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A 3.5–6.8-GHz Wide-Bandwidth DTC-Assisted Fractional-N All-Digital PLL With a MASH <span class="MathJax_Preview" style="">\Delta \Sigma </span><script type="math/tex" id="MathJax-Element-1">\Delta \Sigma </script> -TDC for Low In-Band Phase Noise | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore

A 3.5–6.8-GHz Wide-Bandwidth DTC-Assisted Fractional-N All-Digital PLL With a MASH \Delta \Sigma -TDC for Low In-Band Phase Noise


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This paper proposes a digital-to-time converter (DTC)-assisted fractional-N wide-bandwidth all-digital phaselocked loop (ADPLL) with a fine-resolution time-to-digital con...Show More

Abstract:

This paper proposes a digital-to-time converter (DTC)-assisted fractional-N wide-bandwidth all-digital phaselocked loop (ADPLL) with a fine-resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC). The TDC employs a two-channel time-interleaved time-domain register with an implicit adder/subtractor realizing an error-feedback topology. Such an error-feedback unit of a first-order ΔΣ-TDC can be cascaded as a multi-stage noise shaping configuration to achieve higher-order noise-shaping and, thereby, low in-band phase noise (PN) of the ADPLL. A digitally controlled oscillator with a transformer and a pair of cross-coupled NMOS amplifiers exploits magnetic and capacitive coupling to achieve nearly an octave frequency coverage, i.e., 1.73-3.38 GHz (after a ÷2 division). Fabricated in 40-nm CMOS, the ADPLL achieves better than -110-dBc/Hz in-band PN and occupies an active area of 0.5 mm2. With a 50-MHz reference clock, a 2-GHz output RF clock, and a loop bandwidth of 800 kHz, this prototype achieves 420-fsrms jitter, integrated from 1-kHz to 30-MHz offset, while drawing 10.7 mW.
Published in: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits ( Volume: 52, Issue: 7, July 2017)
Page(s): 1885 - 1903
Date of Publication: 02 May 2017

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