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본 논문은 지그비(ZigBee) 응용을 위한 2.4 GHz CMOS RF 프론트-엔드(front-end) 설계에 관한 기술이다. Front-End는 저잡음 증폭기(LNA), 주파수 변환기(Mixer)로 구성 되며, 2 MHz의 중간 주파수 (IF : intermediate frequency)를 사용 한다. LNA는 피드백저항을 사용한 Common-Source(CS with resistive feedback) 구조와 축퇴(degeneration) 인덕터를 사용 하였고, 20db의 전압 이득을 디지털신호로 조절할 수 있다. Mixer는 저전류 소모를 고려하여 수동(passive) 구조로 설계하였다. RF front-end는 $0.18{\mu}m$ 1P6M CMOS 공정을 이용하여 구현하였으며 1.8V의 전압으로부터 3.28 mA의 전류 소모를 하며 측정 결과 NF는 4.44 dB, IIP3는 -6.5 dBm을 만족시킨다.

A 2.4 GHz CMOS RF front-end using for ZigBee application is described The front-end consists of a low noise amplifier and a down-mixer and uses a 2 MHz IF frequency. A common source with resistive feedback and an inductive degeneration are adopted for a low noise amplifier, and a 20 dB gain control step is digitally controlled. A passive mixer for low current consumption is employed. The RF front-end is implemented in 0.18 ${\mu}m$IP6M CMOS process. The measured performance is 4.44 dB NF and -6.5 dBm IIP3 while consuming 3.28 mA current from a 1.8 V supply.

본 논문은 1P8M CMOS $0.13{\mu}m$ 공정을 이용하여 GPS응용에 적합한 프론트-엔드(front-end)를 구현하였다. 저잡음 증폭기(LNA)는 능동 안테나와 수동 안테나를 지원하기 위해 높은 전압이득과 낮은 잡음지수(Noise Figure)의 LNA1모드와 낮은 이득과 높은 입력 3차 교차점(IIP3: 3rd Input Intercept Point)의 LNA2모드로 동작한다. 두 LNA의 측정된 성능은 1.2 V의 공급전압에서 각각 3.2/2 mA의 전류를 이용하여 16.4/13.8 dB 이득과, 1.4/1.68 dB NF, 그리고 -8/-4.4 dBm의 IIP3값을 갖는다. 쿼드 하향주파수 혼합기(quadrature downconversion 혼합기)는 트랜스임피던스 증폭기(transimpedance amplifier)와 가변저항을 이용하여 27.5 dB에서 41 dB의 변환이득을 갖는다. 프론트-엔드는 LNA1모드 동작 시 6.6 mW의 전력을 소모하여 39.8 dB의 변환이득, 2.2 dB의 잡음지수와 -33.4 dBm의 IIP3의 성능을 갖는다.

The CMOS RF front-end for Global Positioning System(GPS)are implemented in 1P8M CMOS $0.13{\mu}m$ process. The LNAs consist of LNA1 with high gain and low NF, and LNA2 with low gain and high IIP3 for supporting operation with active and passive antenna. the measured performances of both LNAs are 16.4/13.8 dB gain, 1.4/1.68 dB NF, and -8/-4.4 dBm IIP3 with 3.2/2 mA form 1.2 V supply, respectively. The quadrature downconversion mixer is followed by transimpedance amplifier with gain controllability from 27.5 to 41 dB. The front-end performances in LNA1 mode are 39.8 dB conversion gain, 2.2 dB NF, and -33.4 dBm IIP3 with 6.6 mW power consumption.

