• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.72-77
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• 2015

Three-level diode clamped multilevel inverter, generally known as neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter, has an inherent problem causing neutral point (NP) potential variation. Until now, the NP potential problem of variation has been investigated and lots of solutions have also been proposed. This paper presents a neutral point voltage control technology using the anti-windup PI controller and offset technology of PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) to control the variation of NPC 3-phase three-level inverter neutral point voltage. And the proposed algorithm is tested and verified using a PLL (Phase Locked Loop) in order to synchronize the phase voltage from the line voltage of grid. It significantly improves the voltage balancing under a solar fluctuation conditions of the inverter. Experimental results show the good performance and effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.139-142
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• 2018

This work presents a novel architecture of phase locked loop (PLL) with the current compensating scheme to improve phase noise characteristic. The proposed PLL has two charge pumps (CP), main-CP (MCP) and sub-CP (SCP). The smaller SCP current with same time duration but opposite direction of UP/DN MCP current is injected to the loop filter (LF). It suppresses the voltage fluctuation of LF. The PLL has a novel voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) consisting of a voltage controlled resistor (VCR) and the three-stage ring oscillator with latch type delay cells. The VCR linearly converts voltage into current, and the latch type delay cell has short active on-time of transistors. As a result, it improves phase noise characteristic. The proposed PLL has been fabricated with $0.35{\mu}m$ 3.3 V CMOS process. Measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset is -103 dBc/Hz resulting in 3 dBc/Hz phase noise improvement compared to the conventional PLL.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.473-483
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose two LC voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) that improve both phase noise and tuning range. With both 1/f induced low-frequency noise and low-frequency thermal noise around DC or around harmonics suppressed significantly by the employment of a current-current negative feedback (CCNF) loop, the phase noise in the CCNF LC VCO has been improved by about 10 dB at 6 MHz offset compared to the conventional LC VCO. The phase noise of the CCNF VCO was measured as -112 dBc/Hz at 6 MHz offset from 5.5 GHz carrier frequency. Also, we present a bandwidth-enhanced LC VCO whose tuning range has been increased about 250 % by connecting the varactor to the bases of the cross-coupled pair. The phase noise of the bandwidth-enhanced LC-tank VCO has been improved by about 6 dB at 6 MHz offset compared to the conventional LC VCO. The phase noise reduction has been achieved because the DC-decoupling capacitor Cc prevents the output common-mode level from modulating the varactor bias point, and the signal power increases in the LC-tank resonator. The bandwidth-enhanced LC VCO represents a 12 % bandwidth and phase noise of -108 dBc/Hz at 6 MHz offset.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 MOS 트랜지스터가 FN 스트레스에 의해 문턱전압이 이동하는 현상을 이용하여 비교기 회로의 옵셋을 제거하는 방법을 소개하고, 이를 비교기 회로의 성능개선에 적용해 보인 결과를 보인다. 옵셋이 성능을 저하시키는 대표적인 회로인 DRAM의 비트라인 감지증폭기에 적용하여 옵셋을 제거하는 방법을 설명하고, 테스트 회로를 제작 및 측정하는 실험을 통해서 이를 검증한다. 본 방식은 래치구조가 포함된 모든 형태의 비교기에 적용가능하며, 스트레스-패킷이라고 명명한 형태의 스트레스 바이어스 시퀀스를 통해 다양한 초기 옵셋값을 가지는 많은 숫자의 비교기가 동시에 거의 제로 옵셋으로 수렴할 수 있음을 보인다. 또한 이 방법을 비교기 회로에 적용하는데 있어서 고려해야 할 몇 가지 신뢰도 조건에 대해서도 고찰한다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.825-831
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• 2016

In this paper, a transimpedance amplifier based on a new DC offset cancellation (DCOC) method is proposed for WCDMA/LTE applications. The proposed method applies a sample and hold mechanism to the conventional DCOC method with a DC feedback loop. It prevents the removal of information around the DC, so it avoids signal-to-noise ratio degradation. It also reduces area and power consumption. It was designed in a $0.13{\mu}m$ deep n-well CMOS technology and drew a maximum current of 1.58 mA from a 1.2 V supply voltage. It showed a transimpedance gain of $80dB{\Omega}$, an input-referred noise current lower than 0.9 pA/${\surd}$Hz, an out-of-band input-referred 3rd-order intercept point more than 9.5 dBm, and an output DC offset lower than 10 mV. Its area is $0.46mm{\times}0.48mm$.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권6호
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• pp.1108-1114
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• 2016

