• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.461-465
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• 2010

This paper describes the design method of Time-to-Digital Converter(TDC) to obtain the constant delay time and good reliability. The reliability property is described with delay elements. In TDC the time signal is converted to digital value which is based on delay elements for the time interpolation. To obtain the constant delay time, the first and the last delay elements have different structure compared to the middle delay elements. In the first and the last delay elements, the driving ability could be controlled for the different delay time. The delay element can be designed by analog and digital devices. The delay time of the element using analog devices is not sensitive to process parameters than that of the element using digital devices. And the TDC circuit by the elements using analog devices shows better reliability than that by the elements using digital devices also.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.193-196
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• 2001

For wide locking range, an analog delay locked loop (DLL) was designed with the selective phase inversion scheme and the variable number of delay elements. The number of delay elements was determined adaptively depending on the clock cycle time. During the analog fine locking stage, a self-initializing 3-state phase detector was used to avoid the initial state problem associated with the conventional 3-state phase detector. With these schemes, the locking range of analog DLL was increased by four times compared to the conventional scheme according to the simulation results.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2004

This paper estimated the arrival angle and electric wave delay time using the space method law and the directions of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm in case of signal correlation. Space method law is the method used to repress cross correlation before applying the weight value to the receiving signal. The values of the diagonal elements in the correlation matrix were averaged to replace as the diagonal elements value. In the area of wireless communication or mobile communication, there are high correlations in case of low delay time difference in multiple waves. This causes the quality of the communication to drop due to interference with the desired signal elements. This paper estimated the arrival angle and electric wave delay time using the space method law and the MUSIC algorithm. With the arrival angle algorithm, the arrival angle cannot be estimated below 5 in case of signal correlations because the angle resolution capacity decreases accordingly. The super resolution capacity was estimated to determine the arrival angle below 5 in this paper. In addition, the proposed algorithm estimated the short delay time difference to be below 20ns.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.82-89
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• 2020

탄약내의 화약류 특히, 지연제의 지연시간에 대한 온도의 영향은 우리나라와 같이 연평균 최고최저 온도차가 뚜렷한 환경에서 충분히 존재할 수 있음에도 불구하고 이와 관련한 연구는 아직까지 국내에 보고된 바가 없다. 이에 본 연구는 우리나라 탄약류에 주로 사용되는 Zr/Ni계 지연제에 대해 주변 온도에 따른 연소속도 변화를 실험적으로 확인하였다. 이를 위해, K413 수류탄용 K414 신관에 Zr/Ni계 지연제를 충전하고 우리나라 기상환경을 고려한 주변 온도구간(-40 ℃ ~ 50 ℃)에서 온도변화에 따른 K414 신관의 지연시간 변화를 확인 및 분석하였다. K414 신관의 지연시간은 상기 시험 온도구간 내에서 시험온도를 10 ℃ 씩 변화시켜가며 측정하였고, 측정된 지연시간은 Zr/Ni계 지연제 충전 시에 기록한 지연제의 높이를 이용하여 연소속도로 환산되었다. 시험결과, Zr/Ni계 지연제의 지연시간은 주변 온도가 증가함에 따라 선형적으로 감소하는 경향이 있으며, Zr/Ni계 지연제 온도가 1 ℃ 상승할 때 마다 지연시간이 4.18 ms 감소하고, 연소속도는 2.73 mm/ms 로 빨라진 것으로 분석되었다. 즉, 연평균 최고최저 온도차이가 20 ℃ 이상인 주변 온도 환경에서는 약 80 ms 의 지연시간 차이가 발생하므로, Zr/Ni계 지연제의 시험평가 기준수립 시, 지연제가 노출된 주변 온도 조건을 반영한 지연시간이 고려되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.807-810
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• 1998

This paper presents BIST (Built-in self-test) techniques for detection of path delay faults in digital circuits. In the proosed BIST schemes, the shift registers make possible to concurrently generate and compact the latched test data. Therefore the test time is reduced efficiently. By reordering the elements of th shifte register based on the information of the hamming distance of each memory elements in CUt, it is possible to increase the number of path delay faults detected robustly/non-robustly. Experimental results for ISCAS'89 benchmark circuits show the efficiency of the proposed BIST techniques.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.3057-3075
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• 2020