본 논문에서는 Hybrid RF기반 CMOS 카메라를 이용한 피부질환 모니터링 시스템 개발에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. Hybrid RF통신 기반 CMOS 카메라를 이용한 영상 전송 기법에 대하여 제시하였으며, 이와 더불어 CMOS 카메라를 이용한 피부질환 모니터링을 위한 원격 모니터링이 가능한 스마트폰 App을 개발하였다. Hybrid RF통신방식을 이용한 영상전송방식은 WiFi통신방식을 적용하여 CMOS 카메라로부터 취득된 영상 정보를 스마트폰 App을 통하여 모니터링할 수 있도록 구성하였다. 피부질환 모니터링 스마트폰 APP은 WiFi통신방식을 이용하여 언제 어디서나 원격 모니터링이 가능하다. 본 논문에서 제안한 Hybrid RF통신기반 CMOS 카메라 를 이용한 피부질환 모니터링 시스템은 내시경 응용 활용 사례로서 널리 활용될 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

In this paper, we proceeded a study on the Hybrid RF based development of the smart phone Application skin disease monitoring using CMOS camera. we proposed an image transfer technology which can use the CMOS camera and we developed the smart phone application which can be possible to use a remote monitoring for skin disease. Image transfer technology using Hybrid RF communication applied for WiFi using CMOS camera. We implemented the function which can use a remote monitoring using Wi-Fi. These suggestion can be a good example for endoscopic applications using hybrid RF based smart phone application of skin disease monitoring using CMOS camera.

In this paper, a Quadrature Voltage Controlled Oscillator of a wireless transceiver operating in the 5GHz UNII band of the wireless LAN 802.11a standard was proposed. In addition, a new structure of low-noise, low-power Quadrature Coupled VCO was proposed using the quadrature phase output as an input to the switching current source. If this structure is applied to other circuits such as a structure in which the current source is separated or a common use of a current source, a phase noise characteristic of 17 dB better than the existing VCO can be obtained. In particular, it is designed to operate with low power in a simple structure compared to the existing in-phase QVCO. The circuit was designed to operate with a supply voltage of 1.2V by the TSMC 0.13μm RF CMOS process. The measured VCO has a large tuning range of 20% operating at frequencies of 4.5 - 5.6 GHz, and phase noise of -117 dBc/Hz or less was obtained at the 1 MHz offset. The output phase error of the proposed QVCO was less than 0.5 degrees, and the total power consumption was able to obtain 5.3 mW at 1.2V.

This manuscript presents the designing and investigative aspects of a low power, wide frequency range, and delay cell based 3 and 5-stage ring oscillator for RF-Ultra-Wide-Band application. The wide range of frequency is achieved by using two variable voltage sources i.e. control voltage source (Vcntrl) and tail current source (Vtail). A tail current improvement is responsible to control the charging and discharging time of oscillator. Moreover, the push-pull configuration is also used to attain high frequency. In addition, the proposed work presents the effect of control voltage and tail current source on the oscillator frequency. This work establishes a relation between oscillator frequency and its power consumption. This work also gives a comparison between 3-stage and 5-stage ring oscillator. The circuit is implemented in 180 nm CMOS process provided by TSMC. The designed oscillator is measured to cover a frequency range of 1.3 – 5.7 GHz for 3-stage and 1.99 – 3.12 GHz for 5-stage ring oscillator. The simulated circuit draws 0.510 mW of average power for 3-stage ring oscillator and 0.719 mW average power for 5-stage ring oscillator.

Gate length dependent data of intrinsic MOSFET equivalent circuit parameters are extracted using a direct extraction technique based on simple 2-port parameter equations. The relatively scalable data with respect to gate length are obtained. These data are verified to be acrurate by observing good correspondence between modeled and measured S-parameters up to 30GHz. These data will be helpful to construct RF scalable MOSFET model.

The substrate parameters of Si MOSFET equivalent circuit model were directly extracted from measured S-Parameters in the GHz region by using simple 2-port parameter equations. Using the above extract ion method, bias and gate length dependent curves of substrate parameters in the RF region are obtained by varying drain voltage at several short channel devices with various gate lengths. These extract ion data will greatly contribute to scalable RF nonlinear substrate modeling.

