A simple precharged CMOS phase frequency detector

Author

Johansson, Henrik O.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Meas. Technol., Linkoping Univ., Sweden

Volume

33

Issue

2

fYear

1998

fDate

2/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

295

Lastpage

299

Abstract

We propose a simple precharged CMOS phase frequency detector (PFD). The circuit uses 18 transistors and has a simple topology. Therefore, the detector, in a 0.8-μm CMOS process, works up to clock frequencies of 800 MHz according to SPICE simulations on extracted layout. Further, the detector has no dead-zone in the phase characteristic which is important in low jitter applications. The phase and frequency characteristics are presented and comparisons are made to other PFDs. The phase offset of the detector is sensitive to differences of the duty-cycle between the inputs. Mixed-mode simulations are presented of the lock-in procedure for a phase-locked loop (PLL) where the detector is used. Measurements on the detector are presented for a test-chip with a delay-locked loop (DLL) where the phase detection ability of the detector has been verified

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; SPICE; circuit analysis computing; delay circuits; detector circuits; jitter; phase locked loops; 0.8 micron; 800 MHz; SPICE simulations; clock frequencies; delay-locked loop; duty-cycle; jitter; lock-in procedure; mixed-mode simulations; phase characteristic; phase offset; phase-locked loop; precharged CMOS phase frequency detector; CMOS process; Circuit simulation; Circuit topology; Clocks; Jitter; Phase detection; Phase frequency detector; Phase locked loops; Phase measurement; SPICE;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.658634

Filename

658634