• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.89-98
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• 2014

The integration of digital circuits has a tight relation with the scaling down of silicon technology. The continuous scaling down of the feature size of CMOS devices enters the nanoscale, which results in such destructive effects as short channel effects. Consequently, efforts to replace silicon technology with efficient substitutes have been made. The carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNTFET) is one of the most promising replacements for this purpose because of its essential characteristics. Various digital CNTFET-based circuits, such as standard logic cells, have been designed and the results demonstrate improvements in the delay and energy consumption of these circuits. In this paper, a new CNTFET-based 5-input XOR gate based on a novel design method is proposed and simulated using the HSPICE tool based on the compact SPICE model for the CNTFET at the 32-nm technology node. The proposed method leads to improvements in performance and device count compared to the conventional CMOS-style design.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.713-718
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• 2016

Predicting precise specifications of differential mixed-signal circuits is a difficult problem, because analytically derived correlation between process variations and conventional specifications exhibits the limited prediction accuracy due to the phase unbalance, for most self-tests. This paper proposes an efficient prediction technique to provide accurate specifications of differential mixed-signal circuits in a system-on-chip (SoC) based on a nonlinear statistical nonlinear regression technique. A spectrally pure sinusoidal signal is applied to a differential DUT, and its output is fed into another differential DUT through a weighting circuitry in the loopback configuration. The weighting circuitry, which is employed from the previous work [3], efficiently produces different weights on the harmonics of the loopback responses, i.e., the signatures. The correlation models, which map the signatures to the conventional specifications, are built based on the statistical nonlinear regression technique, in order to predict accurate nonlinearities of individual DUTs. In production testing, once the efficient signatures are measured, and plugged into the obtained correlation models, the harmonic coefficients of DUTs are readily identified. This work provides a practical test solution to overcome the serious test issue of differential mixed-signal circuits; the low accuracy of analytically derived model is much lower by the errors from the unbalance. Hardware measurement results showed less than 1.0 dB of the prediction error, validating that this approach can be used as production test.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제34C권2호
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• pp.1-11
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• 1997

We developed a base station modulator ASIC for CDMA digital cellular system. In CDMA digital cellular system, the modulation is performed by convolutional encoding and QPSK with spread spectrum. The function blocks of base station modulator are CRC, convolutional encoder, interleaver pseudo-moise scrambler, power control bit puncturing, walsh cover, QPSK, gain controller, combiner and multiplexer. Each function block was designed by the logic synthesis of VHDL codes. The VHDL code was described at register transfer level and the size of code is about 8,000 lines. The circuit simulation and logic simulation were performed by COMPASS tools. The chip (ES-C2212B CMB) contains 25,205 gates and 3 Kbit SRAM, and its chip size is 5.25 mm * 5,45 mm in 0.8 mm CMOS cell-based design technology. It is packaged in 68 pin PLCC and the power dissipation at 10MHz is 300 mW at 5V. The ASIC has been fully tested and successfully working on the CDMA base station system.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2008

디지털 논리회로의 테스트 데이터와 전력소비를 단축시킬 수 있는 효율적인 테스트 방법을 제안한다. 제안 하는 테스트 방법은 테스트장비내의 테스트 데이터 저장 공간을 줄이는 하이브리드 run-length 인코딩 벙법에 기초하고, 수정된 Bus-invert 코딩 방법과 스캔 셀 설계를 제안하여, 스캔 동작시의 개선된 전력 단축효과를 가져온다. ISCAS'89 벤치마크 회로의 실험결과 고장 검출율의 저하 없이 평균 전력은 96.7%, 피크전력은 84%의 단축을 보이며 테스트 데이터는 기존 방법보다 78.2%의 압축을 갖는다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 ITC-CSCC -1
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• pp.70-73
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• 2002

High frequency digital LSI circuits are usually composed of many sub-circuits coupled with interconnects. They sometimes causes serious problems of the fault switching by time-delays, crosstalks, reflections of signals and so on. Therefore, it is very important to develop a user-friendly simulator for solving these problems. Although a moment matching method is widely used as the reduction technique of interconnects, it may happen to arise erroneous results for evaluating the poles far from the origin. In this paper, we show an asymptotic method in the complex frequency-domain, where we calculate the exact poles and residues giving large effect to the transient responses. Then, the interconnects are replaced by the asymptotic equivalent circuits using the poles and residues. Thus, we can develop a users-friendly simulator using the equivalent circuits.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제35C권4호
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• pp.11-20
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• 1998

