A fully synthesizable all-digital PLL with interpolative phase coupled oscillator, current-output DAC, and fine-resolution digital varactor using gated edge injection …

W Deng, D Yang, T Ueno, T Siriburanon… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fully synthesizable phase-locked loop (PLL) based on injection
locking, with an interpolative phase-coupled oscillator, a current output digital-to-analog …

Benchmark figure of merit extensions for low jitter phase locked loops inspired by new PLL architectures

W Bae - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A conventional figure-of-merit (FOM) for a phase-locked loop (PLL) has served as the most
powerful indicator to compare and to normalize performance of different PLL designs …

Reconfigurable radios: A possible solution to reduce entry costs in wireless phones

M Rais-Zadeh, JT Fox, DD Wentzloff… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With advances in telecommunications, an increasing number of services rely on high data
rate spectrum access. These critical services include banking, telemedicine, and exchange …

A Fully Synthesizable Fractional-N MDLL With Zero-Order Interpolation-Based DTC Nonlinearity Calibration and Two-Step Hybrid Phase Offset Calibration

B Liu, Y Zhang, J Qiu, HC Ngo, W Deng… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a fully-synthesizable digital-to-time (DTC)-based fractional-Nmultiplying delay-
locked loop (MDLL) is presented. Noise and linearity of synthesizable DTCs are analyzed …

A PVT-robust and low-jitter ring-VCO-based injection-locked clock multiplier with a continuous frequency-tracking loop using a replica-delay cell and a dual-edge …

S Choi, S Yoo, Y Lim, J Choi - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-jitter, ring-type voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based injection-locked clock
multiplier (ILCM) with a continuous frequency-tracking loop (FTL) for process …

A Type-I Sub-Sampling PLL With a Footprint and −255-dB FOM

A Sharkia, S Mirabbasi… - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dual-loop LC-voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) based frequency synthesizer, composed
of an all-digital frequency-locked loop (ADFLL) and a voltage-mode, type-I, subsampling …

A 1.7 GHz fractional-N frequency synthesizer based on a multiplying delay-locked loop

S Levantino, G Marucci, G Marzin… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although multiplying delay-locked loops allow clock frequency multiplication with very low
phase noise and jitter, their application has been so far limited to integer-N multiplication …

Time-mode analog-to-digital conversion using standard cells

V Unnikrishnan, M Vesterbacka - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthesizable all-digital ADCs that can be designed, verified and taped out using a digital
design flow are of interest due to a consequent reduction in design cost and an improved …

14.1 A 0.048mm2 3mW synthesizable fractional-N PLL with a soft injection-locking technique

W Deng, D Yang, AT Narayanan… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phase-locked loops (PLLs) are a crucial building block in modern Systems-on-Chip (SoCs),
which contain microprocessors, I/O interfaces, memories, power management, and …

A low-jitter and low-reference-spur ring-VCO-based switched-loop filter PLL using a fast phase-error correction technique

Y Lee, T Seong, S Yoo, J Choi - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-jitter and low-reference-spur ring-type voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based
switched-loop filter (SLF) phase-locked loop (PLL) is presented. To enhance the capability …