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Abstract— Phase Locked Loop (PLL) is a feedback system that is to the phase difference between them generates an error signal
configured as frequency multipliers, tracking generators, which alters the input of VCO to make its output frequency
demodulators and clock recovery circuits. Today the most equal to input frequency. PLL has three operating states-
challenging requirement engineers’ face is design of fast locking frequency running, capture and lock state. In free running
PLL with low jitter. Many analog techniques are proposed to
feedback loop is open and VCO is oscillating in its natural
fulfill the demand but they result in increasing complexity of
design and long lock in time. In this paper, review of advantages frequency. In capture mode, feedback loop is closed and VCO
of an All-Digital phase locked loop (ADPLL) over an analog vary the feedback frequency to make it equal to reference
phase locked loop (APLL) in terms of stability, programmability frequency. In lock state, the phase error is zero i.e. both the
is studied. Various approaches to design the blocks of ADPLL till frequency are perfectly matched.
now adopted are presented in this paper. Traditionally, analog approaches were adopted to design
PLL.
Keywords- Phase Locked Loop (PLL); all digital phase locked loop • In 2007, Greg Paul [3] had used ferroelectric capacitor in
(ADPLL); analog phase locked loop (APLL)
VCO replacing linear capacitor as a storage element which
I. INTRODUCTION leads to reduction in cycle to cycle jitter because of its non-
linear dielectric constant behavior.
Phase Locked Loop (PLL) is a closed loop feedback system
• Interpolate compensation [4] method was used in which
that is capable to track the fixed phase relationship between
compensator and interpolative loop were implemented
phase of output and the reference clock. It is widely used for
which detects the jitter during the sampling of reference
clock recovery, as a frequency synthesizer, jitter attenuator
input signal.
and synchronization of chips in GPS receivers [1]. The
• Jitter reduction circuit was proposed [5] which was based
foundation of PLL was led in 1918 with the invention of super
on autocorrelation of jittered signal.
heterodyne but it uses large number of tuned stages. In early
1930’s attempt of comparing frequency of oscillator with • In 2010, Jie Wu [6] introduces the usage of digital
input of detector is carried out which results into introduction circuitry to reduce noise from VCO which was difficult to
of PLL in 1932 by de Belle size, French Engineer [2].Since avoid using analog technique. This was the first time when
then the basic PLL block diagram has nearly remained same DDSC (Digital distributed synchronous clock) with
but time to time lot of researches and advancements has been voltage controlled crystal oscillators (VCXO) was
done on various parameters of PLL such as the lock time, the implemented. This design shows jitter cleaning properties
phase noise, jitter, loop bandwidth, output frequency and but problem in this design was it was unable to compare
acquisition time. When certain parameters are improved, the reference clock with feedback clock completely due to
others factors may get worse.PLL can be configured in inaccuracy of DAC.
following three ways- Analog PLL (all blocks are analog), • In analog PLL, many algorithms were designed and
Hybrid PLL (combination of both analog and digital circuit) modelled [7], [8] to generate mathematical relations to
and All Digital PLL (all blocks are implemented check maximum noise level from various components of
digitally).The paper is organized as follows: Section II PLL and deducing the transfer function for system.
presents Prior work using APLL. Section III gives Overview • In [9], [10] sub sampling PLL was used to lessen the
of ADPLL architecture. Section IV presents mathematical impact of jitter to a factor of 0.73 ps. In this no frequency
modelling of ADPLL and finally conclusion is drawn in divider was used during the locked state. During locking
section V. period PD/CP is not multiplied by N2 factor which leads to
low noise.
II. PRIOR WORK USING APLL Above analog techniques were proposed to reduce jitter in
There are three building blocks of PLL - Phase Detector, PLL but they result into higher switching and lock-in time,
Loop filter and VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) [1]. complexity of circuit was also increased and PLL becomes
Phase detector compares the phase of each input, proportional sensitive to process parameters so they need to restore for new
technology every time.
(a)
• Phase Detector (PD): It detects the phase difference Wn (natural frequency) =√Ko Ki Kd
(vΔ (t)) between the input signal Vi (t) and the K / K K
feedback signal Vo (t). ζ(damping ratio) =
K
• Loop filter: It has transfer function of F(s) which
depends on type and order of filter used. It is used to Natural frequency varies the settling time so it is
minimize the phase difference Δ (t) by varying the responsible for fast locking. It is generally kept high but
frequency of VCO. Here [18] type 1 PI controller should be low enough so to achieve phase filtering
loop filter is used with gains of proportional and efficiently.Damping factor affects overshoot so to maintain
integral path KI and KP respectively. trade off between both ζ = 0.707 (approx) [19].
• VCO: Voltage Controlled Oscillator is having
transfer function of Ko/s whose output frequency
oscillator is a function of the voltage of its input B. Z-DOMAIN MODEL OF PLL
signal.VCO acts like an integrator. Phase or continuous time domain modeling of PLL is
applied to analog design of PLL, but for digital systems z-
domain modeling is more accurate and proper description. So
far a lot of work has been done in analysis of ADPLL using Z-
domain. Block diagram of z-domain model is as shown in Fig-
12 [21]. In this phase detector is represented by summing
node, gain block (Kd) and a delay block of z-1 as frequency of
DCO output is dependent on events a step earlier [21]. Loop
filter is implemented using first order PI elements where Ki
and Kp are gains of integral path and proportional path. All the
Fig.11 (a) General block diagram of PLL blocks of ADPLL can be analyzed by performing bilinear
transformation of s-domain analysis by replacing s by (1-z-1).
K K K K
F (z) = KP + =