• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 2019

In this paper, we develop a beamforming front end platform with pipeline circuit configuration method that can apply various clinical diagnostic applications of ultrasound image technology. Hardware design targets compression applications as well as scalable applications where power, integration levels and replication possibilities are important. Firmware design was implemented to achieve optimal FPGA parallel processing level by constructing new IP and system-oriented design environment to accelerate design productivity with maximum productivity improvement using Vivado HLS tool, which is a next generation high level synthesis tool. Former supports the high-speed management function of scan data that can create an image area arbitrarily and can be appropriately corrected and supplemented when reconfiguring or changing system specifications in the future.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.111-118
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• 2005

In this paper, we employ the modulation technique for improving the characteristics of beamformer in the low frequencies and thus improving the overall noise reduction performance. In the 1-dimensional uniform linear microphone arrays, we can suppress the narrowband noise component using the delay-and-sum beamforming. But, for the wideband noise signal, the delay-and-sum beamformer does not work well for the reduction of low frequency component because the inter-element spacing is usually set to avoid spatial aliasing at high frequencies. Hence, the beamwidth is not uniform with respect to each frequency and it is usually wider at the low frequencies. In order to obtain the beamwidth independent of frequencies, subarray systems[1][2][3][4] and multi-beamforming[5] have been proposed. However these algorithms need large space and more microphones since they are based on the theory that the size of the array is proportional to the wavelength of the input signal. In the proposed beamformer, we reduce the low frequency noise by using modulation technique that does not need additional sensors or non-uniform spacing. More Precisely, the array signals are split into subbands, and the low frequency components are shifted to high frequencies by modulation and reduced by the delay-and-sum beamforming techniques with small size microphone array. Experimental results show that the proposed technique Provides better performance than the conventional ones, especially in the low frequency band.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.880-882
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• 2004

This paper presents the design and simulation results of 7 waveguide dielectric rod array antennas for 7 channel DBF(Digital beamformer) receivers for stratospheric system. A waveguide. dielectric antenna type, which has FTEP(Flat-toped element pattern) to manufacture easily. Also, the calculated element patterns according to the permittivity are compared. The designed antenna will be used for generating multibeam radiation pattern by means DBF.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.34D no.10
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• pp.1-6
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• 1997

This paper presents the theoretical derivaion relating and image correlationcoeffcient capable of assessing image quality, with phase-error variance in antenna aperture domain. We show that when the phase-error variance of a range bin selected as an adaptive beamformer is known, the quality of the reconstructed image is predictable and moreover, the resultant correlation coeffcient is obviously greater than the derive dlower boudn. To support the derivation, real data are used for image formation where the dominant scatterer algorithm (DSA) is applied for phase compensations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.420-423
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• 1998

최근 이동 통신이나 위성통신과 같은 많은 디지털 통신 시스템에서 시스템의 용량을 증가시키고 인접 채널간 간섭을 줄이기 위해 많은 연구가 진행되고 있으며, 그 중에서 어레이 빔 형성 기법에 대한 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 원하는 신호의 입사방향을 모르더라도 정상 동작이 가능한 블라인드 빔 형성 기법 중에서 신호의 cyclostationarity를 이용한 방법을 사용하여 원하는 사용자 신호의 cyclic 주파수만큼 천이된 신호와 수신신호 사이의 상호상관 행렬을 구하고 이를 이용하여 계수벡터를 구하는 알고리즘을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.88-91
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• 2006

Steered response power(SRP) based algorithm uses a focused beamformer which steers the array to various locations and searches for a peak in output power to localize sound sources. SRP-PHAT, a phase transformed SRP, shows high accuracy, but requires a large amount of computation time. This paper proposes an algorithm that clusters search spaces in advance to reduce computation time of SRP based algorithms.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.385-388
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• 2002

This paper proposes a new GSC (Generalized Sidelobe Canceller) structure, called HLMS-GSC. Compared to Griffiths and Jim's GSC structure, the number of complex multiplication required is reduced to one half. The simulation results show that the minimum mean square errors and performance of nulling jammers by using HLMS-GSC are almost the same compared to Griffiths and Jim's GSC, although the complexity is reduced significantly. As a result, the proposed adaptive beamformer is good for real time implementation, since it has low complexity compared to previous GSC structures.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.413-416
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• 2002

In this paper, a speech enhancement system using microphone array with adaptive Post-Processing is implemented in real-lime with TMS320C6201 DSP. It consists of delay-and-sum beamformer and adaptive post-processing filters with NLMS (Normalized Least Mean Square) algorithm. THS1206 ADC is used for collection of 4-channel microphone signals. Sizes of program memory, data ROM and data RAM of the implemented system are 15,744, 748 and 47,540 bytes, respectively. Finally 21.839${\times}$106 clocks per second is required for real-time operation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.37-40
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 MISO(Multiple-Input Single-Output) 시스템에서 시공간 블록 부호(Space-Time Block Code; STBC)와 전송 고유빔 형성기의 결합을 통해 전송 다이버시티 이득과 빔형성 이득을 동시에 추구하는 기법에 대해 설명하였다. 빔형성 이득을 대한 성능을 분석하기 위해 채널간 상관 정도에 따라 모의실험을 통해 성능을 분석하였다. 성능 분석 결과 일반적인 STBC 기법을 적용하는 기법보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.193-196
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• 2003

시공간 빔포밍 기술은 기존의 배열 안테나가 공간만의 처리를 해온 것에 대하여 이를 시간 영역으로까지 확장하여 특정한 방향에서 특정한 시간에 도착하는 다중경로는 증폭하고 다른 다중경로는 제거하는 것을 의미한다. 본 논문은 배열 안테나를 가진 DS-CDMA에서 시스템 파라미터 부정합이 존재할 때, 시공간 빔 형성기의 성능에 대하여 연구하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 부정합이 존재할 때 전통적인 빔포머가 상대적으로 강인함을 보였지만 원근 문제는 해결할 수 없었으며, 실제의 추정 결과를 적용했을 때는 MUSIC 시공간 빔포머가 가장 우수한 성능을 보였다.