• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.11A
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• pp.1263-1270
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• 2004

A low-power 64-point FFT/IFFT processor core is designed, which is an essential block in OFDM-based wireless LAM modems. The radix-2/418 DIF (Decimation-ln-Frequency) FFT algorithm is implemented using R2SDF (Radix-2 Single-path Delay Feedback) structure. Some design techniques for low-power implementation are considered from algorithm level to circuit level. Based on the analysis on infernal data flow, some unnecessary switching activities have been eliminated to minimize power dissipation. In circuit level, constant multipliers and complex-number multiplier in data-path are designed using truncation structure to reduce gate counts and power dissipation. The 64-point FFT/IFFT core designed in Verilog-HDL has about 28,100 gates, and timing simulation results using gate-level netlist with extracted SDF data show that it can safely operate up to 50-MHz＠2.5-V, resulting that a 64-point FFT/IFFT can be computed every 1.3-${\mu}\textrm{s}$. The functionality of the core was fully verified by FPGA implementation using various test vectors. The average SQNR of over 50-dB is achieved, and the average power consumption is about 69.3-mW with 50-MHz＠2.5-V.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.1A
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• pp.134-141
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• 2007

This paper presents a frequency synthesizer(FS) for 5.2GHz/2.4GHz dual band wireless applications which is designed in a standard $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS1P6M process. The 2.4GHz frequency is obtained from the 5.2GHz output frequency of Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) by using the Switched Capacitor (SC) and the divider-by-2. Power dissipations of the proposed FS and VCO are 25mW and 3.6mW, respectively. The tuning range of VCO is 700MHz and the locking time is $4{\mu}s$. The simulated phase noise of PLL is -101.36dBc/Hz at 200kHz offset frequency from 5.0GHz with SCA circuit on.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.75-81
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• 2015

This paper proposed the new eight-parallel MDC FFT processor using the eight-parallel MDC architecture and the efficient scheduling scheme. The proposed FFT processor supports the 256-point FFT based on the modified radix-$2^6$ FFT algorithm. The proposed scheduling scheme can reduce the number of complex multipliers from eight to six without increasing delay buffers and computation cycles. Moreover, the proposed FFT processor can be used in OFDM systems required high throughput and low hardware complexity. The proposed FFT processor has been designed and implemented with a 90nm CMOS technology. The experimental result shows that the area of the proposed FFT processor is $0.27mm^2$. Furthermore, the proposed eight-parallel MDC FFT processor can achieve the throughput rate up to 2.7 GSample/s at 388MHz.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.94-98
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• 2009

최근 모바일 멀티미디어 기기들의 사용이 증가하면서 고성능 멀티미디어 프로세서에 대한 필요성이 높아지고 있는 추세이다. DSP 기반의 시스템은 범용성에 기인하여 다양한 응용 분야에서 사용될 수 있으나 주문형반도체 보다 높은 가격과 전력소모 그리고 낮은 성능을 가진다. ASIP는 주문형반도체의 저비용, 저전력, 고성능과 범용 프로세서의 유연성이 결합된 새로운 형태의 프로세서로서, 단일 칩 상에 H.264, VC-1, AVS, MPEG 등과 같은 다양한 멀티미디어 비디오 표준 및 OFDM과 같은 통신 시스템을 지원하고 또한 고성능의 처리율과 계산량을 요구하는 차세대 비디오 표준의 구현을 위한 효과적인 해결책으로 주목되고 있다. 본 기술 문서에서는 ASIP의 특징과 애플리케이션의 가속 방법, ASIP을 위한 컴파일러 설계 및 응용에 관하여 기술한다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.114-118
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• 2008

Direct-conversion RF front-end for 5-GHz WLAN is implemented in $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The front-end consists of a low noise amplifier, and low flicker noise down-conversion mixers. For the mixer, an inductor is included to resonate out parasitic tail capacitances in the transconductance stage at the operating frequency, thereby improves the flicker noise performance of the mixer, and the overall noise performance of the front-end. The receiver RF front-end has 6.5 dB noise figure, - 13 dBm input IP3, and voltage conversion gain of 20 dB with the power consumption of 30 mW.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a fast Fourier transform (FFT) processor with four parallel data paths for multiband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing ultra-wideband systems. The proposed 128-point FFT processor employs both a modified radix-$2^4$ algorithm and a radix-$2^3$ algorithm to significantly reduce the numbers of complex constant multipliers and complex booth multipliers. It also employs substructure-sharing multiplication units instead of constant multipliers to efficiently conduct multiplication operations with only addition and shift operations. The proposed FFT processor is implemented and tested using 0.18 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology with a supply voltage of 1.8 V. The hardware- efficient 128-point FFT processor with four data streams can support a data processing rate of up to 1 Gsample/s while consuming 112 mW. The implementation results show that the proposed 128-point mixed-radix FFT architecture significantly reduces the hardware cost and power consumption in comparison to existing 128-point FFT architectures.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.19 no.1 s.85
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• pp.27-32
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• 2004

