CMOS phase frequency detector and charge pump for multi-standard frequency synthesizer

Author(s):  
Li Tang ◽  
Xiangning Fan ◽  
Zaijun Hua
Author(s):  
P.N. Metange ◽  
K. B. Khanchandani

<p>This paper presents the analysis and design of high performance phase frequency detector, charge pump and loop filter circuits for phase locked loop in wireless applications. The proposed phase frequency detector (PFD) consumes only 8 µW and utilises small area. Also, at 1.8V voltage supply the maximum operation frequency of the conventional PFD is 500 MHz whereas proposed PFD is 5 GHz. Hence, highly suitable for low power, high speed and low jitter applications.  The differential charge pump uses switches using NMOS and the inverter delays for up and down signals do not generate any offset due to its fully symmetric operation. This configuration doubles the range of output voltage compliance compared to single ended charge pump. Differential stage is less sensitive to the leakage current since leakage current behaves as common mode offset with the dual output stages. All the circuits are implemented using cadence 0.18 μm CMOS Process.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 184-197
Author(s):  
Pawan Srivastava ◽  
◽  
Dr. Ram Chandra Singh Chauhan ◽  

A novel phase frequency detector is designed which is made up of 16 transistors whereas conventional is of 48 transistors. This paper also presented the design of charge pump circuit and current starved VCO (CSVCO). These are the critical blocks that are widely used for applications like clock and data recovery circuit, PLL, frequency synthesizer. The proposed PFD eliminates the reset circuit using pass transistor logic and operates effectively at higher frequencies. The circuits are designed using Cadence Virtuoso v6.1 in 45nm CMOS technology having supply voltage 1V. It was found that the power consumption of PFD is 138.2 nW which is significantly lesser than other designs. CSVCO also analysed at operating frequency of 10 MHz to give output oscillation frequency of 1.119 GHz with power dissipation of 18.91 μW. Corner analysis done for both the PFD and CSVCO for various process variations. Monte Carlo analysis also done for the proposed PFD and presented CSVCO to test the circuit reliableness.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nima Haghighi

This thesis proposes an Integer-N frequency synthesizer in TSMC 0.18µm technology. The design is aimed for MICS (Medical Implantable Communication Services) devices operating at 402-406 MHz. A low phase noise, wide frequency range Quadrature Voltage Controlled Oscillator (QVCO) has been designed and simulated. The simulated phase noise @ 160 KHz offset is -100.3 dBc/Hz with the power consumption of 0.9 mW. This design addresses the small size, low phase noise and low power requirements for the Implantable devices. A wide frequency range Source Coupled Logic (SCL)32/33 prescaler divider has been designed. The program counter and Swallow counter have been implemented in Verilog-A which allow a division ratio of 2690 from the output of the QVCO. A phase frequency detector based on a modified TSPC D-Flip Flop is designed, which leads to a faster response time. The phase frequency detector, the charge pump, and the loop filter would consume 0.5 mW power. The total power consumption of the synthesizer is at 4.6 mW with 2% steady state settlement time of 160 μs.


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