An Anti-Harmonic Locking, DLL Frequency Multiplier with Low Phase Noise and Reduced Spur
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper presents a new programmable delay-locked loop based frequency multiplier with a period error compensation loop (PECL) designed to reduce the output spurious power level. The low bandwidth auxiliary PECL compensates the output period error caused by the in-lock errors from various noise sources. By employing a novel switching control scheme, the circuit is capable of locking to frequencies either above or below the start up frequency without initialization. Programmable multiplication ratios from 13 to 20 are achieved with an output frequency range of 900 MHz to 2.9 GHz. The circuit is implemented in TSMC 0.18mum CMOS technology and measured with the reference signal from an RF signal generator. A 23 dB spur reduction from -23dB to -46.5dB at 1.216GHz is observed from the measurement results. The measured cycle-to-cycle timing jitter at 2.16GHz is 1.6ps (rms) and 12.9 ps (pk-pk), and the measured phase noise is -110 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset with a power consumption of 19.8 mW at a 1.8 V supply
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".