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 …

A Fractional-N Digital MDLL With Background Two-Point DTC Calibration

Q Zhang, S Su, CR Ho… - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a fractional-digital multiplying delay-locked loop (MDLL) that employs a
digital-to-time converter (DTC) to control the reference injection for the fractional-operation …

29.4 A Fractional-N Digital MDLL with Background Two-Point DTC Calibration Achieving-60dBc Fractional Spur

Q Zhang, S Su, CR Ho… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ring oscillator (RO)-based frequency synthesizers enable cost-efficient and scaling-friendly
implementation, but also result in worse phase noise compared to LC-based alternatives …

A DPD/Dither-Free DPLL Based on a Cascaded Fractional Divider and Pseudo-Differential DTCs Achieving a 62.1-dBc Fractional Spur

D Xu, Z Liu, Y Kuai, H Huang, Y Zhang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 7-GHz fractional-N digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) without any
digital pre-distortion (DPD) on the integral nonlinearity (INL) of the digital-to-time converter …

A deep reinforcement learning framework for high-dimensional circuit linearization

C Rong, J Paramesh, LR Carley - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the successes of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in recent years, tasks that require
exploring over long trajectories with limited feedback and searching in high-dimensional …

A 3.2-to-3.8 GHz harmonic-mixer-based dual-feedback fractional-N PLL achieving-65 dBc in-band fractional spur

M Osada, Z Xu, T Iizuka - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A harmonic-mixer-based dual-feedback loop architecture for fractional frequency synthesis
is proposed in this letter. By performing frequency subtraction instead of frequency division …

Digital Phase-Locked Loops: Exploring Different Boundaries

Y Zhang, D Xu, K Okada - IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article examines the research area of digital phase-locked loops (DPLLs), a critical
component in modern electronic systems, from wireless communication devices to RADAR …

A high-pass shaped LMS algorithm based predistortion technique for fractional-N BB-DPLLs

TM Vo - Microelectronics Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we prove that rather than the second-order Δ Σ modulator (DSM) as typically
believed using the first-order one yields a faster convergence for the linear-piecewise …

10.3 A 7GHz Digital PLL with Cascaded Fractional Divider and Pseudo-Differential DTC Achieving-62.1 dBc Fractional Spur and 143.7 fs Integrated Jitter

D Xu, Z Liu, Y Kuai, H Huang, Y Zhang… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern wireless transceivers and FMCW radar systems are demanding stringent
specifications on PLL integrated jitter and spur performance for lower EVM and higher …

A 2.3-3.9 GHz fractional-N frequency synthesizer with charge pump and TDC calibration for reduced reference and fractional spurs

J Jiang, T Yan, D Zhou, AI Karsilayan… - 2021 IEEE Radio …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 2.3-3.9 GHz fractional-N phase locked loop (PLL) with charge pump and a time-to-digital
converter (TDC) based calibration for reference and fractional spurs reduction suitable for …