A 66-fs-rms Jitter 12.8-to-15.2-GHz Fractional-N Bang–Bang PLL With Digital Frequency-Error Recovery for Fast Locking

A Santiccioli, M Mercandelli, L Bertulessi… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a fractional-N frequency synthesizer architecture that is able to
overcome the limitations of conventional bang-bang phase-locked loops. A digital …

A 0.65-V 12–16-GHz Sub-Sampling PLL With 56.4-fsrms Integrated Jitter and −256.4-dB FoM

Z Zhang, G Zhu, CP Yue - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a low-voltage (LV) sub-sampling phase-locked loop (LVSSPLL). The
architecture of hybrid dual-path loop-based SSPLL is proposed to mitigate the issue of …

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 2.4-GHz reference-sampling phase-locked loop that simultaneously achieves low-noise and low-spur performance

J Sharma, H Krishnaswamy - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dividerless synthesizers such as sub-sampling phase-locked loops (PLLs) and injection-
locked clock multipliers have demonstrated some of the lowest jitters for a given power …

Low-power and low-noise millimeter-wave SSPLL with subsampling lock detector for automatic dividerless frequency acquisition

H Wang, O Momeni - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An 8.8-mW, low-noise, 40.5-GHz frequency synthesizer is proposed. The synthesizer system
consists of a subsampling phase-locked loop (SSPLL) with 100-MHz crystal reference, a …

A sub-mW 2.4-GHz active-mixer-adopted sub-sampling PLL achieving an FoM of− 256 dB

DG Lee, PP Mercier - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An active-mixer-adopted sub-sampling phase-locked loop (AMASS-PLL) is presented that
replaces the passive-mixer-like sample-and-hold switches and charge pump (CP) of a sub …

A Type-I Sub-Sampling PLL With a Footprint and −255-dB FOM

A Sharkia, S Mirabbasi… - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dual-loop LC-voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) based frequency synthesizer, composed
of an all-digital frequency-locked loop (ADFLL) and a voltage-mode, type-I, subsampling …

Reference oversampling PLL achieving− 256-dB FoM and− 78-dBc reference spur

JH Seol, K Choo, D Blaauw… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a low jitter, low power, low reference spur LC oscillator-based reference
oversampling digital phase locked loop (OSPLL). The proposed reference oversampling …

A 12.9-to-15.1-GHz digital PLL based on a bang-bang phase detector with adaptively optimized noise shaping

SM Dartizio, F Tesolin, M Mercandelli… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work introduces a bang-bang fractional-phase-locked loop with quantization noise
shaping that overcomes the classical noise limit of a standard bang-bang phase detector. An …

A 10-mW mm-wave phase-locked loop with improved lock time in 28-nm FD-SOI CMOS

M Abdulaziz, T Forsberg, M Törmänen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a millimeter-wave (mm-wave) phase-locked loop (PLL), with an output
frequency centered at 54.65 GHz. It demonstrates a mode-switching architecture that …