Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Other

Kwang Chun Lee

Jae Ho Jung

Young Kyun Cho

Gweon Do Jo

Bong Hyuk Park

Hui Dong Lee

Seung Hyun Jang

Joon Hyung Kim

Chang Wahn Yu

Jung Nam Lee

Heon Kook Kwon

Sung Jun Lee

Byung Su Kang

Tae Joong Kim

Young Hoon Kim

Kwang Seon Kim

Moon Sik Lee

Jung Hoon Oh

Sun Woo Kong

Cheol Ho Kim

Jee Hoon Park

A boost direct current-to-direct current (DC-DC) converter using a delta-sigma modulator (DSM), the boost DC-DC converter may comprise a boost driving circuit outputting an output voltage to output terminals by boosting an input voltage, a resistance distribution circuit outputting a feedback voltage by distributing the output voltage of the boost driving circuit, a compensator outputting a compensated feedback voltage by compensating for the feedback voltage outputted by the resistance distribution circuit based on a reference voltage, a delta-sigma modulator outputting a digital signal by modulating the compensated feedback voltage and a duty controller outputting a duty control signal for controlling a switching duty of the boost driving circuit by receiving the output of the delta-sigma modulator.

Boost DC-DC converter using DSM, duty controller for boost DC-DC converter, and method for configuring duty controller

An amplifier may comprise first and second matching networks; first and second transistors; and a transformer including first to third inductors. Also, a gate and a source of the first transistor are connected to the first matching network, one end of the first inductor is connected to a drain of the first transistor, the other end of the first inductor is connected to a source of the second transistor, one end of the second inductor is connected to a gate of the second transistor, the other end of the second inductor is grounded, one end of the third inductor is connected to a drain of the second transistor, and the other end of the third inductor is connected to the second matching network.

Amplifier for reusing current by using transformer and method thereof

Provided is a plasma antenna. The plasma antenna includes a radiation portion formed by stacking a plurality of radiation disks generating plasma based on provided energy and radiating a signal using the generated plasma, an energy generation portion configured to provide the energy to at least one of the plurality of radiation disks, and a signal transmission portion configured to provide the signal to the at least one radiation disk provided with the energy. Therefore, it is possible to support multiple frequency bands.

Plasma antenna

Disclosed is a dual polarization-based small antenna for a mobile communication base station. The dual-polarized antenna includes a substrate, a first feed attached to one surface of the substrate, a second feed spaced apart from the first feed and attached to the one surface of the substrate, a radiator located above the first feed and the second feed, and a spiral resonator located between the first feed and the second feed. The dual-polarized antenna effectively provides a broad bandwidth and a high isolation characteristic while having a reduced size, and the spiral resonator allows the isolation characteristic at a certain narrow band range to be effectively enhanced by adjusting of the position, size, and shape of the spiral resonator without affecting the operating frequency of the dual-polarized antenna.

Dual-polarized antenna for mobile communication base station

There is provided a high frequency transceiver appropriate for ultra low power and high frequency characteristics. The high frequency transmitting device includes a voltage controlled oscillator configured to provide an oscillation signal; and a power amplifier configured to multiply the oscillation signal by an integer to generate a carrier signal, mix the carrier signal and a baseband signal to generate a mixed signal, and amplify power of the mixed signal.

High frequency transceiver

Disclosed is a technique for a transmission apparatus. A method of generating a differential signal includes adding a predetermined offset to an envelope signal to generate a first signal having the same magnitude as the envelope signal with respect to 0, scaling the first signal at a predetermined rate to generate a second signal, changing a sign of the second signal to generate a third signal that is an inverted signal of the second signal, and forming a differential signal using the second signal and the third signal.

Apparatus and method for generating differential signal, and transmission apparatus and method having the same

A lock detector and a clock generator including the same are disclosed. A lock detector includes a counter unit which counts a non-matching section of a first signal and a second signal to provide a count value, the first signal and the second signal being comparison result signals obtained by comparing a phase of a reference signal with a phase of a comparison signal, and a lock detection unit which outputs a lock detection signal based on a result of comparing the count value with the reference value. Accordingly, a lock state of the phase-locked loop can be detected rapidly and exactly.

