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FMCW 레이더에서 주파수 램프 신호를 발생시키기 위하여 필요한 타입-3 PLL의 설계 가이드를 제시하였다. 그러기 위해서 개루프 전달함수의 크로스오버 주파수를 1 Hz로 정규화 한 조건에서 Pspice 시뮬레이션을 통하여 폐루프 특성을 비교하였다. 결론적으로 타입-3 PLL의 1) 위상여유는 45도로 하고, 2) 두 개의 영점은 같도록 하며, 3) PLL 차수를 높이기 위한 극점은 개루프 전달함수의 크로스오버 주파수보다 10배 정도 크게 할 것을 권한다.

A design guide to type-3 PLLs for FMCW radars is provided. To do that, the cross-over frequencies of the open-loop transfer functions were normalized to 1 Hz and closed-loop properties were compared through simulations using Pspice. As a result, several guides to design type-3 PLLs were provided: 1) secure 45 degrees of phase margin, 2) locate two zeroes at an identical frequency, and 3) poles may be added to raise order of the PLL at higher frequencies than the cross-over frequency of the open-loop transfer function about ten times.

Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is a three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique that uses the phase information of coherent light. In the reconstruction process of DHM, a narrow region around the positive or negative sideband from the Fourier domain is windowed to avoid noise due to the DC spectrum of the hologram spectrum. However, the limited size of the window also degrades the high-frequency information of the 3D object profile. Although a large window can have more detailed information of the 3D object shape, the noise is increased. To solve this trade-off, we propose phase difference averaging (PDA). The proposed method yields high-frequency information of the specimen while reducing the DC noise. In this paper, we explain the reconstruction algorithm for this method and compare it to various conventional filtering methods including Gaussian, Wiener, average, median, and bilateral filtering methods.

The planetary geartrain can be reduced in size and weight, and has excellent durability since the input torque is divided by the number of planet gears when the power is transmitted. In order to improve its durability, the load sharing among planet gears must be even. However, of the various manufacturing errors possible, the carrier pinhole position error has the greatest influence on load sharing. This study compared and analyzed the load sharing and the gear safety of planetary gears, according to the phase of the carrier pinhole position error. We confirmed that load sharing among the planet gears varied, depending on the phase of the carrier pinhole position error. The mesh load factor is inversely related to the gear safety factor for bending and contact, and affects the durability of the planetary geartrain. Also, in the design of the planetary geartrain, the load sharing among planet gears is directly affected by the carrier pinhole position error and its phase. Therefore, the geometric tolerance must be managed efficiently, which needs to be reflected in the production drawings.

A new hardware compensation method reducing displacement measurement errors, caused by tilt of index scale in moire linear encoders, has been developed. In conventional moire linear encoders, the detectors are aligned perpendicular to the line of moire fringes this structure is very sensitive to an unwanted tilt of the gratings. In this paper, a newly designed grating, called a phase-modulated grating, is developed to compensate for non-orthogonal errors. By using the phase-modulated grating instead of a conventional index, it is possible to reduce non-orthogonal errors of moire linear encoders.

Phase Shifting Profilometry is a method of structured light whose three-dimensional reconstructions are susceptible to error from Gamma distortion. In practice, the luminance nonlinearity caused by the Gamma distortion effect of a digital video projector and a digital camera yields undesired fringe intensity changes, which substantially reduce the measurement accuracy, and while the effects of the Gamma distortion diminish with an increasing number of employed phase-shifting patterns. A Gamma calibration method expressed as Fourier series and binomial series theorem is proposed to reduce the measurement error caused by the Gamma distortion. After Gamma calibration, the Gamma distortion effect is attenuated and the accuracy is enhanced. The linear least square is compensated the phase error of absolute phase still existing after Gamma calibration. To verify the presented method in this paper, a profilometry experimental system is constructed using digital video projector and CCD camera. The experiment results shown that, the Gamma calibration reduce the maximum phase error of absolute phase by 75.0%. After the linear least square compensation, the maximum phase error is only 5.9% of without any Gamma calibration or phase compensation. The reconstruction surface of a complex curve surface is hardly any waviness, which is clearly noted in the reconstruction of the same tested object without any correction or compensation.

