• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.226-233
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• 2013

This paper presents a two-stage power-efficient class-AB operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) based on an adaptive biasing circuit suited to low-power dissipation and low-voltage operation. The OTA shows significant improvements in driving capability and power dissipation owing to the novel adaptive biasing circuit. The OTA dissipates only $0.4{\mu}W$ from a supply voltage of ${\pm}0.6V$ and exhibits excellent high driving, which results in a slew rate improvement of more than 250 times that of the conventional class-AB amplifier. The design is fabricated using $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.168-172
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a new adaptive biasing scheme for CMOS op-amps. The designed circuit has been used in an Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) with ${\pm}1$ V power supply, and it has improved the positive and negative slew rates from 2.92 V/msec to 1242 V/msec and from 1.56 V/msec to 133 V/msec respectively, while maintaining all the small-signal performance parameter values the same as that without adaptive biasing (as expected), however, there was a marginal decrease of the dynamic range. The most useful features of the proposed circuit are that it uses a very low number of components (thus not creating severe area penalty) and requires only 25 nW of extra stand-by power.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.285-289
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• 2019

A 1.9-GHz linear CMOS power amplifier is presented. An adaptive bias circuit (ABC) that utilizes an AC ground to detect the power level of the input signal is proposed to enhance the linearity and efficiency of the power amplifier. The ABC utilizes the second harmonic component as the input to mitigate the distortion of the fundamental signal. The input power level of the ABC was detected at the AC ground located at the V_DD node of the power amplifier. The output of the ABC was fed into the inputs of the power stage. The input signal distortion was mitigated by detecting the input power level at the AC ground. The power amplifier was designed using a 180 nm RFCMOS process to evaluate the feasibility of the application of the proposed ABC in the power amplifier. The measured output power and power-added efficiency were improved by 1.7 dB and 2.9%, respectively.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.785-793
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• 2007

In this paper, we present an integrated rail-to-rail fully differential operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) working at low-supply voltages (1.5 V) with reduced power consumption and showing high DC gain. An embedded adaptive biasing circuit makes it possible to obtain low stand-by power dissipation (lower than 0.17 mW in the rail-to-rail version), while the high DC gain (over 78 dB) is ensured by positive feedback. The circuit, fabricated in a standard CMOS integrated technology (AMS 0.35 ${\mu}m$), presents a 37 V/${\mu}s$ slew-rate for a capacitive load of 15 pF. Experimental results and high values of two quality factors, or figures of merit, show the validity of the proposed OTA, when compared with other OTA configurations.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2013

나노크기 MOSFET 공정에서 회로의 신뢰도에 영향을 미치는 음 바이어스 온도 불안정성(NBTI), 핫 캐리어 주입(HCI), 시간 의존 유전체 파손(TDDB) 등과 같은 노화 현상들에 의해서 회로 성능의 심각한 저하를 가져올 수 있다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서는 디지털회로에서 발생할 수 있는 노화를 극복할 수 있는 적응형 보상 회로를 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 보상회로는 노화에 의해 감소하는 회로 성능을 적응적으로 보상해 주기 위해서 노화 정도에 따라 파워스위치 폭을 조절할 수 있고, 순방향 바디 바이어싱 전압을 걸어줄 수 있는 파워 게이팅 구조를 사용하여서 45nm의 공정기술에서 설계되었다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.942-949
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 column-parallel readout 회로에 적합하도록 개선된 CMOS 이미지 센서용 algorithmic ADC를 제안한다. 커패시터의 비율과 무관하고 연산 증폭기의 이득에 둔감하면서 증폭기 하나로 동작 할 수 있도록 기존 algorithmic ADC를 수정하고 적응형 바이어싱을 적용한 증폭기를 사용하여 높은 변환효율을 갖도록 하였다. 제안하는 ADC는 0.18-㎛ 매그나칩 CMOS 공정으로 설계되었으며, Spectre 시뮬레이션을 통해 기존 algorithmic ADC에 비해 변환속도당 전력소모가 37% 줄어 들었음을 확인하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.75-87
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• 2012

A design paradigm using sequential geometric programming is presented to accurately design CMOS op amps with BSIM3. It is based on new adaptive modeling of transistor parameters through the operating point simulation. This has low modeling cost as well as great simplicity and high accuracy. The short-channel dc, high-frequency small-signal, and short-channel noise models are used to characterize the physical behavior of submicron devices. For low-power and low-voltage design, this paradigm is extended to op amps operating in the subthreshold region. Since the biasing and modeling errors are less than 0.25%, the characteristics of the op amps well match simulation results. In addition, small dependency of design results on initial values indicates that a designed op amp may be close to the global optimum. Finally, the design paradigm is illustrated by optimizing CMOS op amps with accurate transfer function.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.77-89
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• 1999

Simulating rare events, such as probability of cell loss in ATM networks, machine failure in highly reliable systems, requires huge simulation efforts due to the low chance of occurrence. Importance Sampling (IS) has been applied to accelerate the occurrence of rare events. However, it has a drawback of effective biasing scheme to make the estimator of IS unbiased. Adaptive Importance Sampling (AIS) employs an estimated sampling distribution of IS to the system of interest during the course of simulation. We propose Nonparametric Adaptive Importance Sampling (NAIS) technique which is nonparametrical version of AIS. We test NAIS to estimate a probability of rare event in M/M/1 queueing model. Comparing with classical Monte Carlo simulation, the computational efficiency and variance reductions gained via NAIS are substantial. A possible extension of NAIS regarding with random number generation is also discussed.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제25권5B호
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• pp.974-984
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• 2000

전압 강하 변환기의 구동 회로를 제안하였다. 구동 회로의 load regulation 특성을 개선하기 위하여 적응 바이어스(adaptive biasing) 개념을 제안하였고 이 개념을 도입한 NMOS 구동 회로를 설계하였다. 적응 바이어스 전류 구동 개념이 적용된 NMOS 구동 회로는 구동단에서의 밀러(Miller) 효과가 없으므로 위상 여유가 크고 안정된 주파수 특성을 보여주고 있다. NMOS 구동단은 같은 구동 전류를 흘려줄 경우 PMOS 구동단에 비해 훨씬 적은 트랜지스터 크기 비로 설계 제작이 가능하므로 칩 면적을 크게 줄일 수 있으며 PMOS 구동단에서의 같은 보상 커패시터나 보상 추로 회로가 없다. 제안된 회로는 0.8 $\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS 공정 기술을 이용하여 구현되었으며 설계가 간단하고, 대기 전력(quiescent power)이 60 ㎼로 측정되었다. 전체 크기는 150 $\mu\textrm{m}$$\times$ 360 $\mu\textrm{m}$이고 100$\mu\textrm{A}$부터 50 ㎃ 까지의 구동 전류 변화 조건하에서 5.6 ㎷의 load regulation 값을 얻었다.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국시뮬레이션학회 1999년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.70-79
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• 1999

Importance Sampling (IS) has been applied to accelerate the occurrence of rare events. However, it has a drawback of effective biasing scheme to make the estimator from IS unbiased. Adaptive Importance Sampling (AIS) employs an estimated sampling distribution of IS to the systems of interest during the course of simulation. We propose Nonparametric Adaptive Importance Sampling (NAIS) technique which is nonparametrically modified version of AIS and test it to estimate a probability of rare event in M/M/1 queueing model. Comparing with classical Monte Carlo simulation, the computational efficiency and variance reductions gained via NAIS are substantial. A possible extension of NAIS regarding with random number generation is also discussed.