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 …

A 14-nm Ultra-Low Jitter Fractional-N PLL Using a DTC Range Reduction Technique and a Reconfigurable Dual-Core VCO

W Wu, CW Yao, C Guo, PY Chiang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a 6-GHz low-jitter and high figure-of-merit (FoM) fractional-phase-locked
loop (PLL). It uses a digital-to-time converter (DTC)-based sampling PLL architecture. To …

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 …

A 12.5-GHz fractional-N type-I sampling PLL achieving 58-fs integrated jitter

M Mercandelli, A Santiccioli, A Parisi… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a fractional-N sampling type-I phase-locked loop (PLL). To overcome
the impairments of a conventional type-I PLL, namely the frequency-tuning-dependent time …

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 …

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 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 …

NB-IoT and GNSS all-in-one system-on-chip integrating RF transceiver, 23-dBm CMOS power amplifier, power management unit, and clock management system for …

J Lee, J Han, CL Lo, J Lee, W Kim… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a fully integrated stand-alone narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT)
and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) system-on-chip (SoC). It aims for an all-in-one …

A 174.7-dB FoM, 2nd-Order VCO-Based ExG-to-Digital Front-End Using a Multi-Phase Gated-Inverted-Ring Oscillator Quantizer

C Pochet, J Huang, P Mercier… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a second-order voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO)-based front-end for
the direct digitization of biopotential signals. This work addresses the non-linearity of VCO …

Understanding phase error and jitter: Definitions, implications, simulations, and measurement

I Galton, C Weltin-Wu - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precision oscillators are ubiquitous in modern electronic systems, and their accuracy often
limits the performance of such systems. Hence, a deep understanding of how oscillator …