Multiple 60-GHz WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) radio transceiver chips using CMOS or BiCMOS process have been developed as wireless communication service of several-gigabit rate [Reynolds, 2006] [Razavi, 2006]. In a 60GHz millimetre-wave transceiver, frequency synthesizer is a key building block. It is very difficult to design the PLL-based programmable synthesizer directly at 60GHz band...

This paper presents an efficient indirect fractional frequency synthesizer architecture based on the time delay digital tanlock loop. The indirect type frequency synthesis systems incorporate a low complexity high performance adaptation mechanism that enables them to remain in a locked state following the division process. The performance of the proposed fractional-N synthesizer under various i...

High costs, bulkiness, and larger power consumption makes transceiver integration and miniaturization a desired option to discretely implemented transceivers. Furthermore, a frequency synthesizer forms an important part of high-frequency transceivers. In this paper, the design of a fully-integrated dual loop frequency synthesizer is detailed. Previously, frequency synthesizers have already been...

This paper presents a new fast switching hybrid frequency synthesizer with wide locking range. The hybrid synthesizer is based on the tanlock loop with no delay block (NDTL) and is capable of integer as well as fractional frequency division. The system maintains the in-lock state following the division process using an efficient adaptation mechanism. The fast switching and acquisition as well a...

This paper presents a frequency synthesizer architecture based on the time delay digital tanlock loop (TDTL). The loop is of the first order type. The synthesizer architecture includes an adaptation mechanism to keep the complete system in lock. The mechanism uses a frequency sensing structure to control critical TDTL parameters responsible for locking. Both integer and fractional multiples of ...

T he frequency synthesizer is a key building block of virtually any microwave test and measurement, communication or monitoring system [1-5]. Synthesizers come in a variety of forms ranging from a tiny PLL chip to a bench-top signal generator. Traditionally we imagine them as a connectorized metal box or " brick " which can be put into a more complex instrument or subsystem. This series of arti...

A low power 22-mW 900MHz Frequency Synthesizer (FS), with an on-chip LC-tuned voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) for GSM applications is presented. The synthesizer possesses several novel features that include a completely integrated structure, a low phase noise on-chip LC VCO, a low-power Dual-Modulus Divider (DMD) in CML topology, a compensated charge pump with balanced switching, an on-chip...