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    Liqun Feng Headshot
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    Liqun Feng
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    Tsinghua University
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    China
    Author(s)
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    Liqun Feng
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    Affiliation
    Tsinghua University
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    Woogeun Rhee
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    Affiliation
    Tsinghua University
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    Zhihua Wang
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    Affiliation
    Tsinghua University
    Abstract

    This paper describes an efficient way to reduce the quantization noise of delta-sigma fractional-N PLLs by using an injection-locked oscillator (ILO) in the feedback path. For further noise reduction, the use of cascaded ILOs is proposed. Behaving like a type-I high-order PLL, the cascaded ILOs effectively suppress the quantization noise like a high-order phase-domain low-pass filter (PDLPF). We show that the proposed ILO-based PDLPF significantly improves the out-of-band phase noise for wideband fractional-N PLLs as well as the in-band phase noise for fractional-N bang-bang PLLs (BBPLLs). Simulation results show that a delta-sigma fractional-N BBPLL with a 3-stage ILO can achieve the in-band noise reduction of 25dB without having a nested PLL.

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    • A Quantization Noise Reduction Method for Delta-Sigma Fractional-N PLLs Using Cascaded Injection-Locked Oscillators (application/pdf)