• Journal of Semiconductor Engineering
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2021

This review paper describes the overall operating principle of a discrete-time delta-sigma modulator (DTDSM) and a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CTDSM) using a switched-capacitor (SC). In addition, research that has solved the problems related to each delta-sigma modulator (DSM) is introduced, and the latest developments are explained. This paper describes the chopper-stabilization technique that mitigates flicker noise, which is crucial for the DSM. In the case of DTDSM, this paper addresses the problems that arise when using SC circuits and explains the importance of the operational transconductance amplifier performance of the first integrator of the DSM. In the case of CTDSM, research that has reduced power consumption, and addresses the problems of clock jitter and excess loop delay is described. The recent developments of the analog front end, which have become important due to the increasing use of wireless sensors, is also described. In addition, this paper presents the advantages and disadvantages of the three-opamp instrumentation amplifier (IA), current feedback IA (CFIA), resistive feedback IA, and capacitively coupled IA (CCIA) methods for implementing instrumentation amplifiers in AFEs.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.2217-2224
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• 2014

본 논문은 의료용 아날로그 프론트 앤드(analog front end; AFE)를 이용하여 12채널 심전도를 측정하고 신호 분석을 통해 부정맥을 판단할 수 있는 시스템 개발에 관한 논문이다. 최근 국내 급성 심정지 발생이 증가하고 있으며 이에 원인이 되는 부정맥을 진단할 수 있는 시스템의 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 기존의 12채널 심전도 시스템은 회로 구성이 복잡하고 큰 부피를 차지하는 단점이 있으며 이를 개선하기 위해 본 논문에서는 의료용 AFE와 부정맥을 판단 할 수 있는 알고리즘 및 신호 처리를 위한 DSP로 시스템을 구성하였다. 추가적으로 12채널 심전도의 파형 관찰과 부정맥 판별 결과를 7인치 LCD를 통해 출력하며 터치 패널을 통해 사용자 입력을 받는다. 본 논문에서 구현된 시스템을 검증하기 위해 심전도 시뮬레이터의 출력 신호(정상 신호/부정맥 신호)에 대한 판별 테스트와 부정맥 알고리즘을 임베디드 환경에 적용하기 위한 최적화 과정의 성능 평가를 진행하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.59-66
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• 1986

개발된 초음파 섹터 B-스캐너 시제품에서 프론트 엔드 하드웨어는 초음파펄스의 송신 및 수신을 담당하는 부분으로서 변환자에 펄스를 인가하는 펄스발생기, 진폭이 미약한 애널로그 신호를 처리하는 수신회로 및 기계식 섹터 탐촉자를 구동하는 조향제어회로의 3부분으로 크게 나눌 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 위 3부분의 기능 및 설계에 관하여 기술한다. 완성된 프론트 엔드 하드웨어의 특징 가운데 중요한 몇가지만 살펴보면, 링다운 시간을 감소시키는 펄스발생기를 사용하여 축방향의 해상도를 증가시켰고 시가변이득 증폭기에 필요한 제어전압을 여러 형태로 만들 수 있으며 탐촉자내에 있는 감지기의 출력파형을 기준으로 본 초음파 진단장치의 모든 시스템에 공급될 레이트 펄스를 만들어 주는 것이라고 말할 수 있다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.1346-1349
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• 2002

This paper presents the design and implementation of 16-QAM modem that can be applied to fixed broadband wireless access systenm. It is implemented in the hardware prototype that consist of FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array) for digital signal processing and analog front end module for analog signal processing. We provide 20.48Mbps data rate using implemented modem and test the modem in KOREA 26㎓ broadband wireless local loop system including IFU(Intermediate Frequency Unit) and RFU(Radio Frequency Unit) via air interface.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.579-587
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• 2014

This paper presents a variable gain amplifier (VGA) for an analog front-end (AFE) of ultrasound medical imaging. This VGA has a closed-loop topology and shows a 37-dB-linear characteristic with a single-stage amplifier. It consists of an op-amp, a non-binary-weighted capacitor array, and a gain-control block. This non-binary-weighted capacitor array reduces the required number of capacitors and the complexity of the gain-control block. The VGA has been fabricated in a 0.35-mm CMOS process. This work gives the largest gain range of 37 dB per stage, the largest P1 dB of 9.5 dBm at the 3.3-V among the recent VGA circuits available in the literature. The voltage gain is controlled in the range of [-10, 27] dB in a linear-in-dB scale with 16 steps by a 4-bit digital code. The VGA has a bandpass characteristic with a passband of [20 kHz, 8 MHz].

