In order to improve the performance of the existing phase frequency detectors （PFDs）, a systematical analysis of the existing PFDs is presented. Based on the circuit architecture, both classifications and comparison...In order to improve the performance of the existing phase frequency detectors （PFDs）, a systematical analysis of the existing PFDs is presented. Based on the circuit architecture, both classifications and comparisons are made. A new robust CMOS phase frequency detector for a high speed and low jitter charge pump phrase-locked loop （PLL） is designed. The proposed PFD consists of two rising-edge triggered dynamic D flip-flops, two positive-edge detectors and delaying units and two OR gates. It adopts two reset mechanisms to avoid the LIP and DN signals to be logic-1 simultaneously. Thus, any current mismatch of the charge pump circuit will not worsen the performance of the PLL. Furthermore, it has hardly any dead-zone phenomenon in phase characteristic. Simulations with ADS are performed based on a TSMC 0. 18-μm CMOS process with a 1.8-V supply voltage. According to the theoretical analyses and simulation results, the proposed PFD shows a satisfactory performance with a high operation frequency （≈ 1 GHz）, a wide phase-detection range [ ± 2π], a near zero dead-zone （ 〈 0. 1 ps）, high reliability, low phase jitter, low power consumption （ ≈100 μW） and small circuit complexity.展开更多
Based on 0.13μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor（CMOS） technology,a phase and frequency detector（PFD） is designed with a low supply voltage of 0.5V for frequency synthesizers used in wireless sensor netwo...Based on 0.13μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor（CMOS） technology,a phase and frequency detector（PFD） is designed with a low supply voltage of 0.5V for frequency synthesizers used in wireless sensor networks（WSNs）.The PFD can compare the frequency and phase differences of input signals and deliver a signal voltage proportional to the difference.Low threshold transistors are used in the circuits since a power supply of 0.5V is adopted.A pulse latched structure is also used in the circuits in order to increase both the detection range of phase errors and the maximum operation frequency.In experiments,a phase error with a range from-358° to 358° is measured when the input signal frequency is 2MHz.The PFD has a faster acquisition speed compared with conventional digital PFDs.When the input signals are at a frequency of 2MHz with zero phase error,the circuits have a power consumption of 1.8[KG＊8]μW,and the maximum operation frequency is 1.25GHz.展开更多
A novel method to partially compensate sigma-delta shaped noise is proposed. By injecting the compensation current into the passive loop filter during the delay time of the phase frequency detector（PFD）,a maximum re...A novel method to partially compensate sigma-delta shaped noise is proposed. By injecting the compensation current into the passive loop filter during the delay time of the phase frequency detector（PFD）,a maximum reduction of the phase noise by about 16dB can be achieved. Compared to other compensation methods,the technique proposed here is relatively simple and easy to implement. Key building blocks for realizing the noise cancellation,including the delay variable PFD and compensation current source, are specially designed. Both the behavior level and circuit level simulation results are presented.展开更多
A fully integrated frequency synthesizer with low jitter and low power consumption in 0.18 μm CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) technology is proposed in this paper.The frequency synthesizer uses a novel...A fully integrated frequency synthesizer with low jitter and low power consumption in 0.18 μm CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) technology is proposed in this paper.The frequency synthesizer uses a novel single-end gain-boosting charge pump, a differential coupled voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and a dynamic logic phase/frequency detecor (PFD) to acquire low output jitter.The output frequency range of the frequency synthesizer is up to 1 200 MHz to 1 400 MHz for GPS (global position system) application.The post simulation results show that the phase noise of VCO is only 127.1 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset and the Vp-p jitter of the frequency synthesizer output clock is 13.65 ps.The power consumption of the frequency synthesizer not including the divider is 4.8 mW for 1.8 V supply and it occupies a 0.8 mm×0.7 mm chip area.展开更多
