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Low-noise wide-bandwidth phase-domain all-digital fractional-n phase-locked loop /

Kareem Ramadan Mahmoud Rashed

Low-noise wide-bandwidth phase-domain all-digital fractional-n phase-locked loop / حلقة مقفلة الطور كسرية طورية رقمية بالكامل ذات ضوضاء منخفضة ونطاق واسع Kareem Ramadan Mahmoud Rashed ; Supervised Ahmed Nader Mohieldin , Faisal Abdellatif Hussien - Cairo : Kareem Ramadan Mahmoud Rashed , 2020 - 112 P . : charts ; 30cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Electronics and Communications

In this thesis, an ADPLL that employs a high-resolution TDC and a highlinearity DTC to achieve low in-band phase noise and spurs with wide bandwidth and low power consumption is presented. The TDC/DTC set is implemented in TSMC-40nm CMOS process. A time-amplifier based TDC (TA-TDC) is utilized to achieve a sub-gate delay resolution of 3.2 pS. The TA-TDC achieves an integral nonlinearity (INL) less than 0.5 LSB and power consumption of 108 uW. A constant-slope DTC (CS-DTC) that leverages the concept of charge redistribution is proposed. The CS-DTC achieves 0.3 LSB INL. Consequently, a fractional spur of level better than -48 dBc/Hz is expected at the PLL output. The DTC achieves 1.7 pSrms integrated jitter which dominates the in-band phase noise of the PLL. The CS-DTC consumes only 8 uA from 1.1 V supply. The PLL was able to achieve 1.44 MHz bandwidth at 2.5 GHz output frequency using 50 MHz reference. The PLL achieves better than -106 dBc/Hz in-band phase noise which translates to an integrated RMS-jitter of 682 fS



All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop (ADPLL) Low Power Wide Bandwidth