본 논문에서는 자동 이득 제어 회로를 이용한 와이드 다이나믹 레인지 RF root-mean-square (RMS) 전력 검출기를 소개한다. 제안하는 자동 이득 제어는 voltage gain amplifier (VGA), RMS 변환 블록, 이득 조절 블록으로 구성되어 있다. VGA는 dB-linear한 이득 관계를 갖는 캐스코드 VGA를 사용하였다. 제안하는 RMS 변환은 입력 신호 전 파장의 제곱 변환을 이용하여 RMS에 비례하는 DC 전압을 출력한다. 제안하는 RMS 전력 검출기는 500MHz에서 5GHz에서 작동하며 검출 범위는 0 dBm에서 -70dBm 이상의 신호를 -4.53 mV/dBm의 비율로 검출한다. 제안하는 RMS 전력 검출기는 TSMC 65nm 공정을 사용하여 설계되었으며 1.2V에서 5mW의 전력소비를 갖는다. 칩 레이아웃 면적은 $0.0097mm^2$이다.

This paper presents a wide dynamic range radio-frequency (RF) root-mean-square (RMS) power detector using an automatic gain control (AGC) loop. The AGC loop consists of a variable gain amplifier (VGA), RMS conversion block and gain control block. The VGA exploits dB-linear gain characteristic of the cascade VGA. The proposed circuit utilizes full-wave squaring and generates a DC voltage proportional to the RMS of an input RF signal. The proposed RMS power detector operates from 500MHz to 5GHz. The detecting input signal range is from 0 dBm to -70 dBm or more with a conversion gain of -4.53 mV/dBm. The proposed RMS power detector is designed in a 65-nm 1.2-V CMOS process, and dissipates a power of 5 mW. The total active area is $0.0097mm^2$.

CMOS 트랜지스터의 등가회로모델 파라미터 $C_{gs}$ 의 예측방법이 CMOS 트랜지스의 반전층내의 유동전하량 계산과 전하유도 특성에 의해 제안되었다. 이 $C_{gs}$ 파라미터는 MOS 트랜지스터의 RF대역의 차단주파수를 결정하고 또한 입력과 출력을 커플링 시키는 중요한 파라미터이다. 이 제안된 방법은 등가회로 모델에서 파라미터 값을 예측하고 파라미터 값을 추출하는 소프트웨어 개발에 기여할 것이다.

The prediction method of the parameter C/sub gs/ of CMOS transistor is proposed by calculating the mobil charge in inversion layer of COMS transistor. This parameter C/sub gs/ decided on the cutoff frequency in MOS transistor in RF range and coupled input and output. This parameter C/sub gs/ in RF range is very important parameter in small signal circuit model. This proposed method is contributed to developing software of extracting parameter value in equivalent circuit model. The method provide the important information to construct a RF nonlinear model for multifinger gate MOSFET. This method will be very valuable to develop a large signal MOSFET model for nonlinear RF IC design.

A CMOS RF bandpass amplifier which performs both functions of low-noise amplifier and bandpass filter is designed for the application of 1.9 ㎓ RF front-end in wireless receivers. The positive-feedback Q-enhancement technique is used to overcome the low gain and low Q factor of the bandpass amplifier. The designed bandpass amplifier is simulated with HSPICE and fabricated using HYUNDAI $0.8\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS 2-poly 2-metal full custom process. Under 3 V supply voltage, results of simulation show that the CMOS bandpass amplifier provides the power gain 23dB, noise figure 3.8 dB, and power dissipation 55mW.

본 논문에서는 RF CMOS 180-nm 공정을 이용하여 무선 통신 기기에서 quad-band를 지원하기 위한 전력 증폭기를 설계하였다. 제안한 전력증폭기는 low-band인 0.9,1.8,2.4 GHz 와 high-band인 5 GHz 로 구성되어있으며, 각각 입력 정합회로에서는 스위치를 사용하지 않는 구조를 제안하였다. 그리고 최대 선형 전력 확보를 위해 출력 정합회로는 각 주파수 대역에서의 전력 정합지점으로 임피던스 변환을 진행하였다. 제안한 전력증폭기는 무선 통신 변조 신호를 사용하여 검증하였다. Long-term evolution(LTE) 10 MHz 변조 신호를 이용하여 0.9 GHz 및 1.8 GHz 를 측정하였으며, 이때 출력 전력은 각각 23.55 dBm 및 24.23 dBm으로 측정 되었고, 20 MHz 변조 신호를 사용한 경우, 1.8 GHz에서 출력 전력 22.24 dBm 이 측정되었다. Wireless local area network(WLAN) 802.11n 변조 신호를 이용하여 2.4 GHz 및 5.0 GHz 대역을 측정하였으며, 출력 전력은 20.58 dBm 및 17.7 dBm으로 확인되었다.