Fault simulatior has been used to compute exact fault coverages of test vectors for digial circuits. But it is time consuming because execution time is proportional to square of circuit size. Recently, several algorithms for testability analysis have been published to cope with these problems. COP is very fast and accurate but cannot be used for sequential circuits, while STAFAN can be used for sequential circuits but needs vast amount of execution time due to good circuit simulation. We proposed EXTASEC which gave fast and accurate fault coverage. But it shows noticeable errors for a few sequential circuits. In this paper, it is shown that the inaccuracy is due to uninitializble flipflops, and we propose ITEM to improve the EXTASEC algorithm. ITEM is an improved evaluation method of fault coverage by analysis of backward lines and uninitializable flipflops. It is expected to perform efficiently for very large circuits where execution time is critical.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제48권9호
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• pp.1161-1166
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• 1999

Delay testing has become highlighted in the field of digital circuits as the speed and the density of the circuits improve greatly. However, delay faults in sequential circuits cannot be detected easily due to the existence of state registers. To overcome this difficulty a new scan filp-flop is devised which can be used for both stuck-at testing and delay testing. In addition, the new scan flip-flop can be applied to both the existing functional justification method and the newly-developed reverse functional justification method which uses scan flip-flops as storing the second test patterns rather than the first test patterns. Experimental results on ISCAS 89 benchmark circuits show that the number of testable paths can be increased by about 10% on the average.

• 센서학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2014

Silicon PIN diode radiation sensors and CMOS readout circuits were designed and fabricated in this study. The PIN diodes were fabricated using a 380-${\mu}m$-thick 4-inch n+ Si (111) wafer containing a $2-k{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ n- thin epitaxial layer. CMOS readout circuits employed the driving and signal processes in a radiation sensor were mixed with digital logic and analog input circuits. The primary functions of readout circuits are amplification of sensor signals and the generation of the alarm signals when radiation events occur. The radiation sensors and CMOS readout circuits were fabricated in the Institute of Semiconductor Fusion Technology (ISFT) semiconductor fabrication facilities located in Kyungpook National University. The performance of the readout circuit combined with the Si PIN diode sensor was demonstrated.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1299-1310
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• 1992

최근에, 디지탈 데이터 전송을 위한 수신기 타이밍 검출 회로의 디지탈화에 관한 관심이 점점 증가하고 있다. 타이밍 검출 회로의 디지탈화의 결과로 인하여, 타이밍 에러 검출을 위한 새로운 디지탈 알고리즘이 필요하게 된다. 본 논문에서는, 직접 QPSK변조 기법에 적용할 수 있는 Angular Form(AF) Algorithm을 제시하였다. AF Algorithm은 기본적으로 복조된 각 (Detected Angle)과 천이논리표 (Transition Logic Table)등의 개념을 근거로 하여 개발되었다. Gaussian과 Impulsive 잡음을 모델링하여, 이들 두 잡음환경하에서 Monte-Carlo 시뮬레이션을 통하여 알고리즘 성능평가를 하였다. 성능평가 결과, AF Algorithm이 Gardner Algorithm보다 BER, RMS Jitter, S-curve등에서 성능이 개선됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.1260-1270
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• 2007

테스트 기술자들에게 아날로그 회로(또는 혼합신호 회로)의 테스트와 진단은 여전히 어려운 문제여서 이를 해결할 수 있는 효과적인 테스트 방법이 크게 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 time slot specification(TSS) 기반의 내장 전류감지기(Built-in Current Sensor)를 이용한 새로운 아날로그 회로의 테스트 기법을 제안한다. 또한 TSS에 기반 하여 고장 위치를 찾아내고 고장의 종류를 구별해 내는 방법을 제시한다. TSS 기법과 함께 제안하는 내장 전류감지기는 높은 고장 용이도와 높은 고장 검출을 그리고 아날로그 회로내 강고장과 약고장에 대한 높은 진단율을 갖는다. 제안하는 방법에서는 주출력과 전원단자등을 테스트 포인트로 사용하고 전류감지기를 자동 테스트 장치(Automatic Test Equipment)에 구성하므로써 테스트 포인트 선택과정의 복잡도를 줄일 수 있다. 내장 전류 감지기의 디지털 출력은 아날로그 IC 테스트를 위한 내장 디지털 테스트 모듈과 쉽게 연결된다.