Spurious Tone Suppression Techniques Applied to a Wide Bandwidth 2.4GHz Fractional N PLL英文文献.pdfVIP

Spurious-Tone Suppression Techniques Applied to a Wide-Bandwidth 2.4GHz Fractional-N P 1 1,2 1 Kevin Wang , Ashok Swaminathan , Ian Galton 1University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 2NextWave Broadband, San Diego, CA INTEGRATED SIGNAL PROCESSING GROUP © 2008 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference © 2008 IEEE Outline • Overview of spurious tones in fractional-N PLLs • The two mechanisms that cause fractional spurs • A replacement for the ∆Σ modulator to mitigate one of the mechanisms • A charge pump offset and sampled loop filter to mitigate the other mechanism • Circuit details and measurement results © 2008 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference © 2008 IEEE A Typical Fractional-N P 0 ≤ α 1 ∆Σ ⇒ y [n] = α + quantization noise © 2008 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference © 2008 IEEE Spurs in Phase Noise are Unavoidable • Fractional-N PLLs always contains spurious tones • Have reference spurs at multiples of f ref just like integer- N PLLs • Also have fractional spurs at multiples of α f ref and (1−α)f ref © 2008 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference © 2008 IEEE Fractional Spur Overview • Example f ref ⇒ fractional spurs at multiples of αfref = 1 MHz • In general, a PLL lowpass filters fractional spurs Effective only for spurs above the loop bandwidth (LBW) Spurs within the LBW are unfiltered (typ. -60dBc) ⇒ α, fref , and PLL BW affect fractional spur power © 2008 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Confer