A 10-mW mm-Wave Phase-Locked Loop With Improved Lock Time in 28-nm FD-SOI CMOS

Mohammed Abdulaziz, Therese Forsberg, Markus Törmänen, Henrik Sjöland

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This paper presents a millimeter-wave (mm-wave) phase-locked loop (PLL), with an output frequency centered at 54.65 GHz. It demonstrates a mode-switching architecture that considerably improves the lock time, by seamlessly switching between a low-noise mode and a fast-locking mode that is only used during settling. The improvement is used to counteract the increased lock-time caused by cycle-slips that results from using a high reference frequency of 2280 MHz, which is several hundred times the loop bandwidth. Such a reference frequency
alleviates the noise requirements on the PLL and is readily available in 5G systems, from the radio frequency PLL. The mm-wave PLL is implemented in a low-power 28-nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator CMOS process, and its active area is just 0.19 mm2. The PLL also features a novel double injection-locked divide-by-3 circuit and a charge-pump mismatch compensation
scheme, resulting in state-of-the-art power consumption, and jitter performance in the low-noise mode. In this mode, the inband phase noise is between −93 and −96 dBc/Hz across the tuning range, and the integrated jitter is between 176 and 212 fs. The total power consumption of the mm-wave PLL is only 10.1 mW, resulting in a best-case PLL figure-of-merit (FOM) of −245 dB. The lock time in low-noise mode is up to 12 μs, which is improved to 3 μs by switching to the fast-locking mode, at the temporary expense of a power consumption increase to 15.1 mW, an integrated jitter increase to between 245 and 433 fs, and an FOM increase to between −235 and −240 dB.
Originalspråkengelska
Sidor (från-till)1588-1600
Antal sidor13
TidskriftIEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volym67
Nummer4
DOI
StatusPublished - 2019

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