• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.321-324
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• 2014

This letter describes a two-phase clock oxide thin-film transistor shift register that executes a robust operation over a wide threshold voltage range and clock coupling noises. The proposed circuit employs an additional Q generation block to avoid the clock coupling noise effects. A SMART-SPICE simulation shows that the stable shift register operation is established for the clock coupling noises and the threshold voltage variation from -4 V to 5 V at a line time of $5{\mu}s$. The magnitude of coupling noises on the Q(15) node and Qb(15) node of the 15th stage is respectively -12.6 dB and -26.1 dB at 100 kHz in the proposed circuit, compared to 6.8 dB and 10.9 dB in a conventional one. In addition, the estimated power consumption is 1.74 mW for the proposed 16-stage shift registers at $V_{TH}=-1.56V$, compared to 11.5 mW for the conventional circuits.

• Journal of Semiconductor Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2020

Handling precise timing in high-speed transceivers has always been a primary design target to achieve better performance. Many different approaches have been tried, and one of those is utilizing the beneficial nature of injection locking. Though the phenomenon was not intended for building integrated circuits at first, its coupling effect between neighboring oscillators has been utilized deliberately. Consequently, the dynamics of the injection-locked oscillator (ILO) have been explored, starting from R. Adler. As many aspects of the ILO were revealed, further studies followed to utilize the technique in practice, suggesting alternatives to the conventional frequency syntheses, which tend to be complicated and expensive. In this review, the historical analysis techniques from R. Adler are studied for better comprehension with proper notation of the variables, resulting in numerical results. In addition, how the timing jitter or phase noise in the ILO is attenuated from noise sources is presented in contrast to the clock generators based on the phase-locked loop (PLL). Although the ILO is very promising with higher cost effectiveness and better noise immunity than other schemes, unless correctly controlled or tuned, the promises above might not be realized. In order to present the favorable conditions, several strategies have been explored in diverse applications like frequency multiplication, data recovery, frequency division, clock distribution, etc. This paper reviews those research results for clock multiplication and data recovery in detail with their advantages and disadvantages they are referring to. Through this review, the readers will hopefully grasp the overall insight of the ILO, as well as its practical issues, in order to incorporate it on silicon successfully.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.1130-1137
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• 2009

본 논문은 지상파 DMB에서 기준 클락 신호에 의한 RF 수신기의 민감도 열화 현상을 분석하고, 이를 해결하기 위한 새로운 PCB 설계 기법을 제안하였다. 현재 DMB 수신기 시스템에 사용되는 기준 주파수는 16.384 MHz, 19.2 MHz, 24.576 MHz의 세 종류가 있다. 이러한 기준 주파수의 고조파 성분이 RF 채널 주파수에 근접할 경우, 해당 채널의 감도가 심각히 열화될 수 있다. 이러한 클락 고조파 결합 문제를 해결하기 위해 스트립라인 형태의 새로운 클락 배선 설계 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 기법은 인덕턴스 성분을 사용하여 클락 신호의 접지 단자를 주 접지 단자와 분리하고, 클락 신호선과 주변 접지면의 결합 커패시턴스 성분을 최소화 하도록 설계되었다. 이를 DMB 수신기 보드에 적용하여 수신기의 감도가 최대 2 dB 개선됨을 측정을 통하여 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1606-1616
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• 1989

In this paper, the design of DYNAMIC CMOS ARRAY LOGIC which has both advantages of dynamic CMOS and array logic circuits is proposed. The major components of DYNAMIC CMOS ARRAY LOGIC are two-stage dunamic CMOS circuits and an internal clock generator. The function block of dynamic CMOS circuits is realized as a parallel interconnection of NMOS transistors. Therefore the operating speed of DYNAMIC CMOS ARRAY LOGIC is much faster than the one of the conventional dynamic CMOS PLAs and static CMOS PLA. Also, the charge redistribution problem by internl delay is solved. The internal clock generator generates four internal clocks that drive all the dynamic CMOS circuits. During evaluation, two clocks of them are delayed as compared with others. Therefore the race problem is completoly eliminated. The internal clock generator also prevents the reduction of circuit output voltage and noise margin due to leakage current and charge coupling without any penalty in circuit operating speed or chip area utilization.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1643-1647
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• 2003

This paper, we propose a new high noise immunity phase-locked loop(PLL) which can suppress the high incident noise coupling with large amplitude and long period to the input frequency of PLL and keeps constant frequency and phase of the VCO output for providing the high stability distribution clock pulse.