2012 Volume E95.C Issue 2 Pages 297-302
This paper demonstrates a pulse width controlled PLL without using an LPF. A pulse width controlled oscillator accepts the PFD output where its pulse width controls the oscillation frequency. In the pulse width controlled oscillator, the input pulse width is converted into soft thermometer code through a time to soft thermometer code converter and the code controls the ring oscillator frequency. By using this scheme, our PLL realizes LPF-less as well as quantization noise free operation. The prototype chip achieves 60µm×20µm layout area using 65nm CMOS technology along with 1.73ps rms jitter while consuming 2.81mW under a 1.2V supply with 3.125GHz output frequency.