The need for wide-band clock and data recovery （CDR） circuits is discussed. A 2 Gbps to 12 Gbps continuous-rate CDR circuit employing a multi-mode voltage-control oscillator （VCO）, a frequency detector, and a phas...The need for wide-band clock and data recovery （CDR） circuits is discussed. A 2 Gbps to 12 Gbps continuous-rate CDR circuit employing a multi-mode voltage-control oscillator （VCO）, a frequency detector, and a phase detector （FD＆PD） is described. A new automatic frequency band selection （FBS） without external reference clock is proposed to select the appropriate mode and also solve the instability problem when the circuit is powering on. The multi-mode VCO and FD/PD circuits which can operate at full-rate and half-rate modes facilitate CDR with six operation modes. The proposed CDR structure has been modeled with MATLAB and the simulated results validate its feasibility.展开更多
A 2.5Gb/s clock and data recovery （CDR） circuit is designed and realized in TSMC＇s standard 0.18/μm CMOS process. The clock recovery is based on a PLL. For phase noise optimization,a dynamic phase and frequency de...A 2.5Gb/s clock and data recovery （CDR） circuit is designed and realized in TSMC＇s standard 0.18/μm CMOS process. The clock recovery is based on a PLL. For phase noise optimization,a dynamic phase and frequency detector （PFD） is used in the PLL. The rms jitter of the recovered 2.5GHz clock is 2.4ps and the SSB phase noise is - 111dBc/Hz at 10kHz offset. The rms jitter of the recovered 2.5Gb/s data is 3.3ps. The power consumption is 120mW.展开更多
In order to make a 10 Gbit/s 2：1 half-rate multiplexer operate without external clocks, a 5 Gbit/s clock recovery （CR） circuit is needed to extract the desired clock from one input data. For the CR circuit, a 3-sta...In order to make a 10 Gbit/s 2：1 half-rate multiplexer operate without external clocks, a 5 Gbit/s clock recovery （CR） circuit is needed to extract the desired clock from one input data. For the CR circuit, a 3-stage ring voltage-controlled oscillator （VCO） is employed to avoid an unreliable startup of a 2-stage VCO and a low oscillation frequency of a 4-stage VCO. A phase frequency detector （PFD） is used to expand the pull-in range to meet the wide tuning range of a VCO required by process-voltage-temperature （PVT） variation. SMIC 0. 18-μm CMOS technology is adopted and the core area is 170 μm ×270 μm. Measurements show that, under a 1.8 V supply voltage, it consumes only about 90 mW, and has an input sensitivity of less than 25 mV, an output single-ended swing of above 300 mV, a phase noise of - 114 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset and a pull-in range of 1 GHz.展开更多
A novel structure for a charge pump circuit is proposed, in which the charge-pump （CP） current can adaptively regulated according to phase-locked loops （PLL） frequency synthesis demand. The current follow technolo...A novel structure for a charge pump circuit is proposed, in which the charge-pump （CP） current can adaptively regulated according to phase-locked loops （PLL） frequency synthesis demand. The current follow technology is used to make perfect current matching characteristics, and the two differential inverters are implanted to increase the speed of charge pump and decrease output spur due to theory of low voltage difference signal. Simulation results, with 1st silicon 0. 25μm 2. 5 V complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor （CMOS） mixed-signal process, show the good current matching characteristics regardless of the charge pump output voltages.展开更多
A self-balanced charge pump （CP） with fast lock circuit to achieve nearly zero phase error is proposed and analyzed. The proposed CP is designed based on the SMIC 0.25μm 1P5M complementary metal oxide semiconductor...A self-balanced charge pump （CP） with fast lock circuit to achieve nearly zero phase error is proposed and analyzed. The proposed CP is designed based on the SMIC 0.25μm 1P5M complementary metal oxide semiconductor （CMOS） process with a 2.5 V supply voltage, HSPICE simulation shows that even if the mismatch of phase/frequency detector （PFD） was beyond 10%, the charge pump could still keep nearly zero phase error, Incorporated fast lock circuit can shorten start-up time to below 300 ns.展开更多
An improved adaptive frequency calibration（AFC） has been employed to implement a fast lock phaselocked loop based frequency synthesizer in a 0.18μm CMOS process.The AFC can work in two modes：the frequency calibrat...An improved adaptive frequency calibration（AFC） has been employed to implement a fast lock phaselocked loop based frequency synthesizer in a 0.18μm CMOS process.The AFC can work in two modes：the frequency calibration mode and the store/load mode.In the frequency calibration mode,a novel frequency-detector is used to reduce the frequency calibration time to 16 us typically.In the store/load mode,the AFC makes the voltage-controlled oscillator（VCO） return to the calibrated frequency in about 1μs by loading the calibration result stored after the frequency calibration.The experimental results show that the VCO tuning frequency range is about 620-920 MHz and the in-band phase noise within the loop bandwidth of 10 kHz is-82 dBc/Hz.The lock time is about 20μs in frequency calibration mode and about 5 us in store/load mode.The synthesizer consumes 12 mA from a single 1.8 V supply voltage when steady.展开更多
