• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.21-30
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• 2018

Driven by the recent energy saving trend, conventional silicon based power conversion modules are being replaced by modules using silicon carbide. Previous papers have focused mainly on the electrical advantages of silicon carbide semiconductors that can be used to design switching devices with much lower losses than conventional silicon based devices. However, no systematic study of their thermomechanical reliability in power conversion modules using finite element method (FEM) simulation has been presented. In this paper, silicon and silicon carbide based power devices with three-phase switching were designed and compared from the viewpoint of thermomechanical reliability. The switching loss of power conversion module was measured by the switching loss evaluation system and measured switching loss data was used for the thermal FEM simulation. Temperature and stress/strain distributions were analyzed. Finally, a thermal fatigue simulation was conducted to analyze the creep phenomenon of the joining materials. It was shown that at the working frequency of 20 kHz, the maximum temperature and stress of the power conversion module with SiC chips were reduced by 56% and 47%, respectively, compared with Si chips. In addition, the creep equivalent strain of joining material in SiC chip was reduced by 53% after thermal cycle, compared with the joining material in Si chip.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2015.12a
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• pp.321-322
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• 2015

Thermoelectric power generation has emerged as a promising alternative technology because it offers a potential application in the direct conversion of waste heat into electric energy. The performance of thermoelectric power generator depends on thermoelectric materials and thermoelectric power module designs. The main objective of this study is to design a 100W thermoelectric generation (TEG) module and to get optimal operating conditions of the module. The design and performance of the TEG module will be presented.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.117-122
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• 2013

The distributed power conversion LED driver circuit using parasitic inductance is proposed in this paper. while the conventional LED driver circuit is composed of the large size devices and heatsinks, the proposed circuit can be realized with the small sized no heatsink based. since the processing power can be effectively distributed. Also by using the wire parasitic inductance of the LED string, the proposed circuit can be implemented without external magnetic device. As a result, the proposed circuit which features the small size and volume con be realized even without LED driver module(LDM) board. since, all the device can be attached to the existing LED array Module(LAM) board. Therefore, it features that cost savings and volume reduction of circuit. To confirm the validity of the proposed circuit, theoretical analysis and experimental results from a distributed power conversion LED driver circuit prototype are presented.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.481-484
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• 2006

A electric power conversion system in a pumped storage power plant is important equipment for converting electric motor kinetic energy into electric power. A electric power conversion monitoring system consists of high voltage thyristor firing equipment, fault detection module, data gathering module, real time data processing equipment and man machine interface system. This paper describes electric power conversion system overview, the developed SFC monitoring system configuration including system characteristics, and successful application result to San-Cheong pumped storage power plant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.236-237
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• 2017

Recently, many industrial instruments face the problem of protocol compatibility with the external monitoring and control system. This paper implemented a protocol conversion algorithm for industrial monitoring about communication Data. This algorithm is supported programmable method by user. we experimented the protocol conversion by communication gateway module using implemented algorithm, and obtained good results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.277-278
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• 2017

Recently, many industrial instruments face the problem of protocol compatibility with the external monitoring and control system. This paper implemented a protocol conversion algorithm for industrial monitoring about communication Data. This algorithm is supported programmable method by user. we experimented the protocol conversion by communication gateway module using implemented algorithm, and obtained good results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.283-284
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• 2016

Recently, many industrial instruments face the problem of protocol compatibility with the external monitoring and control system. This paper implemented a protocol conversion algorithm for monitoring of industrial communication Data. This algorithm is supported programmable method by user. we experimented the protocol conversion by communication gateway module using implemented algorithm, and obtained good results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.1219-1227
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• 1992

VXIbus is a standard for compatibility of instruments of multi-vendors and originated from the VMEbus. The devices for implementing VXIbus system can be categorized into the register based device and the message based device. In this paper we organized the A/D conversion module and the slot0 module, which form the register based VXIbus subsystem. The A/D conversion module is used as a digital voltmeter and LAN is used for communication between an external control computer and the slot0 module. The SCPI(Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments), which is a standard language for instruments, is transmitted from the external control computer to the slot0 module as the ASCII form, and then to the A/D conversion module after changing to the binary digit command. From the experiment. We verified that the measured voltage can be observed on external control computer and user interface can be improved by the modified graphic processing.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2021

Due to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) modernization, the recently launched GNSS satellites transmit signals at various frequency bands of L1, L2 and L5. Considering the Korea Positioning System (KPS) signal and other GNSS augmentation signals in the future, there is a high probability of applying more complex communication techniques to the new GNSS signals. For the reason, GNSS receivers based on flexible Software Defined Radio (SDR) concept needs to be developed to evaluate various experimental communication techniques by accessing each signal processing module in detail. In this paper, we introduce a multi-constellation (GPS/Galileo/BeiDou) multi-band (L1/L2/L5) SDR by utilizing Ettus USRP N210. The signal reception module of the developed SDR includes down-conversion, analog-to-digital conversion, signal acquisition, and tracking. The down-conversion module is designed based on the super-heterodyne method fitted for MHz sampling. The signal acquisition module performs PRN code generation and FFT operation and the signal tracking module implements delay/phase/frequency locked loops only by software. In general, it is difficult to sample entire main lobe components of L5 band signals due to their higher chipping rate compared with L1 and L2 band signals. Experiment result shows that it is possible to acquire and track the under-sampled signals by the developed SDR.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.507-511
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• 2010

Digital Radio Frequency Memory (below, DRFM) performs RF signal data store, delay and re-transmission. DRFM is wildly used as core module of Jammer, EW simulator, Target Echo Generator etc. This paper suggests a hardware design of DRFM which is composed RF section(RF Input/Output Module, Local Oscillator Module) and Digital section(ADC module, memory, DAC module), and confirm the validity of the propose by the test result.