This study proposes a method to reduce the phase error of the received signal to detect the object bearing. The phase shift of the received signal occurs due to the multipath of the signal by natural structure or artificial structures. When detecting the direction of the object using radio waves, the phase of the received signal cannot be accurately detected because of the phase bearing error in the object detection direction. The object detection direction estimation depends on the phase difference, antenna installation distance, signal source wavelength, frequency band and bearing angle. This study reduces the error of the phase bearing by using the phase delay of the relative phase difference for the signals incident on the two antennas. Through simulation, we analyzed the object direction detection performance of the proposed method and the existing method. Three targets are detected from the [−15°,0°,15°] direction. The existing method detects the target at [−13°,3°,17°], and the proposed method detects the at [−15°,0°,15°]. As a result of the simulation, the target detection direction of the proposed method is improved by 2 degrees compared to the existing method.

본 논문에서는 Ka-대역 수동위상배열탐색기에 적용할 위상 변위기를 설계하고 제작하여 성능을 확인하였다. 수동위상배열안테나에서 배열소자의 위상을 조절하여 전자 빔 조향을 수행하기 위한 핵심 소자인 위상 변위기를 설계하 여 Ka-대역 1GHz 대역폭내에서 삽입손실 1.5dB이하 위상 오차 10°(RMS)이내의 성능을 확인하였다. 실제 제작을 통해 확인된 성능은 배열합성 이론에 기초한 빔패턴 분석에 적용하여 추가적인 분석을 수행하였다. 검증된 위상 변위기의 최 종 성능이 수동위상배열안테나 빔패턴의 성능 및 지향 오차, 각도 정확도에 미치는 영향성을 분석하여 제안된 위상 변위 기 규격의 유효성을 검증하였다.

In this paper, phase shifter has been designed and manufactured to apply to passive phase array seeker for Ka-band and its performance was confirmed. It was designed as a key element for conducting electric beam steering by adjusting the phase of the array element. Insertion loss of less than 1.5dB and phase accuracy of less than 10°(RMS) in operation bandwidth of 1GHz were checked. The performance identified by the actual fabrication was further analyzed by applying the beam pattern analysis based on the array synthesis theory. The effect of the final performamnce of the proven phase shifter on the performance and pointing error and angular accuracy of the passive phase array antenna beam pattern was analyzed. Then, the validation of the proposed phase shifter has been made.

A Study is presented showing the effect of carrier phase error on the error-rate of a PR shaped SQAM digital radio system. A simple upper bound on the probability of error as a function of phase error is derived and compared to one another. The result is that if carrier phase error is less than 3 there is no serious degradation.

The method to obtain four speckle patterns with relative phase shift of $\pi$/2 by passive devices such as two waveplates and a linear polarizer, and to calculate the phase at each point of the speckle pattern in shearography with a Wollaston prism is described. In this paper, we analyze its potential error sources caused by wave plates.

본 논문은 나노 구조에서 ASIC 표준 라이브러리 셀의 특성에 대하여 전파지연시간 측정의 새로운 설계 방법을 제시하였다. 라이브러리 셀((NOR, AND, XOR 등)에 대한 정확한 시간 정보를 제공함으로서 ASIC 설계 흐름 공정의 시간적 분석을 증진시킬 수 있다. 이러한 분석은 기술 공정에서 반도체 파운드리 팀에게 유용하게 사용할 수 있다. CMOS 소자의 전파지연시간과 SPICE 시뮬레이션 은 트랜지스터 파라미터의 정확도를 예측할 수 있다. 위상오차 축적방법 물리적 실험은 반도체 제조공정($0.11{\mu}m$, GL130SB)으로 실현하였다. 표준 셀 라이브러리에서 전파지연시간은 $10^{-12}$초 단위까지 정확성을 측정할 수 있었다. VLSI STPE를 위한 솔루션은 배치, 시뮬레이션, 그리고 검증에 사용할 수 있다.