End-to-end network delay plays an vital role in distributed services. This delay is used to measure QoS (Quality-of-Service). It would be beneficial to know all node-pair delay information, but unfortunately it is not feasible in practice because the use of active probing will cause a quadratic growth in overhead. Alternatively, using the measured network delay to estimate the unknown network delay is an economical method. In this paper, we adopt the state-of-the-art matrix completion technology to better estimate the network delay from limited measurements. Although the number of measurements required for an exact matrix completion is theoretically bounded, it is practically less helpful. Therefore, we propose an online adaptive sampling algorithm to measure network delay in which statistical leverage scores are used to select potential matrix elements. The basic principle behind is to sample the elements with larger leverage scores to keep the traits of important rows or columns in the matrix. The amount of samples is adaptively decided by a proposed stopping condition. Simulation results based on real delay matrix show that compared with the traditional sampling algorithm, our proposed sampling algorithm can provide better performance (smaller estimation error and less convergence pressure) at a lower cost (fewer samples and shorter processing time).

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2019

Typical negative group delay circuits (NGDC) are analyzed in terms of signal attenuation, group delay, and bandwidth using S-parameters. By inverting these formulations, we derive and present the design equations (for NGD circuit elements) for a desired specification of the two among the three parameters. The proposed design method is validated through simulation examples for narrow- and wide-band pulse inputs in the time and frequency domains. Moreover, an NGDC composed of lumped elements is fabricated at 1 GHz for measurement. As a function of frequency, the circuit-/EM-simulated and measured group delays are in good agreement. The provided simple NGDC design equations may be useful for many applications that require compensations of some signal delays.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2015

Compact Network Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) is a method that combines compact RTK and network RTK, and it can effectively reduce the time and spatial de-correlation errors. A network RTK user receives multiple correction information generated from reference stations that constitute a network, calculates correction information that is appropriate for one's own position through a proper combination method, and uses the information for the estimation of the position. This combination method is classified depending on the method for modeling the GPS error elements included in correction information, and the user position accuracy is affected by the accuracy of this modeling. Among the GPS error elements included in correction information, tropospheric delay is generally eliminated using a tropospheric model, and a combination method is then applied. In the case of a tropospheric model, the estimation accuracy varies depending on the meteorological condition, and thus eliminating the tropospheric delay of correction information using a tropospheric model is limited to a certain extent. In this study, correction information modeling accuracy performances were compared focusing on the Low-Order Surface Model (LSM), which models the GPS error elements included in correction information using a low-order surface, and a modified LSM method that considers tropospheric delay characteristics depending on altitude. Both of the two methods model GPS error elements in relation to altitude, but the second method reflects the characteristics of actual tropospheric delay depending on altitude. In this study, the final residual errors of user measurements were compared and analyzed using the correction information generated by the various methods mentioned above. For the performance comparison and analysis, various GPS actual measurement data were collected. The results indicated that the modified LSM method that considers actual tropospheric characteristics showed improved performance in terms of user measurement residual error and position domain residual error.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.550-556
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• 2009

In an application of a time reversal(TR) focusing of array transducer on a defect inside the test material, we employ a new time delay focusing technique based the TR process. In order to realize this idea, a multi-channel ultrasonic system is constructed capable of applying necessary time delays to each channel. The TR-based focusing procedure first measures the backscattered signals after firing one of the array elements. A phase slope method is then used to determine the time-of-flights of the backscattered signals received by all elements of the array. These time delays are used to adjust the time of excitation of the elements for transmission focusing on the defect. In addition to the TR focusing, the classical phased array focusing is also considered for comparison. Experimental results show that the TR-based time delay focusing produces much stronger backscattered signals than the phased array focusing, demonstrating the enhanced capability of the TR focusing.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.207-216
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• 1999

일반적인 하나 또는 두개의 압전소자를 사용하는 트랜스듀서에 비하여 다수의 압전소자를 사용하는 어레이 트랜스듀서는 각 압전소자에 가해지는 펄스의 지연시간을 제어함으로써 초음파 빔을 임의의 지점에 집속시킬 수 있고 기계적 구동없이 임의의 방향으로 조향시켜 실시간 주사를 할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 페이즈드 어레이 트랜스듀서의 설계조건은 압전소자의 수. 압전소자의 크기 그리고 압전소자 사이 간격 등 여러가지가 있으며, 본 연구에서는 그 중에서 압전소자수의 변화에 따른 초음파 빔의 특성을 호이겐스의 원리를 이용한 수평횡파의 시뮬레이션을 통하여 평가하였다. 그 결과 초음파 빔은 조향각이 증가 할수륵 음압이 감소하며, 초음파 빔 특성도 점차적으로 분산됨을 알 수 있었고 또한, 초점거리가 증가할수록 초점에서의 집속효과는 감소하고, 압전소자의 수가 증가되면 집속효과는 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.