In this paper, we design a power amplifier to support quad-band in wireless communication devices using RF CMOS 180-nm process. The proposed power amplifier consists of low-band 0.9, 1.8, and 2.4 GHz and high-band 5 GHz. We proposed a structure that can support each input matching network without using a switch. For maximum linear output power, the output matching network was designed for impedance conversion to the power matching point. The fabricated quad-band power amplifier was verified using modulation signals. The long-term evolution(LTE) 10 MHz modulated signal was used for 0.9 and 1.8 GHz, and the measured output power is 23.55 and 24.23 dBm, respectively. The LTE 20 MHz modulated signal was used for 1.8 GHz, and the measured output power is 22.24 dBm. The wireless local area network(WLAN) 802.11n modulated signal was used for 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz. We obtain maximum linear output power of 20.58 dBm at 2.4 GHz and 17.7 dBm at 5.0 GHz.

High resistivity(HR) silicon-on-insulator(SOI) 웨이퍼에 존재하는 낮은 parasitic conduction 저항 효과를 반영한 RF CMOS 표준형 인덕터 등가회로를 제시하고 정확한 주파수 종속 quality factor 모델링을 수행하였다. 이러한 parasitic conduction 저항과 oxide capacitance의 변화에 따른 주파수 종속 quality factor에 대한 영향을 시뮬레이션 및 이론 방정식을 통하여 자세히 분석하였다. 이 분석 결과로부터 quality factor의 최대값과 그때의 주파수가 parasitic conduction 저항의 감소에 따라서 증가하지만, 공진 주파수는 parasitic conduction 저항의 영향이 거의 없는 것을 알 수 있다.

A RF CMOS standard inductor equivalent circuit considering the low parasitic conduction resistance effect in high resistivity(HR) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers is proposed and accurate frequency-dependent quality factor modeling has been performed. The effects of the frequency dependent quality factor on the parasitic conduction resistance and the oxide capacitance are analyzed in detail through simulation and theoretical equations. From this analysis, it is found that a peak value of the quality factor and the frequency at the peak increase with decreasing the parasitic conduction resistance, but the resonant frequency is hardly affected by the parasitic conduction resistance.

High resistivity(HR) silicon-on-insulator(SOI) RF CMOS 공정 인덕터의 모델 파라미터를 정확히 결정하기 위하여 직접추출과 simultaneous optimization을 사용한 개선된 방법을 개발하였다. 먼저, 대칭형 인덕터와 센터탭이 접지된 대칭형 인덕터 등가회로들의 Y 및 Z-파라미터 방정식 유도를 통해 일부 모델 파라미터들을 직접 추출하고, 병렬 저항과 전체 인덕턴스 방정식들로 미지 변수들을 줄여 모델링 정확도를 향상시켰다. 또한, 두 등가회로의 동일한 모델 파라미터들을 공통 변수로 두고 S-파라미터 데이터 세트를 동시에 optimization함으로써 optimization 정확도를 크게 향상시켰다.

An improved method based on direct extraction and simultaneous optimization is developed to determine model parameters of symmetric inductors fabricated by the high resistivity(HR) silicon-on-insulator(SOI) RF CMOS process. In order to improve modeling accuracy, several model parameters are directly extracted by Y and Z-parameter equations derived from two equivalent circuits of symmetric inductor and grounded center-tap one, and the number of unknown parameters is reduced using parallel resistance and total inductance equations. In order to improve optimization accuracy, two sets of measured S-parameters are simultaneously optimized while same model parameters in two equivalent circuits are set to common variables.