This paper describes the design of new method of propagation delay measurement in micro and nanostructures during characterization of ASIC standard library cell. Providing more accuracy timing information about library cell (NOR, AND, XOR, etc.) to the design team we can improve a quality of timing analysis inside of ASIC design flow process. Also, this information could be very useful for semiconductor foundry team to make correction in technology process. By comparison of the propagation delay in the CMOS element and result of analog SPICE simulation, we can make assumptions about accuracy and quality of the transistor's parameters. Physical implementation of phase error accumulation method(PHEAM) can be easy integrated at the same chip as close as possible to the device under test(DUT). It was implemented as digital IP core for semiconductor manufacturing process($0.11{\mu}m$, GL130SB). Specialized method helps to observe the propagation time delay in one element of the standard-cell library with up-to picoseconds accuracy and less. Thus, the special useful solutions for VLSI schematic-to-parameters extraction (STPE), basic cell layout verification, design simulation and verification are announced.

We need two operation modes to obtain the complex hologram without bias and the conjugate image in the modified triangular interferometer (MTI). To solve the problem, we proposed the optimized MTI with one wave plate, which can obtain cosine and sine functions by the combination of one wave plate and one linear polarizer. In the extraction of phase term using the combination of polarization components, the phase error occurs, and we analyzed such potential phase errors in the optimized MTI.

OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 및 SC-CP(Single Carrier with Cyclic Prefix) 방식은 문선 분야에서 각기 각광받고 있으며, 두 방식 모두 주파수 영역에서 효율적인 등화를 수행할 수 있는 장점을 지니고 있다. 무선 채널의 도플러 쉬프트 현상이 수반되는 경우 등화기만으로 온전히 왜곡 보상이 여의치 않을 수 있으며, 이에 따라 위상에러 추적회로와 등화기를 연동시켜 성능 향상을 도모할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 평균위상에러의 효과를 기술하였고, 결정지향 방식의 평균위상 에러 추적회로와 proportional 등화기를 연동한 성능을 설계하였다. 아울러 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 시스템의 성능 저하를 최소화하면서 추적회로의 연산 부담을 줄일 수 있음을 제시하였다.

The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technique and the single carrier with cyclic prefix (SC-CP) scheme are very attractive solutions for wireless applications, being computationally efficient since equalization is performed in the frequency domain. The equalizer could not entirely handle significant mean. Doppler shift. This motivates the use of a phase error tracking loop that operates jointly with the frequency equalizer. This paper describes the effect of the mean phase error and the performance of the proportional equalizer coupled with a phase error tracking loop based on decision-directed method. Furthermore, simulation results show that we can reduce the computational toad of the tracking loop with minimal performance degradation.

Next-generation wireless systems constitute a promising technology, and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided mobile communications can be used to design and simulate a smart and flexible radio environment. We examine the average symbol error probability (ASEP) on an IRS-aided wireless network over a 𝜅-𝜇 fading channel with imperfect phase error. In addition, the ASEP for non-coherent M-ary frequency shift keying, M-ary phase shift keying, and M-ary differential phase shift keying on an IRS-aided wireless network over a 𝜅-𝜇 fading channel are analyzed. Furthermore, exact closed-form mathematical expressions for ASEP across different modulation schemes including ASEP with imperfect phase error are derived. The accuracy of the derived expressions is validated through simulations. The system effectiveness is comprehensively examined, uncovering valuable insights into channel fading values and the number of reflecting components.

We derive the point-spread function of the reconstructed image from a point-source complex hologram, which includes phase error caused by polarization components, in the longitudinal direction of the point-spread function and analyze the effect of the error sources of polarization components having influence on image reconstruction of a point-source complex hologram in incoherent triangular holography.

We synthesize and analyze the optical transfer function(OTF) of the modified triangular interferometer(MTI) using two-pupil synthesis method and we present the optimal MTI, which can obtain any bipolar function by combining a wave plate and a linear polarizer. Also, we analyze its potential phase error sources caused by polarization components.