The power spectrum of primordial tensor perturbations Pt increases rapidly in the high frequency region if the spectral index nt 〉 0. It is shown that the amplitude of relic gravitational waves ht （5×109 Hz） v...The power spectrum of primordial tensor perturbations Pt increases rapidly in the high frequency region if the spectral index nt 〉 0. It is shown that the amplitude of relic gravitational waves ht （5×109 Hz） varies from 10-36 to 10-25 while rtt varies from -6.25 × 10-3 to 0.87. A high frequency gravitational wave detector proposed by F,-Y, Li detects gravitational waves through observing the perturbed photon flux that is generated by interaction between relic gravitational waves and electromagnetic field. It is shown that the perturbative photon flux N1x （5 × 109 Hz） varies from 1.40× 10-4 s-i to 2.85× 107 s-i while nt varies from -6.25 ×10-3 to 0.87, Correspondingly, the ratio of the transverse perturbative photon flux N1x to the background photon flux varies from 10-28 to 10-16.展开更多
An ultra broadband fractional-N frequency synthesizer for 802.11a/b/g zero-IF transceiver application is presented.The mathematical models for the behavior of the synthesizer＇s spur and phase noise are analyzed,and t...An ultra broadband fractional-N frequency synthesizer for 802.11a/b/g zero-IF transceiver application is presented.The mathematical models for the behavior of the synthesizer＇s spur and phase noise are analyzed,and the optimization methodology is proposed.Measurement results exhibits that the frequency synthesizer＇s integrated phase noise is less than 1°（1 kHz to 100 MHz）with a 4.375 GHz carrier（after divide-by-2）,and the reference frequency spur is below-60 dBc operating with a 33 MHz reference clock.The frequency synthesizer is fabricated on a standard 0.13μm RF CMOS process and consumes 39.6 mW from a 1.2 V supply voltage.展开更多
Based on the devised system-level design methodology, a 2.5-Gb/s monolithic bang-bang phase-locked clock and data recovery （CDR） circuit has been designed and fabricated in SMIC＇s 0.18-μm CMOS technology. The Pott...Based on the devised system-level design methodology, a 2.5-Gb/s monolithic bang-bang phase-locked clock and data recovery （CDR） circuit has been designed and fabricated in SMIC＇s 0.18-μm CMOS technology. The Pottbiicker phase frequency detector and a differential 4-stage inductorless ring VCO are adopted, where an additional current source is added to the VCO cell to improve the linearity of the VCO characteristic. The CDR has an active area of 340 × 440μm2, and consumes a power of only about 60 mW from a 1.8 V supply voltage, with an input sensitivity of less than 25 mV, and an output single-ended swing of more than 300 mV. It has a pull-in range of 800 MHz, and a phase noise of-111.54 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset. The CDR works reliably at any input data rate between 1.8 Gb/s and 2.6 Gb/s without any need for reference clock, off-chip tuning, or external components.展开更多
A 5-Gb/s 2 ： 1 MUX （multiplexer） with an on-chip integrated clock extraction circuit which possesses the function of automatic phase alignment （APA）, has been designed and fabricated in SMIC＇s 0.18 μm CMOS tech...A 5-Gb/s 2 ： 1 MUX （multiplexer） with an on-chip integrated clock extraction circuit which possesses the function of automatic phase alignment （APA）, has been designed and fabricated in SMIC＇s 0.18 μm CMOS technology. The chip area is 670 × 780 μm^2. At a single supply voltage of 1.8 V, the total power consumption is 112 mW with an input sensitivity of less than 50 mV and an output single-ended swing of above 300 mV. The measurement results show that the IC can work reliably at any input data rate between 1.8 and 2.6 Gb/s with no need for external components, reference clock, or phase alignment between data and clock. It can be used in a parallel optic-fiber data interconnecting system.展开更多
