Title
 

A Low Phase Noise Injection-Locked Programmable Reference Clock Multiplier with a Two-Phase PVT-Calibrator for ΔΣ PLLs

 

    Authors 
 

Y. Lee, M. Kim, T. Seong, and J. Choi

 

    Publication
 

Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on , vol.62, no.3, pp.635,644, March 2015

 
    Abstract  

Our paper entitled "A Low Phase Noise Injection-Locked Programmable Reference Clock Multiplier with a Two-Phase PVT-Calibrator for ΔΣ PLLs" has been published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (IEEE T-CAS I), Dec. 2014. In this paper, by adopting a two-phase PVT-calibrator that switches the calibration resolution, the clock multiplier can reduce the frequency-acquisition time, as well as tightly regulate the real-time degradation of the phase noise. To improve the performance of the calibration method utilizing two identical oscillators, the self-injection pulse generator that balances the loadings of two oscillators is proposed. In addition, this work presents a systematic design methodology that minimizes the degradation of the phase noise over the PVT variations, based on the phase noise analysis of injection-locking. The clock multiplier was designed with the prototype PLL in the 65-nm CMOS process. It can provide five reference frequencies, i.e., 19.2, 28.8, 48, 57.6, and 96 MHz. The phase noise of the 96-MHz signal was 130.0 and 131.8 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz and 1 MHz offsets, respectively; the performance of low phase noise was confirmed over temperature variations. The total active area was 0.062 mm^2, and the power consumption was 1.6–1.9 mW. By switching the reference frequency from 19.2 to 96 MHz, the phase noise of the prototype PLL at the 10-MHz offset from the 4.4-GHz signal was improved from 120.1 to 138.6 dBc/Hz.

 

 

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