• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.797-807
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• 2013

In this paper, an input receiver with a hysteresis characteristic that can work at voltage levels between 0.9 V and 5 V is proposed. The input receiver can be used as a wide voltage range Schmitt trigger also. At the same time, reliable circuit operation is ensured. According to the research findings, this is the first time a wide voltage range Schmitt trigger is being reported. The proposed circuit is compared with previously reported input receivers, and it is shown that the circuit has better noise immunity. The proposed input receiver ends the need for a separate Schmitt trigger and input buffer. The frequency of operation is also higher than that of the previously reported receiver. The circuit is simulated using HSPICE at 0.35-${\mu}m$ standard thin oxide technology. Monte Carlo analysis is conducted at different process conditions, showing that the proposed circuit works well for different process conditions at different voltage levels of operation. A noise impulse of ($V_{CC}/2$) magnitude is added to the input voltage to show that the receiver receives the correct logic level even in the presence of noise. Here, $V_{CC}$ is the fixed voltage supply of 3.3 V.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.137-140
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• 2001

This paper shows an asynchronous comparator circuit for 1.2Gbps signal receiver that converts 1.2Gbps data rate input signals with less than 100㎷ swing to on-chip CMOS compatible voltage levels in a 0.35${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS process. Folded-cascode nMOS input stage with source-coupled pMOS input stage cover rail-to-rail input common-mode range. Drastic gain-bandwidth increment due to gain-boosting stage with positive-feedback latch as well as wide input common-mode range make designed circuit be suitable for a fully differential signal receiver. HSPICE simulation results show that worst-case sensitivity is less than 20㎷ and maximum propagation delay is 640-psec. And also we verified 3.97㎽ power consumption with 150㎷ differential swing amplitude at 1.2Gbps.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.85-93
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 다수의 병렬 입.출력 환경을 위한 높은 노이즈 마진을 갖고 있는 LVDS I/O 회로를 소개한다. 제안된 LVDS I/O회로는 송신단과 수신단으로 구성되어 있으며 송신단 회로는 차동위상 분할기와 공통모드 피드백(common mode feedback)을 가지고 있는 출력단으로 이루어져 있다. 차동위상 분할기는 SSO(simultaneous switching output) 노이즈에 의해 공급전압이 변하더라도 안정된 듀티 싸이클(duty cycle)과 $180^{\circ}$의 위상차를 가진 두 개의 신호를 생성한다. 공통모드 피로백을 가지고 있는 출력단 회로는 공급전압의 변화에 상관없이 일정한 출력전류를 생성하고 공통모드 전압(common mode voltage)을 ${\pm}$0.1V 이내로 유지한다. LVDS 수신단 회로는 VCDA(very wide common mode input range differential amplifier)구조를 사용하여 넓은 공통 입력전압 범위를 확보하고 SSO 노이즈에 의한 공급 전압의 변화에도 안정된 듀티 싸이클(50% ${\pm}$ 3%)을 유지하여 정확한 데이터 복원이 가능하다. 본 논문에서 제안한 LVDS I/O 회로는 0.18um TSMC 라이브러리를 기본으로 하여 설계 되었으며 H-SPICE를 이용하여 시뮬레이션 하였다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.61-67
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• 2014

This paper presents a zero-IF CMOS RF receiver, which supports three channel bandwidths of 5/10/40MHz for LTE-Advanced systems. The receiver operates at IMT-band of 2,500 to 2,690MHz. The simulated noise figure of the overall receiver is 1.6 dB at 7MHz (7.5 dB at 7.5 kHz). The receiver is composed of two parts: an RF front-end and a baseband circuit. In the RF front-end, a RF input signal is amplified by a low noise amplifier and $G_m$ with configurable gain steps (41/35/29/23 dB) with optimized noise and linearity performances for a wide dynamic range. The proposed baseband circuit provides a -1 dB cutoff frequency of up to 40MHz using a proposed wideband OP-amp, which has a phase margin of $77^{\circ}$ and an unit-gain bandwidth of 2.04 GHz. The proposed zero-IF CMOS RF receiver has been implemented in $0.13-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology and consumes 116 (for high gain mode)/106 (for low gain mode) mA from a 1.2 V supply voltage. The measurement of a fabricated chip for a 10-MHz 3G LTE input signal with 16-QAM shows more than 8.3 dB of minimum signal-to-noise ratio, while receiving the input channel power from -88 to -12 dBm.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.286-292
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• 2006

This paper presents the design of a low-voltage wide-band switched-capacitor (SC) filter for wireless communication receiver applications. The filter is the 5th-order Elliptic lowpass filter. With the clock frequency of 50MHz implying that an effective sampling frequency is 100MHz with double sampling scheme, the cut-off frequency of the filter is programmable to be 1.25MHz, 2.5MHz, 5MHz and 10MHz. For low-power systems powered by a single-cell battery, the SC filter was elaborately designed to operate at 1.2V power supply. Simulation result shows that the 3rd-order input intercept point (IIP3) can be up to 27dBm. The filter was fabricated in a $0.25-{\mu}m$ 1P5M standard CMOS technology and measured frequency responses show good agreement with the simulation ones. The current consumption is 34mA at a 1.2V power supply.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 학술발표 논문집 제16권 제1호
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• pp.302-305
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• 2006