A CMOS power amplifier for IMT-2000 is designed with 0.25-${\mu}m$ CMOS technology. This amplifier circuits consist of two cascode stages. Used cascode structure has good reverse isolation. These amplifier circuits consist of two stages which are driver stage and power amplification stage. The designed power amplifier is simulated with ADS using 0.25-${\mu}m$ CMOS library at 3.3 V power supply. Simulation results indicate that the amplifier has a PAE of 39 % and power gain of 24 dBm at 1.95 GHz.

This paper describes a RF Down-Conversion Mixer for mobile communication systems. This circuit achieves low voltage operation and low power consumption by reducing stacked devices of conventional gilbert cell mixer. In order to reduce stacked devices, we use source-follower structure. The proposed RF Down-Conversion mixer operates up to 1.85GHz at 1.5V power supply with 0.25um CMOS technology and consumes 2.2mA.

A 900 71Hz RF band-pass amplifier for wireless communication systems is designed and fabricated. HSPICE simulation results show that the amplifier can achieve a tunable center frequency between 880 MHz and 920 MHz. The gain of designed amplifier is 19 dB at Q=88, and the power dissipation is about 61 mW under 3 V power supply by using the spiral inductor with negative-7m circuit and center frequency tunning circuit. The designed band-pass amplifier is implemented by using 0.6 um 2-poly-3-metal standard CMOS process.

A CMOS 950 MHz frequency synthesizer is designed and fabricated in a 0.8.mu.m standard CMOS process for IS-95-A CDMA mobile communication transceivers To utilize a CMOS ring VCO in a CDMA wireless communication receisver, we employed a QDC (quasi-direct conversion) receiver architecture for CDMA applications. Realized RF frequency synthesizer used as the RF local oscillator for a QDC receiver exhibits a phase noise of -92 dBc/Hz at 885kHz offset from the 950.4 MHz carrier, which complies with IS-95-A CDMA specification. It has a rms jitter of 23.7 ps, and draws 30mA from a 5V supply. Measured I/Q phase error of the 950.4 output signals is 0.7 degree.

본 논문에서는 868/915 MHz 대역의 CMOS ZigBee RF 송수신기를 설계, 제작하였다. 무스위치 정합 네트워크를 이용하여 외부 스위치를 사용하지 않아 저가격화 실현이 가능하게 하였고, 스위치의 삽입 손실을 없애 RF 수신기의 잡음지수와 송신기의 출력전력 대비 전력소모에 이득을 가져올 수 있었다. 수신기는 저잡음 증폭기와 믹서, 기저대역 아날로그 회로로 구성되었고, 송신기는 기저대역 아날로그 회로, 믹서, 드라이버 증폭기로 구성되었으며, 주파수 합성기는 정수분주기 구조이다. 제안된 ZigBee RF 송수신기는 $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정 기술을 이용하여 단일칩 full transceiver 형태로 설계, 제작하었다. 측정 결과, 수신기의 최대 이득은 97.6 dB이고, 잡음지수는 6.8 dB이다. 수신 모드의 전류소모는 32 mA, 송신 모드의 전류소모는 33 mA이다.

This paper presents a 868/915 MHz CMOS RF transceiver for the ZigBee application. Using a switchless matching network, the off chip switch is removed to achieve the low cost RF transceiver, and by the elimination of the switch's insertion loss we can achieve the benefits for the RF receiver's noise figure and transmitter's power efficiency at the given output power. The receiver is composed of low-noise amplifier, mixer, and baseband analog(BBA) circuit. The transmitter is composed of BBA, mixer, and driver amplifier. And, the integer N type frequency synthesizer is designed. The proposed ZigBee RF full transceiver is implemented on the $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. Measurement results show that the maximum gain and the noise figure of the receiver are 97.6 dB and 6.8 dB, respectively. The receiver consumes 32 mA in the receiver mode and the transmitter 33 mA in the transmission mode.