본 논문은 국내에 고속 전력선 통신을 도입하기 위한 국내외 관련 기술기준을 분석하였다. 전력선 통신은 상용 전력을 공급하는 전력선을 이용하여 데이터 통신을 수행한다. 전력선 통신은 전선 가설을 위한 비용이 필요 없고 최근에는 OFDM의 실용화 및 오류제어방식 고도화 등의 기술발전에 따라서 10Mbps 이상의 고속 데이터 전송이 상용화되었다. 따라서 고속의 인터넷 액세스와 가정내 LAN의 대체 수단으로 기대가 높아지고 있다. 그러나 이와 같은 고속 데이터 전송을 실현하기 위해서는 현행 제도에서 전력선 통신으로 사용되고 있는 주파수 대역보다도 높은 주파수대역이 필요하다. 수십 Mbps 정도의 전송속도를 실현하기 위해 필요한 사용주파수 대역은 구체적으로 2MHz에서 30MHz 대역을 추가하는 것이 반드시 필요하다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1029-1030
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• 2008

FFT(Fast Fourier Transform)는 디지털신호처리에 폭넓게 사용되며 특히 여러 OFDM 시스템에 FFT 처리 과정은 꼭 필요한 부분이다. 본 논문에서는 802.11a W-LAN 에 사용되는 64-point FFT 프로세서를 설계하였다. 설계된 FFT 프로세서는 Radix-$2^3$ 알고리즘을 사용하였으며 저면적복소곱셈기를 사용하여 FFT 프로세서의 면적을 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 방식에서 네 개의 실수 곱셈기와 두 개의 덧셈기로 구성되는 복소 곱셈기를 두 개의 실수 곱셈기와 한 개의 덧셈기가 수행하도록 설계하였다. 제안한 FFT 프로세서는 VHDL 로 구현되었고 Quartus 4.2 에서 합성되었다. 합성결과 기존 방식에 비해 약 21%의 면적효율이 발생하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.544-555
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• 2009

This work continues a trend of developments aimed at exploiting the physical layer of the open systems interconnection (OSI) model to enhance wireless network security. The goal is to augment activity occurring across other OSI layers and provide improved safeguards against unauthorized access. Relative to intrusion detection and anti-spoofing, this paper provides details for a proof-of-concept investigation involving "air monitor" applications where physical equipment constraints are not overly restrictive. In this case, RF fingerprinting is emerging as a viable security measure for providing device-specific identification (manufacturer, model, and/or serial number). RF fingerprint features can be extracted from various regions of collected bursts, the detection of which has been extensively researched. Given reliable burst detection, the near-term challenge is to find robust fingerprint features to improve device distinguishability. This is addressed here using wavelet domain (WD) RF fingerprinting based on dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DT-$\mathbb{C}WT$) features extracted from the non-transient preamble response of OFDM-based 802.11a signals. Intra-manufacturer classification performance is evaluated using four like-model Cisco devices with dissimilar serial numbers. WD fingerprinting effectiveness is demonstrated using Fisher-based multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) with maximum likelihood (ML) classification. The effects of varying channel SNR, burst detection error and dissimilar SNRs for MDA/ML training and classification are considered. Relative to time domain (TD) RF fingerprinting, WD fingerprinting with DT-$\mathbb{C}WT$ features emerged as the superior alternative for all scenarios at SNRs below 20 dB while achieving performance gains of up to 8 dB at 80% classification accuracy.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.33-40
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• 2005

This paper describes a design of FFT/IFFT Core(FFT256/2k), which is an essential block in terrestrial DMB modem. It has four operation modes including 256/512/1024/2048-point FFT/IFFT in order to support the Eureka-147 transmission modes. The hybrid architecture, which is composed of R2SDF and R2SDC structure, reduces memory by $62\%$ compared to R2SDC structure, and the SQNR performance is improved by TS_CBFP(Two Step Convergent Block Floating Point). Timing simulation results show that it can operate up to 50MHz(a)2.5-V, resulting that a 2048-point FFT/IFFT can be computed in 41-us. The FFT256/2k core designed in Verilog-HDL has about 68,400 gates and 58,130 RAM. The average power consumption estimated using switching activity is about 113-mW, and the total average SQNR of over 50-dB is achieved. The functionality of the core was fully verified by FPGA implementation.