ECE 5/404 PLL and High-Speed Link Design: Lecture Notes for Fall 2016

Aug 22: lec1_ece504.pdf – Course introduction. Start PLLs: Applications. Negative feedback system review: negative feedback amplifier.

Aug 24: lec2_ece504.pdf – Negative feedback loop for frequency multiplication, phase and instantaneous frequency concepts.

Aug 29: lec3_ece504.pdf – Phase detector - XOR, characteristics, linear range. Start phase frequency detector (PFD).

Aug 31: lec4_ece504.pdf – Finish PFD, Type-I PLL, PFD periodic noise, PFD circuit implementation.

Sep 5: Labor Day

Sep 7: lec5_ece504.pdf – Periodic disturbance due to PFD, Type-II PLL.

Sep 12: lec6_ece504.pdf – Type-I PLL - issues. Review of negative feedback – loop gain, unity-gain frequency, first-order system.

Sep 14: lec7_ece504.pdf – Start Type-II PLL: Charge-pump PLL topology, feedforward zero, derivation of K_pd,I and K_pd

Sep 19: lec8_ece504.pdf – Charge-pump PLL contd.: Derivation of ω_u,loop, reference feed-through rejection, 3^rd order PLL.

Sep 21: lec9_ece504.pdf – A quick PLL design, design methodology for a Type-II 3^rd –order PLL ( 3^rd-order PLL equations). Start charge pump design issues.

Sep 26: lec10_ece504.pdf   – Charge Pump design techniques: charge-injection, clock feed-through. Current steering CP design, replica biasing, professional charge pump.

Sep 28: lec11_ece504.pdf – Charge pump non-idealities and their mitigation: Dead zone, current mismatch, charge sharing.

Oct 3: lec12_ece504.pdf – Charge pump non-idealities contd: Dead zone, current mismatch, charge sharing.

Oct 5: lec13_ece504.pdf – CP conclusion. PFD circuit implementation.

Oct 10: lec14_ece504.pdf – Oscillators basics.

Oct 12: lec15_ece504.pdf –  Ring Oscillators. VCOs.

Oct 17: lec16_ece504.pdf –  VCOs: Tuning linearity, tuning schemes, Delay cells: replica biasing

Oct 19: lec17_ece504.pdf –  Power supply sensitivity, improved linearity and symmetric delay loads, Large swing VCOs, Supply regulated VCOs. Voltage Controlled Oscillators

Oct 24: lec18_ece504.pdf –  Conclude VCOs, Phase Noise in Oscillators.

Oct 26: lec19_ece504.pdf –  Sample midterm review.

Oct 31 (Monday): Midterm Exam. Closed book, closed notes and computer. One page (A4 size, both sides) cheat-sheet allowed. Bring your calculators. Sample Exam.

Nov 2: lec20_ece504.pdf  – Oscillator Phase Noise.  (VCO Simulation using PSS Analysis). Start PLL Noise Analysis, PLL Noise Analysis.zip.

Nov 8: lec21_ece504.pdf  – PLL Noise Analysis. Simulating PLL Jitter.

Nov 10: lec22_ece504.pdf –  Split-tuned PLLs: analysis. Jitter accumulation in VCO/PLL/VCDL.

Nov 14: lec23_ece504.pdf –  DLL: VCDL, false locking, stuck at min/max delay, PFD issues, Phase-only detectors, MDLLs. DLL Lecture Slides..

Nov 16: lec24_ece504.pdf –  Start Clock and Data Recovery (CDR). TSPC Clock Dividers

Nov 21-25: Thanksgiving break from instruction!

Midterm Take-home: Due Nov 28, 2016: Midterm F16.pdf

Nov 28: lec25_ece504.pdf  –  CDR contd.: Modified Hogge PDs, Bang-Bang PD. Single-loop CDRs

Nov 30: lec26_ece504.pdf  –  Conclude single-loop CDRs. Dual Loop CDRs: Phase selection architectures, phase interpolators.

Dec 5: lec27_ece504.pdf – Dual-loop CDRs examples. Phase Interpolators.

Dec 7: lec28_ece504.pdf  –  Clock Synthesizers/Divider: TSPC, Integer-N and Fractional-N. Course conclusion.

Final Exam. Take home exam. Exam is due on Dec 14, 11:59 PM: Final F16.pdf

MATLAB Files

The cumulative MATLAB files archive developed during the course is here.

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