A 28-nm 75-fsrms Analog Fractional- Sampling PLL With a Highly Linear DTC Incorporating Background DTC Gain Calibration and Reference Clock Duty Cycle …

W Wu, CW Yao, K Godbole, R Ni… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An analog fractional-sampling phase-locked loop (PLL) is presented. It achieves 75-fs rms
jitter, integrated from 10 kHz to 10 MHz, and a− 249.7-dB figure of merit (FoM) at the …

A 14-nm Ultra-Low Jitter Fractional-N PLL Using a DTC Range Reduction Technique and a Reconfigurable Dual-Core VCO

W Wu, CW Yao, C Guo, PY Chiang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a 6-GHz low-jitter and high figure-of-merit (FoM) fractional-phase-locked
loop (PLL). It uses a digital-to-time converter (DTC)-based sampling PLL architecture. To …

Insights into architectural spurs in high performance fractional-N frequency synthesizers

MP Kennedy, X Lu, X Wang - IEEE Open Journal of the Solid …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fractional-N frequency synthesizer inherently exhibits spurs by virtue of the fact that its
output frequency is not an integer multiple of its reference frequency. Until recently, it …

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 …

Timely: Pushing data movements and interfaces in pim accelerators towards local and in time domain

W Li, P Xu, Y Zhao, H Li, Y Xie… - 2020 ACM/IEEE 47th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resistive-random-access-memory (ReRAM) based processing-in-memory (R2PIM)
accelerators show promise in bridging the gap between Internet of Thing devices' …

Linearized Analysis and Quantization Error Minimization for Mid-Rise TDCs: A Tutorial

X Wang, MP Kennedy - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mid-rise time-to-digital converter (TDC), eg, a binary (bang-bang) phase detector and
other few-bit TDCs, is commonly used as the phase detector (PD) in a digital phase locked …

A Fractional-N Sub-Sampling PLL using a Pipelined Phase-Interpolator With an FoM of -250 dB

AT Narayanan, M Katsuragi, K Kimura… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fractional-N sub-sampling PLL architecture based on pipelined phase-interpolator and
Digital-to-Time-Converter (DTC) is presented in this paper. The combination of pipelined …

A 3.7 mW low-noise wide-bandwidth 4.5 GHz digital fractional-N PLL using time amplifier-based TDC

A Elkholy, T Anand, WS Choi, A Elshazly… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A digital fractional-N PLL that employs a high resolution TDC and a truly ΔΣ fractional divider
to achieve low in-band noise with a wide bandwidth is presented. The fractional divider …

A 23-GHz low-phase-noise digital bang–bang PLL for fast triangular and sawtooth chirp modulation

D Cherniak, L Grimaldi, L Bertulessi… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a 23-GHz digital bang-bang phase-locked loop (PLL) fabricated in 65-
nm CMOS for millimeter-wave frequency-modulated continuous-wave radars. The presented …

A high-linearity digital-to-time converter technique: Constant-slope charging

JZ Ru, C Palattella, P Geraedts… - IEEE journal of solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A digital-to-time converter (DTC) controls time delay by a digital code, which is useful, for
example, in a sampling oscilloscope, fractional-N PLL, or time-interleaved ADC. This paper …