Electronic Design

How to Design Very Wide Loop BW High-Performance PLL Frequency Synthesizers (Part 3)

A special technique produces very wide loop BWs in high-frequency PLLs (and hence, indirect (PLL) synthesizers), thereby achieving very low phase noise rivaling that of direct (MMD) synthesizers. A ...
Nature

Delay-Locked Loop Design and Applications

Delay-locked loops (DLLs) are critical components in modern electronic systems, providing robust synchronisation of clock signals in a variety of applications ranging from high-speed communication to ...
EDN

Design a feedback loop compensator for a flyback converter in four steps

Due to their versatility, ease of design, and low cost, flyback converters have become one of the most widely used topologies in power electronics. Its structure derives from one of the three basic ...
EDN

Mixed-Signal Circuits, Part 2: ADC and DAC Dynamics, the w-Domain, and Feedback Loop Design

In Mixed-Signal Circuits, Part 1: From s to z – The Discrete Complex-Frequency Domain, discrete-time analog circuit analysis introduced the z-domain, a simple shortcut from discrete time-domain ...
Machine Design

Closing the Manufacturing Loop (Part 4): Inspection

The final installment in a four-part series article focuses on the inspection phase when using CAD/CAM tools to design a golf putter. CAD/CAM software used for CNC programming and simulation could ...
Electronic Design

How to Design Very Wide Loop BW High-Performance PLL Frequency Synthesizers (Part 1)

This is Part 1 of a three-part series. As modern wireless communications systems (mainly superheterodyne radio transceivers) are now required to deliver higher performance than ever before, they’re ...