. HSPICE simulation results using a 0.25${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS process parameters show that the designed VGA provides a 3dB bandwidth of 360MHz and a 80dB gain control range in 2dB step. Gain errors are less than 0.4dB at 200MHz and less than l.4dB at 300MHz. The designed circuit consumes 10.8mA from a 2.5V supply and its die area is 1190${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$${\times}$360${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$.