Title
A glitch-corrector circuit for low-spur ADPLLs
Abstract
This paper identifies the unavoidable time skew between counter and TDC inputs, if not properly compensated or corrected, as the major source of spurs in the output spectrum of an All-Digital-Phase-Locked Loops (ADPLLs). The frequency and the level of the main spur induced by the time skew are first analytically estimated. Then, an ADPLL, operating in the 3---4-GHz band, is designed in 90-nm CMOS technology and the reported simulations confirm the theoretical results. A simple glitch-removal circuit, capable of operating even in the presence of fast and large frequency drifts is proposed. The glitch corrector is demonstrated to cancel out the 驴24-dBc spur and its harmonics, without altering the lock transient behavior of the ADPLL.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s10470-011-9809-0
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
90-nm cmos technology,main spur,24-dbc spur,glitch-corrector circuit,time skew,tdc input,large frequency drift,lock transient behavior,unavoidable time skew,all-digital-phase-locked loops,low-spur adplls,glitch corrector,time frequency analysis,phase locked loops,radiation detectors,spectrum,steady state
Phase-locked loop,Glitch,Computer science,Spur,Converters,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Harmonics,Skew,Time-to-digital converter
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
73
1
0925-1030
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-5091-6
4
0.73
References 
Authors
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Zanuso115214.89
Salvatore Levantino235143.23
davide tasca341.06
d raiteri440.73
Carlo Samori534939.76
Andrea L. Lacaita632042.41