Low Power Phase Frequency Detector Research Articles

Dead zone-less low power phase frequency detector, independent of duty cycle variations for charge pump phase locked loop

Dead zone-less low power phase frequency detector, independent of duty cycle variations for charge pump phase locked loop

A Novel Design of High Performance Low Power Phase-Frequency Detector for CMOS PLL Frequency Synthesizer

A high performance low power phase frequency detector is designed and simulated. The various different parameters of the circuit are obtained through various type of simulations. We worked mainly upon the power dissipation, power supply, input frequency range and its area. The proposed PFD will have the locking capability i.e. to lock at the edges either on the rising or falling edge w.r.t the reference and the feedback signal. The proposed design will have the very high performance and ultra-low phase noise. It has the added advantage of low cost and the compact size. The primary objective is to design a low power phase frequency detector for CMOS PLL Frequency Synthesizer using lows power technique. The pass transistor logic is used in the circuit to eliminate the reset path. By this change of the path the operating frequency and operating speed both are increased in the proposed design. The input Frequency can be taken up to 5 gigahertz. The power supply is taken to be 1 V. The proposed PFD design will have a less number of transistors and also a low consumption of power. The output pulses of the PFD at phase difference of 0, 0, п/2, п, 3п/2, 2п will have its average voltage as 0, VDD and VDD/2. The proposed phase detector will perfectly detect the phase difference between two signals so that the harmonics problem can be minimized. The proposed design is having its operating frequency as 5GHz over the conventional one which has its frequency as 800MHz. Power dissipation in the proposed design is reduced due to less number of transistors used as compared with the conventional one. The operating region has become much wider for proposed design as it is having operating frequency much higher than that of the conventional one the proposed PFD will increase the locking capability on the both rise and fall edge w.r.t. the reference and the feedback signal. The input Frequency can be taken up to 5 gigahertz. The power supply is taken to be 1 V. The proposed PFD circuit will have a less number of transistors and also a low consumption of power 7.14 mW.

A V-Band Phase-Locked Loop with a Novel Phase-Frequency Detector in 65 nm CMOS

A 65–67 GHz phase-locked loop (PLL) with a novel low power phase-frequency detector (PFD) in 65 nm LP CMOS is presented. The PLL consists of a V-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a divide-by-two injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD), and a current-mode logic (CML) divider chain. A charge pump (CP) and a 2nd-order loop filter are used with PFD for VCO tuning. The PFD is implemented with 16 transistors with dead-zone-free capability. The measured locking range of the PLL is from 65.15 to 67.4 GHz, with −11.5 dBm measured output power at 66.05 GHz while consuming 88 mW. The measured phase noise at 1 MHz offset is −84.43 dBc/Hz. The chip area of the PLL is 0.84 mm2 including probing pads. The proposed PLL can be utilized as a frequency synthesizer for carrier signal generation in IEEE 802.11ad standard high data rate transceiver circuits.

A Low Power PFD and Dual Mode CP with Small Current Mismatch for PLL Application

A high speed Phase-Frequency Detector (PFD) and Charge Pump (CP) are implemented using 0.13µm CMOS process with 1.2 V supply. The PFD is implemented with TSPC (True Single-Phase Clock) and positive edge triggered D flip-flop. Its polarity can be changed by setting the port. The dead zone problem is solved using an additional reset time. A single charge pump is implemented with two compensators. Dual mode CP design makes the charge pump much more flexible in applications. The current mismatch for the two modes is below 4.9 % within the voltage range of from 0.2 to 1.0 V.

A Low Power PFD and Dual Mode CP with Small Current Mismatch for PLL Application

A high speed Phase-Frequency Detector (PFD) and Charge Pump (CP) are implemented using 0.13µm CMOS process with 1.2 V supply. The PFD is implemented with TSPC (True Single-Phase Clock) and positive edge triggered D flip-flop. Its polarity can be changed by setting the port. The dead zone problem is solved using an additional reset time. A single charge pump is implemented with two compensators. Dual mode CP design makes the charge pump much more flexible in applications. The current mismatch for the two modes is below 4.9 % within the voltage range of from 0.2 to 1.0 V.