• Introduction

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  • Research Topics
    • speed-up of phase accumulator
    • reduction of ROM size
      • sine-phase difference algorithm
      • sunderland architecture
      • nicholas architecture
      • taylor series approximation
      • CORDIC algorithm
      • phase truncation
      • quadrant compression
    • reduction of spurious noise
    • proposal of new architecture


  • Participants

    Ph.D. Students

    Yang, Byung-Do

    M.S. Students

    Kim, Byung-Guk

    Oh, Kwang-Il

  • Achivements
    • Published Paper
        1. Byung-Do Yang, and Lee-Sup Kim, A low power charge recycling ROM architecture, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2001.
        2. Byung-Do Yang, Lee-Sup Kim, and Hyun-Kyu Yu, A High Speed Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer Using A Low Power Pipelined Parallel AccumulatorLow Power, ISCAS, to be published in May, 2002.
        3. Youngjoon Kim, Kihyuk Sung, and Lee-Sup Kim, A 1.67 GHz Pipelined Carry-Select Adder Using the Complementary Scheme, ISCAS, to be published in May, 2002.
        4. Byung-Do Yang, Lee-Sup Kim, A ROM Compression Method for continuous data, Custom Integrated Cicuits Conference, to be published in May, 2002.
        5. Byung-Do Yang, Ki-Hyuk Sung, Young-Joon Kim, Lee-Sup Kim, Seon-Ho Han, and Hyun-Kyu Yoo, A Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer Using A New ROM Compression Method, European Solid-State Circuit Conference 2001, Sep. 2001.
        6. Young-Joon Kim, and Lee-Sup Kim, A low power carry select adder with reduced area, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2001.
    • Chip Implementation
        1. Low Power DDFS using Step ROM and Coarse ROM
        2. Charge Recycling ROM
  • Related Sites
    • Organization
      • UFFC
      • http://www.osicom.com/notes/ddstutor.html
    • H/W venders
      • qualcomm
      • http://cobalt.et.tudelft.nl/~wissce/reports/giaco/main_html.html
  • Related Papers
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    • Jouko Vankka, A direct Digital Synthesizer With On-Chip D/A Converter , JSSCC, 1998, February, VOL.33, NO.2
    • Yakihiro Yamagishi 2V 2Ghz Low Power Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer Chip-Set for Wireless Communication , JSSCC, 1998, February, VOL.33, NO.2
    • Madisetti A 100MHz 16b Direct Digital Frequency Systhesizer with a 100dBc Spurious Free Dymamic Range , JSSCC, 1999, August, VOL.34, NO.8
    • Mortezapour Design of Low Power ROM-less direct digital Frequency Synthesizer Using Nonlear Digital-to-Analog Converter , JSSCC, 1999, October, VOL.34, NO.10
    • Glen Chang, A Low Power CMOS Digitally Synthesized 0-13MHz Agile Sinewave Generator , ISSCC94
    • R. Ertl, J. Baier, Increasing the Frequency Resolution of NCO-Systems using a Cicuit based on a Digital Adder , Circuit and Sytems, 1994, March, VOL.43, NO.3
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    • Paul O. Leary, A Direct Digital Synthesizer with Improved Spectral Performance , Communications, 1991, July, VOL.39, NO.7
    • Henry T. Nicolas, A 150MHz Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer in 1.25um CMOS with 90dBc Spurious Performance , JSSCC, 1991, December, VOL.26, NO.12
    • C. McNeilage, Review of Feedback and FeedForward Noise Reduction Techniques , 1998 International Frequency Control Symposium
    • Victor S. ReinHardt, Spur Reduction Techniques in Direct Digital Synthesizers , 1993 International Frequency Control Symposium
    • Qualcomm Asic Prodect
    • Matthew Thompson, Low Latency, High Speed Numerically Controlled Oscillator Using Prograssion-of-States Technique , JSSCC, 1992, January, VOL.27, NO.1
    • A. Rofougaram, A 900MHz CMOS Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum RF Transmitter IC, CICC96