Phase Locked Loop Design
 Software
for PLL Design
1. Circuit Sage's pll2nd.mcd (and pdf)
a 2nd order PLL design routine.
2.
Circuit Sage's pll3rd.mcd
(and pdf), a Mathcad routine to
calculate the loop parameters, and settling response of
a 3rd-order PLL.
3. Circuit Sage's boostpll3rd.mcd
(and pdf),
a Mathcad routine to calculate the loop parameters of a
current-boosted 3rd-order PLL.
4. Circuit Sage's swresboostpll3rd.mcd
(and pdf),
a Mathcad routine to calculate the loop parameters of a
switched-resistor current-boosted 3rd-order PLL.
5. PLL
Design Assistant, from Mike Perrott at MIT, software for allows
fast and straightforward design of PLLs at the transfer function
level.
6. PLL:
Free PLL analysis from Michael Ellis.
7. J. Cheah's phase noise
mathcad routine.
8. RF Globalnet's PLL
software page.
9. Lance Lascari's Mathcad
PLL
tools. Free. Check out the rest of his website.
10. Eagleware
PLL Design: PLL synthesis software. Probably in the
$600-$1500 range.
11. Automated
PLL Synthesis,An
automated PLL IC layout compiler, and another one: PLL
Expert, and another one: Barcelona.
12. National's
PLL Design Software: A change from their old routine to be
much more powerful and completely web based. With power comes
some loss in ease of use. Nevertheless a good job.
13. Interactive
Digital Phase Locked Loop DesignTony
Fisher's digital PLL designer.
14. National's EASY
PLL Simulator and Mathcad
routines for PLL Analysis
15. PLL2
Home Page, PLL3
Home Page, DOS programs for
PLL design.
16. ADI's SimPLL,
A free tool for simulating (ADI's) PLLs.
17. Applied Radio
Labs' SimPLL
PLL simulator. $495. Free Demo.
18. A simple 2nd order PLL
calculator.
19. Stephan Weber's Elekta,
$109, some simple PLL design capabilities, but a good tool overall.
20. An online 3rd
order PLL designer by GBPPR.
21. Simulink's
communication system toolbox.
22. PLL,
by Eric L. Unruh, $300.
23. Direct
digital synthesis Mathcad worksheets.
24.
Download
Mathcad Explorer Free, A free viewier for Mathcad versions
8 and lower. You can edit, but not save.
25. Mathcad
Tutorial, a good tutorial by Sidney Young and Theresa Julia
Zielinski.
26. Valery Ochkov's Book on Mathcad
usage.
27. Hittite's online PLL
phase noise calculator.
28. Blake's PLL
Analyzer, from rfglobalnet.
29. Virtual Silicon:
PLL Silicon Compiler based on standard cells. Limited but
appropriate for some needs.
30. Information on Mathcad from Mathsoft.
31. Articles
on PLL design using EEsof software..
 PLL Design Articles
1. Effective design of low-jitter PLL
clock generators. An interesting overview of when to use
PLLs for clock generation.
2. PLL_seminar.pdf, Good overview of PLL
design.
3. Reduced
Filter Requirements Using an Ultra Low Noise Modulator
(Microwave Journal),
Good overview of transmit architectures.
4. Fujitsu PLL
Application Note, Good information on PLL design.
5. PLL Fundamentals, A
Motorola applications note.
6. A good article on synthesizer
design by Synergy.
7. An in-dpeth article from TI on fractional-N
synthesis.
8. Basic article on PLLs.
9. PLL design one,
two, three
by Mark Curtin and Paul O'Brien at Analog Devices.
10. Ken Kundert's article on PLL
modeling and simulation.
11. Wideband
modulation of PLL's by
12. Fractional-N
synthesizers by Gary Appel.
13. PLL
design byKyong-Pil Jeong.
14. NEC
Research Index. Many good papers on PLL design.
Extremely useful.
15. ESSCIRC
website. Many articles on PLL design. Very good.
16. How
to Design Synthesizers by Steve Williamson.
17. Smithson's article on PLL
design.
