Title
Fractional-N Sub-Sampling PLL Using a Calibrated Delay Line for Phase Noise Cancellation
Abstract
This work extends the concept of feedforward phase noise cancellation (FPNC) technique to a fractional-N sub-sampling phase-locked loop (SSPLL), using a low-power and low-area ring voltage-controlled oscillator (RVCO). The sub-sampling phase detector is used to measure the RVCO phase noise and its output is used to tune the voltage-controlled delay line (VCDL), in order to cancel the excess phase noise measured. A background calibration algorithm is proposed to calibrate the gain error of the VCDL, which improves the phase noise cancellation accuracy. The system model simulations shows that, the total integrated phase noise of the 2.4GHz fractional-N SSPLL improves from -20.6 dBc to -34 dBc after phase noise cancellation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ISCAS51556.2021.9401690
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (ISCAS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Calibration, digital-to-time converter (DTC), frequency synthesis, phase-locked loop (PLL), phase noise cancellation, ring oscillator, sub-sampling PLL (SSPLL), voltage-controlled delay line (VCDL)
Conference
0271-4302
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pratap Tumkur Renukaswamy121.44
Nereo Markulic2529.29
Piet Wambacq35610.11
Jan Craninckx462.86