A problem that arises in most communication receivers concerns the wide variation in power level of the signals received at the antenna. These variations cause serious problems which can usually be solved in receiver design by using Automatic Gain Control (AGC). AGC is achieved by using an amplifier whose gain can be controlled by external current or voltage. However, the AGC circuit does not respond to rapid changes in the amplitude of input. If input changes instantaneously, then even if op-amps could follow the change, the envelope detector capacitor could not, since the capacitor's voltage could not change instantaneously. To alleviate this deficiency, we present Improved Automatic Gain Control Circuit (IAGCC) replacing AGC circuit to FLC.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 공급전압 변화에 둔감한 Gbps급 저전력 LVDS I/O회로를 설계하였다. 제안된 LVDS I/O는 1.8 V, $0.18\;{\mu}m$ TSMC 공정을 이용하여 설계, 시뮬레이션 및 검증하였다. 설계된 LVDS I/O회로는 송신단과 수신단을 포함한다. 제안하는 송신단은 phase splitter와 SC-CMFB를 이용한 출력버퍼로 구성된다. phase splitter의 출력은 공급 전압이 변화하여도 $50{\pm}2%$의 duty cycle을 가지며 $180{\pm}0.2^{\circ}$의 위상차를 가진다. 출력 버퍼는 SC-CMFB를 이용하여 허용 가능한 $V_{CM}$ 전압 값인 $1.2{\pm}0.1V$을 유지하도록 설계하였다. $V_{OD}$전압 또한 허용범위에서 최소값인 250 mV를 갖도록 설계하여 저전력 동작이 가능하도록 구성하였다 수신단은 38 mV의 히스테리시스 전압값을 가지면서 DC옵셋 전압값이 $0.2{\pm}2.6 V$로 넓은 공통 모드전압 범위가 가능하도록 설계하였고 공급전압 변화에도 rail-to-rail로 복원할 수 있는 기능을 가지고 있다. 또한, 수신단은 1 GHz에서 38.9 dB의 높은 전압 이득을 갖도록 설계하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제26권12C호
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• pp.249-254
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• 2001

STM-1 체계의 광통신 수신부 광모듈에 내장하기 위한 리시버 ASIC을 0.65 $\mu\textrm{m}$ 실리콘 CMOS 기술을 이용하여 설계 제작하였다. 제작된 ASIC은 155.52 Mbps 데이터신호 재정형을 위한 제한 증폭기와 155.52 MHz 시스템 클럭을 추출하기 위한 클럭 복원 회로를 주축으로 구성되어 있다. 또한 이 리시버는 전원이 켜지는 초기 동작 상태에서나 동작 도중 데이터신호가 입력되지 않더라도 155.52 MHz 부근의 클럭 주파수를 유지하여 항상 안정된 동작을 할 수 있게 하기 위한 수렴 보조 회로 및 LOS 감지 회로도 내장하고 있다. 측정 결과 설계된 리시버는 5 mV-1 V의 넓은 입력 전압에 걸쳐 데이터 재정형이 이루어지며, 항상 안정된 클럭을 복원하고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2015

A bandwidth-enhanced ultra-wide band (UWB) CMOS balun-LNA is implemented as a part of a software defined radio (SDR) receiver which supports multi-band and multi-standard. The proposed balun-LNA is composed of a single-to-differential converter, a differential-to-single voltage summer with inductive shunt peaking, a negative feedback network, and a differential output buffer with composite common-drain (CD) and common-source (CS) amplifiers. By feeding the single-ended output of the voltage summer to the input of the LNA through a feedback network, a wideband balun-LNA exploiting negative feedback is implemented. By adopting a source follower-based inductive shunt peaking, the proposed balun-LNA achieves a wider gain bandwidth. Two LNA design examples are presented to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed approach. The LNA I adopts the CS amplifier with a common gate common source (CGCS) balun load as the S-to-D converter for high gain and low noise figure (NF) and the LNA II uses the differential amplifier with the ac-grounded second input terminal as the S-to-D converter for high second-order input-referred intercept point (IIP2). The 3 dB gain bandwidth of the proposed balun-LNA (LNA I) is above 5 GHz and the NF is below 4 dB from 100 MHz to 5 GHz. An average power gain of 18 dB and an IIP3 of -8 ~ -2 dBm are obtained. In simulation, IIP2 of the LNA II is at least 5 dB higher than that of the LNA I with same power consumption.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.100-108
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• 2014

Low noise amplifier (LNA) is an integral component of RF receiver and frequently required to operate at wide frequency bands for various wireless system applications. For wideband operation, important performance metrics such as voltage gain, return loss, noise figure and linearity have been carefully investigated and characterized for the proposed LNA. An inductive shunt feedback configuration is successfully employed in the input stage of the proposed LNA which incorporates cascaded networks with a peaking inductor in the buffer stage. Design equations for obtaining low and high impedance-matching frequencies are easily derived, leading to a relatively simple method for circuit implementation. Careful theoretical analysis explains that input impedance can be described in the form of second-order frequency response, where poles and zeros are characterized and utilized for realizing the wideband response. Linearity is significantly improved because the inductor located between the gate and the drain decreases the third-order harmonics at the output. Fabricated in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process, the chip area of this wideband LNA is $0.202mm^2$, including pads. Measurement results illustrate that the input return loss shows less than -7 dB, voltage gain greater than 8 dB, and a little high noise figure around 6-8 dB over 1.5 - 13 GHz. In addition, good linearity (IIP3) of 2.5 dBm is achieved at 8 GHz and 14 mA of current is consumed from a 1.8 V supply.