EDN

Enhanced PLL circuit design tool can cut design cycles by 80%

Norwood, Mass. — Analog Devices Inc. said that its latest version of its PLL circuit design and evaluation tool helps designers cut design cycles by up to 80 percent. The ADIsimPLL version 2.7 ...
EDN

Tracking PLL design through the decades, part 2

The desire to integrate more gateshas driven two advances in CMOS-processingtechnology, enabling the integrationof practical inductors in genericCMOS-logic processes. The first, theuse of CMP ...
Electronic Design

How to Design Very Wide Loop BW High-Performance PLL Frequency Synthesizers (Part 2)

This is Part 2 of a three-part series. As discussed in Part 1 and recapped here, modern wireless communications systems (mainly superheterodyne radio transceivers) are now required to deliver higher ...
Nature

Radiation-Hardened Phase-Locked Loop Circuits

Radiation-hardened phase-locked loop (PLL) circuits represent a critical advancement in safeguarding electronic systems against the deleterious effects of ionising radiation. These circuits are ...
Electronic Design

How to Design Very Wide Loop BW High-Performance PLL Frequency Synthesizers (Part 3)

A special technique produces very wide loop BWs in high-frequency PLLs (and hence, indirect (PLL) synthesizers), thereby achieving very low phase noise rivaling that of direct (MMD) synthesizers. A ...