The cause of failure in the AT feeding system is divided into grounding, short-circuit of feeding circuit and internal faults of the railway substation. Since the fault current is very high, real-time current is detected and the failure must be immediately removed. In this paper, a new DC offset elimination filter that can remove component to decrease in the form of exponential function using low-pass filter was proposed in order to extract the fundamental wave from distorted fault current. In order to confirm the performance of the proposed filter method, AT feeder system was modelled by simulation tool and simulations were performed under various conditions such as fault location, fault resistance and fault voltage phase angle in case of trolley-rail short-circuit fault. When applying the proposed DC-offset removal method, it can be seen that the phase delay and gain error did not appear.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제36C권9호
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• pp.13-19
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 1mW의 낮은 전력소모를 갖는 8-bit 100KSPS CMOS A/D 변환기를 설계, 제작하였다. Cyclic 구조를 갖는 A/D 변환기에서 발생하는 연산증폭기의 시스템적인 offset 전압을 효과적으로 감소시키기 위해, 새로운 시스템적인 offset 전압 제거 기술을 제안하였다. 또한 기존 Gain 증폭기에서 발생하는 오차를 감소시키기 위해 완전 차동 구조의 Gain 증폭기를 설계하였다. 제안된 A/D 변환기는 $0.6{\mu}m$ single-poly triple-metal n-well CMOS 공정을 사용하여 제작되었으며, +3V 단일 공급전압에서 DNL과 INL은 ${\pm}1LSB$ 이내로 측정되었고, 100KHz의 샘플링 주파수에서 43dB의 SNR를 갖는다. 측정된 최대전력소모는 $980{\mu}W$로 나타났다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.216-222
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• 2017

The rotor position of a PM synchronous motor is commonly estimated from the mathematical model for the sensorless control without rotor position sensors. For the magnet flux-based rotor position estimator in the stationary reference frame, the magnet flux estimator for estimating rotor position and speed includes the integrator. The integrator in the magnet flux estimator may accumulate the offset of the current sensors and the voltage drift. This continuous accumulation of the offset may cause the drift and overflow in the integrator, such that the estimated rotor position and speed may fail to track the real rotor position and speed. In this paper, the magnet flux estimator without integrator is proposed to avoid overflow in the integrator. The proposed rotor position and speed estimator based on magnet flux estimator are verified through simulation and experiment.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.909-914
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• 2008

A coupling capacitor voltage transformer(CCVT) is used in an extra or ultra high voltage system to obtain the standard low voltage signal for protection. To avoid the phase angle error between the primary and secondary voltages, a tuning reactor is connected between a capacitor and a voltage transformer. The inductance of the reactor is designed based on the power system frequency. If a fault occurs on the power system, the secondary voltage of the CCVT contains some errors due to a dc offset component and harmonic components resulting from the fault. The errors become severe in the case of a close-in fault. This paper proposes an algorithm for compensating the secondary voltage of a CCVT in the time-domain. From the measured secondary voltage of the CCVT, the secondary and primary currents are obtained; then the voltage across the capacitor and the inductor is calculated and then added to the measured secondary voltage to obtain the correct primary voltage. Test results indicate that the proposed algorithm can compensate the distorted secondary voltage of the CCVT irrespective of the fault distance, the fault inception angle, and the burden of the CCVT.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.2480-2486
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 WCDMA(Wide Code Division Multiple Access) 시스템 사양을 만족시키는 주파수 합성기 블록 중 위상잡음 및 전력소모의 최적 설계가 필요한 저전압 LC-VCO (voltage controlled oscillator)의 설계를 제안 하였다. 최적 설계를 위해 LC-tank의 손실성분을 보상하는 MOS트랜지스터의 전달컨덕턴스와 인덕턴스 평면에 여유이득 라인과 튜닝 범위 라인을 그어 설계 가능한 영역 내에서 위상잡음이 최소가 되는 파라미터 값을 구하였다. 모의실험 결과 위상잡음 특성은 1MHz옵셋에서 -113dBc/Hz였다. 최적 설계된 LC-VCO는 0.25um CMOS 공정을 이용하여 제작되었다. 칩 측정결과 LC-VCO의 위상잡음 특성은 1MHz 옵셋에서 -116dBc/Hz였다. 전력소모는 15mW였으며, Kvco는 370MHz/V였다.