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Ring oscillators (ROs) provide a low-cost digital VCO solution in fully integrated PLLs. However, due to their supply noise sensitivity and high noise floor, their applications have been limited to ...

When you’re hunting for a signal with your oscilloscope, the stronger it is, the better. If it’s weak, you might struggle to tease it out from other interference, or even from the noise… ...

The current noise sources associated with each resistor are shown shunted across each respective resistor, and the reference-related and voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) self-noise make up the ...

And, of course, if it’s desirable to have more suppression of VCO phase noise, the loop bandwidth can be made wider to accomplish this with an attendant increase in reference and floor noise.

Each independently tuneable oscillator (alongside a noise source and the ring-modulated outputs of VCO 1 and 2) are sent to a low-pass filter section (VCF) and then amp (VCA) stage. Two envelopes (a 4 ...

A hybrid phase/current-mode phase interpolator (HPC-PI) is presented to improve phase noise performance of ring oscillator based fractional-N PLLs. The proposed HPC-PI alleviates the bandwidth ...

The ADF4371 synthesizer from Analog Devices offers a wide continuous RF output range of 62 MHz to 32 GHz and an ultra-low normalized phase noise floor (FOM) of -234 dBc/Hz. Consisting of a PLL with ...

The author is president of Kintronic Labs Inc. Background noise interference is degrading the quality of broadcast reception, two-way communications, mobile cellphone services and every other form of ...