Delta-Sigma FDC Enhancements for FDC-Based Digital Fractional-N PLLs
Delta-Sigma FDC Enhancements for FDC-Based Digital Fractional-N PLLs
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针对基于 FDC 的数字分数 N PLL 的 Delta-Sigma FDC 增强功能
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2021
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I. Galton
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作者:
Enrique Alvarez;Amr I. Eissa;Eslam Helal;Colin Weltin;I. Galton
This paper describes all-digital enhancements for digital fractional-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${N}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> phase-locked loops (PLLs) based on delta-sigma (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Delta Sigma $ </tex-math></inline-formula>) frequency-to-digital converters (FDCs). The enhancements include an improved dual-mode ring oscillator (DMRO)-based <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Delta Sigma $ </tex-math></inline-formula> FDC architecture and a digital background calibration technique that compensates for the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Delta Sigma $ </tex-math></inline-formula> FDC’s forward path gain error. The improved <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Delta Sigma $ </tex-math></inline-formula> FDC has significantly relaxed timing constraints and a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3 imes $ </tex-math></inline-formula> smaller phase-frequency detector output pulse-width span relative to the prior art, which make it simpler to implement and amenable to higher-frequency reference signals. The calibration technique compensates for non-ideal DMRO frequencies in the digital domain. It eliminates the need to tune the DMRO instantaneous frequencies as a function of the PLL output frequency, thereby simplifying the DMRO implementation, and it also improves the phase noise performance of PLLs with high loop bandwidths.