EDN

Signal Chain Basics #96: Active Loop Filter Designs

At the heart of a clocking device is the phased-locked loop (PLL). A key part of the PLL is the loop filter, which converts correction currents from the PLL charge pump into a control voltage for the ...
EDN

Phase-Locked Loop Applications

This application note discusses phase frequency detector characteristics that affect phase-locked loop (PLL) dead band and jitter performance. In PLLs that employ charge pump loop filter designs the ...
Electronic Design

Low-Power PLL Targets Short-Range Automotive/Industrial Radar Apps

This article is part of the TechXchange: Automotive Radar. The primary goal of using radar in the automotive industry is to facilitate object detection for cars. Simple continuous-wave radar devices ...
Electronics Weekly

Imec PLL generates FMCW signals for mmWave radar

Imec has come up with a novel digitally calibrated charge-pump (CP) phase-locked loop (PLL) that can generate high-quality frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) signals for mmWave radars at low ...
Electronics Weekly

Analogue or digital in PLL design

The performance of analogue phase-locked loops (PLLs) has steadily improved with operating frequencies extending to 8GHz and beyond. Recently, digital PLLs based on direct digital synthesis (DDS) have ...
Design-Reuse

Analysis and Summary on Clock Generator Circuits and PLL Design

The demand for analog and mixed-signal-based integrated circuits (ICs) has surged due to the increasing reliance on electronic-based applications across industries. As the world transitions to more ...
Design-Reuse

Fully Digital Implemented Phase Locked Loop

One of the most challenging tasks in analog circuit design is to adapt a functional block to ever new CMOS process technology. For digital circuits the number of gates per square mm approx. doubles ...