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Hyun-Wook Kang - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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This paper presents a power and area efficient architecture for the Internet of Things (IoT) and biomedical sensor read-out applications. The architecture adopts step-wise charging to support voltage stacking power delivery solution for digital processors. MSB floating decision scheme with bottom-plate sampling is adopted for low power and reduced decision error. The errors from floating decision ...Show More
This paper presents a two-way time-interleaved (TI) 12-b 270-MS/s successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a virtual-timing-reference timing-skew calibration scheme, in which the timing-skew calibration spurs present in conventional calibration schemes are effectively suppressed with the deferred reference sampling edge. The proposed design runs in a true back...Show More
A single-channel 10b pipelined SAR ADC with a gm-cell residue amplifier and a current-mode fine SAR ADC achieves a 500MS/s conversion rate in a 28nm CMOS process under a 1.0 V supply. With background offset and gain calibration, the prototype ADC achieves an SNDR of 56.6dB at Nyquist. With power consumption of 6mW, it obtains a FoM of 21.7fJ/conversion-step.Show More
This paper presents an asynchronous SAR-assisted time-interleaved SAR (SATI-SAR) ADC as a suitable architecture in a low-supply-voltage condition. Settling-While-Conversion enabled by the Assist-ADC relaxes the DAC settling time requirement and makes it possible to insert a minimized capacitor shuffling logic with no speed penalty. A proposed gain-boosting dynamic pre-amplifier enhances the noise ...Show More
A background timing-mismatch calibration algorithm is proposed, which detects and corrects the sampling time mismatches in time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC) channels by analyzing the sign-equality of a reference slope and a timing-mismatch-induced error value. The sign of the ideal derivative along the input is estimated through the adjacent channel outputs, thus not requiring an ...Show More
A 6-bit full-binary compact and low-power current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC) designed for 60-GHz Wireless Personal Area Network applications is presented. The closely located circuit components based on the stacked unit cell minimize the parasitic capacitance and enhance the high-frequency dynamic linearity. The proposed binary structure realizes a compact DAC by eliminating the ne...Show More
With the growing interest in time-interleaved (TI) structures, the conversion rates of ADCs have greatly improved, which has inevitably increased power consumption. Despite the advantages of TI structures, power consumption is increased due to the stricter matching requirements between channels; in some cases, >50% of total power is for calibration purposes. Thus, to realize high-speed and high-re...Show More
A compact decision-error-tolerant 2b/cycle SAR ADC architecture is presented. Two DACs with different designated functions, SIG-DAC and REF-DAC, are implemented to make the structure compact and to eliminate the sampling skew issue. Use of a nonbinary decision scheme with decision redundancies not only increases the ADC speed with a relaxed DAC settling requirement but also makes the performance r...Show More
This paper proposes a replica-driving technique that can be applied to implement low-power high-performance switched-capacitor (SC) amplifiers. The reduced swing range problem arising from the output-stage source-follower is resolved by a simple SC level shifter, without additional supply or static buffer. The output driving capability is enhanced by using a capacitively-controlled class-AB output...Show More
By taking advantage of the merits of the low power consumption and hardware simplicity of SAR ADCs, 2b/cycle conversion structures in SAR ADCs have been actively studied in recent years for enhanced conversion rates and excellent FoM [1-3]. However, many error sources in the 2b/cycle SAR ADCs, such as mismatches between DACs and comparators, and the signal-dependent errors from comparators, namely...Show More
Organic vapor-jet printing, a maskless direct printing method, is used to fabricate high-performance pentacene thin-film transistors. By combining the optimal carrier gas temperature and the surface treatment of gate dielectrics, a mobility of 0.46 (±0.03) cm2 V-1 s-1 and an on-off ratio greater than 107 are achieved. Morphological analyses indicate that the relatively high carrier gas temperature...Show More
A computational simulation is carried out with the Carreau model to explore the non-Newtonian behavior of ink for gravure-offset printing. The volume of fluid (VOF) model is adopted to demonstrate the stretching and breakup behaviors of ink. The results indicate that the ink transfer ratio is much influenced by contact angle especially by the contact angle of upper plate (¿). The ink transfer of n...Show More
Micro-abrasive jet machining (mu-AJM) has become a useful technique for micro-machining of a brittle material such as glass, silicon, etc. This technology is mainly based on the erosion of a mask which protects substrate against high velocity of micro-particles. Generally, for the fabrication of a mask in the mu-AJM process, a photomask based on the semi-conductor fabrication process was used. In ...Show More