Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Phase noise improvement techniques for wideband fractional-N synthesizers
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Application No.: US15388407Application Date: 2016-12-22
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Publication No.: US09954705B2Publication Date: 2018-04-24
- Inventor: Yogesh Darwhekar , Srikanth Manian , Srinivas Theertham , Jagdish Chand Goyal , Robert Karl Butler
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent John R. Pessetto; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H03L7/099
- IPC: H03L7/099 ; H04L27/26 ; H03L7/197

Abstract:
The disclosure provides a frequency synthesizer. It includes a PFD that generates an up signal and a down signal in response to a reference signal and a feedback signal. A charge pump generates a control voltage in response to the up signal and the down signal. A low pass filter generates a filtered voltage in response to the control voltage. An oscillator circuit generates an output signal in response to the filtered voltage. A feedback divider is coupled between the oscillator circuit and the PFD, and divides the output signal by a first integer divider to generate the feedback signal. A sigma delta modulator (SDM) generates a second integer divider in response to the feedback signal, the reference signal, the output signal and the first integer divider. A digital filter is coupled between the SDM and the feedback divider, and filters quantization noise associated with the SDM.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170187515A1 PHASE NOISE IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR WIDEBAND FRACTIONAL-N SYNTHESIZERS Public/Granted day:2017-06-29
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