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A wide band fractional-N digital PLL with a noise shaping 2-D time to digital converter for LTE-A applications

Mahmoud, Ahmed LU ; Andreani, Pietro LU and Lu, Ping LU (2016) In Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing 89(2). p.337-345
Abstract

A wide band fractional-N digital PLL which uses a high resolution 2-dimension gated-Vernier time-to-digital converter (TDC) with 5.2 ps resolution is presented. The quantization noise shaping of the TDC greatly improves the in-band phase noise. While, in the same time, the 2-dimension structure makes the digital PLL (DPLL) be able to process large phase errors almost without the influence of latency time. Combined with a high figure-of-merit (FOM) class-D digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) and digital ΣΔ quantization noise cancellation based least mean square (LMS) algorithm, the DPLL achieves -110dBc/Hz and -140dBc/Hz for in-band and 10 MHz-offset phase noise, respectively, with carrier frequency of 3.5 GHz and 1 MHz bandwidth. The... (More)

A wide band fractional-N digital PLL which uses a high resolution 2-dimension gated-Vernier time-to-digital converter (TDC) with 5.2 ps resolution is presented. The quantization noise shaping of the TDC greatly improves the in-band phase noise. While, in the same time, the 2-dimension structure makes the digital PLL (DPLL) be able to process large phase errors almost without the influence of latency time. Combined with a high figure-of-merit (FOM) class-D digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) and digital ΣΔ quantization noise cancellation based least mean square (LMS) algorithm, the DPLL achieves -110dBc/Hz and -140dBc/Hz for in-band and 10 MHz-offset phase noise, respectively, with carrier frequency of 3.5 GHz and 1 MHz bandwidth. The digital PLL is simulated in a 65 nm CMOS process, consuming 11.2 mW from a 1.0 V supply.

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2-dimension, Cancellation, Class-D, DPLL, Gated, LMS, Noise shaping, Quantization noise, TDC, Vernier
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Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
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89
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2
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9 pages
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Springer
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0925-1030
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10.1007/s10470-016-0786-1
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English
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  author       = {{Mahmoud, Ahmed and Andreani, Pietro and Lu, Ping}},
  issn         = {{0925-1030}},
  keywords     = {{2-dimension; Cancellation; Class-D; DPLL; Gated; LMS; Noise shaping; Quantization noise; TDC; Vernier}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{337--345}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing}},
  title        = {{A wide band fractional-N digital PLL with a noise shaping 2-D time to digital converter for LTE-A applications}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10470-016-0786-1}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/s10470-016-0786-1}},
  volume       = {{89}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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