A 28-nm 75-fsrms Analog Fractional- Sampling PLL With a Highly Linear DTC Incorporating Background DTC Gain Calibration and Reference Clock Duty Cycle …

W Wu, CW Yao, K Godbole, R Ni… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An analog fractional-sampling phase-locked loop (PLL) is presented. It achieves 75-fs rms
jitter, integrated from 10 kHz to 10 MHz, and a− 249.7-dB figure of merit (FoM) at the …

Low-jitter frequency generation techniques for 5G communication: A tutorial

W Wu - IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G is the latest global wireless standard, known as the fifth generation of cellular mobile
communication technology. Compared to 4G LTE, 5G increases peak data rates and …

A 66-fs-rms Jitter 12.8-to-15.2-GHz Fractional-N Bang–Bang PLL With Digital Frequency-Error Recovery for Fast Locking

A Santiccioli, M Mercandelli, L Bertulessi… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a fractional-N frequency synthesizer architecture that is able to
overcome the limitations of conventional bang-bang phase-locked loops. A digital …

Analysis and Design of an Ultra-Low-Power Bluetooth Low-Energy Transmitter With Ring Oscillator-Based ADPLL and 4 Frequency Edge Combiner

X Chen, J Breiholz, FB Yahya, CJ Lukas… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an all-digital ring oscillator (RO)-based Bluetooth low-energy (BLE)
transmitter (TX) for ultra-low-power radios in short range Internet-of-Things (IoT) …

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 …

A 265- W Fractional- Digital PLL With Seamless Automatic Switching Sub-Sampling/Sampling Feedback Path and Duty-Cycled Frequency-Locked Loop in 65 …

H Liu, Z Sun, H Huang, W Deng… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a fractional-N digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) that achieves a 265-
μW ultra-lowpower operation. The proposed switching feedback can seamlessly change the …

A Sub-mW Fractional- ADPLL With FOM of −246 dB for IoT Applications

H Liu, D Tang, Z Sun, W Deng… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a sub-mW fractional-N all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) with
scalable power consumption, which achieves an figure of merit (FOM) of-246 dB. The …

4.3 A 76.7 fs-lntegrated-Jitter and− 71.9 dBc In-Band Fractional-Spur Bang-Bang Digital PLL Based on an Inverse-Constant-Slope DTC and FCW Subtractive …

SM Dartizio, F Tesolin, G Castoro… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultra-low-jitter and high-spectral-purity frequency synthesizers are key building blocks for
high-performance wireless transceivers and FMCW radars. A bang-bang PLL(BBPLL) is an …

A 31- W, 148-fs Step, 9-bit Capacitor-DAC-Based Constant-Slope Digital-to-Time Converter in 28-nm CMOS

P Chen, F Zhang, Z Zong, S Hu… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a power-efficient highly linear capacitor-array-based digital-to-time
converter (DTC) using a charge redistribution constant-slope approach. A fringe-capacitor …

A 10-bit 563-fs step constant-slope digital-to-time converter in 40-nm CMOS with nonlinearity cancellation and range extension techniques

Y Liu, H Gao, H Xu, P Lu, N Yan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a power-efficient constant-slope digital-to-time converter (DTC) with
embedded nonlinearity cancellation. By utilizing the capacitor based digital-to-analog …