18. Loop
filter design (good procedure in middle of paper) (DON'T use
divider from this paper, it has extremely bad spurious problems)
19. Thomas Stichelbout's thesis on fractional-N
synthesizers.
20. Modeling PLL dynamics by Ed
Druker.
21. Delta-Sigma
PLL's by Andy Howard of HP.
22. Tom Riley's paper on fractional-N
synthesis.
23. Comstron application note on phase
noise theory.
24. From the Frequency
Control Symposium: Principles
of PLLs, and Low-Noise
Oscillator Design.
25. PLL article,
by Charan Langton.
26. Fractional
N, A good tutorial from TI
on PLLs and fractional-N synthesis.
27. Old articles on VCOs,
PLLs, etc.
28. John Maneatis' papers on
PLL design.
 Spurs
and Phase Noise
- 1. Techniques
for Measuring Phase Noise
, A low cost
method for measuring crystal oscillator phase
noise. Wenzel
also has useful information on
crystal oscillators.
2. Substrate
Noise in Mixed-Signal ICs - Presentations,
A good collection of reports on substrate noise
coupling.
3. IEEE
Electromagnetic Compatibility Society,
Some newsletters on EMC.
4. Crosstalk
Articles, Good articles
on crosstalk from Doug Brooks.
5. Westbay
Tools, software for emc (electromagnetic compatibility)
modeling and analysis,Too
expensive for too little.
6. Inductance
nags, tools lag in 0.13-micron ICs,
Some EET Papers on inductive spur coupling.
7. Applied Radio Labs' information on phase
noise.
8. Lance Lascari's paper on phase
noise prediction.
9. PLL
Stability, by Arun Mansukhani.
10. Lots of information on ground
loop problems.
11. Ali Hajimiri's notes on phase
noise.
12. Konstantin Kouznetsov's article on phase
noise.
13. Pease's ground
noise article.
14. Tomi Engdahl's article on ground
loops.
15. Maxim's application note on noise
coupling in cellular handsets.
16. Circuit
layout techniques by Bonnie Baker.
17. Chapter 5 of the book "EMC
for Product Designers" has good descriptions
of positive reactive coupling.
18. Some notes on substrate
coupling.
19. Patrick Larsson's paper on jitter
from digital noise.
20. Tallis Blalack free lecture on on-chip
RF isolation techniques.
21. Substrate Coupling
Software: Snaketech's Layin, SeismIC, Substratestorm,
Silvaco's Altas, SCA, iSREX,
SPACE, SWAN from IMEC,
PASCALE,
 Crystal, LC, and
Phase Shift(Ring) Oscillators
1. Quartz
Resonator & Oscillator Tutorial,
A great, extensive tutorial on crystal oscillators. mirror.
Other articles from Frequency
Control Society.
2. Oscillators,
A good collection of links on oscillators at epanorama.
3. Oscillator Design,
A good collection of links and books from ss-mag on oscillator
design.
4. RF
avenue's information on oscillator design.
5. Design
of a 5 GHz VCO by Thomas Dellsperger.
6. History of Crystal Oscillators, by Virgil E. Bottom.
7. Choosing
the right crystal, a
short article from the Circuit Cellar.
8. crystal.mcd: A
Mathcad routine to analyze a crystal's equivalent circuit.
9. Crystal
theory of operation, Fox-online articles on crystal
oscillators.
10. An Introduction to
Oscillator Design: Looks good at first, but I have trouble
making use of this page.
11. Frerking
crystal history paper, A great history by Marvin Frerking.
12. A good tutorial
on oscillator design.
13.
EEsof articles on oscillator
design.
14. Wenzel PLL
and oscillator articles.
15. Oscillator,
VCO,
and crystal
oscillator design by Ian Purdie.
16. ARRL's oscillator
design article by Rhode. Other articles: 1,
2.
17. S-parameter
design of VCOs by Koji Harada.
18. Philips' crystal
oscillator application note.
19. How to Design
Oscillators by Andrew Dearn.
20. MiniCircuits article on VCO
design. Not that good.