A novel structure of a phase-locked loop （PLL） characterized by a short locking time and low jitter is presented, which is realized by generating a linear slope charge pump current dependent on monitoring the output...A novel structure of a phase-locked loop （PLL） characterized by a short locking time and low jitter is presented, which is realized by generating a linear slope charge pump current dependent on monitoring the output of the phase frequency detector （PFD） to implement adaptive bandwidth control. This improved PLL is created by utilizing a fast start-up circuit and a slope current control on a conventional charge pump PLL. First, the fast start-up circuit is enabled to achieve fast pre-charging to the loop filter. Then, when the output pulse of the PFD is larger than a minimum value, the charge pump current is increased linearly by the slope current control to ensure a shorter locking time and a lower jitter. Additionally, temperature variation is attenuated with the temperature compensation in the charge pump current design. The proposed PLL has been fabricated in a kind of DSP chip based on a 0.35 μm CMOS process. Comparing the characteristics with the classical PLL, the proposed PLL shows that it can reduce the locking time by 60% with a low peak-to-peak jitter of 0.3% at a wide operation temperature range.展开更多
文摘In order to improve the performance of the existing phase frequency detectors （PFDs）, a systematical analysis of the existing PFDs is presented. Based on the circuit architecture, both classifications and comparisons are made. A new robust CMOS phase frequency detector for a high speed and low jitter charge pump phrase-locked loop （PLL） is designed. The proposed PFD consists of two rising-edge triggered dynamic D flip-flops, two positive-edge detectors and delaying units and two OR gates. It adopts two reset mechanisms to avoid the LIP and DN signals to be logic-1 simultaneously. Thus, any current mismatch of the charge pump circuit will not worsen the performance of the PLL. Furthermore, it has hardly any dead-zone phenomenon in phase characteristic. Simulations with ADS are performed based on a TSMC 0. 18-μm CMOS process with a 1.8-V supply voltage. According to the theoretical analyses and simulation results, the proposed PFD shows a satisfactory performance with a high operation frequency （≈ 1 GHz）, a wide phase-detection range [ ± 2π], a near zero dead-zone （ 〈 0. 1 ps）, high reliability, low phase jitter, low power consumption （ ≈100 μW） and small circuit complexity.
基金The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2007AA01Z2A7)Program for Special Talents in Six Fields of Jiangsu Province
文摘Based on 0.13μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor（CMOS） technology,a phase and frequency detector（PFD） is designed with a low supply voltage of 0.5V for frequency synthesizers used in wireless sensor networks（WSNs）.The PFD can compare the frequency and phase differences of input signals and deliver a signal voltage proportional to the difference.Low threshold transistors are used in the circuits since a power supply of 0.5V is adopted.A pulse latched structure is also used in the circuits in order to increase both the detection range of phase errors and the maximum operation frequency.In experiments,a phase error with a range from-358° to 358° is measured when the input signal frequency is 2MHz.The PFD has a faster acquisition speed compared with conventional digital PFDs.When the input signals are at a frequency of 2MHz with zero phase error,the circuits have a power consumption of 1.8[KG＊8]μW,and the maximum operation frequency is 1.25GHz.
文摘A novel method to partially compensate sigma-delta shaped noise is proposed. By injecting the compensation current into the passive loop filter during the delay time of the phase frequency detector（PFD）,a maximum reduction of the phase noise by about 16dB can be achieved. Compared to other compensation methods,the technique proposed here is relatively simple and easy to implement. Key building blocks for realizing the noise cancellation,including the delay variable PFD and compensation current source, are specially designed. Both the behavior level and circuit level simulation results are presented.
基金Funded by the Communication System Project of Jiangsu Provincial Education Committee under grant No.JHB04010
文摘A fully integrated frequency synthesizer with low jitter and low power consumption in 0.18 μm CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) technology is proposed in this paper.The frequency synthesizer uses a novel single-end gain-boosting charge pump, a differential coupled voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and a dynamic logic phase/frequency detecor (PFD) to acquire low output jitter.The output frequency range of the frequency synthesizer is up to 1 200 MHz to 1 400 MHz for GPS (global position system) application.The post simulation results show that the phase noise of VCO is only 127.1 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset and the Vp-p jitter of the frequency synthesizer output clock is 13.65 ps.The power consumption of the frequency synthesizer not including the divider is 4.8 mW for 1.8 V supply and it occupies a 0.8 mm×0.7 mm chip area.
