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A 14 GHz Integer-N Sub-Sampling PLL With RMS-Jitter of 85.4 fs Occupying an Ultra Low Area of 0.0918 mm2
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on. 71(2):595-605 Feb, 2024
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Capacitors
Phase locked loops
Voltage-controlled oscillators
Phase noise
Jitter
Charge pumps
Voltage
5G
CPPLL
sub-sampling PLL
reduced area PLL
reduced capacitor
active capacitor voltage controlled oscillators
small area SSPLL
Language
ISSN
1549-8328
1558-0806
Abstract
This paper presents a 14 GHz sub-sampling PLL (SSPLL) with its phase noise analysis for Ku-band wireless transceivers. The performance enhancement of the phase-locked loop (PLL) over single-stage PLL in terms of jitter and power consumption is theoretically presented and verified with measured results. The proposed capacitor multiplier reduces the size of the loop filter capacitor by 28 times. The active capacitor VCO decreases the out-band phase noise while consuming less power. Fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process with a core active area of $0.0918~mm^{2}$ , the SSPLL operates at 1.2 V supply achieving 13.2-14.8 GHz tuning range, 85.4 fs integrated jitter at 14 GHz, 8.42 mW power consumption, and −252.12 dB figure-of-merit (FoM). The measured results in-band and out-band phase noises of −108.6 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset and −128.9 dBc/Hz at a 10 MHz offset, respectively.