A 32nm and 0.9V CMOS Phase-Locked Loop with Leakage Current and Power Supply Noise Compensation

This paper presents two novel compensation circuits for leakage current and power supply noise (PSN) in phase locked loop (PLL) using nanometer CMOS technology. The leakage compensation circuit reduces the leakage current of the charge pump circuit which becomes more serious problem due to the thin gate oxide and small threshold voltage in nanometer CMOS technology and the PSN compensation circuit decreases the effect of power supply variation on the output frequency of VCO. The PLL design is based on 32nm predictive CMOS technology and uses 0.9V power supply voltage. The simulation results show that the proposed PLL achieves 88% jitter reduction at 440MHz output frequency compared to the PLL without leakage compensator and its output frequency drift is little to 20% power supply voltage variations. The PLL has an output frequency range of 40M~725MHz with a multiplication range of 1-1023, and the RMS and peak-to-peak jitter are 5ps and 42.7ps, respectively.