21. Maxim oscillator
articles.
22. 2.4 GHz VCO
by N. Troedsson.
23. Phase
Noise paper by Ali Hajimiri from Lucio Rodoni's collection
of papers.
 Books
on PLL
1. PLL
Performance, Simulation, and Design, Banarjee,
$24.95. Yasuii, ne!
2. PLL: Design, Simulation, and Applications, Best.
3. Wireless CMOS Frequency Synthesizer Design, Craninckx, $126.50, 0792381386, Kluwer
4. Frequency Synthesizer Design
Handbook, James A. Crawford; 1994
5. CMOS Fractional-N Synthesizers, De Muer, $115, 1402073879
6. PLL Digitali,
(in Italian), Catello Antonio De Rosa.
7. Phase-Lock
Basics and Frequency Synthesis by Phase Lock 0471321044, by William F. Egan.
8. Phaselock
Techniques, Gardner, 1979, The original reference for PLLs.
$110, 0471042943, Wiley.
9. PLLs and Frequency Synthesis, Kroupa, $135, 0470848669, Wiley
10. Synchronization
in Digital Comms: Phase-Frequency-Locked Loops, Meyr
11. Automated Calibration of Modulated Frequency Sythesizers, McMahill, $105,
0792375890, Kluwer
12. Frequency Synthesizer Design, Rategh, $105, 0792375335, Kluwer
13. Monolithic
PLLs and Clock Recovery Circuits, Razavi.
14. Phase Locking in High-Performance Systems, Razavi, $110,
0471447277, Wiley
15. Microwave
and Wireless Synthesizers, Rhode.
16. Wireless PLLs, Stephens, $128, 0792376021, Kluwer
17. Architectures for RF Frequency Synthesizers, Vaucher, $120, Kluwer 1402071205
18. PLL Circuit Design, Wolaver.
$92, 0136627439
Books on Oscillators
1. Oscillator Design
Principles (Video Course), Les Besser.
2. Design of Higher Performance CMOS VCOs,
Dai, $110, 1402072384, Kluwer
3. The Design of Low Noise
Oscillators, Hajimiri, $121, 0792384555
4. RF and Microwave Oscillator Design, Odyniec, $109,
158033205, Artech.
5.
HF
Oscillator Design,
a video course by Randall W.
Rhea. $500. Noble.
6.
Oscillator Design and Computer Simulation, Randall Rhea, $64.
1884932304.
7. Oscillators and Oscillator Systems: Classification, Analysis and
Synthesis, Westra, $132, 0792386523, Kluwer
8. Oscillator
Book listing from Fox Oscillators.
Books
Relevant to Spurs and Noise Coupling Mechanisms
1. Switching Noise Coupling in Mixed Signal
Circuits, Aragones, $126.50, 0792385047 Kluwer
2. PCB Design for EMI Control, $135, Archambeault, 1402071302
3. Substrate Noise for IC Design, Charbon, $110,
0792373251
4. Substrate Noise Coupling, Donnay, $115, Kluwer, 140207381X
5.
The Art of Analog Layout, Hastings, $105, Prentice Hall, 0130870617
6. High Speed Digital Design, A Handbook of Black Magic, Johnson, 0133957241, $95
7. High Speed Signal Propagation, $92, Johnson, 013084408X
8.
PCB Design Techniques for EMC Compliance, Montrose, $94.
0780353765 and EMC and the PCB,
078034703, $94.
9. Noise and Other Interfering
Signals, by Ralph Morrison. $124.
10. RF
& Microwave Oscillator Design, Michal Odyniec.
11. Noise
Reduction In Electronic Systems, Henry W. Ott, great for spur
analysis.
12. Signal Integrity Effects in IC Designs, Singh,
0471150428, $100.
13. Mixed-Signal Coupling, Verghese, $138, 0792395441, Kluwer
14. Capacitance,
Inductance,
and Crosstalk Analysis, Charles S. Walker; 1990.
15.
Signal Integrity Simplified, Bogatin, $80, Prentice,
0130669466.
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