Lock detecter and clock generator having the same

A delta-sigma modulator and a transmitter apparatus including the same are disclosed. The delta-sigma modulator includes a first integrator, a second integrator, a first comparator configured to compare an output signal of the second integrator and a reference signal, and output a first comparison signal, a second comparator configured to compare the output signal of the second integrator and the reference signal, and output a second comparison signal, a first DAC configured to output the first signal corresponding to the first comparison signal and the second comparison signal, a second DAC configured to output the second signal corresponding to the first comparison signal and the second comparison signal, a delayer configured to generate a delayed signal that delays the first comparison signal and the second comparison signal by a predetermined time, and an output DAC configured to generate an output signal having a multi-level corresponding to the delayed signal.

Delta-sigma modulator and transmitter including the same

Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling a duty ratio of a signal that includes a clock control unit configured to generate a plurality of control signals based on an input signal, a half-cycle generation unit configured to generate a multiplied signal by use of the input signal and a delay signal that is obtained by delaying the input signal based on a delay control voltage, and divide the multiplied signal to generate a first division signal and a second division signal that are in inverse relation to each other, a comparator unit configured to compare a pulse width of the first division signal with a pulse width of the second division signal based on the control signal provided by the clock control unit, and output a delay control signal corresponding to a result of the comparison, and a control voltage generation unit configured to output a delay control voltage.

Apparatus for controlling duty ratio of signal

Disclosed is a bandgap reference voltage generator insensitive to changes of process, voltage, and temperature. A bandgap reference voltage generator may detect current having characteristic of CTAT and current having characteristic of PTAT which flow in a current compensation part included in an amplification part, and provide body voltage to one of two input transistors included in the amplification part in response to ratio of the two currents when the ratio is different from the preconfigured reference value. Thus, characteristics according to changes of parameters of elements and change of offset of the amplification part due to changes of PVT may be enhanced, and a characteristic of power supply rejection ratio (PSRR) may be enhanced.

Bandgap reference voltage generator

Disclosed are a signal distortion component adjusting apparatus and method capable of adjusting error vector magnitude of subcarriers of a predetermined position by adjusting a signal distortion component occurring while decreasing a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in a communication system of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology or an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) scheme, and a system using the same. The present invention includes a signal distortion component adjusting unit to add an additional signal distortion component Pe((n+N/2) % N) to a signal distortion component e(n) that is obtained by subtracting a threshold Th value, set to decrease peak power, from an absolute value of a time domain signal x(n) of an input signal, and to thereby adjust the signal distortion component. The present invention may transmit a highly reliable signal by adjusting error vector magnitude of subcarrier of a frequency domain.

Apparatus and method for controlling distortion signal and system by using the same

The method for transmitting a signal of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing type according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention has a configuration allowing a radio unit (RU) to perform a component adding a compression component and a decompression component before/after a serial interface interlocking between a digital unit (DU) and the radio unit (RU) and a component inserting a cyclic prefix (CP) into a signal so as to secure orthogonality of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, in a structure in which a base station is physically divided into the DU and the RU.

Method for transmitting signal of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing type, and apparatus applied to the same

In a wideband mobile communication system, a signal transmitting apparatus separates an envelope curve signal which is size information and a phase signal which is phase information from a signal to transmit, and compares the envelope curve signal with a predetermined voltage. The signal transmitting apparatus performs active bias control that amplifies and outputs an envelope curve signal according to different driving voltages based on a comparison result, and supplies a bias voltage to a power amplifier that amplifies a phase signal based on the amplified signal.

Bias modulation apparatus, and apparatus and method for transmitting signal for wideband mobile communication using the same

The predistorter may include: a predistortion filter predistorting an input signal to provide an output signal; a predistortion output estimation unit estimating the characteristics of a nonlinear device based on a signal processed by the nonlinear device and the output signal, and calculating a desired output signal of the predistortion filter by using the estimated characteristics of the nonlinear device; and an adaptive algorithm driving unit comparing the output signal with the desired output signal to output an error as a comparison result, calculating a filter coefficient according to which the calculated error is minimized, and providing the calculated filter coefficient to the predistortion filter in order to update a filter coefficient of the predistortion filter.

Predistorter for compensating for nonlinear distortion and method thereof

An apparatus and method of receiving signal are provided. The apparatus includes an amplifier that controls a gain according to a gain control signal and amplifies a received signal to generate an amplified signal, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter that converts the amplified signal into a digital signal, a Fourier transform unit that performs Fourier transform of the digital signal to a frequency domain signal to generate a Fourier transform signal, a demodulator that demodulates the Fourier transform signal to generate a demodulated signal, and an automatic gain control unit that divides the Fourier transform signal into a noise period and a symbol period, calculates the signal level of the noise period based on the signal level of the symbol period, and generates the gain control signal according to the signal levels of the symbol period and the noise period.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Kwang Chun Lee