Electronic Design

Phase-Noise Modeling, Simulation, and Propagation in Phase-Locked Loops (Part 2)

Some brief theory and typical measurements of phase noise. Standard analysis of PLL phase noise used by most CAD applications. How to produce the lowest phase noise at a PLL output. A standard design ...
Electronic Design

Driving the VCO in High-Voltage, High-Frequency Phase-Locked Loops

A phase-locked loop (PLL) is a feedback system that combines a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and a phase detector in such a way that the oscillator signal tracks an applied frequency or ...
Design-Reuse

Fully Digital Implemented Phase Locked Loop

One of the most challenging tasks in analog circuit design is to adapt a functional block to ever new CMOS process technology. For digital circuits the number of gates per square mm approx. doubles ...
EDN

Delay- and phase-locked loops becoming reusable IP

San Mateo, Calif. – Phase-locked and delay-locked loops are becoming increasingly important weapons in the system-on-chip design arsenal, but PLLs and DLLs are notorious for their difficulty. Now, ...
EDN

FPGA-Based DPLL Approach Delivers Wide-Lock Range

While analog phase-lock loops (PLLs) still have a home in communication equipment, there is a clear shift in the sector toward implementing digital PLLs (DPLLs) in comm ASIC designs. For example, in ...
Nature

Radiation-Hardened Phase-Locked Loop Circuits

Radiation-hardened phase-locked loop (PLL) circuits represent a critical advancement in safeguarding electronic systems against the deleterious effects of ionising radiation. These circuits are ...