Low Jitter ADPLL based Clock Generator for High Speed SoC Applications

An efficient architecture for low jitter All Digital Phase Locked Loop (ADPLL) suitable for high speed SoC applications is presented in this paper. The ADPLL is designed using standard cells and described by Hardware Description Language (HDL). The ADPLL implemented in a 90 nm CMOS process can operate from 10 to 200 MHz and achieve worst case frequency acquisition in 14 reference clock cycles. The simulation result shows that PLL has cycle to cycle jitter of 164 ps and period jitter of 100 ps at 100MHz. Since the digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) can achieve both high resolution and wide frequency range, it can meet the demands of system-level integration. The proposed ADPLL can easily be ported to different processes in a short time. Thus, it can reduce the design time and design complexity of the ADPLL, making it very suitable for System-on-Chip (SoC) applications.

Authors:

• Moorthi S.
• Meganathan D.
• Janarthanan D.
• Praveen Kumar P.
• J. Raja paul perinbam

Keywords:

• All Digital Phase Locked Loop (ADPLL)
• Systemon-Chip (SoC)
• Phase Locked Loop (PLL)
• Very High speedIntegrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language(VHDL)
• Digitally Controlled Oscillator (DCO)
• Phase frequencydetector (PFD) and Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO).

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