Title
AD-PLL for WiMAX with digitally-regulated TDC and glitch correction logic
Abstract
This paper describes the design of an All-Digital Phase Locked Loop (AD-PLL) for wireless applications in the WiMAX 3.3- 3.8GHz bandwidth. The time/digital converter (TDC) sets the in-band noise and it may be responsible for the presence of spurious tones at the PLL output. The TDC is implemented as a delay-locked loop (DLL) to be insensitive to process spreads and it uses a lead-lag phase detector and a digital loop filter to further take advantage of the digital approach. The most important source of spurs is identified in the time skew between counter and TDC in the PLL. This mechanism gives rise to a glitch in the digital feedback signal and spurs in the output spectrum. A simple glitch-corrector logic is described, that completely removes this effect, thus allowing to meet the phase noise specifications. The AD-PLL has been designed in a 90nm CMOS process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1155/2010/175764
Eurasip Journal on Embedded Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
delay-locked loop,output spectrum,cmos process,digitally-regulated tdc,in-band noise,pll output,lead-lag phase detector,digital feedback signal,glitch correction logic,digital loop filter,digital approach,digital converter
Phase-locked loop,Glitch,Wireless,Computer science,Real-time computing,WiMAX,Electronic engineering,Bandwidth (signal processing),Digital converter
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2010,
175764
1687-3955
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salvatore Levantino135143.23
Marco Zanuso215214.89
Paolo Madoglio39113.34
Davide Tasca4564.48
Carlo Samori534939.76
Andrea L. Lacaita632042.41