Yangyuan Wang

A PVT Tolerant 10 to 500 MHz All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop With Coupled TDC and DCO

An all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) with all components working with time interval or period signals is demonstrated. The ADPLL consists mainly of a free-running ring oscillator (FRO), a time to digital converter (TDC), a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO), a digital divider and a digital loop filter. In the proposed architecture, the TDC and DCO have an equal time resolution from the common FRO. The digital divider keeps the loop gain constant when the frequency multiplication factor changes. As a result, the ADPLL is inherently stable regardless of the variations of the process, supply voltage and temperature (PVT). The ADPLL is fabricated in 0.13 ¿m CMOS process. Measurement results show that it works well over wide operation conditions, with the input frequencies ranging from 37.5 KHz to 25 MHz, frequency multiplication factors from 10 to 255, output frequencies from 10 MHz to 500 MHz, and supply voltages from 0.6 V to 1.6 V.

An 11-bit and 39 ps resolution time-to-digital converter for ADPLL in digital television

We propose and demonstrate an 11-bit time-to-digital converter (TDC) for all-digital phase-locked loops (ADPLLs) in digital television. The proposed TDC converts the width of the input pulse into digital output with the tap space of the outputs of a free-running ring oscillator (FRO) being the conversion resolution. The FRO is in a structure of coiled cell array and the TDC core is symmetrical in the input structure. This leads to equally spaced taps in the reference clocks and thereby a high TDC conversion linearity. The TDC is fabricated in 0.13 μm CMOS process and the chip area is 0.025 mm2. The measurement results show that the TDC has a conversion resolution of 39 ps at 1.2 V power supply and a 4.5 ns dead time in the 11-bits output case. Both the differential non-linearity (DNL) and integral non-linearity (INL) are below 0.5 LSB. The power consumption of the whole circuit is 4.2 mW.

A Programmable Spread Spectrum Clock Generation

In this paper, a spread-spectrum clock generator (SSCG) with triangular modulation is presented. The proposed SSCG with a third-order sigma-delta modulator can generate clocks with center spread ratios of 0.25%, 1%, 1.75%, 2.5%, 3.5%, 5% and down spread ratios of 0.5%, 2%, 3.5%, 5%, 7%, 10%. The SSCG is implemented on a chip using SMIC 0.13 um CMOS process. Measurements show that 11.31 dB attenuation of the EMI at 80 MHz with down spread ratio of 10% and 12.98 dB attenuation at 133.3 M with center spread ratio of 5% can be achieved which have a good agreement with the theoretical calculations.