• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.715-720
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• 2012

This study presents a hybrid balanced voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit which is suitable for low phase noise operation at sub-1V supply voltages. Half circuits of the proposed VCO use the varactor-integrated feedback capacitors in their respective circuit. The varactor-integrated feedback capacitors further increase the negative resistance of the equivalent tank thereby ensuring stable start-up of oscillation even at the sub-1V supply voltage. In addition, this work theoretically analyses the phenomenon of the increase of the negative resistance. Simulation results using a $0.18{\mu}m$ RF CMOS technology exhibit the phase noises of -122.4 to -125.5.8 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from oscillation frequency of 4.87 GHz over the supply voltages of 0.6 through 0.9 V.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.269-281
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• 2014

In this paper, a systematic design of a low phase noise voltage-tuned dielectric resonator oscillator(VTDRO) using loop group delay is proposed. Designed VTDRO is closed-loop type and consists of a cascade connection of a resonator, phase shifter, and amplifier. Firstly, a reference VTDRO is fabricated and its phase noise and electrical frequency tuning range are measured. Both the phase noise and electrical frequency tuning range depend on the loop group delay. Then, a required value of loop group delay for a new VTDRO with a low phase noise can be systematically computed. In addition, its phase noise and electrical frequency tuning range can be theoretically estimated using those obtained from the measurement of the reference VTDRO. When the loop group delay increases, the phase noise decreases and the electrical frequency tuning range also decreases. The former predominantly depends on the resonator structure. Therefore we propose a systematic design procedure of a resonator with high group delay characteristics. The measured loop group delay of the new VTDRO is about 700 nsec. The measured phase noise of the new VTDRO show a state-of-the-art performance of 154.5 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz frequency offset and electrical frequency tuning range of 448 kHz for a voltage change of 0~10V. The oscillation power is about 4.39 dBm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.80-87
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• 2013

A novel instrumentation amplifier(IA) using positive polarity current-conveyor(CCII+) for electronic measurement systems with low cost, wideband, and gain control with wide range is designed. The IA consists of two CCII+, three resistor, and an operational amplifier(op-amp). The principal of the operating is that the difference of two input voltages applied into two CCII+ used voltage and current follower converts into same currents, and then these current drive resistor of (+) terminal and feedback resistor of op-amp to obtain output voltage. To verify operating principal of the IA, we designed the CCII+ and used commercial op-amp LF356. Simulation results show that voltage follower used CCII+ has offset voltage of 0.21mV at linear range of ${\pm}$4V. The IA had wide gain range from -20dB to 60dB by variation of only one resistor and -3dB frequency for the gain of 60dB was 400kHz. The IA also has merits without matching of external resistor and controllable offset voltage using the other resistor. The power dissipation of the IA is 130mW at supply voltage of ${\pm}$5V.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.67-74
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• 2017

This study proposes a novel random pulse-width modulation (PWM) technique with a constant switching frequency utilizing a random offset voltage. The proposed PWM technique spreads switching harmonics by varying the position of an active voltage vector without a switching frequency variation. The implementation of the proposed PWM technique is simple because it does not require additional hardware and complex algorithm. The proposed random PWM technique is compared with the conventional PWM technique on the factors of harmonic spectrum, total harmonic distortion, and harmonic spread factor to confirm the harmonic spread effect. The validity of the proposed method is verified by simulations and experiments on a three-phase inverter drive system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.84-85
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• 2008

In this paper, differential cross coupled LC VCOs with two noise frequency filtering techniques are proposed. Both VCOs are based on symmetric capacitor with asymmetric inductor tank structure. The VCO using low pass filtering technique shows low phase noise of -130.40 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset when the center frequency is 1.619 GHz. And the other VCO using band pass filtering technique shows -127.93 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency when center frequency is 1.604 GHz. Two noise frequency filtering techniques are approached with different target.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.13-18
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• 2010

This work proposes and characterizes switched-capacitor type cyclic digital-to-analog converter for display data driving. The proposed digital-to-analog converter composes simple structure, and can be implemented for low-power, small area display driver ICs. By circuit level simulations, it is verified that the op-amp input referred offset is attenuated at the DAC output and the circuit performance is robust at 0.5% of capacitor mismatch.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.380-384
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• 1993

In precision wire electrode discharge machining by CAD/CAM, it is the most important problem on machining method to determine the wire electrode offset amout from the accurate calculation of discharge gap in order to increase the machining accuracy, after fixing the main machining conditions such as machining speed, wire tension, coolant conductivity, gap vlotage. The present study shows the relationships between discharge gap and main machining conditions by means of a series of experiment concerned with the gap using the workpiece of STD 11, and suggests the experimental eguation to calculate the accurate wire electrode offset amount under the given machining conditions for spot workers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.235-238
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• 2001

단일 단말기로부터 멀티 통신이 가능하게 됨에 따라 광대역 또는 듀얼대역에서 사용되는 RF 소자 개발이 중요시되고 있다. 그러므로 소형, 저 비용의 멀티대역 VCO(Voltage Controlled Oscillator)개발이 요구된다. 본 논문에서 GSM/DCN 대역에서 사용 가능한 듀얼밴드 VCO을 설계하였다. 하나의 발진부, 듀얼 공진부, 완충증폭기, 스위치회로로 구성되었으며, 위상 보정 기법을 이용하여 각 밴드에 대한 발진 조건을 만족시키므로 사용 부품의 수를 줄일 수 있어 저 비용, 소형화, 낮은 위상잡음(phase noise)을 얻을 수 있다. 설계된 듀얼 VCO는 GSM 대역에서 -110dBc/Hz(100kHz offset) 이하의 위상 잡음과 DCN 대역에서 -108dBc/Hz(100kHz offset)의 위상 특성을 보인다. 출력전력은 0$\pm$3dBm이며 소비전력 7mA로 만족할만한 성능을 보인다.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.39-43
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• 2015

NDIR (Non-dispersive infrared Rays) alcohol sensor has been prototyped and its temperature characteristics were measured. In order to design novel optical alcohol sensor, elliptical structures with one common foci were modeled and analyzed their optical properties. After analyzing elliptic optical structures, a prototype alcohol sensor module was tested according to the temperature variations from $-20^{\circ}C$ to $35^{\circ}C$. The offset voltages of alcohol sensor decreased from 1.1056 V at the temperature $-20^{\circ}C$ to 0.7339 V at $35^{\circ}C$. However, the highest sensitivity of alcohol sensor showed about $303{\mu}V/ppm$ at room temperature.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.5-12
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• 2005

In wire discharge machining which is using STD 11 as die materials, the major factors of machining speed are discharge voltage, discharge current, and discharge time. All of the three factors give the effect. Increasing of the discharge pulse time gets groove width wider and it relatively increases surface roughness and clearance. If no load voltage is decreased, surface roughness is good but it decreases machining speed. If on time is increased, machining speed will get faster and clearance and offset value also get bigger.