• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.275-280
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• 2006

We propose Doherty power amplifier structure which can be integrated in Silicon RF ICs. Doherty power amplifiers are widely used in RF transmitters, because of their high Power Added Efficiency (PAE) and good linearity. In this paper, it is proposed that a method to replace the quarter wavelength coupler with IQ up-conversion mixers to achieve 90 degree phase shift, which allows on-chip Doherty amplifier. This idea is implemented and manufactured in CMOS 5 GHz band direct-conversion RF transmitter. We measured a 3dB improvement output RF power and linearity.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.104-109
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• 2009

At a lower supply voltage, voltage-mode drivers draw less current than current-mode drivers. In this paper, we newly propose a voltage-mode driver with an additional current path that reduces the output voltage swing without the need for complicated additional circuitry, compared to conventional voltage-mode drivers. The prototype driver is fabriccated in a 0.13-$^{\mu}m$ CMOS technology and used to transmit data streams at the rate of 2.5 Gb/s. Deemphasis is also implemented for the compensation of channel attenuation. With a 1.2-V supply, it dissipates 8.0 mA for a 400-mV output voltage swing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.209-213
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• 2001

In this paper, we analyzed the radio interference between Bluetooth and Wireless LAN/video transmitter in the 2.4GHz band with Monte-Carlo Method. The simulation results show that it is necessary to limit under 10mW of the Bluetooth power to avoid the harmful interference between Bluetooth and Wireless LAN/video transmitter.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.48-53
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• 2008

Twelve black seabreams (Acanthopagrus schlegeli) were tagged with acoustic transmitters and their movement and behavior patterns were tracked using acoustic telemetry from 12 December 2006 to 15 August 2007. Seven of the 12 fish stayed within 500 m of the release point for over a month. In the spring tide, the number of detected signals and swimming depth of tagged fish changed at 12-hour intervals with the ebb tide. The number of detected signals of tagged fish decreased dramatically with the passage of time and had decreased by over 80% in May 2007, compared with January 2007.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.10A
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• pp.929-934
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• 2006

A scheme to easily upgrade TDM-PON using WDM overlay is proposed. To maintain the colorless characteristics of ONU transmitters, a wavelength-conversion ONU is adopted for each TDM-PON group, where all upstream signals from regular ONUs are adjusted to an assigned wavelength. An implementation scheme for remote node and wavelength conversion node is suggested and the test results are shown.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.610-628
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• 2012

Dual carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) occur in multiple-input single-output (MISO)-mode DVB-T2 systems, where signals are transmitted simultaneously from two distributed transmitters in a single frequency network (SFN). In this paper, we first derive an optimal compensation frequency for dual CFOs. We also propose an algorithm that optimizes the compensation frequency for the MISO-mode DVB-T2 application. Its performance is compared with the conventional scheme by using a full DVB-T2 simulator.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1604-1617
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• 2014

This paper proposes RIX-MAC (Receiver-Initiated X-MAC), a new energy-efficient MAC protocol based on an asynchronous duty cycling. RIX-MAC improves energy efficiency through utilizing short preambles and adopting the receiver-initiated approach, where RIX-MAC minimizes sender nodes' energy consumption by enabling transmitters to predict receiver nodes' wake-up times. It also reduces receiver nodes' energy consumption by decreasing the number of control frames. We use the network simulator to evaluate RIX-MAC's performance. Compared to the prior asynchronous duty cycling approaches of X-MAC and PW-MAC, the proposed protocol shows a remarkable improvement in energy-efficiency and end-to-end delay.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.63-75
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• 2015

The CMOS power amplifier (PA) is a promising solution for highly-integrated transmitters in a single chip. However, the implementation of PAs using the CMOS process is a major challenge because of the inferior characteristics of CMOS devices. This paper focuses on improvements to the efficiency and linearity of CMOS PAs for modern wireless communication systems incorporating high peak-to-average ratio signals. Additionally, an envelope tracking supply modulator is applied to the CMOS PA for further performance improvement. The first approach is enhancing the efficiency by waveform engineering. In the second approach, linearization using adaptive bias circuit and harmonic control for wideband signals is performed. In the third approach, a CMOS PA with dynamic auxiliary circuits is employed in an optimized envelope tracking (ET) operation. Using the proposed techniques, a fully integrated CMOS ET PA achieves competitive performance, suitable for employment in a real system.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.92-100
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose an efficient method to broadcast digital television signals using single frequency networks (SFNs) within the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) transmission systems. In implementing the SFNs of an 8-vestigial side band (8-VSB) Digital Television (DTV) system, the ambiguity problem of the trellis coder is unavoidable in a conventional ATSC transmission system. We propose a memory initialization of the trellis coder to resolve this ambiguity problem. Since the proposed scheme to synchronize multiple transmitters minimizes the changes from the conventional ATSC system, the hardware complexity for these changes is very low. Our simulation results show that the proposed scheme makes a less than 0.1 dB degradation at the threshold of visibility with a bit error rate of $3{\times}10^{-6}$ in the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. It is possible to reduce the performance degradation by increasing the initialization period of the proposed scheme.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.61 no.4
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• pp.234-238
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• 2012

This paper proposes a multiplexed space-frequency block coding (SFBC) technique for single-carrier modulation with frequency domain equalization. Multiplexed space-frequency block coding technique for single-carrier modulation uses multiple groups of two transmitters and suppresses the interference signals of other SFBC groups at the receiver. In this paper, we reconfigure transmit signals to adapt them for multiplexed SFBC for single-carrier modulation with frequency domain equalization and receiver structures and propose a structure for transmitter and receiver, show its performance is better than the traditional algorithm by simulations.