基金supported by the Hubei Natural Science Foundation of China underGrant No. 2010CDB02706the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. C2009Q060
文摘The need for wide-band clock and data recovery （CDR） circuits is discussed. A 2 Gbps to 12 Gbps continuous-rate CDR circuit employing a multi-mode voltage-control oscillator （VCO）, a frequency detector, and a phase detector （FD＆PD） is described. A new automatic frequency band selection （FBS） without external reference clock is proposed to select the appropriate mode and also solve the instability problem when the circuit is powering on. The multi-mode VCO and FD/PD circuits which can operate at full-rate and half-rate modes facilitate CDR with six operation modes. The proposed CDR structure has been modeled with MATLAB and the simulated results validate its feasibility.
文摘A 2.5Gb/s clock and data recovery （CDR） circuit is designed and realized in TSMC＇s standard 0.18/μm CMOS process. The clock recovery is based on a PLL. For phase noise optimization,a dynamic phase and frequency detector （PFD） is used in the PLL. The rms jitter of the recovered 2.5GHz clock is 2.4ps and the SSB phase noise is - 111dBc/Hz at 10kHz offset. The rms jitter of the recovered 2.5Gb/s data is 3.3ps. The power consumption is 120mW.
基金The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program)(No. 2007AA01Z2a5)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60806027,61076073)Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No.20090092120012)
文摘In order to make a 10 Gbit/s 2：1 half-rate multiplexer operate without external clocks, a 5 Gbit/s clock recovery （CR） circuit is needed to extract the desired clock from one input data. For the CR circuit, a 3-stage ring voltage-controlled oscillator （VCO） is employed to avoid an unreliable startup of a 2-stage VCO and a low oscillation frequency of a 4-stage VCO. A phase frequency detector （PFD） is used to expand the pull-in range to meet the wide tuning range of a VCO required by process-voltage-temperature （PVT） variation. SMIC 0. 18-μm CMOS technology is adopted and the core area is 170 μm ×270 μm. Measurements show that, under a 1.8 V supply voltage, it consumes only about 90 mW, and has an input sensitivity of less than 25 mV, an output single-ended swing of above 300 mV, a phase noise of - 114 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset and a pull-in range of 1 GHz.
文摘A novel structure for a charge pump circuit is proposed, in which the charge-pump （CP） current can adaptively regulated according to phase-locked loops （PLL） frequency synthesis demand. The current follow technology is used to make perfect current matching characteristics, and the two differential inverters are implanted to increase the speed of charge pump and decrease output spur due to theory of low voltage difference signal. Simulation results, with 1st silicon 0. 25μm 2. 5 V complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor （CMOS） mixed-signal process, show the good current matching characteristics regardless of the charge pump output voltages.
基金Supported by the National High Technology Re-search and Development Programof China (2004AA122310)
文摘A self-balanced charge pump （CP） with fast lock circuit to achieve nearly zero phase error is proposed and analyzed. The proposed CP is designed based on the SMIC 0.25μm 1P5M complementary metal oxide semiconductor （CMOS） process with a 2.5 V supply voltage, HSPICE simulation shows that even if the mismatch of phase/frequency detector （PFD） was beyond 10%, the charge pump could still keep nearly zero phase error, Incorporated fast lock circuit can shorten start-up time to below 300 ns.
基金Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2007AA01Z2a8).
