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Tracking PLL design through the decades, part 2

The desire to integrate more gateshas driven two advances in CMOS-processingtechnology, enabling the integrationof practical inductors in genericCMOS-logic processes. The first, theuse of CMP ...
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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Solving the loop-analysis puzzle

You often use negative feedback to control the output of a process. Examples range from temperature and flow control in oil refineries to simple operational amplifiers. You use negative-feedback ...
Electronic Design

Analog Devices debuts PLL/VCO for RF, microwave, and mmWave applications

Norwood, MA (BUSINESS WIRE). Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced today a synthesizer consisting of a phase-locked loop (PLL) with fully integrated voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) as well as ...