Electronic Design

How to Design Very Wide Loop BW High-Performance PLL Frequency Synthesizers (Part 1)

This is Part 1 of a three-part series. As modern wireless communications systems (mainly superheterodyne radio transceivers) are now required to deliver higher performance than ever before, they’re ...
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K-Micro Licenses Virtual Silicon 90nm Mobilize PLL Digital Frequency Synthesizer

Innovative Virtual Silicon DFS Provides K-Micro Customers with Flexible and Programmable PLL Capability Across Its Entire 90nm ASIC Platform SAN JOSE, Calif. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--June 6, 2005--Virtual ...
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Virtual Silicon Announces Industry's First Delta-Sigma Fractional-N PLL Digital Frequency Synthesizer for Generic CMOS

Innovative low power design accepts input frequency from1MHz to 300MHz and outputs any frequency from 88kHz to 3000MHz in TSMC’s 0.13-micron, general-purpose process Sunnyvale, CA - February 15, ...
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Fastest digital synthesizers integrate 14-bit digital-to-analog converters

Analog Devices Inc. has more than doubled the clock speed of direct digital synthesizer (DDS) integrated circuits (ICs) with on-chip 14-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The industry leader in ...
Electronic Design

How to Design Very Wide Loop BW High-Performance PLL Frequency Synthesizers (Part 3)

A special technique produces very wide loop BWs in high-frequency PLLs (and hence, indirect (PLL) synthesizers), thereby achieving very low phase noise rivaling that of direct (MMD) synthesizers. A ...