文摘An improved adaptive frequency calibration（AFC） has been employed to implement a fast lock phaselocked loop based frequency synthesizer in a 0.18μm CMOS process.The AFC can work in two modes：the frequency calibration mode and the store/load mode.In the frequency calibration mode,a novel frequency-detector is used to reduce the frequency calibration time to 16 us typically.In the store/load mode,the AFC makes the voltage-controlled oscillator（VCO） return to the calibrated frequency in about 1μs by loading the calibration result stored after the frequency calibration.The experimental results show that the VCO tuning frequency range is about 620-920 MHz and the in-band phase noise within the loop bandwidth of 10 kHz is-82 dBc/Hz.The lock time is about 20μs in frequency calibration mode and about 5 us in store/load mode.The synthesizer consumes 12 mA from a single 1.8 V supply voltage when steady.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(11305181,11322545,11335012)Open Project Program of State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics,Institute of Theoretical Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,China(Y5KF181CJ1)
文摘The power spectrum of primordial tensor perturbations Pt increases rapidly in the high frequency region if the spectral index nt 〉 0. It is shown that the amplitude of relic gravitational waves ht （5×109 Hz） varies from 10-36 to 10-25 while rtt varies from -6.25 × 10-3 to 0.87. A high frequency gravitational wave detector proposed by F,-Y, Li detects gravitational waves through observing the perturbed photon flux that is generated by interaction between relic gravitational waves and electromagnetic field. It is shown that the perturbative photon flux N1x （5 × 109 Hz） varies from 1.40× 10-4 s-i to 2.85× 107 s-i while nt varies from -6.25 ×10-3 to 0.87, Correspondingly, the ratio of the transverse perturbative photon flux N1x to the background photon flux varies from 10-28 to 10-16.
基金Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No2009AA011605)
文摘An ultra broadband fractional-N frequency synthesizer for 802.11a/b/g zero-IF transceiver application is presented.The mathematical models for the behavior of the synthesizer＇s spur and phase noise are analyzed,and the optimization methodology is proposed.Measurement results exhibits that the frequency synthesizer＇s integrated phase noise is less than 1°（1 kHz to 100 MHz）with a 4.375 GHz carrier（after divide-by-2）,and the reference frequency spur is below-60 dBc operating with a 33 MHz reference clock.The frequency synthesizer is fabricated on a standard 0.13μm RF CMOS process and consumes 39.6 mW from a 1.2 V supply voltage.
基金supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2007AA01Z2a5)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60806027).
文摘Based on the devised system-level design methodology, a 2.5-Gb/s monolithic bang-bang phase-locked clock and data recovery （CDR） circuit has been designed and fabricated in SMIC＇s 0.18-μm CMOS technology. The Pottbiicker phase frequency detector and a differential 4-stage inductorless ring VCO are adopted, where an additional current source is added to the VCO cell to improve the linearity of the VCO characteristic. The CDR has an active area of 340 × 440μm2, and consumes a power of only about 60 mW from a 1.8 V supply voltage, with an input sensitivity of less than 25 mV, and an output single-ended swing of more than 300 mV. It has a pull-in range of 800 MHz, and a phase noise of-111.54 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset. The CDR works reliably at any input data rate between 1.8 Gb/s and 2.6 Gb/s without any need for reference clock, off-chip tuning, or external components.
基金Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Nos.2007AA01Z2a5,2006AA01Z239)
文摘A 5-Gb/s 2 ： 1 MUX （multiplexer） with an on-chip integrated clock extraction circuit which possesses the function of automatic phase alignment （APA）, has been designed and fabricated in SMIC＇s 0.18 μm CMOS technology. The chip area is 670 × 780 μm^2. At a single supply voltage of 1.8 V, the total power consumption is 112 mW with an input sensitivity of less than 50 mV and an output single-ended swing of above 300 mV. The measurement results show that the IC can work reliably at any input data rate between 1.8 and 2.6 Gb/s with no need for external components, reference clock, or phase alignment between data and clock. It can be used in a parallel optic-fiber data interconnecting system.
基金Project supported by the National Defense Pre-Research Project of China(No.51308010610)
文摘A novel structure of a phase-locked loop （PLL） characterized by a short locking time and low jitter is presented, which is realized by generating a linear slope charge pump current dependent on monitoring the output of the phase frequency detector （PFD） to implement adaptive bandwidth control. This improved PLL is created by utilizing a fast start-up circuit and a slope current control on a conventional charge pump PLL. First, the fast start-up circuit is enabled to achieve fast pre-charging to the loop filter. Then, when the output pulse of the PFD is larger than a minimum value, the charge pump current is increased linearly by the slope current control to ensure a shorter locking time and a lower jitter. Additionally, temperature variation is attenuated with the temperature compensation in the charge pump current design. The proposed PLL has been fabricated in a kind of DSP chip based on a 0.35 μm CMOS process. Comparing the characteristics with the classical PLL, the proposed PLL shows that it can reduce the locking time by 60% with a low peak-to-peak jitter of 0.3% at a wide operation temperature range.
