Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Chang-Jun Oh

Won-Chul Song

Jong-Ryul Lee

Jong-Kee Kwon

Ook Kim

Kyung-Soo Kim

Hae-Wook Choi

Bang-Sup Song

Gyu-Dong Kim

The present invention discloses a mixer using a replica voltage-current converter, and more particularly a mixer using the replica voltage-current (V-I) converter of the present invention, which feedbacks the output current of the replica voltage-current converter using an additional amplifier so as to improve the linearity thereof by the gain of the amplifier because the conventional mixer operating at a high speed dissipates a lot of electrical power to have low output impedance.

Mixer using replica voltage-current converter

A CMOS offset trimming circuit and offset generation circuit for obtaining the corrected optimum offset value for correcting the offset generated in the CMOS analog circuit. An offset trimming circuit comprises a flip-flop for loading a data to be used for obtaining an optimum offset value or a data to be trimmed according to an input clock, a fuse circuit for setting the circuit with a corrected optimum offset value obtained in a corresponding mode by receiving the data loaded on the flip-flop and the mode selection signal as an input signal, and a selection logic circuit for outputting a selected signal as a trimming output signal by selecting one from the group consisting of the data loaded on the flip-flop and the data output from the fuse circuit according to the operation mode.

CMOS offset trimming circuit and offset generation circuit

An integrated circuit built-in type power delay circuit which is capable of supplying a stable supply power to each circuit of the integrated circuit by generating a supply power control signal voltage after a predetermined time. The circuit includes a receiving unit for receiving a supply voltage VDD and charging the same, a supplying unit for supplying a current, an inverting unit for inverting an output value from the charging unit, a switching unit controlled in accordance with an output value from the inverting unit for switching an output from the current supply unit, a current regenerating unit for receiving a control of the switching unit and discharging an output value from the charging unit, an electric potential value conversion unit controlled by an output value from the inverting unit for converting an output value from the charging unit into a low level, and a buffering unit for receiving an output value from the inverting unit for buffering the output value and outputting a non-inverted signal.

Integrated circuit built-in type supply power delay circuit

A voltage control oscillation circuit for a CMOS which is capable of reducing phase noise and power consumption by adapting a voltage amplitude control loop and a common mode feedback circuit to a conventional LC-tank circuit. The circuit includes an LC-tank oscillation unit for outputting an oscillation voltage, an output common mode feedback unit for receiving an output from the LC-tank oscillation unit and eliminating a common mode noise of the output, and a voltage amplitude control unit for controlling a bias current of the LC-tank oscillation unit in accordance with a voltage difference at both ends of an LC-tank oscillation terminal which voltage is applied thereto through the output common mode feedback unit, for thus controlling the amount of an oscillation voltage.

Voltage control oscillation circuit using CMOS

A capacitor type voltage divider circuit is disclosed. The divider has a plurality of reference voltage signals applied from an external source. A plurality of switching sections are provided for switching the reference voltage signals from the source in response to first and second clock signals. A plurality of dividing sections are provided which are each comprised of two capacitors for dividing the voltage signals from the switching section into a predetermined value. With the dividing circuit, precise levels of reference voltage signals are obtained and power consumption is low without an increase in size or lowering of operational speed.

Capacitor voltage divider circuit

Disclosed is a low power-consumption type comparator circuit having two input terminals for receiving two input signals, one of which is an input reference signal and the other of which is an input comparison signal, and two output terminals, the circuit comprising signal converting portion for converting the input signals into current signals, respectively; switching portion for controlling transmission of the current signals to output terminals of the circuit in response to a latch signal indicating a latch operation or a normal operation of the circuit; high level holding portion for maintaining each voltage level of the output terminals to a logical high-state only when the latch operation of the circuit is not performed; amplifying/determining portion for amplifying the current signals and determining logical level of the input comparison signal; and output feedback portion for receiving output signals of the output terminals and enabling to make a current flowing in the circuit to a zero-state, only while the circuit is at the latch operation. Since a current-consumption is at a zero-state during the normal operation of the comparator circuit, the comparator circuit has a low power-consumption characteristic.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Chang-Jun Oh