Benchmark figure of merit extensions for low jitter phase locked loops inspired by new PLL architectures

W Bae - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A conventional figure-of-merit (FOM) for a phase-locked loop (PLL) has served as the most
powerful indicator to compare and to normalize performance of different PLL designs …

Multichannel, low nonlinearity time-to-digital converters based on 20 and 28 nm FPGAs

H Chen, DDU Li - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents low nonlinearity, compact, and multichannel time-to-digital converters
(TDC) in Xilinx 28 nm Virtex 7 and 20 nm UltraScale field-programmable gate arrays …

4.5 a 9.25 GHz digital PLL with fractional-spur cancellation based on a multi-DTC topology

G Castoro, SM Dartizio, F Tesolin… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The quest of increasingly higher mobile uplink/downlink data-rates has recently driven the
communication industry to set extremely challenging requirements on the integrated jitter of …

Linear CMOS -VCO Based on Triple-Coupled Inductors and Its Application to 40-GHz Phase-Locked Loop

Z Chen, M Wang, JX Chen, WF Liang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A linear CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) utilizing triple-coupled inductors and a 40-
GHz integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL) are fabricated in a standard 90-nm CMOS process …

24.7 A 673µW 1.8-to-2.5 GHz dividerless fractional-N digital PLL with an inherent frequency-capture capability and a phase-dithering spur mitigation for IoT …

Y He, YH Liu, T Kuramochi… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is gaining momentum, and the ultra-low-power (ULP) RF
transceiver is one of the key enablers. Generation of the local oscillator (LO) consumes a …

A 0.5-V 1.6-mW 2.4-GHz fractional-N all-digital PLL for Bluetooth LE with PVT-insensitive TDC using switched-capacitor doubler in 28-nm CMOS

N Pourmousavian, FW Kuo… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) fractional-N all-digital PLL (ADPLL)
powered from a single 0.5-V supply. While its digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) runs …

Low-power MEMS-based pierce oscillator using a 61-MHz capacitive-gap disk resonator

TL Naing, TO Rocheleau, E Alon… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 61-MHz Pierce oscillator constructed in 0.35-μm CMOS technology and referenced to a
polysilicon surface-micromachined capacitive-gap-transduced wineglass disk resonator has …

A 529-μW fractional-N all-digital PLL using TDC gain auto-calibration and an inverse-class-F DCO in 65-nm CMOS

P Chen, X Meng, J Yin, PI Mak… - … on Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an ultra-lower-power (ULP) digital-to-time-converter (DTC)-assisted
fractional-N all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) suitable for IoT applications. A proposed …

A watt-level phase-interleaved multi-subharmonic switching digital power amplifier

A Zhang, MSW Chen - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a multi-subharmonic switching (SHS) digital power amplifier (PA)
architecture for enhancing power back-off (PBO) efficiency while achieving watt-level output …

Fractional-N Digital MDLL With Injection-Error Scrambling and Calibration

Q Zhang, HC Cheng, S Su… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a fractional-digital multiplying delay-locked loop (MDLL) that uses a
digital-to-time converter (DTC) for controlling the reference injection timing to support the …