This paper presents a 5-bit digital step attenuator (DSA) using a commercial 0.18-${\mu}m$ silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process for the wideband phased array antenna. Both low insertion loss and low root mean square (RMS) phase error and amplitude error are achieved employing two attenuation topologies of the switched path attenuator and the switched T-type attenuator. The attenuation coverage of 31 dB with a least significant bit of 1 dB is achieved at DC to 20 GHz. The RMS phase error and amplitude error are less than $2.5^{\circ}$ and less than 0.5 dB, respectively. The measured insertion loss of the reference state is less than 5.5 dB at 10 GHz. The input return loss and output return loss are each less than 12 dB at DC to 20 GHz. The current consumption is nearly zero with a voltage supply of 1.8 V. The chip size is $0.93mm{\times}0.68mm$, including pads. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a low phase error DC-to-20-GHz SOI DSA.

본 논문은 Doherty 증폭기의 높은 효율을 유지하면서 선형성을 개선하기 위해 아날로그 전치왜곡기를 가진 Doherty 증폭기를 보여준다. 3차 전치왜곡기는 전치왜곡기와 Doherty 증폭기에서 3차와 5차 혼변조 성분이 이루는 위상차를 같게 만들어 3차뿐만 아니라 5차 혼변조 왜곡신호를 동시에 상쇄시킨다. 이것은 전치왜곡기에서 위상조절 왜곡발생기를 이용하여 3차와 5차의 위상차를 독립적으로 조절함으로서 이루어진다. 또한, 간단하고 정확한 위상 측정 장치를 이용하여 왜곡발생기의 위상조절 능력을 실험적으로 확인한다. 실험적인 검증을 위해, 3차 전치왜곡기는 2.11-2.17 GHz의 WCDMA 대역에서 180-W Doherty 증폭기와 구현된다. 투톤 실험결과는 3차와 5차 혼변조 왜곡성분이 크게 상쇄될 수 있음을 보여준다. 또한, 4-carrier WCDMA 응용에서도 넓은 출력 범위에서 상당한 ACLR이 개선된다. 이 기법은 간단한 구조, 작은 크기, 세 가지의 조절 파라미터 때문에 가격 효율적이며 편리하다.

This paper represents a Doherty amplifier (DPA) with analog predistorter (PD) to improve the linearity of the DPA while preserving the high efficiency. A third-order PD cancels fifth-order intermodulation (IM5) as well as third-order intermodulation (IM3) components by their same phase difference in the PD and DPA. This is accomplished by independently controlling their phase by using the phase-controlled error generator in the PD. Also, we confirm the phase-control ability of the error generator experimentally with a simple and accurate phase measurement setup. For experimental verification, a third-order PD has been implemented and tested in a 180-W DPA at the wide-band code division multiple access (WCDMA) band of 2.11-2.17 GHz. Two-tone test results show that significant cancellation of IM3 and IM5 components can be obtained. For four-carrier WCDMA applications, significant adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) improvement is achieved over a wide range of output power levels. This technique is cost-effective and convenient due to its simple structure, compact size, and three control parameters.

In this paper, simple compensation methods for the current measurement errors due to the scaling gain error of the current sensor and non-simultaneous sampling error are proposed for three-phase inverter applications. The scaling error can be compensated offline simply by turning of one phase of the inverter. The error compensation methods for the non-simultaneous sampling error are proposed according to the number of sample and hold (S/H) circuits in the current sensor and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). When a low-cost ADC with a few S/H circuits is used, it can be divided into three cases and compensated through a simple calculation formula. The effectiveness of the proposed compensation methods is verified through simulations and experiments.

It is important to know phase offsets of PN(Pseudo Noise) sequences in spread spectrum communications since the acquisition is equivalent to making a phase offset between a receiving PN sequence and a PN sequence of local PN generator be identical. In this paper, a phase offset enumeration method for PN sequences with error detection, and its application to the synchronization are proposed. The phase offset enumeration for an n-tuple PN sequence and its error detection are performed when one period of the sequence is received. Once the phase offset of the receiving sequence is calculated, we can easily accomplish the synchronization by initializing shift registers of a local PN generator according to the phase offset value. The mean acquisition time performance of the proposed scheme was derived analytically. Since this synchronization scheme can be realized by using simple circuit and acquires very rapid acquisition in high SNR but shows performance degradation in low SNR, it can be especially useful in indoor and office environments.