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.3103-3120
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• 2015

This paper presents a single-phase energy metering chip with built-in calibration function to measure electric power quantities. The entire chip consists of an analog front end, a filter block, a computation engine, a calibration engine, and an external interface block. The key design issues are how to reduce the implementation costs of the computation engine from repeatedly used arithmetic operations and how to simplify calibration procedure and reduce calibration time. The proposed energy metering chip simplifies the computation engine using time-division multiplexed arithmetic units. It also provides a simple and fast calibration scheme by using integrated digital calibration functionality. The chip is fabricated with 0.18-μm six-layer metal CMOS process and housed in a 32-pin quad-flat no-leads (QFN) package. It operates at a clock speed of 4096 kHz and consumes 9.84 mW in 3.3 V supply.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제32A권12호
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• pp.220-228
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• 1995

An optimized 4-stage 12-bit pipelined CMOS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architecture is proposed to obtain high linearity and high yield. The ADC based on a multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) selectively employs a binary-weighted-capacitor (BWC) array in the front-end stage and a unit-capacitor (UC) array in the back-end stages to improve integral nonlinearity (INL) and differential nonlinearity (DNL) simultaneously whil maintaining high yield. A digital-domain nonlinear error calibration technique is applied in the first stage of the ADC to improve its accuracy to 12-bit level. The largest DNL error in the mid-point code of the ADC is reduced by avoiding a code-error symmetry observed in a conventional digitally calibrated ADC is reduced by avoiding a code-error symmetry observed in a conventional digitally calibrated ADC is simulated to prove the effectiveness of the proposed ADC architecture.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권2A호
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• pp.114-121
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 고속 동작을 위한 multi SHA(ammple and hold amplifier) 구조의 파이프라인 A/D 변환기 (analog-to-digital converter)를 제안하였다. 제안된 구조는 변환 속도를 높이기 위해, 동일한 SHA를 병렬로 연결하여 multi SHA를 구성하였다. 이를 비중첩 클럭(nonoverlapping clock)에서 동작하도록 하여 셀을 구성하는 SHA의 수와 비례한 빠른 샘플링 속도를 얻을 수 있도록 하였다. 제안된 구조를 적용하여 VDSL(very high-speed digital subscriber line) 모뎀의 아날로그 front-end단의 요구 사항을 만족하는 파이프라인 A/D 변환기를 설계하였다. 설계된 A/D 변환기의 DNL(differential nonlinearity)과 INL(integral nonlinearity)은 각각 $0.52LSB{\sim}-0.50LSB,\;0.80LSB{\sim}-0.76LSB$의 특성을 나타내어 설계 사양을 만족함을 확인하였다. 또한 2048 point에 대한 FFT를 수행한 결과 SNR이 약 66dB로 10.7 비트의 해상도가 얻어짐을 확인하였으며, 전력 소모는 24.32mW로 측정되었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2017

In this paper, a $4{\times}32$-channel neural recording system capable of acquiring neural signals is introduced. Four 32-channel neural recording ICs, complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), a micro controller unit (MCU) with USB interface, and a PC are used. Each neural recording IC, implemented in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology, includes 32 channels of analog front-ends (AFEs), a 32-to-1 analog multiplexer, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The mid-band gain of the AFE is adjustable in four steps, and have a tunable bandwidth. The AFE has a mid-band gain of 54.5 dB to 65.7 dB and a bandwidth of 35.3 Hz to 5.8 kHz. The high-pass cutoff frequency of the AFE varies from 18.6 Hz to 154.7 Hz. The input-referred noise (IRN) of the AFE is $10.2{\mu}V_{rms}$. A high-resolution, low-power ADC with a high conversion speed achieves a signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) of 50.63 dB and a spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) of 63.88 dB, at a sampling-rate of 2.5 MS/s. The effectiveness of our neural recording system is validated in in-vivo recording of the primary somatosensory cortex of a rat.

• BioChip Journal
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.332-339
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• 2018

The future neuro-prosthetic devices would be required spikes data monitoring through sub-nanoscale transistors that enables to neuroscientists and clinicals for scalable, wireless and implantable applications. This research investigates the spikes monitoring through integrated CNT front-end amplifier for neuro-prosthetic diagnosis. The proposed carbon nanotube-based architecture consists of front-end amplifier (FEA), integrate fire neuron and pseudo resistor technique that observed high electrical performance through neural activity. A pseudo resistor technique ensures large input impedance for integrated FEA by compensating the input leakage current. While carbon nanotube based FEA provides low-voltage operation with directly impacts on the power consumption and also give detector size that demonstrates fidelity of the neural signals. The observed neural activity shows amplitude of spiking in terms of action potential up to $80{\mu}V$ while local field potentials up to 40 mV by using proposed architecture. This fully integrated architecture is implemented in Analog cadence virtuoso using design kit of CNT process. The fabricated chip consumes less power consumption of $2{\mu}W$ under the supply voltage of 0.7 V. The experimental and simulated results of the integrated FEA achieves $60G{\Omega}$ of input impedance and input referred noise of $8.5nv/{\sqrt{Hz}}$ over the wide bandwidth. Moreover, measured gain of the amplifier achieves 75 dB midband from range of 1 KHz to 35 KHz. The proposed research provides refreshing neural recording data through nanotube integrated circuit and which could be beneficial for the next generation neuroscientists.