Chang-Wan Kim et al. 437 A CMOS frequency synthesizer block for multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultrawideband systems is proposed. The proposed frequency synthesizer adopts a double-conversion architecture for simplicity and to mitigate spur suppression requirements for out-of-band interferers in 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Moreover, the frequency synthesizer can consist of the f...

A low-noise phase modulator, using finite-impulse-response (FIR) filtering embedded delta-sigma (ΔΣ) fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL), is fabricated in 0.18 μ m CMOS for GSM/EDGE polar transmitters. A simplified digital compensation filter with inverse-FIR and -PLL features is proposed to trade off the transmitter noise and linearity. Experimental results show that the presented architectur...

A fully integrated system-in-package (SiP) for UHF (860– 960MHz) RFID mobile reader is presented. The SiP is made up of an UHF transceiver, a power amplifier (PA), and two baluns. The UHF transceiver was designed in TSMC 0.18μm Si CMOS and the PA was developed with InGaP/GaAs hetero-junction-bipolar transistor (HBT) technology. The transceiver IC is fully integrated for mobile UHF RFID applicat...

This paper presents a fully integrated frequency synthesizer for a dual-mode GPS and Compass receiver fabricated in a 0.13 m CMOS technology. The frequency synthesizer is implemented with an on-chip symmetric inductor and an on-chip loop filter. A capacitance multiplying approach is proposed in the on-chip loop filter design for area-saving consideration. Pulse-swallow topology with a multistag...

The approach known as Design by Contract (DbC) [23] promotes reliable software development through elaboration of type signatures for sequential programs with logical formulae. This paper presents an assertion method which generalises the notion of DbC to multiparty distributed interactions, enabling the specification and verification of distributed multiparty protocols, based on the π-calculus...

Individual change and variation in emotional/behavioral disturbance in children and adolescents with intellectual disability has received little empirical investigation. Based on 11 years of longitudinal data from the Australian Child to Adult Development Study, we report associations among individual differences in level, rate of change, and occasion-specific variation across subscales of the ...

A radiation-hardened 12-bit non-linear DAC was designed and fabricated on Honeywell’s 0.35 μm MOI5 SOI CMOS process. The non-linear DAC allows a significant reduction in complexity and power dissipation when used within direct digital frequency synthesizers (DDFSs). The non-linear DAC implements a 32-segement piecewise linear approximation to sine function reducing the ROM look-up table size fr...

In this study, DNA block copolymer (DBC) micelles with a polystyrene (PS) core and a single-stranded (ss) DNA shell were doped with ferrocene (Fc) molecules. Tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to study the morphology of the doped and undoped block copolymer aggregates. We show that introducing Fc molecules into the hydrophobic core does not affect the structural properties such...

The number of dendrites and the total length of dendrites in the epidermal melanocytes positive for the dopa reaction were shown to increase when newborn mice were injected with alpha-MSH or DBc-AMP. Moreover, both indices of the degree of dendritogenesis increased when skin explants of newborn mice were cultured in medium containing alpha-MSH or DBc-AMP. Electron-microscopic observation showed...

This paper reports a K-band voltage-controlled oscillator based on room-temperature ferroelectric varactors. The circuit is realised as a hybrid module where flip-chip transistors are mounted on a silicon substrate with integrated ferroelectric varactors and passive circuitry. The size of the module is 4.7×2.2 mm. The measured centre frequency is 16.5 GHz with a linear tunability of 6.7% and an...