This paper describes the design of a bipolar junction transistor phase-locked loop (PLL) for fractional-N frequency-synthesis applications. Implemented in a 0.8m BiCMOS technology, the PLL can operate up to 1.8 GHz while consuming 225 mW of power from a single 2-V supply. The entire LC-tuned negative-resistance variable-frequency oscillator is integrated on the same chip. A differential low-vol...

1 Tone Event Detection Basics ......................................2 1.1 Tone Event Detector Architecture ..............................2 1.2 Phase Detection With Frequency Offset Compensation .............................................................4 1.3 Summary of Theoretical Results .................................6 2 Tone Event Detector on StarCore ...............................8 2.1...

Terahertz digital off-axis holography is demonstrated using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a highly coherent, frequency tunable, continuous wave terahertz source emitting around 0.7 THz and a single, spatially-scanned Schottky diode detector. The reconstruction of amplitude and phase objects is performed digitally using the angular spectrum method in conjunction with Fourier space filtering...

The nonlinear distortion of frequency or phase modulation systems composed by a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) modulator and a phase-locked loop (PLL) discriminator is addressed. Volterra series nonlinear transfer functions up to third order, for an LC Colpitts type modulator and a PLL with simultaneous nonlinear phase-detector and VCO, are combined as a cascade of mildly nonlinear systems...

A PLDRO (Phase Locked Dielectric Resonator Oscillator) with the output frequency of a fractional multiple of reference is proposed and implemented. The key element in the proposed PLDRO is an image rejection mixer placed between a VCDRO (Voltage Controlled Dielectric Resonator Oscillator) and SPD (Sampling Phase Detector). The image rejection mixer shifts the coupled signal from the VCDRO befor...

This paper presents an enhanced version of the recently-proposed blind anchored interference-mitigating detector (BAID) for code-division multiple-access transmission. Such a detector, named extended complex BAID (EC-BAID), features invariance to a phase error on the useful channel’s carrier and reveals resistant to a large frequency shift (e.g., Doppler shift) on interfering carriers. The EC-B...

We present a payload-based anomaly detector, we call PAYL, for intrusion detection. PAYL models the normal application payload of network traffic in a fully automatic, unsupervised and very effecient fashion. We first compute during a training phase a profile byte frequency distribution and their standard deviation of the application payload flowing to a single host and port. We then use Mahala...

Our goal is to present an overview of a class of low complexity detectors working in linear fading multipath channels. In addition, we present briefly a unified theory based on the optimal maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) receiver concept (Woodward & Davies, 1952), which in additive Gaussian noise leads to the estimator-correlator receiver (Price, 1956; Middleton, 1957; Kailath, 1960; Kai...

Most systems which require phase information use mixers somewhere in the measurement or comparison of the phase information. Theoretically, any mixer with a dc coupled port could be used as a phase detector. Practically, however, mixers often display some very non-ideal characteristics (e.g., dc offset) when used as phase detectors. The actual mixer chosen for a particular application will ofte...

-The proposed paper shows existing problems in VCO’s and synthesizers due to the nonlinearities in the active devices and external integrated circuits. This paper proposes a design guidance on how to minimize such effects in oscillators by using nonlinear, rather than linear, tools. In synthesizers, the reference frequency and its harmonics will mix with the output frequency in the phase detect...